Goodbye to all that. I picked up my G4 today, set it up, and it’s all good. I’m out of the office tomorrow and had hoped to work on it some, but it went to sleep. I may have to stop in the office and turn off the power management stuff, or at least get the MAC address so I can wake it with a “magic packet.”
The U Bookstore has the 17 inch powerbook on display and it was surprising how normal it looks. I expected it to just be freakish in proportions, but it looks fine — just very wide. I think a 10 key pad would have been a useful addition (was that a pun?) given the size of the thing.
With the QuickSilver G4 (which needs a name), I bought DreamWeaver, FileMaker, InDesign and Office:X, so I should be set. PageMaker is not going to make it to OS X: InDesign is its replacement, and I’d rather not run Classic if I can help it.