but tom, don’t you have an ipad pro, a macbook pro, and several notebooks for all this shit? Armed with a copy of iWork 2006 and the Internet Radio (college radio at that) of iTunes 10.5.6–which not only still works, but works better than iTunes for Windows ever have/will/could–I’ve been able to return to writing and coding. With 768 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, the PowerBook G4 was just what I needed for single-tasking computing that cannot take me beyond the means of word processing and 2006-era web browsing. So I decided to go deeper–more vintage, more abandoned. The “only-web” system had fallen to the web, JavaScript and multi-meg pages had finally surpassed the already-close-to limitations Atom processor.
#MACBOOK G4 SHIT SOFTWARE#
I flirted with the idea of returning to the OG Google Chromebook (link to review here), however the forced-always-up-to-date software had driven it beyond the point of no return for obsolescence. What the rant above is trying to justify is my need for a device I can complete a single task on at a time with, that cannot be used for anything beyond basic writing/browsing, in some sort of attempt to force myself to write and code. What this means is when I do actually want to complete tasks like OC gaming or programming or writing for this blog I procrastinate it. This means (probably noticeably) this blog has been neglected, as have my other previously procrastination driven hobbies such as PC gaming and programming. My work rarely requires me to take anything home, which means I no longer need to procrastinate anything beyond laundry or cooking or food shopping, all tasks which (for now) have a novelty and an allure. I find that if I can do something else, I generally will, this blog was actually once of my procrastinatory efforts throughout education. My biggest issue when completing any task is procrastination. I am fully indoctrinated into the Church of Jobs. At first: an iPhone then came an iPad, eventually I moved onto a MacBook Air, then a MacBook Pro, an Apple Watch and finally the AirPods.
#MACBOOK G4 SHIT FULL#
With a full time job came an income, with an income came spending. Apple products seemed to be unnecessarily expensive to myself and, although I would watch the Keynotes and very much want the products on offer, I resented the products for never being able to afford them.įlash forward to 2014, I got a full time job. Actually, let me be honest, I hated rich people. Why? How? What? And, most importantly, why?Īs a kid I hated Apple products.
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13 years later, I bought a 12” PowerBook G4. A year later, he sandwiched the 15” machine in between 12” and 17” counterparts. My new typewriter - the powerbook g4 ? In 2003, Steve Jobs introduced the 15” PowerBook series of notebooks to the world.