My PowerBook is almost two years old, and the new ones are twice as fast, can brun DVDs, have larger hard disks and a bunch of other cool features. Yes, but... why do I need more power?

I mean, ten years ago I used my primary computer to create graphics for videos, animations, 3d modelling and rendering, using a Macintosh II fx (boy... do you remember? that was a fast machine).

Ten years later what I'm doing with my PowerBook is mostly:

• email
• web surfing
• running Microsoft Office
• running Radio
• chatting
• using BBEdit
• managing appointments and addresses

In other words, while 10 years ago I was doing fairly complex calculations, today I'm basically moving around relatively small text files, something that does not sound to be incredibly demanding, so why do I need to upgrade? Simply because this machine feels slow doing these tasks. There must be something wrong somewhere...

Oh, well, I want one of those new PowerBooks anyway!