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The wife and I took a few minutes this past weekend to drop into the local CompUSA to check out the new G5 and look at the Powerbook options available to us today. I really liked the G5, as it’s a very clean design sitting next to a big Apple flatscreen monitor, but what really caught our attention was the 12″ Powerbook.

We’ve got a Airport network at the house, an iBook 700, and a 5 year old iMac Bondi (bought on August 15, 1998). The iMac has been a great machine, and has been upgraded to a 466MHz G4 with a 45GB hard drive, but it’s really dog slow compared to what we find comfortable to use on a daily basis. At this point, we really only use the machine to store MP3s (about 35GB of the disk is MP3s).

We’ve both grown quite (lazy) accustomed to using the iBook from the comfort of the couch while the other person is watching TV or reading, or doing something else in the house, but when we both want to be on the computer at the same time, we end up fighting over the iBook instead of one of us being ‘the gentleman’ and using the iMac… it’s a good machine, but it’s slow and tied to a desk in the back of the house…

So, we talked ourself into buying a 12″ Powerbook while at CompUSA this past weekend, and were quite ready to buy one, but they didn’t have any in stock, so CompUSA lost a sale, and Apple lost a sale, but…

I just read this post over at Dealmac about CompUSA offering no-payments until March 2005 on any Apple system costing over $999, and I can tell you that we’ll be heading to CompUSA this weekend to purchase a new Powerbook… and since we don’t have to pay for almost a year and a half, I can almost see us getting a 15″ or 17″ Powerbook (higher resale value later on down the road)…

Sadly, there’s no promotion of this offer on CompUSA’s website at all… so I think I’ll call the local store to check on the validity of it before I drive over again, and also to check on the stock of laptops
This weekend will be interesting and exciting. [dealmac article found via megnut]