I noticed that as of today i have been carrying around this laptop for a month. Here are some statistics:
Number of times crashed: 0
Uptime, as of now: ten days, seven hours, twenty-two minutes
Reason for last Reboot: System Update to 10.3.9
Disk space: 28.16 GB free, out of 74 GB total
19 GB - music files
9 GB - Video Files
1.5 GB - Pictures
200 MB - Document Files
Emails this month, not including spam: 859. (for an average of almost 30 per day)
It has been nice to have access to voice-mail, email, IM almost everywhere. It has also been nice to take notes in class (I type faster than I write, and it tends to be more legible), to have eBook versions of the texts being discussed along side the Notes (I can search the text, cut and paste into the notes, and I have to take fewer books with me every day), and to write papers at the library.
I amazed at how much more useful laptops are now than they were when I got my first one in 1997 (as a graduation gift from my parents). that one was a Pentium 150 with 16MB of RAM, and a 1.4 GB Harddrive and (!) a built-in CD-ROM drive: this was about the best laptop money could then buy. the current machine, 8 years later: 1.5 Ghz (G4 processor), 512 MB of RAM, 80 GB Harddrive, and a DVD/CD-RW drive.
I sometimes think how someone traveling forward in history even from the early 90’s would react to the world of today (surely not all of the reactions would be positive), let alone someone from the 50’s. It boggles the mind.
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