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I miss Titanium on powerbooks

I love my TiBook dearly, but I just had to upgrade to a MBP because of the speed difference. But the TiBook will always hold a special place in my heart. It still runs stuff faster than any Mac mini (PPC) that you can get, and even runs recent games at playable frame rates.
 
Kelson said:
but I still use my TiBook almost exclusively..

Now, this would not normally be funny, except I have a brand new MacBook Pro 2.0ghz fully loaded sitting right next to it.

I don't use the MacBook at all hardly, but I just keep using the TiBook 1Ghz.

With the lack of Virtual PC, I just can't find enough value in going through the migration hassle to move to the MacBook Pro. Once I have a good Windows solution, I'm sure I'll migrate, but until then....

- Kelson
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Haha, I'll take that off your hands. :cool:
 
just a little bit of enlightenment here, did any of you know that titanium is actually not an earth-metal, nor manufactured by any combination of earth-metals...titanium itself is alien. Not long ago, a meteorite hit in Russia, guess what they found inside.;)
However, since their is so little of the natural metal, It is generally mixed with other metals.
 
The aluminum PB weathers better than the titanium PB. I've heard reports of paint chips and areas that look corroded on the Ti Book. I've had my Al Book for over 2 years and the only physically damaged areas are the plastic covering on the command key wore off, there's a dent on the side from when it fell off a chair, and the little rubber feet fell off. The AlBook is a rugged monster.
 
California said:
In terms of pure aesthetics, the Titanium Powerbook was a triumph of industrial design. It harkens back to early thirties ideas of Machine Age and streamline stylistics. They were one hunk of good looking industrial design. And they are so easy to work on and durable. A friend dropped hers out of a WINDOW two stories up and the logic board and hard drive and superdrive still worked. Amazing.
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Prove it. I want photos of the window and a reason WHY she had it so close to a window.
 
it probably landed in a fluffy bush.

or maybe the place was built into a hill and her second story room just happened to be 3 feet off the ground.
 
onthat said:
just a little bit of enlightenment here, did any of you know that titanium is actually not an earth-metal, nor manufactured by any combination of earth-metals...titanium itself is alien. Not long ago, a meteorite hit in Russia, guess what they found inside.;)
However, since their is so little of the natural metal, It is generally mixed with other metals.
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You serious?! :eek:
 
generik said:
You serious?! :eek:
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No. Titanium is a metal that can be found all over the Earth. It just happens that Russia has the most productive mines for it. Every element that isn't man-made (man-made is everything on the periodic table from Plutonium up) has been found naturally occurring on Earth. Most aren't found as the 'pure' element, but as a compound, but they can be found.

And in most industrial uses, Titanium is used alone, since there are few alloys of it that are useful.

If you want an unbelievable (but true) story, the Air Force's retired SR-71 mach-3 spyplane was built largely out of Titanium. The Air Force wanted more SR-71's than the US' supply of Titanium could produce. So the CIA set up a bunch of shill companies to buy the Titanium from the Soviet Union, the very nation the plane was being built to spy on. (See 'Skunk Works' the biography of Ben Rich, for more fun information on the SR-71.)
 
ehurtley said:
If you want an unbelievable (but true) story, the Air Force's retired SR-71 mach-3 spyplane was built largely out of Titanium. The Air Force wanted more SR-71's than the US' supply of Titanium could produce. So the CIA set up a bunch of shill companies to buy the Titanium from the Soviet Union, the very nation the plane was being built to spy on.
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That is hilarious. Go CIA!:p
 
woah! so much for the public school system...My physical science teacher(Ms. Jordan) totally lied to me.

However I know for a fact that it is hardly, if ever, used alone. At $100/lb. and with the balance it can create with aluminum?

p.s. I don't think titanium has ever been found as a pure metal, merely attached to other things...it's even in the human body. I hardly believe there are titanium mines anywhere, even Russia. Titanium has to be isolated just as gasoline, and the like, must be removed from petroleum.
 
_bnkr612 said:
Prove it. I want photos of the window and a reason WHY she had it so close to a window.
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I shouldn't say "dropped" I shoulda said "Thrown" out the window.

Abusive boyfriend. Ripped it out of the wall and tossed it out the window.

Don't know how to prove it, except I saw it. Of course, as it was open and running at the time, the screen was torn off in the fall.
 
so wait...the only things that still worked were the HD, Superdrive, and logic board? ...but she still had to send it in for repair right?

more importantly, what was your reaction to everything that took place? You didn't just stand there gasping did you?
 
I liked my Tibook but the paint chipping, crappy airport reception and it's general flimsiness prevented me from LOVING it. My new MBP has a much more solid build but I don't like the hinge on the back for some reason. I liked the way the Tibook had a little space between the monitor and the actual cpu.
 
onthat said:
woah! so much for the public school system...My physical science teacher(Ms. Jordan) totally lied to me.
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I made it a point to never listen to public school teachers after my history teacher told us Sicily was a city in Italy. I spoke up, and she got mad at me for correcting her!
As fot titanium, is it really that expensive? A friend of mine is doing tesiting using titanium for extra armor in bullet proof vests and he is going to give me some extra. I guess he's a really good friend!
 
when i sold mine

the guy who bought it was a musician and he collected TiBook's, mine was his second, 867mhz and was looking for a 1ghz model.

i miss it but, mine was full of problems... a new version would be amazing !!



PB 15" 1.67ghz
wht nano 4gb
 
unless the price has changed significantly since the publication of the articles I've read, I'd say yes...about $100/lb. of pure "powdered" titanium.

your friend is pretty flippin' awesome in my opinion.
 
Having just upgraded from a TiBook to an AlBook, I'll settle the matter of which looks better. The AlBook looks better open (keyboard is nicer), but the TiBook looks better closed (cool cover + ports in back). 'Nuff said. :D
 
onthat said:
just a little bit of enlightenment here, did any of you know that titanium is actually not an earth-metal, nor manufactured by any combination of earth-metals...titanium itself is alien. Not long ago, a meteorite hit in Russia, guess what they found inside.;)
However, since their is so little of the natural metal, It is generally mixed with other metals.
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sorry to burst your bubble here, but Titanium was discovered in England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium

Titanium metal is not found unbound to other elements in nature but the element is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust (0.63% by mass) and is present in most igneous rocks and in sediments derived from them
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i'm typing this on a tibook that i love more than life itself. i've put this machine through hell for the past three and a half years, and although i've spent the superdrive, i've got no complaints otherwise. i still use it every day.

i've got a 1ghz tibook (the last model), and none of the G4 powerbook updates offered enough to make me want to upgrade. i'm waiting until they iron out the kinks in the final cut studio universals before i pick up a MBP, so i'm thinking i'll be going on four years of daily use by the time i give this one to my kid sis.
 
Amorphous alloy?

I know it has been mentioned before, but amorphous alloys are a much better choice than either Aluminium or Titanium:

* two to three times stronger than Titanium (over 5x stronger than Aluminium)
* two to three times the elastic limit of either Aluminium or Titanium (the ability to return to original shape after high loading or stress - sometimes called 'memory')
* high hardness (scratch resistant)
* excellent strength/weight ratio
* high corrosion resistance
* high wear resistance
* excellent acoustic properties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal
http://www.liquidmetal.com/technology/default.asp
 
onthat said:
so wait...the only things that still worked were the HD, Superdrive, and logic board? ...but she still had to send it in for repair right?

more importantly, what was your reaction to everything that took place? You didn't just stand there gasping did you?
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I was horrified but I was not there when it happened. No she did not have it repaired -- too upsetting.
 
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