Yay! powerbook.
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solarbirdI have a new 12" powerbook. I am liking it much more than I expected. I'm surprised at how much better looking MacOS X still is than Windows. There's just something less... crude about the whole look. And the screen, of course - so sharp. I love it.
I'm typing this entry in via the HTML Update Journal window on Livejournal directly, but I think I'll be looking for the OS X local LJ client soon. I've found that TinyFugue is available for OS X (it being, well, NetBSD-similar); apparently it compiles straight out of the tarball. W00t!
I mean, I expected to like it well enough, that's why I bought it, but I'm enjoying having a proper shell much more than I expected - not just tcsh (love love love love tcsh!) but the MacOS graphic shell, too. (Plus: you can download X11! Yay!)
Oh, and Safari doesn't suck either. (That's what I'm using here! Hee. ^_^ ) That's the new browser. It's good. It has several of the things Opera has that I like in Opera 7, which is good since Opera 7 isn't available for the Mac yet.
I'm playing with the email client some tonight too. So far, so good. I've fiddled some with the scheduler - I love that it will send you email as a reminder - and am working my way through the other preinstalled software. I need a general-purpose IM client - something like Trillian for the PC, but that runs under MacOS - and to port all my bookmarks over. Oh, and I think I'll set up the mail client to talk to some of my email accounts, too. You know, because I can. ^_^
We've also tested the networking stuff - Windows networking shares come up perfectly. I guess I'll have to get printer sharing unb0rken on my desktop computer, so I can test that, too.
Did I mention that it's just really, really pretty?
(And yes, I've seen bitch.mpg, so you don't need to reply with that as your comment. ^_^)
Anyway. More playing. It's fun. Plus, it's my first real laptop. So yay! ^_^
I'm typing this entry in via the HTML Update Journal window on Livejournal directly, but I think I'll be looking for the OS X local LJ client soon. I've found that TinyFugue is available for OS X (it being, well, NetBSD-similar); apparently it compiles straight out of the tarball. W00t!
I mean, I expected to like it well enough, that's why I bought it, but I'm enjoying having a proper shell much more than I expected - not just tcsh (love love love love tcsh!) but the MacOS graphic shell, too. (Plus: you can download X11! Yay!)
Oh, and Safari doesn't suck either. (That's what I'm using here! Hee. ^_^ ) That's the new browser. It's good. It has several of the things Opera has that I like in Opera 7, which is good since Opera 7 isn't available for the Mac yet.
I'm playing with the email client some tonight too. So far, so good. I've fiddled some with the scheduler - I love that it will send you email as a reminder - and am working my way through the other preinstalled software. I need a general-purpose IM client - something like Trillian for the PC, but that runs under MacOS - and to port all my bookmarks over. Oh, and I think I'll set up the mail client to talk to some of my email accounts, too. You know, because I can. ^_^
We've also tested the networking stuff - Windows networking shares come up perfectly. I guess I'll have to get printer sharing unb0rken on my desktop computer, so I can test that, too.
Did I mention that it's just really, really pretty?
(And yes, I've seen bitch.mpg, so you don't need to reply with that as your comment. ^_^)
Anyway. More playing. It's fun. Plus, it's my first real laptop. So yay! ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-11 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-11 10:33 am (UTC)I'd probably recommend a G4 tower if they'll let you. The iMacs are cool, and the 17" is, in fact, plenty for art, but you'll presumably want more upgradability than they'll allow. OTOH, take what they'll give you. ^_^
The studio monitors are unbelievably gorgeous. Those are what you buy when you buy a G4 tower.
Don't get an eMac, smaller iMac, or, since this is going to be your work machine, iBooks or smaller Powerbooks. You might be okay with using one of the larger Powerbooks as a desktop, but, well, again, there's no upgrade path there. My 12" PowerBook's screen resolution is 1024x768, and while that's great from a travel-computer standpoint, it's just not what you want for art.
I think you would have good room for artwork on the 17" iMac, if that's what they'll let you buy. ^_^ Of course, no matter what they buy you, you'll have to buy all new software - <insert evil Anime laugh here> - and Adobe doesn't do cross-platform upgrades anymore - <insert louder evil Anime laugh here> - so, well, marf. But it's not your money, ne? ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-11 12:22 pm (UTC)Not that bash is much better about the scripting - just a tad more the way I expect things to work.
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Date: 2003-05-11 12:59 pm (UTC)I don't have a mac (and btw I hate laptops) but I may be getting one at work soon because there's a project to port the program I work on to mac. :) Which would be cool. os x is pretty nice for java... [although of course they implemented all of java 1.4 *except* java sound, and I want sound, so I will have to use their native stuff, sigh.]
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Date: 2003-05-11 01:50 pm (UTC)Get them to buy you at least a 17" iMac. ^_^ But even better would be for them to buy you a G4 tower and studio monitor. GOD those monitors are amazing.
I tried Mozilla and found it endlessly annoying. Not to mention huge and slow. And the community... was not for me. So! I went with Opera, which I love This is reminding me of Opera in a bunch of ways, tho' it has one thing I totally love that Opera doesn't have.
Anyway, I'm having fun playing with it. I'll pop on your IRC channel soon from Fire and see if that works. ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-11 03:25 pm (UTC)As for Opera, I hate it. Hatehatehate it :) It's the interface, just, ugh. For some reason Mozilla always seems really fast to me, insofar as I care about speed which is not very much since PCs generally seemed to reach the 'fast enough' stage by now. (Might be a bit different for Mac I guess.) Though, Moz does use quite a lot of memory and can take a while to swap back in if you're using another program that ate all your RAM (*cough* jbuilder *cough*). Phoenix (in a few months, to be aka Mozilla Browser, post-suite-splitup) supposedly is smaller but I'm not at all convinced by it.
Camino's really a different case, of course, since it's all Mac-ish, so you should probably consider trying it; looks pretty nice, though I'm not sure it's really finished either. Of course, Safari is all Mac-ish and not really finished too :)
--quen
MacOS X software
Date: 2003-05-11 08:06 pm (UTC)Text editor (if you're not wedded to emacs or vi): BBEdit, and remember to install the command-line Unix tools that let you do things like
grep foo *.html | bbeditLiveJournal clients: iJournal, XJournal
Other cool stuff:
TinkerTool — a control panel that lets you access system settings that you normally can't; I use it to pin my dock to one corner of the screen.
WeatherManX — an icon in your menubar that gives you the current weather, with forecasts in the menu.
FruitMenu — makes your Apple menu useful.
Youpi Key — Gives you a menu you can fill with macros.