[thelist] laptop purchase

Gregory Wostrel info at gwcreative.com
Tue May 11 09:13:25 CDT 2004


On May 11, 2004, at 8:54am, Dan McCullough wrote:

> Looking to purchase a laptop for someone else.

Apple iBook or Powerbook. For your average user the iBook is by far the 
best option. The top of the line one has an option for a DVD-r/CDR,RW 
drive instead of the CD-R/RW, DVD ROM that is standard. Those iBooks 
are small, light, durable, good looking and have a lot of bang for the 
buck. Get as much memory as you can, though (but you probably know all 
about that sort of stuff.), you can go up to 1.25 gigs ram in them. 
Just don't buy it from Apple. You can get a better buy on the memory 
from almost anyone (even Staples!) and it is dead simple to put in.

You, and they, won't be sorry.

<tip type="Photoshop" author="Gregory Wostrel">

Command click (ctrl click on the PC) on the thumbnail in the layers 
palette to wrap everything on the layer in a selection marquee.
Also, Command plus any of the arrow keys ( ctrl plus any arrow key on 
PCs) will snap a marquee to what ever shape it has been drawn around 
(as opposed to every shape on the layer). Just remember that you have 
also just nudged the object one pixel (or whatever your setting are).
</tip>

Gregory Wostrel

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