{"id":176,"date":"2004-10-14T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/10\/2004_10_14_1658.php"},"modified":"2004-10-14T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T08:58:16","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/14\/its-been-a-while","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been quite a while since my last post. Been extremely busy with different stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m gathering some Apple applications from different sources&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>At the end of this month, I&#8217;ll be having a taste of the &#8220;Dark Side&#8221; (or see the light as others would put it) by getting myself an Apple Powerbook!<\/p>\n<p>I would like to call it the dark side since I&#8217;m primarily a PC user&#8230; and will continue to be one as far as the desktop realm is concerned. It has nothing to do with the whole PC vs. Mac trolling &#8211; I simply prefer the PC when it comes to serious stuff (songmaking), since the platform has wealth of software options which are <strong>easy to acquire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the coin, unlike desktops &#8211; laptops cost a lot of money. You can upgrade little parts of your desktop all you want&#8230; but for laptops, upgrading usually translates to buying a new laptop. Powerbooks practically go against the rules of obsolesence in terms of performance and value depreciation as they&#8217;re simply too damn sexy no matter how old they are&#8230; and OSX makes the speed\/performance issue easier for the end user than any PC-based laptop.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually ready to buy it via credit card the other day, but the surcharge would&#8217;ve killed me. Totally not worth the additional 11k surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>Unless there&#8217;s a different standard by the end of the month, I&#8217;m pretty sure that these are the specs of the Powerbook.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15&#8243; Powerbook<\/li>\n<li>1.5 GHz G4 cpu<\/li>\n<li>1GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>80GB 5400rpm HDD<\/li>\n<li>Mobile Radeon 9700 64MB<\/li>\n<li>4x superdrive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would want to upgrade the vidcard too, but that would entail a 45-60 day delay. Why didn&#8217;t I choose the 17&#8243;? I did initially, but after much reflection, I didn&#8217;t really want something as big as a food tray. Plus the fact that part of the reason I got my Boblbee Mentor is for the laptop&#8230; and the 17&#8243; simply won&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve used my friend&#8217;s 15&#8243;er, and am extremely happy with its size &#8211; ergo there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that this is the size for me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been quite a while since my last post. Been extremely busy with different stuff. Right now, I&#8217;m gathering some Apple applications from different sources&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,944],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-powerbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}