Last Friday it finally arrived, the main object of desire I’ve had in the past 3 years (besides my wife of course). My Powerbook arrived. Using a combination of ADC discounts and that I’m a business it was actually a lot cheaper than you might think.

Good news as well that it came, because right as I was getting ready to move data over from my work issued Dell notebook, the disk on the Dell started freezing the computer ending in a massive crash.

Due to a bunch of bootstrapping exercises the last real computer that I bought myself was in 2000. This dell 5000e has served me well with it’s still perfect screen. However it was by now falling apart. The disk drive has died on me 3 times now. I’m cursed I think. In the past year the PC card started acting flaky, loosing connection several times an hour on my ethernet and/or wireless card.

In the last 3 years my plan has been to buy a Powerbook. I can not count the amount of times I have gone to apple.com with much obsesiveness as a kind of big sad and very alumunum like carrot keeping me going dyring the many dark hours.

I have to say it is pretty fantastic. I nearly cried tears of joy when I opened up my first term session. Maybe it’s just the humiliation of having to use cmd.exe in the past 6 months.

The software works great and I’ve already got a bit too much software installed than is probably decent. I guess it’s alright to mention it now as it’s been announced, Tiger is fantastic. My main annoyance is that iSync still doesn’t support my Nokia 6330. I don’t know if it is possible to hack it like I know some people have done with the Motorola A1000.

Spotlight is fantastic. I actually find myself using it all the time. Almost as much as Quicksilver