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Light-weight Stylish Mac Laptops in 2006?

MacQuest said:
YES!!!

NEVER underestimate the POWER of WHITE! Afterall, if it ain't WHITE it ain't RIGHT!

WHITE POWER!!!

[There. That should convey my message of love for Apple's white colored products...I don't see how anyone could misinterpret this, my finest post ever...]
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Yeah-yeah maybe - until you see the BLACK stuff


1CE YOU GO BLACK YOU'LL NEVER GO BACK, BRO:D
 
Anyone can do this.

I predict the 12" iBook will be between 1 - 50kg and the 14" will be roughly 201kg give or take a couple of hundred :rolleyes:
 
buryyourbrideau said:
I hope they dont come out with a ridiculous pink iBook or something of that sort.
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If it was a lite pink iBook it could appeal to the new metrosexual male, or gay 'pink dollar' - very lucrative market.:cool:
 
thejadedmonkey said:
Actually, get me a lightweight mac laptop that I can install Vista on and I'll be happy. Otherwise I'll just have some issues with apple. Yes, XP. I tried coding on OS X...doesn't work for me. And games, I need my games that were designed for XP to run on XP, not some crappy port <--that'll be mute when I get a revolition though!)
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Hmmm, unusual comment on a MacRumors forum:eek: :confused:
 
ibook30 said:
$500 !

This kind of move would help apple address competition issues with Dell. Offering a version of their machine with fewer prremium options will attract a flock of the curious- and if they want email and web browsing, they should be very happy with OS X.

The down side for the user is they will miss out on what I found when I bought my first Mac - the premium features that make it an enjoyable and flexible experience- UNLIKE the dull Dell machines that do as little as possible (no FW - junky OS - weak graphics cards, junky OS, etc). I'm talking about Dell's $500 to $600 models here. When I got my first mac- a lot of the features were beyond me - but once I had a great environment to work in- I wanted those features.... Perhaps users of this stripped down machine will see value in upgrading. Who knows...

And yeah- laptops and other stuff keeps gettin' lighter. Cool.
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hhmm thats a good point and makes me wonder because at the begining, when I switched over to my PM G5, I didnt use alot of the features, I just wanted something new and better. Now, I love iTunes, iPhoto. Mail and expose are just superb. Widgets can be helpful and iMovie and iDVD for quick stuff is just great and that was the entire apple experience for me.

I cant imagine somebody getting all that with even $650, making me wonder if in someway, that will fireback in the sense of, every person who gets a unit now, knows that even if its the bottom of the barrel unit, its still beating alot of other PC based laptops out there. but with a $650 range, that experience might be lost with the limits put on it
 
thinking

i was thinking about the title of this article - "Light-weight stylish Mac laptops in 2006?"

isn't that exactly what we have now?
 
gekko513 said:
If this is based on some insider information and not just pure speculation, then the continuation of 12" and 14" form factors is interesting in itself. Other rumors have mentioned 13" widescreen, haven't they?
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Yup. And I believe rumours of a 13" widescreen wayyyyy before I believe rumours of an ultra-portable without optical drive. Macs have built their reputation as a media hub. I can't see Apple releasing one that doesn't have optical capabilities. Most of the iLife suite would be comprimised.
 
NewbieNerd said:
What is your job??

Maybe he has a valid point, depending on what he does. If you are a .NET programmer, I can imagine needing Vista/XP. If that were me, I would like to have the choice of using OS X as much as I can, but with also the possibility of using Vista/XP when I need to for work.
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I'm a .NET programmer, and I have two Macs and no Windows machines. You see, I'm also a security guy. [Shudder....] I keep my work at work and my home machines for home; on the rare occasion I really need to do .NET work from home, there's Cisco VPN & Microsoft RDC.
 
NewbieNerd said:
What is your job??

Maybe he has a valid point, depending on what he does. If you are a .NET programmer, I can imagine needing Vista/XP. If that were me, I would like to have the choice of using OS X as much as I can, but with also the possibility of using Vista/XP when I need to for work.
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Maybe he's a spelling teacher. Albeit one with no concern over capitalization.

But I'm with you. The next Apple I get will dual boot Windows, Linux, BSD, some two of the above, or possibly all three. I'm an OS junkie from way back, and while I don't do games, I do write a lot of cross platform software and right now it is .NET paying the bills.

That doesn't mean I can't enjoy or even prefer Apple products...
 
BlueRevolution said:
two days ago I wouldn't have said this, but...

a laptop with Airport Extreme, Bluetooth and a 20 GB hard drive would be all I'd need. most of the time.

SNIP

the catch is, of course, that I want 1 GB RAM expandible to 2 GB, good graphics, 20 hour battery life, FW800 and 2 USB ports. optical drive is optional, though by excluding it Apple would be eating their words mocking competitors for shipping laptops "without so much as an optical drive." (I notice they've taken that down now...) if they did exclude the optical drive though I'd expect better support for mounting another computer's drive across a network, like allowing iTunes to rip a CD in another computer's drive.

SNIP
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I too would be interested in such a design. "iNote"

Lets say 30 gig HDD (like ipod) for decent space.

Ethernet would be a must for me as well to make sre it hasn't hamstrung as a single Mac home machine.
 
I just wish they would go widescreen across their laptop line, with 11" & 13" "iBook's" at around $599 & $799, and 15" & 17" "ProBook's" at around $1299 & $1699.

I'm thinking they might drop the "Power" naming convention from the Pro products and call them something else like ProBooks & ProMac's, or something entirely different. It might be time to lose the "iBook" name also. They've used it for 8 years now and this architectural switch might be a good time to revamp everything, including model names.

As far as the pricing... eh, whatever. I can dream can't I?...
 
I hope Apple doesn't forget the men. The first 17 inch dual display Powerbooks with two internal Hard drives and a large 15 hour battery and it weighs 20 pounds.
 
Hmm. Any here I thought my 1.25Ghz AlBook was already pretty thin and stylish. I love it so much, just wish it wasn't so pokey. I think the iBook is already feminized. I hope Apple isn't going to take it further. Thinner is good as long as they don't strip it down like a sub-notebook. And Apple better not do away with the lighted keyboard on the PBs. That'll really T me off.
 
The one thing I can't figure out is at 25% they would almost have to drop the optical drive as an internal device. Personally I don't have any problems with that since I hardly use my optical drive anymore. (Its all about the 2GB flash drive baby!)
 
akhomerun said:
i was thinking about the title of this article - "Light-weight stylish Mac laptops in 2006?"

isn't that exactly what we have now?
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Stylish yes....light weight no. I mean its not like the PowerBooks are 30 pound bricks but I'm sitting here with a 3-4 pound ThinkPad. The rules of size changed with the Pentium M. Right now the PC has the smaller form factor.
 
SiliconAddict said:
Stylish yes....light weight no. I mean its not like the PowerBooks are 30 pound bricks but I'm sitting here with a 3-4 pound ThinkPad. The rules of size changed with the Pentium M. Right now the PC has the smaller form factor.
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Not sure about that. I know a little under a year ago I was shopping for a 17" notebook, and Apple had the lightest offering that I was interested in by far.

I know PC manufacturers offer sub-notebooks that are really light, but I also don't know too many people interested in sub-notebooks. From a full-featured PC perspctive, are the PM-based machines really that much lighter than a 12" PB?
 
dernhelm said:
Not sure about that. I know a little under a year ago I was shopping for a 17" notebook, and Apple had the lightest offering that I was interested in by far.

I know PC manufacturers offer sub-notebooks that are really light, but I also don't know too many people interested in sub-notebooks. From a full-featured PC perspctive, are the PM-based machines really that much lighter than a 12" PB?
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Yah the 17" are still clunkers. 15" and under you can find models for under and 1" now. When you start looking under 13" you can find models in the .5" range.
 
They aren't stylish enough already :eek: I swear mac portables are thing of utter beauty!

that said, all the mac girls i know want iBooks, all the mac guys want PowerBooks. my girlfriend said her perfect mac portable would be a 15" Powerbook in a 12" iBook case. I'd like that. backlight keyboard and that.

I was thinking yesterday; are there any PC laptops with DVI-out? I've own a few and seen many but I don't thing ive ever seen DVI on a laptop. god i love my powerbook :D
 
A surprise that is no surprise

I won't be surprised one bit if Apple releases an entire, full-fledged line of Intel-based computers on January 10. Or maybe all but PowerMacs.

Rosetta means that software isn't a factor that would delay the switch.

If Apple promises a transition to Intel in six months, and it takes nine months, it looks bad. If they promise a transition in six months, and it takes three months, it looks stupendous. So I won't be at all surprised if it turns out that Jobs deliberately set a deadline he knew he could beat.
 
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