I bought an **Apple 12” iBook**!
I am totally amazed – I don’t think I ever made the decisision ot buy a gadget that fast. It looks neat. But...
I was a bit disappointed.
1. I have not figured out how to fill in forms without using the mouse.
2. The registration process *required* a street address and other things that I feel Apple has no need to know.
3. At first I configured the system without having the cable modem plugged in. When I plugged it in later, the cable modem needed a reboot. It took me a while to realize it, and so my first experience in setting up the connection to the Internet was suboptimal.
Time passes... 😄 I found out how to use the trackpad for clicking (I find the mouse button hard to press). I also found the setting that allows me to drag items over longer distances eventhough the touchpad is tiny – now a “drag” ends when I click again (and a click can be done by tapping the touchpad because of the other setting)... Now that makes sense: tap, drag, drag, drag, tap to release. Much better. I think I acticated keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of things, I just need to learn the actual shortcuts.
I even remembered my AIM password, so now I can use iChat (kensanata is the name).
Found the terminal, too, and looked at `/usr/bin`. 😄
Installing the Fink installer... Installing apache2, installing Oddmuse... Yes! My wiki runs on the iBook!
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Congratulations on the purchase. It does seem like a great thing to work with, and I’ve been thinking about buying a similar small laptop later this year. Be sure to post now and then what you use it for and if you’re pleased with it. How about a picture of it?
– Tim Cambrant 2005-02-08 19:44 UTC
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Welcome to the club.
To turn on forms jumping, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > tick “full keyboard access”.
Try either fink or darwinports for getting unixy software.
Try uControl from source to remap caps lock to control.
Have fun!
– DirkBernhardt 2005-02-08 19:50 UTC
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In case you want to use you monitor and touchstream keyboard you might want to buy a kvm switch like this one. I have this one and it takes 2 or 3 seconds when you switch, it seems to act as if you unplug the keyboard from one computer to plug it in the other one so the drivers are unloaded/loaded everytime you switch, but it works.
– PierreGaston 2005-02-08 22:41 UTC
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Detailed review Alex! Congratulations. 😄
– NoufalIbrahim 2005-02-09 08:18 UTC
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Congrats, Alex! I am still waiting for my 15” powerbook to arrive.
Keep us informed 😄
– Jean Pierre 2005-02-09 14:41 UTC
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Oh man, your room is so not child-safe, it’s not even funny.
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What you must understand is: “Child-safe” is not about keeping your child safe. “Child-safe” means more like: Keeping your room *safe from a child.*
If kaijyuu were in there- 10 minutes later- all that stuff is all over the floor.
Not child-safe. Not child-safe at all.
It’s just begging for Sakura to come over and mess it all up.
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– LionKimbro 2005-02-13 04:53 UTC
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OMG, It looks nice.
– V 2005-02-13 14:38 UTC