Mac Laptop decision
Jan. 31st, 2003 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomPing, one of my SOs is going to buy the new tiny 12" mac laptop.
Work looks like they are going to buy me a mac laptop.
The big question is...
Do I get the 17" mac laptop and risk "one upping" my SO? She'll have just bought all the Mac she can afford, and I'll have gotten a more impressive one for "free"-ish.
Your thoughts?
(Alternatively: Should I get the 15" and forego the Firewire800 and other spiffy things that the 17" has?)
Work looks like they are going to buy me a mac laptop.
The big question is...
Do I get the 17" mac laptop and risk "one upping" my SO? She'll have just bought all the Mac she can afford, and I'll have gotten a more impressive one for "free"-ish.
Your thoughts?
(Alternatively: Should I get the 15" and forego the Firewire800 and other spiffy things that the 17" has?)
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Date: 2003-01-31 05:54 pm (UTC)The 17" really is very very big. I played with one at MacWorld. It's gorgeous and the 800MBps FireWire is nice, if you actually need that amount of speed in a portable. If you're not doing video editing, you don't. No, really, you don't.
The current 15" models lack Airport Extreme, and their wireless reception is notoriously short-ranged.
The 12" has Airport Extreme, and with the inclusion of proper video out which does more than video mirroring, it's a very serious little machine. It's the lightest and smallest full-feature laptop computer around, and when push comes to shove, if you do actually use your laptop in more than one location, or on your actual lap, you're going to want the smaller one.
Just use it to connect to a big server and you can satisfy your size-queen tendancies.