Apple Portable Updates?

SideTrack

To everyone: You're welcome.

Freg3000 said:
I configured my corners to activate expose....wow! It is amazing. Why doesn't Apple have the as a preference that you could turn on in System Preferences?
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That's an excellent question that I've been wondering about ever since I learned that the trackpads that Apple uses were capable of it. Well, at least there are people like Alex Harper to make things like SideTrack for us...
 
I think its fair to say that after WWDC we should at least know when the G5PB will be out. I don't think Steve has the gall to just release a minor speed bumpG4PB without at least telling us when to expect the G5...
 
market share blah blah...im 17 i think that as long as apple has enough power that macs still have support its fine. Apple computers esp. laptops are status symbols like a Range Rover or some expensive clothes. On the plane when all the thick and ugly pc laptops come out with external cd drives the second someone whips the 12 inch to 17 inch powerbook out it catches glares. Same with all social symbols....except not everyone will buy it because they a) dont have the money or b) just dont need it. Apple is a high end seller...look at the ipod! But go apple im just so sick of them not coming out with new products...
 
Calm down, PowerBooks are coming soon

When a piece of news information containing no news at all gets so much attention, it's a clear sign that we are all super desperate for updates. While I have no Idea why Apple hasn't updated PMs yet, I definitely wouldn't say PBs are delayed. If you look at time elapsed between updates, Apple usually released new revision approximately every 7 months on average (or 210 days). The reason why the "Buyer's guide" lists 163 days is because the update cycle was skewed when Apple announced the 12" and the 17" AlBook only 2 months after the last TiBook release. Today is day 205. So we're still on track. PowerBooks are coming later this month.

Edit: AI says Apple wants to make thinner both the 12" PB and the 12" iBook. I highly doubt they're changing the design of the cases for the comming release. Thinner 12incher may be an objective for the release after next (possibly G5 PBs) though.
 
Snowy_River said:
The trackpads on all current PBs support side scroll regions. It's just not enabled in the driver that Apple uses. However, there is an alternate driver that you can install. It's called SideTrack. The latest version is really quite extraordinary. It not only allows you to have up-down scrolling along either side of your track pad, it also allows for left-right scrolling along the top or bottom, as well as different tap behavior in the corners of the track pad. I have mine set to scroll along the right and bottom edges, and I have the upper left corner tap set to button 2 (i.e. right mouse button) and the upper right corner tap set to button 3 (which is useful in Unix land). I'm currently trying to decide what to do with the lower corners (right now I have them set to Cmd-TAB and Cmd-Shift-TAB, but I don't know that I'll keep that).

So, this is one little driver, in principle, answers all of your wishes...
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Count me in as a happy Sidtrack user. I no longer need to carry a mouse with my iBook; never been a fan of the trackpad.
 
Some_Big_Spoon said:
You'd hope, right? I'd like to think they use these, and other forums, as candid focus groups.. though, if they actually did, things might be different.
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While I'm sure Apple monitors Apple based forums, I hardly think they use them as "candid focus groups". The users on these forums are hardly typical of the market. The vast majority uf Aple users hardly have the knowledge that forum users do. If they did, Apple would be dead.
 
Consult Your Magic 8 Ball

Dave the Great said:
What is going on at Apple?
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A lot of thumb-twiddling and staring at the wall. Steve made them all sit in the corner so they could quote: "think about what they've done."

But seriously....

It would be nice for Apple to have a public hardware/software roadmap like most other tech companies. We can't just assume product updates every 6 months and an OS update every year, because that hasn't been a firm rule anymore as updates are becoming slower. We also don't know what to really expect in our updates (are we just getting speed bumps, or will we see better video, storage, memory, architecture, form factor?). Thinksecret.com has avoided hardware rumors altogether (collective reasoning: buy a Magic 8 Ball), Macosrumors.com has reduced to simply posting reader e-mail speculation and isn't even a rumor site anymore (more of a what-if forum), and AppleInsider is just guessing.
 
Nny said:
Thinksecret.com has avoided hardware rumors altogether (collective reasoning: buy a Magic 8 Ball), Macosrumors.com has reduced to simply posting reader e-mail speculation and isn't even a rumor site anymore (more of a what-if forum), and AppleInsider is just guessing.
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Yeah, I am waiting for ThinkSecret to get out a decent leak...
 
it won't rain till you wash your car

it won't rain till you wash your car, and the new notebooks won't be announced till several very "lucky" individuals in this forum breakdown and buy current g4 powerbooks. so get to it! ;-)

it's just the way it works.


"i tell my clueless friends 'my car runs a modified quadra 950'."

-an macrumors newb, but not a mac newb.
 
The worst rumor yet

This has got to be one of the worst rumors yet. No kidding Apple is looking into updates, in theory they have been looking into updates since September.

To comment on what some others said, I agree that the next revision from Apple on anything will more then likely be different color iPod Mini's. Don't get me wrong I love my iPod, but give me some new hardware. If Apple wants to get people to switch after they buy an iPod, give the people some new choices.

I have wanted to buy a powerbook for the last 2 months or so, have yet to decide between a 12 or 15, but I would really like to see a bit of a price drop from Apple on these, or updates, or something, c'mon Apple just let me know your still alive.
 
Malcolm-Mac-X said:
market share blah blah...im 17 i think that as long as apple has enough power that macs still have support its fine. Apple computers esp. laptops are status symbols like a Range Rover or some expensive clothes. On the plane when all the thick and ugly pc laptops come out with external cd drives the second someone whips the 12 inch to 17 inch powerbook out it catches glares. Same with all social symbols....except not everyone will buy it because they a) dont have the money or b) just dont need it. Apple is a high end seller...look at the ipod! But go apple im just so sick of them not coming out with new products...
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I totally agree, it is a status symbol. The powerbook is much more of a status symbol then the iBook. You see poepl on the plane pulling out thick plastic Dell and HP's, and there is the guy next to you who pulls out a 12" aluminum powerbook, it just looks so "high-end", gotta love the status symbol which is Apple.

Also has anyone else ever been able notice what type of mp3 player someone has just by seeing the headphones...I think not, the iPod is as much as a stauts symbol the the powerbook. It amazing how anything Apple creates looks like a status symbol.
 
Billicus said:
No kidding!...:eek:
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i think the emphasis is the "powerbookg4 updates. if we are accepting this rumor, we have a good idea about when PB g5's will be out (not in the next update)

also, anyone else notice the correlation betweeen intense bitching and newbies? it seems to me that those with the most inspired opinions have only made 12 or 15 posts ever. listen newbies, you havent been around long enough to understand this forum. if the news is obvious, fine. take it as a conversation peice and contribute something other than "this forum is stupid, obviously they're working on something".
 
The exciting year

Koodauw said:
I'll second that. What a poor job by Apple. Whats it going to take to light a fire under their a**es.

What happened to the "exciting year?"
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Just before everybody explodes - the year has just started, no?!?
Did you really expect Apple to dump all their hardware and announce new stuff within weeks? Just calm down all of you and use your Great Macs for another 6-9 months especially that the majority of people do not actually need anything apart from a web browser and occasionally a word processor. I just cannot believe that all of those complaining are heavy users of Mathematica, BLAST etc.
Chill, enjoy what you have and if you have spare money - donate it to kids in Afghanistan - they will appreciate it much more!
:-(
 
Until the FSB on Apple's laptop line moves WELL beyond the neutered 167Mhz; speed bumping the G4 will offer little to no performance advantages. We are now in the same boat with the PowerBook and iBooks that the PowerMac was in pre-G5. Intel's Pentium M has legs on it. That coupled with FSB's at 400Mhz equals a performance gap between PC's and Macs that CAN NOT be ignored anymore. Unless a G5 is released or Craporola releases a CPU that can be used in conjunction with a faster FSB Apple's pro product line will be in trouble. I say pro because for the ibook series it offers relatively good bang for the buck. But the PowerBooks? Pathetically sad. Always in times of hardware crisis Mac users fall back on "but it has OS X" True. It does have OS X a distinct advantage over PC's, but time and again I'm constantly being hit with "Apple is a hardware company first and a software company second" and that "They make their bread and butter off of hardware". If this is so they are making a craptastic product right now.
The lack of G5 rev B PowerMacs, the lack of a serious upgrade in the PowerBook line, unable to meet demand for the iPod mini, nothing new lately for the mainstream ipod's, problems last fall with lawsuits for those iBooks with shaky systems boards, and lepers disease on the newly released 15" PowerBook's all smells like a company that is trying to juggle too many products without enough resources. Either that or a serious mismanagement of company resources. Since Apple is so secretive it's obviously all speculation but the fairytale story of Apple that everything is wonderful in Appleland, IMHO, has crumbled after hanging around here for the last year. Is it better then being on a PC? Probably, but IMHO the frustrations of the Windows world are just traded for a different set of frustrations in the Mac world.
 
Price drop

I am waitning for a powerbook revision so there will be a price drop on older models. That way I can get a sub-thousand dollar 667/800 dvi.
 
:)
AidenShaw said:
Dell Latitude X300 - 0.8" thick, 2.9 lbs
Apple PowerBook 12" - 1.18" thick, 4.6 lbs

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http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pro...aspx/latit_x300?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz#tabtop


That thick, heavy PowerBook is a status symbol? ;)
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Was not aware Dell made something that thin, however the problem with all PC laptops this thin is they dont have internal CD/DVD drives, I would still rather be on a plane with a laptop and have all my drive internal, it may get a little tight on that tray table with your laptop and its external DVD drive :)
 
AidenShaw said:
Dell Latitude X300 - 0.8" thick, 2.9 lbs
Apple PowerBook 12" - 1.18" thick, 4.6 lbs


That thick, heavy PowerBook is a status symbol? ;)
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I'll up the ante with.....

Toshiba Portage R100 - 0.6-.07" thick, 2.4 lbs

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Price: $2,069

The Pentium M has opened up a new world for small form factor laptops. The only downside of this model, and pretty much every sub 1" laptop is the DVD drive is external, which for some isn't a big deal since not everyone uses their drive every day. Oh did I forget to mention Tosh includes a 3 year warantee no extra cost? :mad:
 
Those are SUB-notebooks, of course they are thinner and lighter. Apple doesn't make sub-notebooks. Plus those Dell and Toshiba books still don't look anywhere near as classy as Powerbooks, especially "in person" (vs. in pictures).
 
Wonder Boy said:
i think the emphasis is the "powerbookg4 updates. if we are accepting this rumor, we have a good idea about when PB g5's will be out (not in the next update)

also, anyone else notice the correlation betweeen intense bitching and newbies? it seems to me that those with the most inspired opinions have only made 12 or 15 posts ever. listen newbies, you havent been around long enough to understand this forum. if the news is obvious, fine. take it as a conversation peice and contribute something other than "this forum is stupid, obviously they're working on something".
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My status says newbie, but I have been reading these posts and forums for over the last, and I also spent just as much as everyone else on their iBook's and PowerMac's so I have an opinion just as much as everyone else.

Everyone from Arn to any newbie has the same right to voice an opinion.
 
the future said:
Those are SUB-notebooks, of course they are thinner and lighter. Apple doesn't make sub-notebooks. Plus those Dell and Toshiba books still don't look anywhere near as classy as Powerbooks, especially "in person" (vs. in pictures).
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Exactly. And despite constant ramblings I hear about the lack of Apple sub-notebooks, they only represent a very small place in overall notebook market.

I am shocked to even see Dell X300 here - when this thing opens up, you'll see a wacky blue trimming around the keyboard, and it is quite disgusting.

For a bloated price of $2,069, I am surprised that Toshiba only included a 3-year warranty.
 
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