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iBook Gripes

Well, the honeymoon is still going strong, but the two partners are now finding thing that irk them about the other.

I've already mentioned my iBook's dislike for my Ronan Keating CD. Well today it also opposed my Delta Goodrem CD.

As for me, I've found that Mac OS X is not only not crash-proof, but indeed, it's crashed at least once each day I've used it. I've just reinstalled the applications, and it seems to be fine. It might have been corrupted because when I originally had to run the setup program from the CDs, the computer died suddenly due to lack of power (I hadn't had the thing plugged in stupid me). I've also just updated to the latest version of iTunes, and maybe that is more stable.

The iBook is quite solidly built, except perhaps for the trackpad. Out of everything on the iBook, I think it's the trackpad that lets it down. I prefer my 4 year old Dell's trackpad. The iBook one is not very responsive, and no matter how much I tweak the settings, it's just not sensitive enough to respond to small nuances like rolling my finger to get the pointer to move just ever so slightly more in a certain direction.

That's the gripe list so far. I am still loving Expose, and the general ergonomics of the computer are very good. What I mean is that how you think things are done are exactly how they're done. Oh, and the DVD playback is pretty good too, except that speaker output isn't very loud, both through the internal tinny speakers, or driving an external pair of unpowered speakers.

Oh wait, it seems to be liking my Delta CD now...