12" PB w/ Backlit Keyboard?

It's a PC Card slot not a PCI slot. This is a very big difference!

 

Anyhow, I think widescreen on a 12" is bogus, but a backlit keyboard would just be the perfect thing to add. I think they just have to do this, I wonder why they didn't do it in the first place to further distinguish the PB from the iBook series. I can't be that space-consuming, at least I hope it ain't....

 

They keys they use for the 12" are the same as the 15" & 17". One of mine popped off the other day, and I realized the lettering on they keys are clear... so it wouldnt take much to light up the keyboard. I don't *personally* see the need for a PC card slot... however, bring on the backlit keyboard!

 

If they included a backlit keyboard, I'd be on it like green on grass. It would be one of those slick distinguishable features. Right now, I use a G3 iBook which is slick in its own right. However, my mom is going to need a computer down the road so I could work out a deal with her for my iBook and then jump on the 12" PB.

I think I've got the art of pissing $$$ down cold.

 

i think the reason they didn't include a backlite keyboard on the 12" is because it won't fit or they were trying to squeeze all the battery life out of the battery. probably a combination of both.

exactly what vga update do you want?

 

My wishes, in order are:

1. Power savy G5 chip... with Centrino comparible battery life.

2. Higher resolution LCD

3. A more beefy graphics card

4. Backlit keyboard

5. Non-integrated RAM on the motherboard, complete with two DIMMs

6. Et cetera: (Pre-installed airport extreme, gigabit ethernet, PCMCIA card slot)

 

you have a link to the modded g3 ibook?

[edit] never mind
http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=11339

 

Re: think.

Umm.. I'm confused, do you mean 12" powerbook and not 12" ibook G5? I don't think refering to a more power savy chip is too far out of topic for future wants for the 12" PB.

 

yea i just opened up my 12" Powerbook to see how reasonable it would be to upgrade the hard drive myself and not send it to a technician ($$), and yea space is DEFINITELY an issue.

unless Nano technology makes a huge freaking leap this year and makes 2.5" hard drives even smaller... don't get your hopes up on backlighting without mildly increasing the case size of the 12" PB or reducing some features. This puppy is stuffed tighter than a thanksgiving bird.

They could always get rid of the 56k Modem, who uses that anymore anyways? especially with airport technology so widely used now. This would give you a little room. Nixing the audio in jack would help too, but thats one of the few things that distinguishes this machine from the iBook, and i make LOTS of use of that port myself.

for me backlighting is more of a cosmetic feature than anything. the light from the screen gives me enough light to see the keys when i need to.

 

Re: think.

yea, well being half an inch deeper, 1/3 inch longer, and a quarter inch thicker certainly gives the ibook that extra little amount of space to put those pretty little rave lights in.

christ, if the 15" and 17" had a light up skull and crossbones on the back of the screen and the 12" didn't... you'd probably want this feature on the new 12" too.

 

if you followed some of the links i gave above it had this.

http://homepage.mac.com/nnishi/PhotoAlbum3a.html

if you could pull power from place in the 12" PB you rig some fiber optic line in there. i will open up my PB this weekend and see if can find some power.

hopefully open it will show and easily way to rig teh fiber when i do it.

 

just check my sig. for the best powerbook i can think of...

 

If I recall correctly, the backlit keyboards use fiber optics, so it should consume very little space/power actually.

 

Re: ok, here i come

thanks for the link