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Apple Releases PowerBooks and iBooks
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Grokgod said:Is that a joke, the new PB NOT faster than a 550?
My Ti 1 Giger is faster than my Ti 800, so i would think that a 1.33 with faster ram etc would BLOW away a 550!
anyone had a chance to run virtual pc on their new 1.5GHz? just curious as to the performance compared to the 1GHz. i haven't experienced either, but heard when the 1GHz came out that VPC was just usable.
thnx
Extreme Base Station?
It's a little off topic but as my 1.5GHz 15" is arriving tomorrow, is it worth upgrading my original Graphite Base Staion to Extreme and if so do I need the antenna port? I have a cable modem with Road Runner service. I live in a NYC apartment so it's 50 ft max distance. If there is no major speed bump I may not bother upgrading......Thanks.
It's a little off topic but as my 1.5GHz 15" is arriving tomorrow, is it worth upgrading my original Graphite Base Staion to Extreme and if so do I need the antenna port? I have a cable modem with Road Runner service. I live in a NYC apartment so it's 50 ft max distance. If there is no major speed bump I may not bother upgrading......Thanks.
cxny said:
airport extreme is a major speed bump. it goes from 11 mb/s on the orig airport to 54 mb/s on the airport extreme (of course, its 54 mb/s for a range of 50 ft., then 11 mb/s for the continuing 100 ft radius). this is a major speed bump; altho it WILL NOT SPEED up ur internet. you will, however now be able to use the av part of ichat av and transfer files faster. you shouldn't need the antenna port unless you think that someday ull need the extra range.
Calebj14 said:
So you're saying even the graphite base staion is already as fast as a direct ethernet connection to my cable modem? Transfering files faster would be useful but it's "zippier" internet I 'm really looking for.... hopefully screen loading etc will feel quicker with the 1.5 GHz clock, coming from a G3 iBook.
chabig said:
Chris,
I ordered it with a SuperDrive... When I go to the system information screen, it shows a Mat****a CDRW/DVDRW drive, so I'm assuming it is in fact the SD.
Is there something I'm missing? Should I maybe contact Apple support to figure out why I don't have iLife on my system? When I received the PB, I purposely formatted my system so that I could perform a custom install (remove the additional languages, etc.)... I didn't see anything in the install re: iLife (ie: GarageBand), otherwise I would have made sure they were installed... So unless I missed something in the install process, I have no idea where else to look.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
Frank
AE is more secure
You should upgrade. AE gives you the ability to use WPA which is MUCH MORE secure than regular wireless.cxny said:
FrankieShakes said:
OK I think I get it. Re-installation of software is in 2 parts: The OS and additional/bundled apps. The disc number 1 in your PB disk set should have 2 icons in it. 1 is the OS and the other is Software Restore or something like that, and that will reinstall iDVD, Craphics Converter, Omnioutliner and omnigraffle, if I remember correctly.
Nico
not so close
Hi, I am in spain, and my status it is the same... but in this case the destination is luxemburg... then has to go to holland and then to your country (UK?)... at least this is what the sales person told me by phone... maybe tomorrow or wed we will have it...
do you know something more?
X_Entity said:
Hi, I am in spain, and my status it is the same... but in this case the destination is luxemburg... then has to go to holland and then to your country (UK?)... at least this is what the sales person told me by phone... maybe tomorrow or wed we will have it...
do you know something more?
cxny said:
it will render faster on the sceen than on the iBook G3, but the speed won't necessarily be faster. Also, it depends on whether the wireless connection is stable or not whether the actual speed will be different. So yes, hypothetically, the speed would be the same as hard wiring.
I think Nico is right. The Powerbook restore DVD contains everything on one disk--the basic OS installer, and an installer for the apps. If you just installed the OS, it doesn't come with the iLife apps by default. You probably need to run the restore app installer.
Chris
Chris
valkraider said:
If I remember correctly you can also use WPA with regular airport since 5.3. I don't know whether it works for the basestations. I know for sure that my airport extreme basestation now accepts WPA from regular airport cards, which it didn't before... Not entirely sure about "b" basestations though.
aclose72 said:
I run VPC on my 15in and it cooks pretty well (I can run anything I need and it is reasonable performace) way way way better then my quicksilver 800 mhz.
i need more ram though!
I don't know about the rest of you but the performance I get out of the VPC is less than satisfactory. For one, I was hoping to play some minor windows games (chinese one that isn't available for macs, called romance of three kingdoms 9) while away from my desktop, and the 4mb simulated graphics cards doesn't even come close to permit installation. The simulated processor is only 300mhz. Why can't they allow us to tweak that?
Just some rantings from someone who's stuck with PC for a really long time and just switched over. Other than that, I love the apple computing experience.
Just some rantings from someone who's stuck with PC for a really long time and just switched over. Other than that, I love the apple computing experience.
Hey all, I just got my new 1.25 15 inch fired up and was wondering a couple things.
Who makes a protective cover for this thing? something that would stay on all the time to protect the finish? a screen protector?
I plan on selling this as soon as the G5's (if they appear) come out, and want to keep it pristine.
Also, I need to do some audio editing (protools) and I'm interested in a 2.5 7200 rpm drive.(external) Suggestions on a drive/case that could also be bus powered in a pinch.
I haven't owned a power book since my PB165 about ten years ago. this is also my first OSX machine. Loving it.
Thanks guys/gals.
craig
Who makes a protective cover for this thing? something that would stay on all the time to protect the finish? a screen protector?
I plan on selling this as soon as the G5's (if they appear) come out, and want to keep it pristine.
Also, I need to do some audio editing (protools) and I'm interested in a 2.5 7200 rpm drive.(external) Suggestions on a drive/case that could also be bus powered in a pinch.
I haven't owned a power book since my PB165 about ten years ago. this is also my first OSX machine. Loving it.
Thanks guys/gals.
craig
i dont mean to highjack the thread or anything but i need a quick answere, of which will depend on weather or not i will be getting a powerbook. how long does it take to ship once the order is placed. im going on a vacation on the 18th and i need to know if i can get it in time. please help
15" Powerbook 1.5Ghz Arrived!
I've been lurking in this forum for four months. Since I didn't own an apple, I didn't make any posts. I ordered my Powerbook the evening of April 19, with a ship date of April 27 and an arrival date of April 30. After a miserable hiccup in which Apple sent me a horrifying message telling me to wait until May 5 for my delivery, A Miracle Occurred. All of a sudden, my order shipped!
Last Friday, April 30, my Powerbook arrived. It's a 15" 1.5Ghz 128Meg VRAM 1Gig DDRAM wonder. I haven't owned a Mac in 10 years, since I run Windoze 98 (1Ghz Pentium 3 free PC from Intel back in the glory days - I don't work there anymore, though sometimes my borg implant still acts up) and RH Linux 8 (1.8Ghz Pentium 4 for my own personal sanity) at home, with various flavors of Linux, Windows2000, and Solaris 8, 9 & 10 at work. My job usually requires my code to be cross-platform, so I've just gotten used to the headaches.
Ran the PixelChecker utility - no broken pixels. Burned a DVD with music: no problems. Ethernet networking configured itself - no problems. It found my linksys router and helped itself via DHCP to an ip address.
It then found my Linux machine automagically and I was able to access its Samba shares. However, it can't print via Samba so I couldn't access the inkjet printer for which the Linux box is the print server. The docs say something about enabling cups, but I will need to tinker with the Linux box before that happens; I've never used cups before since I've always had Samba printing working.
I then turned on the AirPort Extreme wireless router, which it found immediately, and printed to the HP LaserJet 1300 connected to the AE the very first time - no problems. I had set aside a couple of hours for that project based on my past experiences with internetworking Windows and Linux, but was shocked that it only took a few minutes. I do wish I knew how to setup the Apple as a fileserver so I could print to the HP printer from the linux or windows machine which aren't wireless enabled, but I'll take what I can get. I also don't think my wireless work Win2000 laptop can print to it either, so again, setting up the Apple as the print server would totally rock.
The hardest part was wrangling the boxes so I wouldn't trip over them every time I went to the fridge for another Sierra Nevada. Within an hour I was audio/video conferencing with my brother across the country using AIM and the Apple iSight camera. It also works fine for audio conferencing. The iTunes utility organized my music without much effort, and for the rest of my configuration time I was able to play my music on it. The speakers are a little tinny, but using the headphones the sound is awesome.
XCode, Fink, and all the other fun utilities installed without a hitch. I still need to configure the Terminal to show pretty colors.
The chassis does not wobble, I have no whitespots or brightness variations, and I have found no visible flaws. So far, so good. My forearms do have marks from leaning on the corner of the case while typing - a bad habit I have - so I may just spring for a Bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth mouse works great, and works even better now after I applied the firmware update for it; it now wakes up quicker.
Oh yeah, the wacom pad worked immediately too. After three minutes at the Wacom site to download their drivers, the handwriting recognition was functioning as well. It's too bad my handwriting really sucks or it could do a better job - too many years at a keyboard, I guess. Then again, what do I need with handwriting recognition? Anyway, it works now, and the coolness factor is extremely high.
And lest I forget, the Palm Zire synchronized flawlessly after five minutes at the Palm site getting their Hotsync software installed. I hope I didn't forget anything, but I'm sure I did. But what's important is that everything works, and I can work on the stretch goals of getting all the systems to be able to print on all the printers.
I stayed up until 4:30AM Saturday night. I am deliriously happy with my new Apple.
Anne Marie
I've been lurking in this forum for four months. Since I didn't own an apple, I didn't make any posts. I ordered my Powerbook the evening of April 19, with a ship date of April 27 and an arrival date of April 30. After a miserable hiccup in which Apple sent me a horrifying message telling me to wait until May 5 for my delivery, A Miracle Occurred. All of a sudden, my order shipped!
Last Friday, April 30, my Powerbook arrived. It's a 15" 1.5Ghz 128Meg VRAM 1Gig DDRAM wonder. I haven't owned a Mac in 10 years, since I run Windoze 98 (1Ghz Pentium 3 free PC from Intel back in the glory days - I don't work there anymore, though sometimes my borg implant still acts up) and RH Linux 8 (1.8Ghz Pentium 4 for my own personal sanity) at home, with various flavors of Linux, Windows2000, and Solaris 8, 9 & 10 at work. My job usually requires my code to be cross-platform, so I've just gotten used to the headaches.
Ran the PixelChecker utility - no broken pixels. Burned a DVD with music: no problems. Ethernet networking configured itself - no problems. It found my linksys router and helped itself via DHCP to an ip address.
It then found my Linux machine automagically and I was able to access its Samba shares. However, it can't print via Samba so I couldn't access the inkjet printer for which the Linux box is the print server. The docs say something about enabling cups, but I will need to tinker with the Linux box before that happens; I've never used cups before since I've always had Samba printing working.
I then turned on the AirPort Extreme wireless router, which it found immediately, and printed to the HP LaserJet 1300 connected to the AE the very first time - no problems. I had set aside a couple of hours for that project based on my past experiences with internetworking Windows and Linux, but was shocked that it only took a few minutes. I do wish I knew how to setup the Apple as a fileserver so I could print to the HP printer from the linux or windows machine which aren't wireless enabled, but I'll take what I can get. I also don't think my wireless work Win2000 laptop can print to it either, so again, setting up the Apple as the print server would totally rock.
The hardest part was wrangling the boxes so I wouldn't trip over them every time I went to the fridge for another Sierra Nevada. Within an hour I was audio/video conferencing with my brother across the country using AIM and the Apple iSight camera. It also works fine for audio conferencing. The iTunes utility organized my music without much effort, and for the rest of my configuration time I was able to play my music on it. The speakers are a little tinny, but using the headphones the sound is awesome.
XCode, Fink, and all the other fun utilities installed without a hitch. I still need to configure the Terminal to show pretty colors.
The chassis does not wobble, I have no whitespots or brightness variations, and I have found no visible flaws. So far, so good. My forearms do have marks from leaning on the corner of the case while typing - a bad habit I have - so I may just spring for a Bluetooth keyboard. The bluetooth mouse works great, and works even better now after I applied the firmware update for it; it now wakes up quicker.
Oh yeah, the wacom pad worked immediately too. After three minutes at the Wacom site to download their drivers, the handwriting recognition was functioning as well. It's too bad my handwriting really sucks or it could do a better job - too many years at a keyboard, I guess. Then again, what do I need with handwriting recognition? Anyway, it works now, and the coolness factor is extremely high.
And lest I forget, the Palm Zire synchronized flawlessly after five minutes at the Palm site getting their Hotsync software installed. I hope I didn't forget anything, but I'm sure I did. But what's important is that everything works, and I can work on the stretch goals of getting all the systems to be able to print on all the printers.
I stayed up until 4:30AM Saturday night. I am deliriously happy with my new Apple.
Anne Marie
El Duderino said:
Hello,
I don't think you should have a problem. It all comes down to a couple of things. 1) Do you want the stock configuration, if so, I think they ship 1-3 days from apple (and all the online resellers). 2) If you want a BTO (build to order), then it should take 3-5 days to ship. These, of course, are the times that was stated to me when I ordered on 3/20/04, the day they were released. Right now, apple.com shows the standard config shipping same day, the the BTO's taking 1-3 days.
Kimo
El Duderino said:
i ordered a BTO 15" PB last Thurs (04/29/04) and it stated it would ship on or before my b-day, tomorrow, May 4th. i'm still hoping it ships out tomorrow. i'm guessing it will take roughly a week to get to Chicago from where ever (Shanghi?). i hope it's not longer than that.
it shipped from Shanghi today at 1:25PM! so it's on it's way!
My 17" PB has arrived..........
I am typing this using my new 17", it is amazing...
I feel that I'm king of the world.......
I'm so excited, this is my first Mac, I'm a proud switcher.
I just installed my 512 mb stick from crucial, $129.00
these are my specs:
17" PB, 1 gig mb, 128 ATi 9700, 80 gig hd, bl keys, 3yr warr, .mac.............
I sat in front of the unopened box for hours, yes hours, then I placed box on table for and hour.
Then I opened box and was at awe, no flaws, no dead pixels, no wooble, no nothing wrong, it's great, I even took some days off work to play like a kid.
THanks all for your help so far and Aswitcher, hang in bud, it's worth the wait, believe me, also when you all said Mac was easy, your dead on.....
Thanks
MIchael
I am typing this using my new 17", it is amazing...
I feel that I'm king of the world.......
I'm so excited, this is my first Mac, I'm a proud switcher.
I just installed my 512 mb stick from crucial, $129.00
these are my specs:
17" PB, 1 gig mb, 128 ATi 9700, 80 gig hd, bl keys, 3yr warr, .mac.............
I sat in front of the unopened box for hours, yes hours, then I placed box on table for and hour.
Then I opened box and was at awe, no flaws, no dead pixels, no wooble, no nothing wrong, it's great, I even took some days off work to play like a kid.
THanks all for your help so far and Aswitcher, hang in bud, it's worth the wait, believe me, also when you all said Mac was easy, your dead on.....
Thanks
MIchael
just ordered my 12" ibook BTO (Sydney)
i know i'm a bit late, but i had to get my finances in order.
12" ibook, 60gb hdd, airport ex ordered today, and will get 512mb of 3rd party ram.
only prob is that here in Syd the ship date in on or before 18/5/04 Don't know how long i will last....at least i have my girlfriends 15" rev b powerbook to play on, but i want my own!!!
i know i'm a bit late
, but i had to get my finances in order.12" ibook, 60gb hdd, airport ex ordered today, and will get 512mb of 3rd party ram.
only prob is that here in Syd the ship date in on or before 18/5/04
Don't know how long i will last....at least i have my girlfriends 15" rev b powerbook to play on, but i want my own!!!BTO 17" arrives today
So my 17" 1.5GHz PB showed up today via Fedex. It was through MacWarehouse so it came a bit later than some, but earlier than others maybe. I've been busy most of the day so this is one of the first times I've sat down with the machine.
First impressions: To start, my last machine was the 1Ghz Ti-Powerbook. Let me say that this Aluminum form factor rocks! Much, much better than the other PB. Good news is no wobble and no dead pixels. I have the 128 video memory, 5400 RPM drive, and 1.5 GB RAM (stock + not-so-cheap 1GB add on).
I ran x bench for the hell of it and got 135+ I have no clue but it seemed as good as most of the 1.5 machines being tested. With the drive test off it jumped up to 150, I would guess that the drive is still a bit of a bottleneck on this machine. Compared to my 60GB 4500 drive on the Ti-book, it's much better.
I'm using the machine outside now (it's HOT in Los Angeles now) and the keyboard is pretty damn excellent. I guess it's a bit of a flashy feature but I'm digging it right now. The feel of the keyboard is incredible. Moving the RAM and wireless to the bottom of the machine vs. underneath in my old machine makes a BIG difference - it is a very solid keyboard and it feels great.
I thought I'd freak out seeing the 17" form factor vs. my old 15" but so far I like it. I'm getting used to the weight still. I do a lot of graphics based work and I have to have a mahine in many places so I think this size was a good bet for me. Time will tell. The screen is pretty freaking excellent though!
Well, that's all I can really put in for now but overall I'm very happy with this marvelous machine!
d.
So my 17" 1.5GHz PB showed up today via Fedex. It was through MacWarehouse so it came a bit later than some, but earlier than others maybe. I've been busy most of the day so this is one of the first times I've sat down with the machine.
First impressions: To start, my last machine was the 1Ghz Ti-Powerbook. Let me say that this Aluminum form factor rocks! Much, much better than the other PB. Good news is no wobble and no dead pixels. I have the 128 video memory, 5400 RPM drive, and 1.5 GB RAM (stock + not-so-cheap 1GB add on).
I ran x bench for the hell of it and got 135+ I have no clue but it seemed as good as most of the 1.5 machines being tested. With the drive test off it jumped up to 150, I would guess that the drive is still a bit of a bottleneck on this machine. Compared to my 60GB 4500 drive on the Ti-book, it's much better.
I'm using the machine outside now (it's HOT in Los Angeles now) and the keyboard is pretty damn excellent. I guess it's a bit of a flashy feature but I'm digging it right now. The feel of the keyboard is incredible. Moving the RAM and wireless to the bottom of the machine vs. underneath in my old machine makes a BIG difference - it is a very solid keyboard and it feels great.
I thought I'd freak out seeing the 17" form factor vs. my old 15" but so far I like it. I'm getting used to the weight still. I do a lot of graphics based work and I have to have a mahine in many places so I think this size was a good bet for me. Time will tell. The screen is pretty freaking excellent though!
Well, that's all I can really put in for now but overall I'm very happy with this marvelous machine!
d.