Notebook Mac

at very helpful and thanks for the quick replies. I played around with it for 2 hours just now. I noticed the diskette drive can read dos formatted disketter and mac formatted diskette. In fact, I am getting more optimistic about using it more. I did noticed several things worries me. The main one is the hardware. ...

actually changed notebooks for 3 times. then I went to this apple store and I fell in love with the iBook G4 12". whaen I told everybody that I want to switch to mac based notebook, they all against me and told me all these bad things, incompability that will occur if I use Mac. ...

I have a MAC powerbook notebook G4, MAC OS X 10.3.9. ...

I have a 20 gb notebook harddrive that I took from a Dell. I put in in an external enclosure but my powerbook running osx tiger won't recognize it. ...

Some people are forced to work in Windows for one task, and OS X for another. Would you rather carry around two notebook computers, or one? ...

aid "Mac notebook." In fact, I'm not even actually sure she said "Mac." She might've just said "notebook." Doesn't matter. I'm sure she's enjoying her ... uh ... notebook thing. ...

Yes, you stated so in the first post of the thread. Still "Mac notebook" is closer to "MacBook" than to "PowerBook".

LOL. I had thought about that when the name was officially announced. But to be honest she would still have been wrong since now the MacBook refers to an Intel Mac notebook and not the one she had. ...

Points one and two are exactly why most everyone is predicting the Mini and iBooks to be first on the slate. One of the reasons being that the audience for those machines are not going to be hypercritcal about speed issues. Those audiences are essentically "I want a cheap Mac" and "I want a cheap portable Mac". They are not "I want every CPU cycle churning on this Gaussian...

LOL Calm down, boy. ;) I'll make it short and sweet: 1. I wasn't judging. I was observing. 2. The answer to your question is: Because I asked her if it was a PowerBook and she said, "No, it's a notebook." True, it *is* a notebook. But she said it *wasn't* a PowerBook, and that is *not* true. 3. This is a public thread. We're allowed to disagree. :)