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!

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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 ;)