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My good old powerbook
Posted by Rene Jansen
Do you see any difference between this post and previous posts? You should. This post is made with a veeeery big smile on my face. Let me tell you: about 1,5 year ago I had to exchange my lovely titanium powerbook for a dull IBM (nothing wrong with it, a good laptop, but no real identity and a pretty dull image) since Capgemini forbid me to work on my preferred platform. Policy rules and standardisation. So you think a standardised platform helps? I was working on a Capgemini project in brussels for DHL, when my IBM laptop broke down. So, I went down to Capgemini Belgium, about 250 meters from the DHL building where I was based. I showed them my laptop and asked if they could help me. I felt lucky, since I could see a stack of exactly the same laptops behind the service desk. The joy of standardisation. But, it wasn't it good as it seemed.They felt sorry to say, but since I was working for Capgemini Netherlands they couldn't help me, there was no international SLA to help me...But now the good news: today I configured my good old powerbook again. What a joy, MacOS 10.4 is excellent. I like spotlight, I like the dashboard, I like the rss feature in Safari, I like it all... Mmm... Sorry, I just got carried away enjoying to work with apple again. If you are an apple user, you know what I mean. If you are not, you will not know, and might never understand what I mean. Then, you just better ignore this post, I promise the next posts will be less promo again :)