…after one week in the French Alps.
Observations
- The creative spammers still use subjects that trigger my filters.
- Tiger isn’t out yet, so I still haven’t ordered my Powerbook.
- My feeling about the second job interview at the company that is neither Yahoo!, nor Ask Jeeves or MSN Search was right, as they want to meet me in person somewhere next week.
- Daylight saving sucks. Luckily I was already jetlagged from the bus trip the night before, so I didn’t really notice the hour of sleep that was stolen from me that much. But it still sucks.
- It seems April fools was funnier on the web, with things like the Planet KDE/Gnome switchover and the ‘borrowed’ Stopdesign redesigns. The Slashdot jokes were lame as always.
I’m still swamped in work (release of the ‘big’ site on wednesday or thursday), so I’ll limit myself to a little linkdump.
as you could read before, I’m a soon-to-be Powerbook owner, so whenever an Apple-related post appears in one of my daily reads (list to come in a future installment of linu.cx), I no longer think “if only one day …”, but I think “let’s check this out, maybe it’ll become handy in a few weeks/months time.
- Use the sudden-motion sensor of the Powerbook to control iTunes
- ‘offline browsing’ the iTunes library of other nearby users – you can even use it to flirt
- Some interesting menubar applications in this interesting discussion over at Jon Hicks’ journal
I was planning on buying a Powerbook + Cinema display, but I’m wondering if an iBook won’t suffice. It’s quite a bit cheaper, and from what I’ve read the battery lasts a lot longer. Also, the metal housing of the Powerbook seems to create a Faraday cage, severely limiting the wireless performance.
But is the iBook powerful enough to drive a cinema display? (20″ or 23″) I’d like to span my desktop across both the displays, but I can live with mirror mode on higher resolutions. If it isn’t , a Powerbook it is, despite the battery and the wireless reception.
I’ve still got some time to decide, as I’m going to wait for Tiger to come out first. And I need to get some money from my clients before I can order the ciname display (minor detail).
I’m looking into buying a Powerbook + an external display. I’m probably going for a 15″ Powerbook as this seems to provide a nice balance between performance and screen real estate and portability, and a 23″ Cinema Display.
As I’ve never owned a Mac before, I’ve got some questions. First one:
Can I install non-Apple memory, like for example Kingston? I’d like 1 or maybe 2 Gb of memory, but the prices of the upgrades in the Apple store are ridiculous. Kingston offers lifetime warranty, and I can get these at dealer price, so I’d probably save quite a lot, hopefully about 3 inches (to get a 23″ display instead of a 20″). Which models/order numbers do I use?
Update: Found it myself. Other advice?