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New Powerbooks

im getting real ansious waiting on these new 15" Al Powerbooks. they keep toying with me every tuesday when im glued to the comptuer looking for a update. HA kinda sad. I hope they come out soon. What are they waiting on i don't think they will have fuel cells. the tech is still aways away. mabe water cooled inside. Nec has a laptop that is watercolled inside.
 
Re: Holding out hope . . .

Originally posted by BigJayhawk
Not to mention how much we "hurt the hand that feeds us" (Apple) by holding off on purchases all the time.
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We hurt the hand that feeds us by allowing Apple to make big bucks on overpriced inferior hardware. If we keep buying those types of machines, there is a larger risk of Apple resting on it's laurels--which is bad in the long run. It has happened before, in other places.
 
Re: New Powerbooks

Originally posted by Ikash
im getting real ansious waiting on these new 15" Al Powerbooks. they keep toying with me every tuesday when im glued to the comptuer looking for a update. HA kinda sad. I hope they come out soon.
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Seriously... the least apple could do is set up some sort of counseling. I feel like a junkie waiting for a hit. C'mon Apple! Gimme a fix!!! I NEED THIS!!!!! :D
 
dang right, dang apple always making me poor too, there goods are so great its like a rat on coke the rat is starved for days and they offer him food or crack and he takes the crack, apple better quit messing with us, i bet steve jobs is just stitting back lauging at us.

hes like whos the B!tch (he gots the goods we need)
 
Re: Re: Holding out hope . . .

Originally posted by soggywulf
We hurt the hand that feeds us by allowing Apple to make big bucks on overpriced inferior hardware. If we keep buying those types of machines, there is a larger risk of Apple resting on it's laurels--which is bad in the long run. It has happened before, in other places.
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Huh? Don't like the product? Think it's overpriced? Inferior? Don't buy it. Leave the rest of us in our little paradise.
 
Oops, already posted. ;)

But it looks like the meaning of the "Year of the Laptop" may have been a sales trend.
 
Re: Re: Re: Holding out hope . . .

Originally posted by Potus
Huh? Don't like the product? Think it's overpriced? Inferior? Don't buy it. Leave the rest of us in our little paradise.
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I didn't buy it, and neither did many others recently. Now that the G5 is out, though, things are looking up.
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Holding out hope . . .

Originally posted by soggywulf
I didn't buy it, and neither did many others recently. Now that the G5 is out, though, things are looking up.
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OK. So you don't buy Apple hardware. Why are you here? Is it some kind of existentail experiment? Naaaah. Just a baby troll.
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Holding out hope . . .

Originally posted by Potus
OK. So you don't buy Apple hardware. Why are you here? Is it some kind of existentail experiment? Naaaah. Just a baby troll.
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Umm, yeah I do buy Apple hardware, when it is worth it. I have a QS867 as a matter of fact. LOL. If someone criticizes Apple, automatically they are labeled a troll. Nice cop out. :rolleyes:
 
These people saying their Powerbooks are flashy ovens maybe need to take a look at how they have Jaguar set up, cause it sure doesnt apply to my 867 Mhz Ti running 10.2.4. Working in 10.2.6, sure, the fans come on for fun.

And hands up all those who have their current G4 professional notebooks working to full capacity eight hours a day. Yeah I thought so, a small minority of overall Mac users. Relax and let notebook technology develop at a sensible rate. In the real world, a G4 is still a monstrous machine. It has to be a tiny minority plus victims of hype who are surely calling for must have G5´s in Pbs like yesterday and G4s in ibooks. Just how fast do the majority of people want to surf the internet, write a job application and play around with photos and music.

By all means keep up the pressure for cutting edge technology but keep things in perspective.

My 2 cents
 
Originally posted by billyboy

My 2 cents
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I agree with your 2 cents. I think everyone is being a little too demanding about a G5 in the PowerBook. The current laptops are still awesome in my mind and I would still buy one over a Windows laptop in a minute. I know that Mac users are demanding, as well they should be, but we have an awesome laptop line to be proud of, even without the G5 PowerBook.
 
Originally posted by MacFan26
I agree with your 2 cents. I think everyone is being a little too demanding about a G5 in the PowerBook. The current laptops are still awesome in my mind and I would still buy one over a Windows laptop in a minute.
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Overall, I agree also. If we include OSX, we are ahead with laptops. I think Wintel is kind of in the same boat as us as far as things like mem bus, due to power considerations. So the slow G4 bus doesn't cripple us as much. Plus the fact that neither platform has (or can have) the greatest graphics hardware. So aside from the lack of a 2-button trackpad, we are ahead.
 
Originally posted by soggywulf
Overall, I agree also. If we include OSX, we are ahead with laptops. I think Wintel is kind of in the same boat as us as far as things like mem bus, due to power considerations. So the slow G4 bus doesn't cripple us as much. Plus the fact that neither platform has (or can have) the greatest graphics hardware. So aside from the lack of a 2-button trackpad, we are ahead.
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Thanks for that. I thought I was going to get so flamed for my post - or at least have some one burn me with the bottom of their Powerbook.
 
Originally posted by billyboy


And hands up all those who have their current G4 professional notebooks working to full capacity eight hours a day. Yeah I thought so, a small minority of overall Mac users. Relax and let notebook technology develop at a sensible rate. In the real world, a G4 is still a monstrous machine. It has to be a tiny minority plus victims of hype who are surely calling for must have G5´s in Pbs like yesterday and G4s in ibooks. Just how fast do the majority of people want to surf the internet, write a job application and play around with photos and music.

By all means keep up the pressure for cutting edge technology but keep things in perspective.

My 2 cents
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Amen!
 
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