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New iBook and Mac mini Part Numbers?

Tempted

Temted to buy a new iBook if they come this week. However only if the following is included:

DVI - For education presentation.
Build in BT AE - so I don't have to bother getting bto model.
Scrolling trackpads!
64 Vcard - if not 128, really though, most ppl these days have 128/256 if they are serious about there machine. Why not just go with 128.
Widescreen - Lets not live in the past no more.

So thats it, why no processor, HD upgrade, becuase as a non-powerbook user i don't won't to pay for power options (bar GPU). I reckon apple should distinguish the lines by having white/silver, processor gap, HD gap, expansion slot, FSB and other things that power hungy users will notice, not just us students and light mobile users.

Damn New Zealand, we live a day ahead of macrumors, tuesday is our wednesday. Waiting....
 
That picture looks sooo fake to me. On that INSANELY long looking widescreen 14 inch iBook why is the latch and the ibook wording off center? Not to mention you can see that the keyboard is off center and on the right. Weird.

Plus, the whole picture itself isn't even centered on the page.

Worst photoshop job I have ever seen inserting the screen image of the car, look at the lines around it.

And I'm looking at this on a PC with it's horrible gamma settings. :p
 
mattster16 said:
That picture looks sooo fake to me. On that INSANELY long looking widescreen 14 inch iBook why is the latch and the ibook wording off center? Not to mention you can see that the keyboard is off center and on the right. Weird.

Plus, the whole picture itself isn't even centered on the page.

Worst photoshop job I have ever seen inserting the screen image of the car, look at the lines around it.

And I'm looking at this on a PC with it's horrible gamma settings. :p
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That link is a joke. The other post had the widescreen behind the 12". The picture you saw was just a stretch job.
 
tsk said:
That link is a joke. The other post had the widescreen behind the 12". The picture you saw was just a stretch job.
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ah ok, I was wondering how anyone could even consider that to be real.
 
Plecky said:
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??
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I think that Apple made a deal with ATI earlier this year to use Radeon 9600 or higher parts (do ATI still manufacture 9200s?), and since then the low-end has migrated to these parts. I definitely think that the Mac Mini and iBook will have a similar migration when they are updated. iBook will be 64MB M9600. PowerBook will be 128MB M9700 or higher (X700M?) come their next update.
 
Good to hear hattig, I'd be very dissapointed to continue seeing 9200 GPU's in the iBook line, although anything above (even if its that Nvidea 5200 or whatever in 12" powerbooks) would be fine by me, just move it up a notch from 32 :D
 
nagromme said:
64 would be nice, but to put it in perspective: low-end PCs have ZERO VRAM.
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Some do some don't. Even so, all current integrated graphics solutions attached to an AthlonXP/64 or P4/P-M are faster than a 32mb Radeon 9200 attached to a G4. Even Intel "Extreme" Graphics 2 is faster than a radeon 9200 with 32mbs of ram (attached to a G4). With PCI Express based solutions, using system memory as vram is less of a deal and even preferable in some situations. For more info check out the Radeon Xpress 200, Nvidia TurboCache, and the new Intel PCIe integrated graphics--- they kick major ass :eek: One reason integrated graphics are so popular on PC's is because they ship with a ton of ram. For instance, this emachine costs $599 and has a gig of ram.
 
mattster16 said:
ah ok, I was wondering how anyone could even consider that to be real.
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I laughed more at your response to it than the actual pic. I thought you were making a joke. Sorry.

Squire
 
Does anyone have the original pic? I know it's not real but I would still like to see it. I reckon a widescreen iBook would look cool.
 
Surely the software on the eMachines computer is nowhere near as good as Apple's software :rolleyes: :p Microsoft Works? Hehe funny. For $599 without a monitor, I would definately have the Mac Mini.
 
sakasune said:
IMHO, eMachines have lesser quality than Dells. I don't care what it has, I would rather buy something because of its quality.
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Exactly. Like with many other things in life, you get what you pay for. :cool:
 
Tymmz said:
As good as the article is, but this PC for 599 has a lot more than the 399 Dell.
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But it is ugly as well, comes with a cheap-ass keyboard, mouse and speakers, and I hope you aren't comparing it to the Mac Mini, because they are different products. What's worse, it uses a variant of Windows XP. I hope it has a DVI output too, and isn't connected to that (not included) TFT monitor via a VGA output - all too common on PC integrated motherboards.

It does prove that the iMac G5 has become uncompetitive again in terms of bang for the buck, hardware wise. A 17" TFT monitor isn't that much money to add to the above - $250 or so - and for half the price of a 17" iMac G5 you've got something that will beat it in terms of performance a lot of the time. However you can't put easily a price on the value of Mac OS X, style and build quality because these are worth different amounts to different people.
 
sakasune said:
IMHO, eMachines have lesser quality than Dells. I don't care what it has, I would rather buy something because of its quality.
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It might be true for some things, but not for PCs. I have a little bit of trouble with that line of reasoning. PCs become obsolete the moment you plug them in. Buying a quality PC is like buying quality toilet paper.
 
Rootman said:
And what's the problem with that?
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He's just saying that it doesn't make sense to spend a whole lot of money on a quality PC becasue it's pretty much obsolete as soon as you walk out of the store with it.
 
Lacero said:
It might be true for some things, but not for PCs. I have a little bit of trouble with that line of reasoning. PCs become obsolete the moment you plug them in. Buying a quality PC is like buying quality toilet paper.
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Of course is makes sense to buy a high quality PC, just like it makes sense to buy higher quality toilet paper. You don't want to be cheap with the TP and wind up with a rash on your bum, would you? :p

Besides, a computer is obsolete the second they announce it, why not buy the best you can afford?
 
animefan_1 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.
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Yeah, my apartment, at the moment, is a s***hole. I just have to clean it. They don't need to make apartments that don't get as dirty.https://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
 
Lacero said:
I have a little bit of trouble with that line of reasoning...Buying a quality PC is like buying quality toilet paper.
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You skimp on your tp?!? Dang, you must be really poor - I feel bad for you. Hint: there's a reason that your *ss is so sore after every time you go to the bathroom.
 
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