Today most Apple geeks, like myself, would have been following at least one liveblog of the Macworld 2008 event. I was refreshing TUAW and MacRumorsLive which was one of the more reliable feeds and had some great pictures from the event. As everyone expected, a new ridiculously thin MacBook was announced, the MacBook Air. At £1,199 I think it’s safe to say that all I shall be doing is looking and not touching 
I wasn’t expecting anything within my price range (£500, haha) and I don’t need a portable notebook to that extent anyway.
I did buy myself something today, however. Nope, not the $20 iPod touch upgrade which sees 5 new apps such as Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather and Google Maps. The only one of those which would appeal to me is Mail. I have zero use for Stocks and as for Weather, well…there’s any amount of free apps out there which do the same thing…or I could just look out of the window I may buy that if I have a bit of spare change over the coming days/weeks. But, what I did buy myself was a 15in Apple PowerBook for £289!
I have been browsing eBay for a couple of weeks for PowerBooks as I could do with a portable machine to take to the studio - and to friends, and to my parents! I had one eye on a PowerBook for £250 which was running Tiger but the spec wasn’t excellent…and it had a few things replaced so not exactly in tip-top condition. Then I found this one with double the spec of the other plus running Leopard with 1GB RAM. So, with 4 days left on the auction I chose the Buy It Now option and promptly sent my payment.
I’m really looking forward to receiving it. I still need to get rid of this Apple Mac Mini G4, however, as it’s sitting there looking all redundant. If anyone out there is looking for an “old skool” Mac Mini in the most excellent condition (check my Flickr stream and see for yourself) for £220 (o.n.o) excluding shipping (UK only) then do drop me a line
16 Jan 08
3:42 am
I very happily dropped an Andrew Jackson (that’s a $20 bill for you brits) on the iPod touch software bundle. I must say….I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT! I’ll post more about my thoughts tomorrow on my blog. My ISP notified me that I would have service interruption tonight, so I don’t want to get too much into blogging tonight. Ciao.
16 Jan 08
2:34 pm
I caved in and bought the software for the iTouch, haha! I think Mail plus the ability to add other apps to the home page was the deciding factor for me. I love the easy access now to get to my favourite sites
16 Jan 08
11:05 pm
hey sam didn’t realise u got a powerbook thats sweet
I use to have one lol. What spec is yours?
16 Jan 08
11:32 pm
Hey Ash, this is the PowerBook’s vital stats…
1 inch thin and built out of Titanium
Features:
867MHz PPC processor with velocity
1GB SDRAM
40GB HD
Apple CDR/DVD combo
Apple AIRPORT card for wireless networking
Beautiful 15″ display with 32MB graphics
PC Card slot
Ports:
2x USB
1 x Firewire
Ethernet
DVI Graphics
56k Modem
Sound I/O
OSX Leopard 10.5.1 OS installed with iLife ‘08
Not the speediest monster in the world but will do the little tasks I want it for
17 Jan 08
3:41 pm
Is it 802.11g or b networking? If it’s b, you’ll want to use it on a separate bridged network otherwise it’ll bring the rest of your network down to pretty much b speeds.
Either that or turn the airport off and use ethernet.
*takes off networking degree hat*
17 Jan 08
3:46 pm
Ah, not sure about that. How would I go about the seperate bridged network thingymajig?
*takes off knows-nothing-about-networks-that-much hat*
18 Jan 08
4:02 pm
Depends on what routers you have. Catch me on iChat / MSN / Jabber and I’ll put yer right. It’s not too hard really.
18 Jan 08
10:19 pm
I’ve got an o2 wireless box (it’s a Thompson 780 router). Downloading on the PowerBook has been pretty quick but when I went into the o2 admin page it shows the speed at 11Mbps. Then when I turn AirPort off on the PowerBook it jumps up to 54Mbps. I’ll jump on iChat sometime tomorrow so we can see what’s what, if you’re around. Ta muchly.