The one thing I despise is the trackpad on my iBook.... It seems quite unreliable (if its even a little bit greasy or dirty, etc, or if you have damp fingers, it makes the cursor go crazy. and they aren't flush with the palm rest and they seem to have a tendancy to bow upwards slightly towards the top middle.

Also, the bottoms of almost all the laptops get quite warm if they're not ventialted... It almost seems like it wouold be enoujgh to damage the computer... They do not have adequate cooling systems.

I think the ones with the buttons at the top looked a little better than the currnet ones, but form my experience (not very much), it's not very convenient.

Hi Zalister,

I'm a musician, but thats where the Macbook is used.

The work computer in my sig is used primarily for sales and customer orders/tracking at a sports-related business - I know all of this could be done with a $200 Windows box, but we also use it for graphic modelling with heaps of CS2 Suite work. I wish it were mine, and yes, it gets quite quiet here midweek so I do goof around on it a bit. The Quadro FX 512 graphics along with the 8gb of RAM pretty much ensure that everthing runs smoothly, and we now have a 30" Apple Cinema Display, which a few weeks ago replaced our crappy dell monitor it was running. (drooool)

I hope this answers your questions.

P.S - Just for the record, I also despise apple mice - everything from the shuttle-puck to the mighty - All Pox

To these days, I still lust after a 12'' Mac. The 12'' Powerbook or the iBook.

Thanks for the description trumpet_999, I guess I'll need to find a University that thinks history professors need high powered machines for...for... I'll have to think of that later.

Oh, and Anti. It's funny you should mention that. I have a 12"PB, and I continually lust after the new MacBook C2D. Course what I'm really waiting for is a sleek 20" MacBookPro. Why? Well, why not!

Puck mouse and MightyMouse - the worst one :(
mac mini - the best one :)

After getting a mighty mouse with my new iMac I'll have to add that to my least favourites. That scroll wheel sucks.

Just curious, how do you use the Macbook with your trumpet playing?

I often record straight into the mac through a connected mic, then edit the sound in either pro tools or amadeus or I use garageband to add to the layers and just mess around a bit. I mostly do this part for fun and all my trumpet playing is generally with orchestras and jazz bands etc which don't provide much of an opportunity to go a bit 'crazy' with your sound.

You'll often find the post high-powered macs in the most unlikely of places. For instance, in the visual art department at my uni, cramped between bottles of paint, metho, shellac and half-finished canvases sits a MacPro as well, also very highly specced out machine due to the limitless budget it seems they put on the IT department...