The battery life of my PowerBook G4 also left me wanting more. While for the most part the performance of the notebook wouldn't bother me (and outfitting it with 2GB of memory definitely helped), there were definitely times when doing a lot of Photoshop work at an IDF or doing anything other than writing where I missed my desktop. On the CPU side, the PowerBook G4 was growing a little long in the tooth. I still wouldn't trade away the added productivity for something smaller and lighter, but you always want what you don't have. The problem was that the 15" PowerBook weighed at least a third more than any notebook I had used in the previous couple of years, and although initially I had no issues going to a larger, heavier notebook it eventually became a pain. With the large number of keyboard shortcuts that existed for virtually everything in OS X, I spent far less time using the trackpad and much more time actually getting work done.īut my PowerBook experience wasn't perfect I opted for the 15" model because I did want to get work done and needed the large screen with its higher resolution. minimizing windows, the zoom to fit control, etc.) and it even addressed the issue of user input. My experience with OS X and the PowerBook G4 changed all of that window management under OS X was significantly improved for reasons I've outlined before (Exposé, hiding vs. And on a notebook, with a small lower-resolution screen and an uncomfortable to use pointing device productivity suffered. The move to tabbed browsers alleviated some of the problem, but for the most part it still existed. It also just so happens that when I'm getting a lot of work done and when I happen to be my most productive, I have a ton of windows open at once. Despite its name, Windows does an absolutely horrid job of managing lots of windows, something which looks to be on the road to getting fixed in Vista but back then there was no hope in sight. My biggest issues with notebooks were always related to reduced productivity, mainly because of screen size and resolution constraints. When I first started using a PowerBook G4 over a year ago it quickly turned into the best experience I'd ever had with a notebook.
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