iBook reloaded

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The 1 GHz iBook arrived today around noon. As soon as the plastic was off, I registered with Apple (still had the goofy situation of it trying to find my Apple ID before connecting to the Internet, despite already being plugged in) and connected the 800 MHz iBook via FireWire in "Target" mode so that I could move across the (not many) files that I had on the first one. To speed things up, I didn't move the 8GB of music... although I probably should have (more later.) I plugged in the AirPort card and then set about the task of restoring the old iBook to its tabula rasa state in preparation for its return trip.

Now that I have it home, I'm able to get on the Internet without unplugging another computer. Everything seems 20% faster. (kidding) Everything does seem faster though. I am expecting another order of magnitude in performance once the additional 256MB arrives. Any time you can double your RAM... in any computer, you should see an improvement.

I am a VERY happy expercom.com customer. Did I mention that? Does expercom.com get some sort of Internet karma brownie points for every time I link to them? If they do, then expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com expercom.com...

Right now, I'm copying over our MP3 collection via our 802.11b network. It's on song 872 of 2623. It would be faster if we had an 802.11g base station, but we only move files like this... oh... every once in a whenever we buy a new computer, which is really not that often... if you count out the past fourteen days.

Only one hitch. I haven't been able to get SideTrack to work. Its preferences panel is loaded, and the sidetrackd application is running, but never the twain shall meet. I just get "The SideTrack driver is not loaded" when I try to go to the panel. I've emailed the developer to see if there's a manual way to get the two to talk.

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