On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:54, Yersinia wrote: > LoveThemBeatles2 writes, > > <My 1400 lives a somewhat sheltered life. I had originally bought it to > write > with; no games, no internet, no MP3s. The love for the little Mac is > still > very powerful. Call me an over-protective parent.> > > Well, for the first couple months I had a Powerbook (a 190 originally: > still have it but now use a 5300c), writing was all I did with it too > (although I did take it out from the start: the idea was to be able to > write without being chained to my desktop Mac in the apartment). After > those first couple of months of "writing only," I set it up to so I could > go online with it for emailing, chatting and minimal web surfing, and of > course when I got the 5300c I set it up for "everything I do" > immediately, to make it a miniaturized, portable version of the G3 which > is my "Indoors Mac." As to overprotective parenting of my Powerbook, I > always take it out in its carrybag (closed and zipped up while carrying > it around), and when it's home, it sits next to me on top of the file > cabinet happily drinking wall juice to keep the battery all charged up > and ready to go (and the battery gets reconditioned every month). The 190 > has a safe home now in one of my bedside table drawers. > > Oh yeah, don't know why I didn't mention this the first time around, but > mine has gone to work with me so I could write during lunch hour. It > never attracted much attention there (my coworkers being well aware of > the fact that I was a Mac freak and that I write), but I HAVE drawn some > attention while writing out in the courtyard or in the park with it. > However, it wasn't so much the idea that it was a Mac that caused these > people to approach me: they always want to know what I'm DOING with it. > The questions and comments I get: "Are you online?" "Are you writing a > BOOK?" "Wow, must be nice to be able to work outside on a beautiful day > like this." And so on. When they get around to "Boy, I wish *I* could > afford to get a laptop!" is when the Mac issue comes in, having bought my > 5300c for $30 on the Swap List. >:-) That's when I hit 'em with the > Macintosh Grand Tour and tell 'em why I don't do Windoze.
Well, here's my two cents worth. My little 190 is almost as abused as my notorious Linux machine. It has survived, since I bought it used in April, a 3 ft. drop, airport security, a week-long band trip to Florida, a week-long BPA competition in Anaheim, CA, a church trip to a waterfall where someone asked what version of Windoze it ran, having to lean the PB against a wall when charging because I broke the AC adapter connector (the part that plugs into the PB, not the socket), my little brother sneaking off with it when I was at band practice, being carried through the rain while I'm trying to cram it into the case and run at the same time, repeated attempts at writing fiction that never gets finished, displaying some really horrible MST fodder and the writing of a MST. Plus, I have planned for it to be the machine I carry to read my speech notes off of, when I run for president of my local BPA chapter. In short, I have done unto my 'Book as a high school student would do unto even the toughest of notebooks, and it has taken it in stride. I even got mud on the screen while on said church trip. Speaking of which, have any of you ever had a PB get splashed with water when working on something beside a swimming pool? As long as it's dried quickly, it won't hurt. I know from experience. Caleb -- Why is it that I'm mocked for using Linux and a Mac, when it's the Windoze losers getting viruses and hogging all my bandwidth? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
