Pricing is another thing. I’d get an iPod because I think that overall Apple makes good products, not just because they look good. While there are sometimes faults with Apple products and especially their first revisions, Apple still tops the U.S. Customer Satisfaction Index and designs and manufactures excellent products. You hear more about them because they are leading the industry in so many ways — and on this blog because I mostly write about them :)

On the other hand, 80€ is a significant difference in price; have you compared the two devices? Are they similar in weight, features, size, etc? Mind you that with the nano you’re essentially paying for the size + design. If you were looking for value for money that’s the wrong place to look. However, if you have decided to get it, I would not wait any further at this point.

Speaking of Apple Gadgets, I’d like to hear your advice on this: I’d like to purchase an IPod. I actually meant to do that last year, when the nano ones came out in stores, but then I learned they were deffective. So, I decided to wait for a while. Prices would go down, too, I thought. Now, the 4GB is worth 220euros, but am still sceptical whether it’s worth it. Also, a friend of mine bought another MP3 player , 6GB storage, for 140euros. The only reason I’d pay more for an IPod would be for its design and stuff. Should I wait a few months more or buy another MP3 player?

Since Intel is on a roll with multicore CPUs, and since you’re going to the army, I’d probably also wait if I were you, unless you manage to get some sort of placement where you’ll have enough time and/or a desk job that will enable you to use your new laptop. :)

err shit.. I’ll have to do my nationaly military service in May.. sucks.. but I have too.. so I think I’ll have to wait at least another 12 months until I get another mac :-(

poor me!

Leopard is expected to be faster than Tiger due to several optimisations in the kernel. I don’t think support for the G4 is going to be dropped in Leopard. There’s still a very large userbase with G4 machines. Make sure you have enough RAM (I’d say at least 1 GB).

It’s understandable that your battery has died after 2.5 years, especially if you were using the machine daily. Unfortunately, even though I moved back to Hellas in the summer of 2005, I am not at all knowledgeable about the Mac market in this country as I haven’t — and do not intend to — purchase any Macs from Hellas under the current IMC ‘regime’. Sorry. :(

In any case, Leopard seems to be improving OS X a lot under the hood (and not so much in terms of ‘user’ features or UI) and if you’re not in need of the fancy new backup etc. you could stay with Tiger for a bit longer if your machine is not up to it and you don’t want to upgrade your hardware. On the other hand, I reckon that March-April will be a good time to get a new MBP/Macbook if you so wish to do :)

Take care and thanks for the comment.

How are thee? I’d like to ask you a few questions about Leopard. I’m thinking too of buying a new macintosh x86 based currently I’m stuck with my old G4 iBook which I love!!

Will I be able to run leopard smoothly on it, or should I stick with Tiger? I’m sitting on a ‘next-generation’ OS anyway.. the features we have (in Tiger) since 2005 are what windows users expect to see as a bleeding edge technology in windows (s)Vista so..

Another thing, I live in Greece.. do you know of any store (except rainbow and resellers) that I can buy a battery and a supply cable for my iBook? It seems that after 2.5 years my battery finally died :-(

best regards,

Nice blog ;-)