First post on the new iBook
Comments Off on First post on the new iBook Made it to Huntsville today. Went about 25 miles out of our way due to a wrong turn and me not stopping to look at the map. Found MacResourse easy enough. Went in and they had Filemaker on the self. Got it and looked around. The iMacs were nice, both the old 800mhz ones and the new 1.6ghz ones. But as I keep thinking the laptops make the most sense. The iBooks are plenty fast and the new ones will take 1 gb ram chips on top of the 256 they come with. The Powerbooks were nice too but a bit out of our range.
Anyway got a new iBook G4 with a 1.2 GHz processor and added the 1 GB ram. Also got a bag for one. Would have liked to get 2 but at 40 a pop will swap as necessary. Total was more than I like to think of but tis done and paid and home.
The swap to this machine was wonderful! Put a firewire cable between them and rebooted the 933 while holding down the T key and it booted into harddrive mode or some such. need to look into just what the deal is there. Have done it with pc's before for just data swap but not with firewire. anyway the 1.2 took about an hour to move all the programs and my home directory and the settings over. took up 20 GB or so. Told me to take the cable out and shut off the 933. then finished the boot process. came up with my desktop and the stuff open that I had left on the old machine. Had to reregister a couple of programs but as of now most everything is working. Some of the x stuff isn't like gimp but I using graphic converter for most of the things I do now and don't really need gimp. will reinstall it and the x server and such but for now I can work right along.
And though it's only a 1.2 GHz processor it is perceptibility faster in normal operations. I don't know if this processor or bus or memory or all of the above but opening and closing programs and documents is quicker. Boot time is about the same.
Cleaned the junk off the 933 and cat is using it. She is upstairs watching star trek movies on it right now. downloaded a avi player and showed her how easy it is to install programs on a mac.
New iBook Hardware Overview:
Machine Model: iBook G4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.5f0
Now to get a bar code reader.
And build the database. Got filemaker installed after removing the program and pref folders and reinstalling. I was pissed but it worked the second time. I had removed them before the first install from where I had installed a trial version a few days ago but something didn't get removed or something. Anyway tis installed and running now. Now to go through the tutorial and start working on the project. Am thinking bigger all the time but i think most of it is doable. whether it will be worth doing is a different thing entirely. I guess we will see. Got to get the form from filemaker and get Cat a copy too.
New keyboard feels nice. Touch pad too. Won't be that way long if its anything like the other one. But there is also bluetooth wireless. That I am gonna look into for the home and store computer stations. Plug a bluetooth usb dongol in and have everything already there of course a usb hub would do the same but with wired components. and a lot cheaper with no batteries to buy. will see what is available.
Tis late and the eyelids are heavy. Till the morn…
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