Shock: “What? G4s in the iBooks?
Denial: “This must be some poorly researched article on /.“
Bargaining: “Maybe I can return my Powerbook and get an iBook…”
Fear: “What if Apple won’t let me return it because its a build to order?”
Anger: “Those SOBs knew and didn’t tell me before I spent all that money!”
Despair: “Now my Powerbook will have no resale value when I have to eBay it for the new G5 laptops!”
Acceptance: “Wait a minute — this this Powerbook kicks ass! The girls want to be with me, the guys want to be me, and I consistently get benchmarks higher than a dual 1 GHz G4 Powermac. The Airport Extreme rules, the battery life is lengthy, it runs nice and warm and winter is coming! I guess I did OK…“

Shamelessly stolen from Slashdot, only with grammar added.

Well. I’ve been thinking a bit, and I think I’ll stick with my decision to aim for a 15" PowerBook. While the new 14" iBook has hardware specs approaching the PowerBook line, there are enough differences to make the PowerBook come out on top.

Let’s see. The 15″ PowerBook has 1,1″ larger screen, faster memory (333MHz as opposed to 266MHz), larger L2 cache (512k vs. 256k), Firewire 800 port and gigabit ethernet. That’s enough carrots to convince me.

I’m planning to stick to this laptop for (at the very least) the five coming years, so I might as well pay some extra money to get something I feel really satisfied with.

Five years may have been a bit optimistic, but it will last me at least until I’m done with school in december 2005. After that I am very likely to get a well-paid job.

Now I promise I won’t rant about Apple products again for at least two weeks.