• My 2 GHz MacBookPro - now running Windows in a Mac window (Parallels) for those tiresome chores of seeing how bad IE renders my web designs.
  • Rock solid is my 2003 G3 iBook (700 Mhz) -- used for my personal email, web work outside of the day job, and my meager iTunes collection.

From Three Laptops Down To Two

My desktop (the real kind, furniture you know) in my home office at one time supported 3 laptops, but with my move to running Parallels on my MacBookPro, the old Compaq PC laptop got the boot.

I still have my trusty iBook for my personal email and web work.

Comments and faves

  1. thepatrick (65 months ago | reply)

    You're iBook survived the great exploding-g3-logic-board years? I'm impressed - mine lasted about 10 months (an 800MHz combo drive version) before Apple replaced it with a G4.

    Parallels I love - except for the disk space Windows insists on using. I'll manage to get it down to 2GB and then a week or so later it'll somehow be back to 4.

    (Despite only having IE7 and Outlook, and Outlook isn't running in Cached mode, so shrug. It's Windows.)

  2. cogdogblog (65 months ago | reply)

    I must have missed the explosions. That machine was quite durable, the only quirk being a CD drive needing a replacement. That's how luck runs.

    I'm not keeping too much of a close eye on the Parallels disk space (okay, just checked and it is using 8 Gb) - as I try to keep about 20-30 Gb free and offload a lot of big files to an external. My use so far is purely running 4 versions of IE and the nifty Autostitch tool for making panoramas.

  3. thepatrick (65 months ago | reply)

    I seem to be the unlucky one with Macs. The iBook G4 committed suicide just before WWDC2005. The 12" PowerBook I got after that at least survived (with a few insides replaced a couple of times) to be passed on to someone else.

    My problem with disk space and parallels is that while I have a 100GB drive in the MBP, I'm down to about 20GB of free space - which just isn't enough to feel comfortable. My big files reside in ~/Pictures/Aperture Library, which I'm going to have to either bite the bullet and get a small (laptop) firewire drive. I keep XP+IE6 and Vista Parallels machines on an external disk, but it's annoying not having them on me all the time.

  4. 126 Club (65 months ago | reply)

    Why not design your web designs for IE instead? That way they'll be optimal for most viewers.

  5. thepatrick (65 months ago | reply)

    Because it's about all viewers, not just some. Even in my (rather niche) industry browsers other than IE make up at least 10%, are you seriously suggesting that anyone should turn away 10% of their revenue?

    Developing for decent browsers and then adding compatibility for IE typically takes significantly less than 10% development time (in my experience somewhere around 1%). The other way around is a recipe for disaster.

  6. cogdogblog (65 months ago | reply)

    Oh my gosh, I am picking myself off the floor. "Why not design for IE?"

    Get thee a copy of Zeldman.

    Now.

    If you have any eyeball to the future and multiple viewing devices, it's all about going web standard. Every top notch designer's strategy is: (1) design in web standard browser; (2) adjust with hacks for the non-standards.

    You cannot even design for IE, as IE7, 6, 5 all have things which need equal addressing.

    I'd rather design for NetScape 4 ;-)

  7. BryanAlexander (65 months ago | reply)

    "I'd rather design for NetScape 4" -

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