Within the first week of having my MacBook, I had filled the hard drive. I had purchased the black model which gave me 80 GB of storage but with all the music files, photoshop documents, web site work, and different operating systems, I knew that I would fill that hard drive in no time. I kept that in mind when I purchased the computer and knew that new perpendicular recording laptop drives were on the horizon. I was waiting for the release date of the Seagate 2.5-inch 160GB laptop drive, but the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB drive had beat it to market and I was out of hard drive space so I went with that.

Since I had picked up the MacBook I needed a case to travel with. I had purchased some of the Booq sleeves before and was really happy with them. They looked professional and they were made well in my opinion. I was looking for something that would hold my computer as well as some of the accessories I would travel with such as discs, cables, an extra battery, Canon SD200, my iPod Nano and Shuffle, Treo 650, and Game Boy DS Lite. The Booq Folee XS was designed for the 12-inch PowerBook, but the MacBook is only slightly larger and it fits very well in the bag.

So I decided to finally upgrade my 12″ Apple Powerbook. I had been waiting on the Apple MacBook to come out and knew that it would be something that I would find as a good upgrade. It finally came out, but I waited a couple of weeks before picking it up. I guess I wanted to see others initial impressions before taking the plunge. For the most part the positive reactions outweighed the negative. I’ve had the unit for a little over a week now and I wanted to use the machine for a little while before writing a review for this site.