It may not have seemed that way at the time but, with the help of hindsight, it’s hard to ignore the importance of that particular year. Power is not a means, it is an endĢ003 was a productive time for Apple. Little did I know at the time that Apple already had all the right answers for me. For many students growing up in the mid 2000s, most of this must sound all to familiar.
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None of them provided a pleasant experience for an arts student who spent most days away from home and needed a computer that could keep up. You could pick your poison with the Presario: battery life, weight, cords and cables,performance. Eventually, I purchased a Compaq Presario laptop in lieu of my Palm Pilot, but that just opened up a whole new can of worms.
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While I’m all for eccentric setups, the lack of bare necessities (MSN messenger at the time,) was increasingly becoming a deal breaker. In all the wrong ways, my setup was ahead of its time.
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Before the notion of combining an iPad and a bluetooth keyboard sparked lightbulbs into millions of minds, Palm was offering a similar combination, with all the accoutrements a student might need for school: Dataviz’s Documents to Go and solitare. At the time, it seemed like a perfect, and frankly much more portable, alternative to the secondhand, requires AC power to function, Dell Latitude I had at home. Case in point, my road setup for an entire college semester in 2005 consisted of a Palm Tungsten E with an attachable keyboard as my computer.
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At least where gadgets are concerned, I can be rather erratic. Sometimes I struggle to find the perfect set of tools. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken. You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you.
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Editor’s Note: This “Old Mac of the Month” entry is by Shadoe Huard, the writer of SmarterBits, where he covers the world of Apple.