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March 12, 2005
New computer on it's way
I am getting more involved in the podcast community, and so I find myself in the position of needing some updated hardware. I currently have a 15“ 1.25 GHz powerbook (the titanium version). I love this thing, even thought it has been in the shop 3 times in a year and half (bad display, broken bluetooth, and a bad usb 2.0 port). However, there are times when I just find using Windows software easier. So, the workaround for that is I am running an old Dell tower in the spare room. It has Win XP SP2, 512meg ram, and a 40 gig hard drive. I run it headless, and I use terminal services and RDC on my powerbook to connect to it. Running wireless (802.11g) in the house, I am always amazed at how great this works. If you are a mac person, but find yourself needing the occasional windows app, I strongly recommend that you look into this as a possible solution. I had tried virtual PC and lets just say, it was painful - and the $250 I paid for it could have gone to better things.
The only problem, is that using the 15” screen on the powerbook is a little limiting. in addition, Debbie, has been wanting to learn how to use OS X, she wants to surf, and email, manage her shuffle, and stream xm radio and her old g3 333MHz woth OS 9.2.2 just isn't cutting it anymore. So I decided to upgrade to the latest 17“ powerbook.
These things pretty much come loaded out of the factory, and the latest 17” is about $800 cheaper then the 15“ I have today. I decided to shop around, pretty much knowing that everyone will have the same price. I was very pleasantly surprised when I found the computer on Amazon. Why was I surprised - well first no sales tax, so there is a $250 savings, and secondly, Amazon has a $200 rebate on the computer (ending on March 15). So, by buying it from Amazon I saved $450. That my friends, is amazing when you are talking about buying the latest and greatest from Apple. There prices are controlled and locked. Some places will throw in an ink jet printer (no thanks), or a memory upgrade, since I am going to swap the single 1 gig chip in the 15 with the 512meg in the 17 so I don't need that either. But saving cash - sign me up.
Oh by the way, I joined Amazon's Prime program, and paid 3.99 for overnight shipping. Now the hard part - waiting.
Posted by pmadsen at March 12, 2005 09:32 AM
