MacBooks are go!

[adderslj]

13" screens - choice of white or black.

Ooooh...

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[adders.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to hang on for release 2.

And hope that the price differential on the black goes away before then...

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Is 'hanging on' the voice of bitter experience? :-)

[adders.livejournal.com]

No - I've never bought version one of any Mac product.

Actually, no, tell a lie. I bought version one of the iPod, which is still working fine and in use by my mother.

I've just noted that they tend to improve the lines pretty quickly over the first few releases in a revamped line, and then settle down to incremental change.

So, I'll sit on my hands for a wee while yet.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

How often are the revisions? I'm at the stage where I want / need a laptop, and the MacBook looks nice, and is affordable.

[adders.livejournal.com]

They tend to be between three to six months. The MacBook Pros are only 90 days old, and just got a speed and spec bump today, for example.

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I'm currently down to a single system at home (not through choice) - and running WinXP on a 600mhz processor is, umm... painful.

So, at this point, it's either break down and buy a new one (since this Toshiba could die at any time now, and I would cry) or buy an iBook or Powerbook 12", and then upgrade again in another year.

Which is an option, and I'm possibly going to do that, but I really like the black one... :-)

[adders.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's fair enough, then.

I have perfectly a perefctly servicable G4 iBook and an only slioghly aging G4 iMac, so I can hang on a while yet.

[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

I'm holding out for a combination of further hardware shakedown and the next version of OS X.