Apr 06
Again I was in the airport today traveling and while there I did my standard poll, Intel/Windows based laptops vs. Macs.
After I was done total came to 25 Win PCs vs 18 Macs. I think the number of Macs are growning. On the other hand the number of iPhones and iPods is uncanny. It’s only a matter of time.
I did a few sessions at COMMON this year and there were more Macs in my sessions than in the past. Good to see.
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April 7th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
You see them everywhere in the airport, and much more out here in the Orange County area. I am getting a little tired of the the cool guy/hipster wanna be image at the Starbucks (or other coffee chain) with the Mac open and not particularly doing anything on it out here in SoCal.
On that note, I’m seriously considering a macbook air (and join that wanna be cliche). I’m just concerned about getting parallels and Windows installed. All my Lawson tools are wintel based. I sold my old Powerbook to a friend and now he is a convert! I have been doing all my remote work from home on an iMac with parallels.
Do you travel Mac or wintel for work?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I don’t. I have a DELL D630. I used my MacBook PRO at COMMON this year for all my presentations. I don’t think you would have trouble with the Air but the disk size is a limiting factor. I would just go for the 15″ MacBook PRO. I know you hate bulky but it’s just a damn good platform.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Disk space hasn’t been an issue for me with my IBM T60. In a year of traveling with it, I’ve only used 37GB of the 80GB drive and most of that is music. I’m not sure of the speed differences from the 2GHz Core Duo to the 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo in the Air but it has twice the Ram of my T60.
With traveling all the time, the size and weight of the Air sure seems nice…
April 10th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
T60? I hate those balls of suck….sorry you IBM fanboys. Lenovo has really jacked the line up.
I need a Mac I guess. Or just have frickin Ubuntu fix wireless and powersave issues and I’d be good.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Why dont you get a supported WiFi card dufus!
April 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Its really bugging me now, out of the box it was OK. But now it will never stand by, half the time it will hibernate and if it does its a crap shoot whether it will run correctly waking up. The only thing good about it was some Lawson installed software which I can download anyways. The more I think about it, I want a macbook air with parallels, the only thing it lacks compared to the T60 is a CD drive and I don’t really use it that much…