24-07-2005 08:30									#61
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quote: Originally posted by W_Crane I got the 12" too. They make a back pack that fits it. It had just come out the day before I got the book, which makes it also much easier on the back. I have heard that carrying a bag (back pack (on one sholder) or single stap band) can mold your spine so that you walk crooked, especially if it is way too heavy. The twelve inch and the back pack (carried by both sholders) reduces the possiblity of this urban legend.

I walk funny anyhow.. so np for me.

	24-07-2005 08:34									#62
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My kiddos is a 12 inch too its a fast little machine. Im still learning to navaigate it but it is a good one. His fits inhis school back back I guess thats why they went with mac. Aggie I havent tried anything that you mentioned since this is my first experience with a mac

	24-07-2005 08:35									#63
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Do you play WoW on the 12'' screen, or do you have an external display? If not, what's the gameplay like on that size a screen? How do you have the graphics set up as?

	24-07-2005 08:35									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski My kiddos is a 12 inch too its a fast little machine. Im still learning to navaigate it but it is a good one.

Remember to let your kid on it every now and then, too.

	24-07-2005 08:36									#65
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lol, I walk funny too ...I just don't want it to get worse.

	24-07-2005 08:41									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Verto Remember to let your kid on it every now and then, too.

Naaa hes had it for the last 2 hours getting used to it. I wanted to look at it again and he told me no so im on my old laptop thats is like 6 mths old no its all good

	24-07-2005 08:42									#67
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There's only one solution.

One up him, and buy yourself a new laptop as well

	24-07-2005 08:47									#68
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I'm wondering if Asher got banned for that extremely mild troll.............

ACK!

	24-07-2005 09:19									#69
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I'm not banned.

Though I will say you have to be mentally challenged to spend the money Apple asked for to get a PowerBook today, considering it's about 4 year old technology.

Far worse on batteries and far worse in performance than a Pentium M/Celeron M system, but who's counting.

They've been copying IBM ThinkPads for features (that ThinkPads have had for years) to try to make up for the dearth of actual upgrades...

	24-07-2005 09:37									#70
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I dunno asher the little Ibook the school shelled out for aint that bad. Course i dont know excatly how to navigate it yet but its fast enough so far.

	24-07-2005 10:18									#71
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iBooks are even worse than PowerBooks. Even Aggie has said a few times you shouldn't get an iBook.

There are far better deals out there.

	24-07-2005 10:20									#72
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quote: Originally posted by Verto Do you play WoW on the 12'' screen, or do you have an external display? If not, what's the gameplay like on that size a screen? How do you have the graphics set up as?

Yeah. I will by an external, but I haven't got around to it. I have the defaults. I haven't bothered tweaking it as it seems to work fine, and I'm only interested in mindless mayhem anyway.

	24-07-2005 10:22									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski My kiddos is a 12 inch too its a fast little machine. Im still learning to navaigate it but it is a good one. His fits inhis school back back I guess thats why they went with mac. Aggie I havent tried anything that you mentioned since this is my first experience with a mac

The Yoda thing is funny. Just make sure the voice selected is Albert.

If you have a digital camera there is fun to be had. Garageband is cool too. It's probably a good idea to do the two finger scrolling hack I mentioned earlier. I find that indispensable - much better than a scroll wheel.

	24-07-2005 10:25									#74
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Try the Spotlight search too. I think it's Apple-Space [I changed mine as I use Apple-Space to enable Classical Greek input]

	24-07-2005 10:32									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski I dunno verto that little bugger which is half the size of my laptop has a close processer speed and more memory its a fast littl machine great for the student with the plug offs that they wont be able to get to. they can use messenger but not the chat rooms All in all im not to disappointed in the mac laptop so far. I do thank all of you guys for your help again. next step before school starts is to let the kiddo get famaliar with it since he has never used a mac before this one

I'd forgotten about this. You can be pretty heavy with the parental controls in the new version of OS X. You can specify whether you must be notified if he wants to put someone on his chat list and what sites are banned and so on....

....nae pr0n for the Tubes' kid.

	24-07-2005 10:35									#76
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon ....nae pr0n for the Tubes' kid.

Well, let's not be naive

	24-07-2005 10:36									#77
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I forgot this too. A must for people who obsessively catalogue their books, CDs and DVDs.

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

	24-07-2005 10:38									#78
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That's pretty amazing that they can read the barcode from the webcam. I wonder how consistent the results are, how extensive the library is, etc.

	24-07-2005 10:50									#79
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon I forgot this too. A must for people who obsessively catalogue their books, CDs and DVDs. http://www.delicious-monster.com/

Question from one of those annoying utilitarian PC users: What is the point of having an index of the DVDs/books on your computer?

It's not like you can immediately access these items once you scan it in...

	24-07-2005 10:55									#80
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Question from one of those annoying utilitarian PC users: What is the point of having an index of the DVDs/books on your computer? It's not like you can immediately access these items once you scan it in...

What's the point of having a desktop wallpaper? It's just another way for people to a.) spend their time, b.) waste their money or c.) do both at the same time.

	24-07-2005 10:57									#81
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quote: Originally posted by Verto What's the point of having a desktop wallpaper? It's just another way for people to a.) spend their time, b.) waste their money or c.) do both at the same time.

Desktop wallpaper looks nice, it's a decoration.

Scanning barcodes is not a decoration.

	24-07-2005 11:00									#82
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Checking out that website more, it has some neat features, but overall I could never fathom why I would do that, save out of sheer boredom. It says you can use the program to help you keep track of what movies/CDs/books you've loaned out to friends by dragging the item onto contacts in the Address Book, with the program telling you its due date. Sounds interesting, but definitely not worth my time. The way it's linked to Amazon, etc to provide info on the product and also related items is another cool feature that is already present in, for example, WMP as soon as you've updated the media info.

	24-07-2005 11:01									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Desktop wallpaper looks nice, it's a decoration. Scanning barcodes is not a decoration.

But seeing all your DVDs, books, CDs, etc like the program does is decoration. Granted, IMO not worth the effort really.

And I'm still fairly amazed that they've got webcams that can read the barcode with (I'm assuming) ease.

	24-07-2005 11:50									#84
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Does that double scroll thing include the double tap thingy

	24-07-2005 12:02									#85
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Some people like obsessively cataloging their stuff. I had a massive CD catalogue that I'd mark when I lent something out.

	24-07-2005 19:10									#86
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I don't know what this is to be used for , but I have a question for Mrs. Tuberski - does this iBook have a compiler + related utilities included by default ? ( Doesn't matter which one , it should be usable ) .

	24-07-2005 22:39									#87
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quote: Originally posted by aneeshm I don't know what this is to be used for , but I have a question for Mrs. Tuberski - does this iBook have a compiler + related utilities included by default ? ( Doesn't matter which one , it should be usable ) .

Id be able to answer if i knew what that was. Im still not sure of all this ibooks capabilities are. I didnt Buy the computer the school he is going to bought them and issued them to select students. I didnt know until yesterday that the laptop they gave them were macs. i figured they would be the same kind I use at home, therefore I didnt go to the orietation, i sent my ex husband. Oh well My son and I will learn together.

	24-07-2005 23:13									#88
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quote: Originally posted by aneeshm I don't know what this is to be used for , but I have a question for Mrs. Tuberski - does this iBook have a compiler + related utilities included by default ? ( Doesn't matter which one , it should be usable ) .

Yes.

	24-07-2005 23:54									#89
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I mentioned yesterday this laptop comes with windows office does mac have a program like word? I can say i cn build the regular pcs I never new the two could use each others programs like itunes with microsoft and word with mac.

	25-07-2005 00:05									#90
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Presumably you mean Microsoft Office for mac. That is the Office Suite for mac.

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