Yeah… well my trusty ol’ 12″ Powerbook G4 has been sluggish lately. And there is a desktop PC on my desk which has been gathering some dust. I thought of de-centralizing my work and moving my files to this Pentium 4 1.6 GHz with 1GB ram, using my Powerbook as a secondary machine. So far it has been okay. Windows hasn’t bugged me yet. Most of my time is spent on the browser, checking gmail, writing on this blog, administering my host/server, FTP etc.. And core graphics work using Photoshop and Illustrator is also fine on this machine.

It does actually seem faster to do browser based stuff with the desktop considering most web-apps are built for Windows in a way. Firefox seems faster on th PC than on the mac ergo Gmail is faster, wordpress is sturdier… etc. Or could be that this machine has a more stable LAN connection versus the WiFi on my mac. I don’t know.

But what I do know is that I either need to cleanup my Powerbook or buy a new MacBook Pro 15″.  I’ve been thinking about the latter for a while now… actually since Apple released an SantaRosa LED backlit one. But with all the bills and other things I have to pay for I’ve been holding off on getting one.  Now Apple just released an update to the Macbook Pro, based on Penryn Intel chips with a multi-touch pad, but I think I would settle for the SantaRosa ones.

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