One of the reasons why I bought in an Apple powerbook was because my IBM thinkpad broke down last July. I finally sent the thinkpad back to IBM for repairs last week. It was still under warranty, so why not? Yesterday, I received my thinkpad with the motherboard and BIOS replaced. The newly repaired laptop is working very well and it has been a relief not seeing the blue-screen-of-death when I power up the machine. More surprisingly, I realized how much I miss Windows when I was using the laptop earlier. Sometimes I think that Mac OS X is simply overrated. Sure Mac OS X is snazzier than Windows, but in terms of functionality both operating systems are about the same. Both my thinkpad and powerbook have the same system configuration with 1.5GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM. Yet my powerbook is consistently slower than my thinkpad. Word and Excel on the PC are a lot more responsive than their counterparts on the Mac. But the mac isn't without merit. My 12" powerbook is still the lightest and smallest laptop I have ever used. Wireless and bluetooth support on the mac is still top-notch. OmniGaffle still beats Microsoft Visio hands down.

I am going to continue using my powerbook but it's good to know that I have a backup in case my powerbook dies.

10/20/2005 11:21:16 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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