#1 feature you'd like to see in G5 Powerbooks.

[Hodapp]

I for one would love to see higher resolution displays. I use a PC with a UXGA LCD all day at work, and coming home to my Powerbook is like doing everything in a tiny window compared to UXGA where you have almost 4 times the room on screen. On my UXGA display I have room on screen to see my buddy list, email, IRC, a browser window, etc all at once. In SXGA on my PB everything is all stacked on top of each other. I admit that with expose it really does make managing windows a lot easier, but nothing beats a full-screen UXGA browser window.

I would crap my pants if the new powerbooks sported QXGA displays. 2048x1536 = :D :o :eek:

I really hope they keep in line with the size/weight of the Powerbooks as well, 1 inch thick and semi-light for their size rules.

[deryk]

The G5 :rolleyes:

[MetallicPenguin]

Originally posted by deryk
The G5 :rolleyes:

Dangit, when I saw the thread title, that's what I was going to say.

The one thing I would like to see is the same look and feel of the Powerbooks that is available now. I feel that if I wait too long, I may miss out on the design that I have fallen in love with.

[scem0]

#1 feature?

A lowered price. :)

scem0

[Tiauguinho]

I would love to see better screen resolutions too. Not extremely high res or I would go nuts with it, but a little bit higher would be perfect. Other thing I would really like is increased battery life to 6 hours of normal use. Faster HD's would also be perfect! Other then that... G5's of course! :D

[revenuee]

Originally posted by io_burn
I for one would love to see higher resolution displays. I use a PC with a UXGA LCD all day at work, and coming home to my Powerbook is like doing everything in a tiny window compared to UXGA where you have almost 4 times the room on screen. On my UXGA display I have room on screen to see my buddy list, email, IRC, a browser window, etc all at once. In SXGA on my PB everything is all stacked on top of each other. I admit that with expose it really does make managing windows a lot easier, but nothing beats a full-screen UXGA browser window.

I would crap my pants if the new powerbooks sported QXGA displays. 2048x1536 = :D :o :eek:

I really hope they keep in line with the size/weight of the Powerbooks as well, 1 inch thick and semi-light for their size rules.

On what size monitor?

2048x1536 on a 17 would be tiny, never mind a 15" ... you wouldn't be able to see anything in a 12"

What good is being able to see your 1600 x 1200 image in photoshop with all your palettes open, when you still have to zoom in 400% - 1600% to get any work done.

just get a second monitor and use the PB dual display feature ...

I'de rather work on two 15" monitors displaying at 1024 x 768 each then one displaying at 2048 x 1536

[Gymnut]

Better vid cards!

[7on]

An Apple Dock

[Hodapp]

Originally posted by revenuee
On what size monitor?

My UXGA is 15 inch, wouldn't trade it for anything (Well, I'd trade for a higher resolution screen, but that's it.) I love it so much :)

As far as text being so small, that's largely a huge misunderstanding people have. Higher resolution != smaller in most cases. While it is true that a 12 point font will appear smaller on a higher resolution screen, a 16 (or higher) point font will not only appear as the same size, but will also be much crisper because of the extra pixels in the screen the video card can use to render/smooth the font. I'm not that well versed in OSX yet, but it's possible in Windows to make everything the same physical size on a UXGA screen as it is on an SXGA screen, fairly easily too.

[Hodapp]

Originally posted by 7on
An Apple Dock

A dock would definately be pretty damn cool, but I'd trade a dock for a smaller/lighter Powerbook any day :)

Originally posted by Gymnut
Better vid cards!

No crap! I was amazed when Apple didn't include the radeon m10 pro in AT LEAST the 17 inch. I bought a PC laptop a few months before they refreshed the powerbooks that has a graphics card with twice as much memory, as well as faster gpu and memory timings.

(That's my one major beef about Macs, their hardware is always technically inferior to PC's. DDR333 was cool like a year ago... And only 5400RPM drives in Powerbooks? IBM makes a Travelstar 7200 RPM 2.5" HD that absolutely SCREAMS.)

[revenuee]

Originally posted by io_burn
My UXGA is 15 inch, wouldn't trade it for anything (Well, I'd trade for a higher resolution screen, but that's it.) I love it so much :)

As far as text being so small, that's largely a huge misunderstanding people have. Higher resolution != smaller in most cases. While it is true that a 12 point font will appear smaller on a higher resolution screen, a 16 (or higher) point font will not only appear as the same size, but will also be much crisper because of the extra pixels in the screen the video card can use to render/smooth the font. I'm not that well versed in OSX yet, but it's possible in Windows to make everything the same physical size on a UXGA screen as it is on an SXGA screen, fairly easily too.

alright ... but i type in 12 point and in a word document i have to zoom on the page 150 - 200% to be able read clearly (from 3 feet away) with my 17" monitor at 1280 x 1024

as far as getting work done in Photoshop or Final Cut Pro ... i tried working at 1600 x 1600 ... and i had to constantly zoom in to get into the detail ... more so then i do under lower res

[johnnowak]

A MWSF release.

[HasanDaddy]

1. G5

2. a 20" display --- just like the one on the iMac

[Phatpat]

6 hour battery life

[kuyu]

Originally posted by Phatpat
6 hour battery life

With the fuel cell tech discovered by toshiba (I think), this may be entirely possible. I've heard estimates as high as 15+ hours.

It's time for apple to throw the trump card on the whole product line.

My specs:
single 2.0 Ghz+ G5 at 90 nm
17 inch w/ dualie's
250 gig HDD
128 mb graphics stock, 256 upgrade option
1 gig ddr 400 standard
blue laser superdrive standard
OS 10.4 (the world's first 64-bit OS)
better voice integration
flipable screen for tablet mac use
drawing pad next to trackpad
two click buttons
and a partridge in a pear tree
:)

[revenuee]

Originally posted by HasanDaddy
1. G5

2. a 20" display --- just like the one on the iMac


And that would make it as portable as the 20" iMac ... LOL


Hmm ... what would i like

MWSF release

G5 1.6 - 2.0
40 - 60 gig 7200 rpm drive
expandable to at least 4 gigs of ram
Firewire 800 across the board
Bluetooth, airport extreme
128 MB video card
superdrive as the only option

[x86isslow]

i liked the swappable drives on the old powerbooks.. you could get, what, 10 hours on two batteries?

[bousozoku]

I'd like a G5 that wouldn't melt the whole machine. A 12 inch display would be good but bigger would probably be necessary to help with heat. It definitely has to be portable...no 17 inch displays.

[Flickta]

built-in wacom graphic tablet instead of a trackpad.
That'd make it cool..

[iJon]

although its highly unlikely i would like apple to include replaceable video card slots, dell and voodoo and some other makers have started doing. but on the other hand, that would extend the life of the mac, and apple wants you to get a new machine.

iJon

[ChrisH3677]

REPLACE THE "ENTER" KEY WITH A "CTRL" KEY!!!

Sorry for yelling, I just wanted to make sure Apple heard. :D

Oh - And replace the right command key with a "Fn" key (so the function cursor keys become one-handed)

[yamabushi]

Lower prices.

[jeremy.king]

Originally posted by x86isslow
i liked the swappable drives on the old powerbooks.. you could get, what, 10 hours on two batteries?

I'll second this one. I loved the fact that when I bought my G3/333 in 99 that I could "upgrade" it somewhat by adding a second battery, zip drive, or even a CD-RW!!!

Man, those were the days and by doing so companies like VST could thrive again!

[Apple][Forever]

HODAPP

[7on]

I'd rather like the 2nd enter key to be an Fn key as well. Who the hell needs 2 enter keys on the same side of the keyboard? Or even at all?

[superbovine]

make toast

[Stojamow]

Originally posted by superbovine
make toast

+ the rest of the breakfast

[killmoms]

What, are you guys crazy? The PowerBook 12" can already do that. Just flip it over while using the CPU 100% and you can make nice fried eggs.

--Cless

[snofseth]

I want better battery life maybe a tablet form or able to use a pen some how maybe like a wacom tablet kind of thing, but maybe not I prefer typing over writting so that part seems like a waste, but maybe for little things it is not.

[kuyu]

I've got a solution to the wacom tablet/trackpad thing. What about letting the same pad do both. The writing tablet could have a stylus that allows for writing and drawing etc. When the pad feels the heat of a finger, the top left corner of the pad becomes exclusively active and acts like a normal trackpad.

It could work, and I believe it would be another mac exclusive waiting to be copied ad naseum.

[arogge]

A graphics upgrade to a professional chip and a touchscreen would be nice. I saw what appeared to be a touchscreen-enabled PowerBook on one of the recent episodes of "24". It would also be nice if the PowerBooks were hardened to make them resistant to extreme temperatures, water, sand, dust, and impact, kind of like a Toughbook (http://www.panasonic.com/computer/toughbook/home.asp) computer.

[rt_brained]

A toilet.

[Phil Of Mac]

Easy. A fuel cell.

Originally posted by 7on
An Apple Dock

Dear god no. Is it that hard taking 5 seconds a day to plug cords into the side of your computer? Docks today, that you can buy, cost about $250. If you value your time at $100/hour or less, you have to spend two and a half hours of your life plugging in cables. At five seconds that'd 1,800 times! That's once every day for almost five years that you'd have to plug in cables before the dock's worth it to you. And after five years it's time for another computer, and another dock.

Most of us don't even get paid $100 an hour. It would take us even longer for the dock to be worth it.

(For salaried workers, $100/hr, at 40 hours a week, with 40 work weeks in a year, equates to $160,000/yr).

Conclusion: Docks are a waste of money for everyone up to and including the upper middle class.

[yamabushi]

Scratch my previous. I think a modular component design would be even better. I want a miniature trackball in mine like my old PB145B.:D

[James Craner]

Increased battery life say 6 hours real world use.

[D*I*S_Frontman]

I'd like to see a gargantuan machine that you would essentially carry around in an art portfolio type of case.

1) 20" display from curent lineup

2) dual G5 CPUs--one available while on battery power, dual config if plugged in to AC.

3) dual expansion bays (a la my beloved Pismo, except MUCH BIGGER) so that you could slap in dual batteries for 10+ hours of portable work, additional hot-swappable hard drives for big design/audio/DV projects using AC power, superdrive, or anything else they'll invent over the next 5 years or so (MCE can take anything and make it work in an expansion bay)

4) HUGE touchpad area that doubles as a graphics tablet for art and design applications, as well as for business purposes ("So, we've reached an agreement on your widget order sir? Well then sign right here on the trackpad and I'll transmit your order instantly.")

5) an indestructable housing. Scratch resistant with perhaps cleverly integrated rubber bumpers on the corners and edges to prevent damage from the occasional real-world jostling a laptop faces.

6) perhaps dual CardBus slots--one for standard expansion, the other dedicated for communications--a cell phone uplink to the office a la Blackberry

7) usage of mylar film speaker technologies like Martin Logan (http://martinlogan.com) speakers do. With a footprint this big, the speakers could be 3" x"9 each, and using the mylar film flat speaker technology they would sound huge and hifi compared to any other portable unit.


No, this wouldn't fit comfortably in a big purse like a 12" does. This would be a complete desktop replacement and a small boardroom presentation platform in a portable form factor.

[revenuee]

[i]
No, this wouldn't fit comfortably in a big purse like a 12" does. This would be a complete desktop replacement and a small boardroom presentation platform in a portable form factor. [/B]

i like portability ....

[Ajmbc]

I photoshopped this image and added a fn key instead of enter and a wacom graphics tablet in the right palmrest.

[revenuee]

Originally posted by Ajmbc
I photoshopped this image and added a fn key instead of enter and a wacom graphics tablet in the right palmrest.

but i think you forgot the image

[slipper]

i would really like to see customizable laptops to the users specs and not apples specs. i currently have an iBook G4. i choose the 12" model becasue i needed the mobility. i wish however if i was able to get the 1ghz processor .

[Mr Maui]

Heck, let's just ask for a 1100 CPU portable that competes with that setup at Virginia Tech (or wherever it is). Why think SMALL?

With built in High Resolution Digital Video Camera and Projector.

And ALL Apple applications INCLUDED ... FREE.

And Finally ... Keep it at under $500.

Then ... MAYBE ... some of the dreamers, skeptics, procratinators, etc. will "consider" upgrading to one.



:D

[Kingsnapped]

A video input of some kind would be nice. It would put an end to all of those "Play/watch _____ on my Powerbook" threads.