The Powerbook in class

Sep 10 2006 Published by Ben Chong under The Daily Geek


We just had an Organizational Behavior exam.

For the uninitiated, OB is to organizations as psychology is to a person :)

The exam was an open book one. We could bring in computers to write out the answers.

The answers could then be either emailed to the professor, put on a CD to be handed up or put on a USB flash device and copied over to the professor’s notebook computer.

I used the 12″ Powerbook for the exam (yes, I finally decided to keep it) and it was pretty good.

There were a several advantages :

1. Small size. The Powerbook was probably one of the smallest computers among the multitude of 14″ and 15″ Windows notebooks. That left a lot of space on the desk for the exam questions, case study materials and past materials which I had to used to answer the questions.

2. CD burner. I burned the Word document containing my answers to a CDROM and handed that to the professor. I won’t have been able to do that with my 12″ HP notebook.

3. WiFi. I also emailed the Word document to the professor. Maybe I’ll double the score :-)

4. Great keyboard. The 12″ Powerbook has a very nice keyboard. Great for typing out things in a hurry.

Will I sell the Powerbook in the future?

I’m still not sure. The refurb 15″ Powerbook sold out at the Apple online store within 24 hours. But an Ebay seller claims to still have about 14 of these (complete with receipt and AppleCare). So the jury is still out…

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