{"id":2186,"date":"2003-07-31T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=534"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:40:47","slug":"re-end-of-an-era-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/31\/re-end-of-an-era-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: End of an era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m leaving for S\u00e3o Paulo to pick up my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index17.html\">new laptop<\/a>, put up the old iBook for sale&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;m back, and have the PowerBook up and running, after some initial hitches.<\/p>\n<p>As usual with most of Apple&#8217;s products, it&#8217;s difficult to estimate size and beauty from photographs. I saw the recently introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/isight\/\">iSight<\/a> camera, and it was much smaller than it appears on the photos. In contrast, the 17&#8243; PowerBook is even larger than I thought. It&#8217;s thinner than my old iBook, though, and the weight increase isn&#8217;t apparent. The screen is larger and better, the loudspeakers sound much better, and of course the speed and storage increases are noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>I had some difficulty in getting the built-in Airport Extreme (802.11g) card to interoperate with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smc.com\/index.cfm?sec=Products&amp;pg=Product-Details&amp;prod=63&amp;site=c\">SMC Barricade 7004AWBR<\/a> wireless router. I tried several things &#8211; setting the MTU to 1492, changing from fixed IP to DHCP, downgrading the Airport software from 3.1 to 3.04, and trying out different WEP encryption options. I&#8217;ve had no time to regress some of these things to see which specific one was the culprit, but it&#8217;s working now. And I also now recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/xwepgen.sourceforge.net\/index.shtml\">xwepgen<\/a>, a program that calculates the various hexadecimal WEP keys from a password &#8211; invaluable for using Airport with non-Apple base stations.<\/p>\n<p>The built-in trackpad somehow doesn&#8217;t feel as good as the iBook&#8217;s; the surface is rougher and my fingertip keeps sticking. As I normally use a mouse, this isn&#8217;t an issue. The first days I kept hitting the wrong keys, since I had apparently been using the laptop&#8217;s edges for gauging key locations. Other than that I&#8217;ve no complaints&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote: I&#8217;m leaving for S\u00e3o Paulo to pick up my new laptop, put up the old iBook for sale&#8230; Well, I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;m back, and have the PowerBook up and running, after some initial hitches. As usual with most of Apple&#8217;s products, it&#8217;s difficult to estimate size and beauty from photographs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}