Powerbook on the way…
Today I ordered a mostly-loaded 15″ Aluminum Powerbook from Apple, and a 4G iPod for my fiancee. Apple has a nice educational discount, as well as a promo for educational customers who buy an iPod and a Powerbook together will get $200 off. This brings the iPod down to $269.00 USD after all the rebates.. not too shabby.
Looks like the iPod shipped today, and hopefully my laptop will be here soon. It’s a build-to-order — I ordered it with 512MB RAM, 128MB video ram, the 5400 RPM hard drive, and had them take out the SuperDrive since I never burn DVDs anyway.
I’m upgrading from a Rev A. Clamshell iBook that I bought from a friend a few years ago for $400. The iBook runs at 300MHz and has 320MB RAM. OS X ran ok, but apps like Photoshop or Dreamweaver were pretty unbearable, especially running at a screen resolution of 800×600.