<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's a very endearing sentiment!<div>Thanks for sharing it with us.</div><div><br></div><div>I had a G4 500 MHz for a short time & it was a nice machine even though WiFi was very weak due to the metal casing.</div><div><br></div><div>Marcus</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 24, 2009, at 3/24/09 ~ 8:44 PM, Clare O'Farrell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I hope people won't mind a complete newbie posting.<br><br>I bought a tibook 500 mhz 3 years ago second hand on ebay and I love it. I have just bought a new 1 gig tibook and ebay and am waiting to get my hands on it to see if I like it as much. If I don't I will sell it on and upgrade my 500 mhz to the max.<br><br>I was interested in why other people are sticking to their tibooks as opposed to using a new macbook or macbook pro.<br><br>I just gave a 2008 macbook pro a try for a week and ended up with a migraine and bad eyestrain.<br><br>Here are my own reasons for loving the tibook<br><br>1. On my tibook I am using 10.3.9 with all the font smoothing taken out by tinkertool - so nice crisp font. (I believe you can't take all the font smoothing out from 10.4 onwards)<br><br>2. The screen brightness is just right (too bright on the macbook pro and no amount of tweaking the calibrations helped)<br><br>3. The resolution is not too high so everything isn't absolutely tiny as well as fuzzy (as it is on the macbook pro with 10.5)<br><br>4. The tibook feels as though it is lovingly crafted for the user. I don't know what it was about the macbook pro (probably the eyestrain) but I just didn't feel that the same care had gone into it as the tibook. All the functions and speed are good etc of course and I would love to have those on a legible computer (!)<br><br>5. The tibook just keeps going without a hitch - slowly admittedly!<br><br>-- <br>regards<br>Clare<br>************************************************<br>Clare O'Farrell<br>email: <a href="mailto:c.ofarrell@qut.edu.au">c.ofarrell@qut.edu.au</a><br>website: <a href="http://www.michel-foucault.com">http://www.michel-foucault.com</a><br>************************************************<br>_______________________________________________<br>Titanium mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Titanium@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">Titanium@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>