I love my Powerbook G4

Yes you read that title right. It’s almost 2012 and I’m still using my Powerbook G4 laptop that I bought in 2005. Yes its slower than today’s smartphones but it still allows me to do 80% of non-work related tasks: email, chat, surf, FB, and blog.

If I could summarize three things that I love about my Powerbook it would be:

a) The keyboard is so buttery smooth. The more I type on this keyboard the more I realize all the other keyboards out there really suck

b) The design of the Powerbook was just ahead of its time. I hated the colored G3s that came out prior to the Powerbook G4 but when the Titanium and faster Aluminum models came out I was sold. I actually owned a Powerbook G3 “Pismo” that I sold on ebay for $800. Truth be known I got it for free and at the time found it ridiculously slow.

c) The ambient light sensors on the keyboard. Didn’t I just talk about the keyboard? I suppose if you write and type as much as I do, keyboards become really important. As I mentioned in b), the design was ahead of its time. The keyboard system that lights up when the room gets dark is just beautiful. To this day all my keys still work, all of them still light up when the room gets dark.

I will probably not buy another mac computer since the prices are just way too high. I remember buying this PB for $2600.

Another reason why I probably won’t buy another Mac is my work gives me more computers than I know what to do with. I may be one of those guys who keeps old computers, takes out the guts and replaces them with more modern parts. Maybe in 5 more years I may do that with this powerbook.