...strictly speaking, I purloined the PowerBook for my dear Mrs T, I have been having a play about with it. Hard to resist.
But the test of my logic of getting it in the first place proved right as while I was away from home for 3 days during the week, Fiona was able to show her mother a load of digitial photos using iPhoto which is pretty easy to wrangle.
I also replaced my Linksys WiFi access point with a combo ADSL WiFi router single box job which means permanent wireless web connection without having to fire up my Windows XP box to share it out. That's a big difference.
Simply opening the PowerBook up means instant web access for surfing, email or whatever. Absolutely zero faff.
It lives in the kitchen - the busiest traffic room of our house - and so far I'm quite pleased with both it and my digital lifestyle strategy.
I have about 5,000+ digital photos which even if I'd printed every one of them, would be many too many to deal with / store / review physically. I breifly contended with buying a compact dye-sub printer but all routes led to engaging with my Windows XP box which is quite a scary place (plus it's only usable in the spare room). Enter the PowerBook as a great solution to that problem.
But the test of my logic of getting it in the first place proved right as while I was away from home for 3 days during the week, Fiona was able to show her mother a load of digitial photos using iPhoto which is pretty easy to wrangle.
I also replaced my Linksys WiFi access point with a combo ADSL WiFi router single box job which means permanent wireless web connection without having to fire up my Windows XP box to share it out. That's a big difference.
Simply opening the PowerBook up means instant web access for surfing, email or whatever. Absolutely zero faff.
It lives in the kitchen - the busiest traffic room of our house - and so far I'm quite pleased with both it and my digital lifestyle strategy.
I have about 5,000+ digital photos which even if I'd printed every one of them, would be many too many to deal with / store / review physically. I breifly contended with buying a compact dye-sub printer but all routes led to engaging with my Windows XP box which is quite a scary place (plus it's only usable in the spare room). Enter the PowerBook as a great solution to that problem.