Funny. My main desktop PC is also a Sony as well! (The other one is a Shuttle like Jason's.)
I would get more firewire devices since your Sony has a firewire port as well. I have a Lexar compactflash reader/writer that I use to upload photo (XP and Mac) and to to transfer MP3 and other media files to/from the PPC CF card.
One of my to-buy item is a firewire enclosure for HD. When you need to transfer, say, 10 gigs of files between PC and Mac, firewire is sooo much (3-4x) faster than ethernet (in theory 400 mbps vs 100 mbpps). This is good for backup as well since Mac can read FAT32 and NTFS formatted disks.
Marlof, after a few weeks or months of using your iBook, please post on your overall impressions and how difficult / easy it would be for a PPC user to switch.
This is a very interesting topic to myself as well. I've already been tempted on a couple of occasions to invest in a Mac to compliment my WinXP machine.
To the few people who couldn't resist trolling this into a Mac vs. PC debate above, get a life, or a get a *new* Mac with OS X, and then you can play (on another web site please). All the Mac users use Macs and PCs.
Yes, indeed. At home are 5 PCs (between my wife and I) and one Mac G4, although I have plans to sell the G4 to raise some badly needed cash. As much as I HATE OS9, I like OS X. Pretty interface over a good Unix implmentation (although they've done some very odd things with directory structure for some of the Unix apps, like Apache).
So who is modding this thread and why was my second post deleted? Of course this about PocketPC, but it doesn't hurt to make sure Marlof knows the best configuration for his iBook. Explanation?
I am sorry, but to respond to this I do have to be synical: Look behind you stupid! just kidding. What happened was you posted on the thread. You got an email saying more had been posted. You clicked the link which sent you to the last page of the thread. You didn't see your post because it was on the first page of the thread. So in conclusion, look behind the car before you pull out of the driveway.
Marlof, after a few weeks or months of using your iBook, please post on your overall impressions and how difficult / easy it would be for a PPC user to switch.
That is my plan. I'll keep a journal of my experiences with the Mac platform (hits and misses) and will post those/, esp. where they concern the Pocket PC. As stated, this will be from the eyes of a Mac novice / an experienced Wintel consumer, and will show if I think switching is easy or advisable, coming from that perspective.
Marlof, after a few weeks or months of using your iBook, please post on your overall impressions and how difficult / easy it would be for a PPC user to switch.
That is my plan. I'll keep a journal of my experiences with the Mac platform (hits and misses) and will post those/, esp. where they concern the Pocket PC. As stated, this will be from the eyes of a Mac novice / an experienced Wintel consumer, and will show if I think switching is easy or advisable, coming from that perspective.
Sounds good. One quick piece of advice. . . holding down the 'ctrl' button and clicking the mousepad button will bring up right-clck context menu's
The right-click tip is a simple but important one for Windows users. If you go back and forth between Macs and PCs, I highly recommend getting a third-party mouse. I love the Logitech Optical Wireless mouse. The MS wireless optical one is nice too. Both have OSX Prefs panels for added features like programming buttons.
On the earlier comment about the menu bar: it's a matter of what you're used to. State vs. Stateless I guess. Both OS's have examples of each. For example, in OSX programs, dialog boxes are attached to the window to which they apply, e.g. a "Save" dialog box is attached to the document you are saving, which seems to make a lot more sense than having float in a modal dialog like in Windows or Mac OS9.
This indicates that Apple understands the utility of associating commands and actions with the window being acted upon. It would have been too radical a departure to remove the menu bar, however. Mac users would have freaked. I suspect you'll see a migration toward more functionality in the active window. Already the toolbar interface is a flexible, customizable way to perform common actions on the active window.
The Start Menu is an abomination, you're just used to it. Use the Columns view in OSX. Much more flexible and efficient.
Here's what I dislike most about OS X: the toolbar.
Granted, it's a far cry better than anything in OS 9, but here's where it fails, I think: It makes very little difference between program links (shortcuts) and programs that are already running. In fact, the only way to tell the difference is a tiny arrow underneath the icon for running programs.
Windows 3.x had this same problem where sometimes an icon represented a program or file link (Program Manager) and sometimes it represented a running program (desktop). They fixed that nicely with the taskbar in Win 95.
Apple should take note. Unfortunately, the Aqua interface has a lot of inconsistancies like that, caused I think, mostly from "legacy' behavior from previous OS's.
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