I have been holding out for a spire myself. I saw one at a training class and they are built great and probably the most comfortable of backpack type bags that you can buy.
Works great when you cram a bunch of books in every day. I currently have a IBM/TCM bag free with my laptop which works great (from California to the UK) but I'm only using it because it was free. The spire has better designed pockets and clips and can be compressed when there is less gear.
Spend the money and get the better one.
There are some other barriers for acceptance with outsourcing call centers across the world as well. I spoke with a friend of mine in Scotland and he complained about BT outsourcing the telephone operator service.
He expressed doubt that he "had to call a person in India to get a number of someone down the street" and would get the results he wanted. A bit funny, but I can see his point where there is an idea of a cultural difference with technician a half a world away.
Yep, we've used the tadpoles for HP/UX and Solaris in the last few years. Still, the readily available 64-bit laptops really don't compare with the general coolness of the titanium PB. Plus the tadpoles weigh a ton. Also, unless you compile and tweak out Gnome, you are usually stuck with CDE for a desktop...Mac OS/X is really cool.
I think that a fair amount of people will be waiting for the G5 powerbooks to come out before upgrading.
A 64-bit laptop is really something to brag about. Maybe dual processors as well?
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I have been holding out for a spire myself. I saw one at a training class and they are built great and probably the most comfortable of backpack type bags that you can buy. Works great when you cram a bunch of books in every day. I currently have a IBM/TCM bag free with my laptop which works great (from California to the UK) but I'm only using it because it was free. The spire has better designed pockets and clips and can be compressed when there is less gear. Spend the money and get the better one.
There are some other barriers for acceptance with outsourcing call centers across the world as well. I spoke with a friend of mine in Scotland and he complained about BT outsourcing the telephone operator service. He expressed doubt that he "had to call a person in India to get a number of someone down the street" and would get the results he wanted. A bit funny, but I can see his point where there is an idea of a cultural difference with technician a half a world away.
Yep, we've used the tadpoles for HP/UX and Solaris in the last few years. Still, the readily available 64-bit laptops really don't compare with the general coolness of the titanium PB. Plus the tadpoles weigh a ton. Also, unless you compile and tweak out Gnome, you are usually stuck with CDE for a desktop...Mac OS/X is really cool.
I think that a fair amount of people will be waiting for the G5 powerbooks to come out before upgrading. A 64-bit laptop is really something to brag about. Maybe dual processors as well?