Size Doesn't Matter!

Consider this piece of conversation:

"Hey, man. That's a bit titchy!" says the first man.
"Well, I don't think so," answers the other man. "People tell me 12 inches is big enough."
"No, man, you need at least 15 inches to be happy," opines the first man.
"I'm telling you, 12 inches is enough to get things done," the other man insists.

Had this conversation before? Of course, I'm talking about notebook screen size here, and one of the many things people do when they find out I've bought a 12" iBook G4, is that they scold me for getting too small a screen. The thing about getting notebooks is you have to get 15 inches, at least 14, or so they preach.

Of course, the size of your notebook is a matter of preference, and most who have actually commented in the negative upon knowing my purchase of a 12-incher have not seen the 12" iBook in the flesh (or in the silicon, whatever).

But when they see my shiny iBook in all it's shining white glory, they are immediately astounded and complaints of a small screen are no longer heard. They praise the build, the look, the feel and of course, the virtues and style of Mac OS X.

Suddenly it dawns upon the naysayer of a 12-incher--size doesn't matter.

Getting; got an iBook.

In preparing for what was to be my future purchase, I scoured and glossed over multitudes of Apple and Mac-related websites to learn all I could before the inevitable purchase of my iBook. The downside to this, however, is that I tend to get too excited and then I get the urge to rush things.

And that's exactly what happened. Not bearing to wait any longer, I headed over to the nearest AppleCentre (located at MidValley, but I think the nearest to my house would actually be in Ikano Power Centre, but I digress) and told the good man who approached me that I was interested in a 12" iBook G4. He didn't even need to give his marketing pitch. I knew what he was going to say and he knew I knew.

After the business of swapping money was settled, he went to the back of the store and brought out a new, white iBook G4 box and a 256MB RAM chip. He sat on some benches (how cool; it's so informal this way), and proceeded to install the RAM chip in my iBook. After doing so, he booted the virgin iBook and proceeded to perform all the initial setup steps before showing me the ropes on my new notebook PC.

The guy, Steve (how appropriate), was a real friendly guy, and told me he'd been working there for half a year now. I asked him if he used a Mac at home for his personal use and he replied, "of course!". Don't you just love the passion of these Mac guys?

So, yeah, anyway, I am now a proud owner of a brand new 12" iBook G4. How is it? Great! In fact, this blog post is being typed on my iBook, using it's excellent WiFi capabilities and utilising my WiFi-enabled internet access at home. Pretty sweet.