Apple laptop advice

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Stamp said:

Well, I have bought a Powerbook 1.5 GHz with an 80GB hard drive. 12" as I love small, and super drive. Built in Airport running OSX tiger.
Paid £380 for it and chuffed to bits. It is mint!

nice one - as you may have picked up, 12" PBs are nirvana to many Mac addicts and they never really got replaced by Apple in the rush to Intel.

I have tried to early-adopt and use my MB Air in the same way as the PB 12" - personally I find the Air close but no cigar. Sure, it's faster - by a long way - and the keyboard is usable all day, etc. But if only the Air had the ports the 12" PB had... all it'd need is one more USB port, a Firewire port and for the ports NOT TO BE SHROUDED so normal devices can fit in.... and it'd be a slam dunk. Unfortunately, we're being kept waiting. Whether this is intentional on the part of Apple - for people like me to buy every small product going until the 'real' PB12" successor appears... or whether it's due to incompetence - I don't know. Or even an desire to exit the market in that space (or a mistake in removing ports from the Macbook Air).

I can (and will) make my Eee 900 run Tiger acceptably for the tasks I need it to do... but the keyboard's not up to Apple day-long usage and neither is the screen. However it has 3 USB ports so an external keyboard and mouse won't be a problem if I'm happy for my day desk to have a hub with a load of peripherals hanging off it.

Apple need to watch out here - the Eee is underpowered and not really good enough for OS X - but it looks the part (especially in pearlescent white) and runs the OS rather nicely

[Stamp]

Question removed as I have stumbled upon the answer.

Edited by Stamp on Monday 12th May 11:29