Friday October 26th was Mac OS X Leopard release day and I’d had a pre-order with Apple since the date was announced earlier in the month. Time to say good-bye to Tiger …
… and one and a half hours later, hello to Leopard.
My iBook G4’s never looked so good. More photos on my Flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/sets/72157602727528663/
New job, new desk, therefore new hardware. When my day job took place at FormScape my desk was somewhat cluttered; a case of more is more.
Since then I’ve moved on and my working hours are now occupied by a division of Yahoo! and we’re definitely in the less is more category where desks are concerned..
I’d never found any issues with speed or overall responsiveness when using my trusty G4 iBook but compared to the MacBook Pro my iBook definately feels sluggish. With 1 GB of SDRAM and a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo this machine is as fast and responsive as it’s visually gorgeous. So far I’ve had none of the fan or heat issues that other MacBook Pro owners have been afflicted with. According to Coconut Identity Card, the machine is a very recent build so let’s hope that the MacBook Pro’s teething issues are as an end.
First there was the paperless office which was going to free us from the drudgery of sheets of paper. That was first mooted as an idea in 1975 and my desk is still covered in the stuff. Hmm.
Then there was wifi which was going to liberate us from wires and turn us all into wireless road warriors. A quick rummage through the contents of the laptop bag I carry with me each day does tend to disprove that idea somewhat.
Firstly there’s my iBook, shown here snoozing with that gently-pulsing-behind-the-fascia light that’s Apple’s trademark.
My desk(s) at home, in the office. Actually, we’re being polite here and we call it the office so as not to offend it; actually it’s one side of the loft room - hence the 45 degree angle of the ceilings in some of the photos.
And so, in a clockwise direction we have an Apple eMac, with 512 Mb of memory and running OS X Panther.
To be honest this isn’t ours, it belongs to a friend and I’m in the process of upgrading it to run OS X Tiger.
To be really honest I haven’t actually started upgrading it yet but I will real soon now. Promise.
