{"id":179,"date":"2004-10-20T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/10\/2004_10_20_0928.php"},"modified":"2004-10-20T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:28:10","slug":"my-first-powerbook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/20\/my-first-powerbook-post","title":{"rendered":"My first Powerbook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;View product page&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the late post it was a busy day for me yesterday (which is when most of the events of this post took place). Had a conference call in the morning right after which, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index15.html\">Powerbook<\/a> finally arrived (before lunch). We had a pending document to finish however, so I had to de-prioritize it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic anyway:<\/p>\n<center>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nargalzius\/180358063\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"You may click on the image for more details in Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/51\/180358063_3b8dd9cb5e_m.jpg\"><\/a>\n*truly, a thing of beauty*\n<\/center>\n<!--more-->\n<p>&#8220;View product page&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quick first impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s divinely sexy &#8211; For me, the look alone can make you choose it over an iBook (assuming they had the same specs).<\/li>\n<li>Protouch &#8211; though not standard issue, I&#8217;d recommend this to anyone, keeps your keyboard (and everything under the keys) clean. It also allows you to EAT while using the Mac without hurting your heart hehehe.<\/li>\n<li>Powersleevz &#8211; I had to swing by Megamall as the shop I got it from had ran out of stocks&#8230; another must have. Sort of a basic necessity if you plan to put your book on different bags, and want to keep the scratches off of it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m really not used to trackpads, or any laptop interface device. I&#8217;m planning to get a USB optical mouse to ease my pain (clicking on this thing is absolute hell at the moment)<\/li>\n<li>After a LONG time, I notice the power cord &#8220;turns off&#8221; &#8211; meaning it doesnt light, or charge, even if it&#8217;s connected to the socket. I reconnected it and everything went fine. But waking up the next morning (which is today), the same thing happened. Does the powerblock have some sort of &#8220;breaker&#8221; in it which automatically trips the circuit after long periods of plugged in time?<\/li>\n<li>Networking to windows via native Panther is a joy. I remember using Dave at some point when I fiddled with a Cube&#8230; only thing left is to get my PC to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index15.html\">Powerbook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More stories (if applicable) on a later date, but due to polular demands of friends that I post pics&#8230; I&#8217;ve posted that pic above.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it &#8211; my first official blog entry using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index15.html\">Powerbook<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;View product page&#8221; Sorry for the late post it was a busy day for me yesterday (which is when most of the events of this post took place). Had a conference call in the morning right after which, my Powerbook finally arrived (before lunch). We had a pending document to finish however, so I had &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/20\/my-first-powerbook-post\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My first Powerbook post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/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":[4,13],"tags":[96,944,946,962],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-powerbook","tag-powersleevz","tag-protouch"],"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\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}