Switching, a year later

NBiBooker

So it's a bit more than a year since I purchased my first mac, the iBook G4 933, and made the switch.

I've had a few thoughts (in no particular order):

1) After a year I still like it.
2) Even a year old it still turns heads
3) Wireless that's so simple it makes everyone else jealous
4) Not a single virus. Not one. Not ever.
5) No annoying "critical updates"
6) In a full year of use, only three system crashes requiring a reboot.
8) Instant on after sleep. Even after a year I'm still thrilled to be able to open my laptop on a moment's notice to start working.
9) iTunes plus Shuffle = nirvana.
10) Apple Mail's junk filter is amazing. I get a lot of spam. About 40 - 50 a day. I don't know if that's normal or not, but I don't worry about it anymore, Mail deals with it.
11) It's just as fast as the day I first got it. I've never had a Windows machine that I could say the same thing, unless I formatted the drive and reinstalled the OS.
12) No spy-ware or junk apps weighing down my machine like annoying digital lilliputians.
13) I get excited about buying the next OS instead of dreading what it will do to my system.
14) iPhoto and how nice it is to organize all the photos I've taken in whatever way suits me.
15) Damn this thing rocks!

Oh and discovering ehMac... because half the fun of owning a Mac is learning neat things about it from others.

I'm looking forward to many more years with the iBook and with hopefully a growing Mac family (still working on showing my gf and parents the light).

David.

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My gear: White MacBook 1.83, 2 Gigs of Ram, Combo Drive, OS 10.5, iPod Video 30 Gig, Canon Digital Rebel XT. iPhone 3G 8 Gig.

macsackbut

Wow... three crashes... that seems like a lot in a year to me. Seriously. I think I might have had three in the 3 1/2 years I've owned mine (and at least one was because windows in VPC crashed I couldn't get out of it to force quit).

Glad you're enjoying your iBook, though. Mine has served me very faithfully for years and I plan to keep it a good long while yet. (And, after all these years, mine still turns heads too)

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G4 1.42 mini 80GB/1024/Combo/AP/BT (10.4.10); 20" ACD; miniStack+300GB; iSight; AirPort Express
G3 600 iBook 30GB/640/DVD-ROM/AP (10.4.10)
4G iPod (40GB) | 2G iPod nano (4 GB-red) | My Mac blog: Singing the Apple

NBiBooker

Strangely, all happened in the first three months. Nothing since.

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My gear: White MacBook 1.83, 2 Gigs of Ram, Combo Drive, OS 10.5, iPod Video 30 Gig, Canon Digital Rebel XT. iPhone 3G 8 Gig.

moonsocket

Very nice.

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elmer

I had lots of crashes/hangs for awhile until I learned that they were predictable and avoided them. Specifically I stopped taking my sleeping PowerBook and willy nilly plugging in power, VGA, FireWire, USB hub, USB mouse, all at once. I was only doing that because before a certain update (I think), I could do that with no problem, which is pretty amazing actually.

(when I say "lots of crashes", I mean once a month)

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pingpong

Yes. Plugging/unplugging USB devices before 10.3.4( though not quite sure) caused several crashes, but now it's rock solid with 10.3.8.

macsackbut

Hmmm... I was accustomed to yanking the USB keyboard and printer out of my iBook (before I got the mini, of course) quite gleefully and with no thought to anything. Never had a crash because of it, regardless of OS version.

MacS

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MBP C2D 2.2/120GB/2GB (10.5.0)
G4 1.42 mini 80GB/1024/Combo/AP/BT (10.4.10); 20" ACD; miniStack+300GB; iSight; AirPort Express
G3 600 iBook 30GB/640/DVD-ROM/AP (10.4.10)
4G iPod (40GB) | 2G iPod nano (4 GB-red) | My Mac blog: Singing the Apple

elmer

Yes, it was worse before 10.3.4, but I can still make it happen with 10.3.8. I think it's the combination of USB and video and sleep.

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