A mouse (Logitech MX310) was
plugged in to the USB port on the left side of the
computer, unplugged it and plugged it into the right
side, and it just worked. No more "new hardware
detected, software required" messages.
I downloaded an
Ogg Vorbis Quicktime plugin (available
here) so that iTunes can play all the
OGG encoded music I have. This also worked easily.
The speakers on this laptop are also better than any
other laptop speakers I've heard, obviously due to their
position either side of the tiny keyboard.
I changed Expose
keyboard shortcuts to be F11 to clear the screen, F12
to show all applications, and Apple+F12 to show all
windows in the current application. Now Expose is a
killer feature!
Did I mention the great screen? Great colour and
brightness!
I'm having some issues
getting sharing to work between the Windows computers
and the Powerbook, Windows machines can reach the
Powerbook and read/write, but the Powerbook won't do the
reverse. Neither side will browse the network,
everything is done by using IP addresses in
explorer windows from Windows. I don't want to look
at this too much right now, so long as I can get my
files from Windows onto the Powerbook.
Help was very slow, it
seemed to take a long time for anything to appear. I
later found that it was slow because my music was being
copied from an external USB2 harddrive to the internal
drive (6GB of files). The CPU load meter was
constantly at maximum during this period.
I like the included Calendar
application. I like how you can untick categories in the
calendar so you only see what you want to see. Calendar
alarms also occur when Calendar is not actively
running.
I tried the UT2004 Demo
benchmark on the Powerbook 17" and was disappointed by
the performance. When the screen goes switches to
1024x768 it stretches this in all directions to fill the
screen vertically, perhaps this is the cause of the
horrible game performance? I have another game at work
(one of the Star Wars Jedi Knight games) that I can try
later in the week. Is there a way to stop the screen
from being scaled to fill the display
vertically?
I switched back to Mozilla, from Safari, because
Safari lacks a Sidebar. If Safari has a sidebar, we
haven't found it yet. This is a shame, Safari is quite a
bit quicker and smoother than Mozilla.
