new laptop

rawb · #1 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

went and got a 12 inch ibook.

installed the developers sdk bitz, fink, and so far im super impressed.

so cheap too.

whats a good small audio player (ie: not asstunes)?

mojo · #2 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

WOW

rawb · #3 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

WORD DOG

decypher · #4 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

i love the titanium powerbooks, those are professional lookin

Sammy Skillz · #5 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

rawb, just out of curiosity, how much did you pay for something like that?

I'm looking for a new laptop and I think I kind of want to get a mac for all my design/art stuff and I really don't know what to get

-s.

rawb · #6 (**permalink**) Feb 16, 04

the 12" ibook if you buy it retail is 1499, which works out to 1719 with tax.

if you go to post secondary i believe you get a $100+ discount, try out apple.ca, you can enter your student number right on thier site and see what kind of discount you get.

Sammy Skillz · #7 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

awesome! thanks!

-s.

bebu*funfun · #8 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

sammy- they're forcing ALL the design kids to buy their own mac laptops for school next year. :finger: yes it would come in handy, but pricey. im pretty sure there is a discount for post secondary students.. and i remember hearing you can do the monthly lease to loan type of deal as well.

Filo · #9 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

that's what i'm gettin next.... ibooks are dope

Sammy Skillz · #10 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

my problem is whether to buy a much needed computer or buy a much needed medium format 2 1/4 camera. they both kinda cost the same and IF i get my bursary, i'll only have enough money to buy one.

decisions decisions.

-s.

jim · #11 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

sammy, I would say keep an eye out on the apple website and wait for them to release some new hardware. as soon as that happens have somebody swing by the ubc bookstore if you're not in town, they tend to drop their prices on older models when a new one is released in order to make room for the new inventory.

ebbomega · #12 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

You running XDarwin or anything like that?

If so, theoretically would you be able to get XMMS going?

rawb · #13 (**permalink**) Feb 17, 04

you can get the offical apple x11 implimentation, and its runs rootless :)! if you install the dev kit you can compile shit against it.

so yea, i can install xmms. good idea. it's even in fink.

x11 + offcial rdp client from microsoft = holy cow im going to cry this is so rad.

ppcock · #14 (**permalink**) Feb 18, 04

Quote:

Originally posted by rawb
the 12" ibook if you buy it retail is 1499, which works out to 1719 with tax.

if you go to post secondary i believe you get a $100+ discount, try out apple.ca, you can enter your student number right on thier site and see what kind of discount you get.

My gf got the same. she didnt know about the discount. I probably wont tell her.

Leviathan · #15 (**permalink**) Feb 19, 04

IBM announced I think it was a PPC 970fx or 975fx processor recently which is a much lower power version of what is in the G5 towers...... G5 laptops are definately on their way.

I've used the apples x11 to run matlab on my mac, pretty cool indeed. I keep running into issues with Fink mostly because of my lack of *nix knowledge.
ibooks are cool

kozmo_jr · #16 (**permalink**) Feb 19, 04

Congrats!!!

nice choice.
if you dont want to part with what you got in your Windows PC
Concider virtual PC software, so you can run The two operating
systems. My mac is hella old school and i wich it could handle that
you totaly can.

happy Macin'