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#1 feature you'd like to see in G5 Powerbooks.
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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.
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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.
It could work, and I believe it would be another mac exclusive waiting to be copied ad naseum.
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 computer.
Easy. A fuel cell.
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.
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.
My wildly unrealistic wish list
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 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.
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 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.
Here's a Powerbook idea ...
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.
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.
A video input of some kind would be nice. It would put an end to all of those "Play/watch _____ on my Powerbook" threads.