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New iBook and Mac mini Part Numbers?
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After looking at the iBooks at MicroCenter this weekend (we wanted to see what the 14" was like compared to the 12") and then seeing all the Windows laptops, I will be disappointed if the new iBooks don't have a widescreen display at 1280 x 800. Yes, I realize that XP notebooks don't run Mac OS X and blah blah blah. iBooks generally seem cheaper than a XP notebooks. It also seems that there needs to be another line of notebooks in-between the iBook and PowerBooks.
Ultimately, I'm sure will buy an iBook but it's nice to see what's on the "other" isle.
My future iBook specs:
US$1299
14" 1280 x 800
1.5 G4
512MB RAM
AP & BT built in
SuperDrive
60 GB HD
64 MB video card
I'll be ordering that with a 80 GB HD upgrade on Tuesday morning.
Ultimately, I'm sure will buy an iBook but it's nice to see what's on the "other" isle.
My future iBook specs:
US$1299
14" 1280 x 800
1.5 G4
512MB RAM
AP & BT built in
SuperDrive
60 GB HD
64 MB video card
I'll be ordering that with a 80 GB HD upgrade on Tuesday morning.
bbarnhart said:
I predicted almost the same thing except:
I'm not sure of display (13.3 or 14)
1.42 GHz G4
80 GB HDD
Nonetheless, if either your or my predictions come true, it's gonna be a sweet update.
ibook30 said:
I'm glad someone mentioned cleaning their 'book rather than complain about dirt they put there. All I have to do is wipe my PowerBook's surface down with a slightly damp cloth and a drop of soap and my computer looks great - no problems whatsoever.
Updated graphics card, processor, and display and/or resolution would be absolutely wonderful! One question to everyone, if the iBook gets a GPU update, what are the odds the Mac Mini also gets a GPU update? They both currently have ATI Radeon 9200, I kind of think if you update one you got to update the other. There both the lowest end desktop/notebook consumer counterparts. Everyone agree that there updates (GPU) wise if not more things should be similar come tuesday??
Plecky said:
of course. i can guarantee that the mini and new ibook will both get a GPU upgrade to 64mb. it's the minimum requirement for core image. apple wouldn't make a revision with tiger already several months old without making it truly "tiger-compatible". the 512 standard and 64 vram update is just common sense. however, i don't know what they will do with the processor or hard drive.
bellis1 said:
Post it notes? Eww. Like I have said before, use PDA screen protectors. Get a generic pack and put one on each side of the mousepad. They are invisible, keep the resale value up and keep it looking new.
nsjoker said:
I think the widescreen would be nice, but I'm not expecting it. Also, it would be weird to see Apple make such an update to the iBooks before the PowerBooks.
nsjoker said:
64 would be nice, but to put it in perspective: low-end PCs have ZERO VRAM.
By your "compatibility" logic, all Macs must have DVD burners, because Tiger supports them.
Tiger supports Bluetooth, DVD writers, GPUs with 64 MB+, and dual processors. If you have any of those, you'll get the benefits. But just because they are supported doesn't mean you HAVE to have them in order to be "compatible." Of course you can do things with 64 that you can't with 32. You can do things with a DVD burner that you can't without one. Etc.
But Core Image is not one of them: Core Image will use your CPU if the GPU can't handle the task. Having a higher GPU is preferred--not required.
~Shard~ said:Nice one.
Just saw it on digg. Very convincing and it wouldn't be the first time.
:/
Funny, those don't look too wide to me...
While I would like to see widescreen iBooks on Tuesday as much as the next Mac dork (actually, the sub note is what I would really be interested in - wait, I lie, an iPhone/PDA - bah!), I have followed Apple long enough to know that we will be disappointed. Small speed bumps is all I expect... but am still hoping to be surprised. That's the fun of all this, isn't it?
We shall see...
Funny, those don't look too wide to me...
While I would like to see widescreen iBooks on Tuesday as much as the next Mac dork (actually, the sub note is what I would really be interested in - wait, I lie, an iPhone/PDA - bah!), I have followed Apple long enough to know that we will be disappointed. Small speed bumps is all I expect... but am still hoping to be surprised. That's the fun of all this, isn't it?
We shall see...
Read the tagline again.. 12inch and wide 14inch - I think the 14 looks wide in the picturelazyrighteye said:
I also came across that on digg.com as well, real/fake? I'm HOPING real, thinking/feeling fake, and wondering what everybody else thinks/feels in regards to it? Also, if such was the case to be true (trying NOT to get my hopes up TOO high but boy does apple and these rumor sites make it hard...) what would a resolution on a 14" widescreen be, I'd imagine a little less then that found on the 15.2" powerbook but I'm no math wiz so I'm posting that Q for all you who have fun speculating the resolution on such a screen (if real, hypothetically speaking... or not )
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Hehe, oops!
Oh yeah, reading. Duh.
That 14" does totally look wide to me.
That said, I just don't see Apple hiding a widescreen 14" behind a 4:3 12" in their marketing materials. That comp seems too odd to be true.
lazydesert said:
Oh yeah, reading. Duh.
That 14" does totally look wide to me.
That said, I just don't see Apple hiding a widescreen 14" behind a 4:3 12" in their marketing materials. That comp seems too odd to be true.
It's a well done image, I'm thinking it's probably fake though (just being a realist, not a pessimist). And yes, as lazydesert pointed out, only the 14" is listed as widescreen, and it's kind of hidden behind the 12" so it definitely could be. Would a widescreen 12" even make sense?
lazydesert said:
Bingo. Doesn't even look like the right font to me, but maybe I'm just looking for things to be wrong with it....
Wouldn't Apple have more of a complete sentence as well in the Hot News headline? Even adding the word "released" would make it more credible...
Edit: Also, yes, having the widescreen model behind the other model so you can;t even see it doesn't seem very smart. Wouldn't you want to show it off?
That picture looks like it would be very easy to fake (even with my essentially non-existent photoshop skills).
I think it's fake. I'm almost positive this isn't going to "accidently" appear on the web page for a second.
Second, look at the outline of the picture on the 14". There looks like some wierd lines on the right and bottom edge (especially the bottom...there is a wierd blue and it almost looks like it's not perfectly lined up). The 12" edge looks very different.
I think it's fake. I'm almost positive this isn't going to "accidently" appear on the web page for a second.
Second, look at the outline of the picture on the 14". There looks like some wierd lines on the right and bottom edge (especially the bottom...there is a wierd blue and it almost looks like it's not perfectly lined up). The 12" edge looks very different.