PowerBook G4: One Year Later

One year ago today I purchased my Macintosh PowerBook G4. Rexworld told me too wait; I think I remember Smorty71 questioning my manhood.

But that's all good and fine. Although the new Intel-based MacBooks and MacBook Pros will smoke my G4, my PowerBook still manages all the tasks (photo editing, Web surfing, Web-based apps, e-mail, etc.) I toss it without so much as a hiccup.

This thing's just awesome. I had to reboot my Windows systems more today than I've had to reboot the PowerBook all year. That is not an exaggeration, my friends. Straight scary truth, I swear.

When I launched two companies at the beginning of this year, I just wish I would have had the balls to do so using the Mac as my main business system. QuickBooks issues and phone/Outlook synchronization were the two elements that scared me off.

By now I've discovered QuickBooks' Web-based edition probably would have worked fine for me. And, given a small investment in The Missing Sync, I could have likely overcome the phone issue, too. Oh well. Hindsight's always 20-20.

Here's to another great year with the PowerBook, which remains my favorite every day machine (having already relegated my brand new, four-month-old widescreen Compaq Presario to the bottom of a desk drawer). I should probably sell the Compaq and use the proceeds to buy more RAM for my Apple; that's about the only way the Presario will continue to add any value to my business endeavors. And it'd only be appropriate that the Apple obtain fuel for its performance from a victim of its prowess.