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New iBooks and Powerbooks!

As I have said before, and will continue to say... APPLE RULES!!!!!!!

Well I don't need this monster, but it's still great for braggin, ain't it? :p

But I'm worried... what if the cover melts?? I mean... superdrive AND 1 GHz chip man... that's gotta be quite hot.... did they add some extra cooling features?



irmongoose
 
The cheapest Macs sold today are the G3 imac for $800 and the G3 iBook for $999. So, you telling me that an eMac with a CRT is harder and more expensive to make than a laptop? Wow. Its good to know that their computers can still have more price cuts if they need to have them.
I do like the fact that the Powerbook costs now than it cost me to get a Powermac G3 350 with a 17in monitor, now I have more choice in what to buy, and I like that.
 
Originally posted by Kilchzimmer
I was debating on whether I should just pick one up at the nearest Apple Store (Maryland), until they told me this morning that the first delivery might be 5-10 days, but they were sort of guessing on that. Didn't know what to do. Hope it get's here before the 30th! We were back in the States for 4 months (Aug-Nov) and I was waiting and waiting for this release ....
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I'm getting the same shipping time for my powerbook as well. Looks like online will be a tad slower...

The PR says that

The 867 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 is available now, and the 1 GHz model is expected to be available in mid-November through the Apple Store www.apple.com, at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers at the suggested retail prices below...
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But I expect the powerbooks to go fast;) I think you can cancel your order if it hasn't shipped yet, so try out he apple store when they get them, then cancel your order;)
 
Now my main concern is how soon will these things ship?
Apple store is showing 3-5 days, but with a new released product and so many people wanting it I wonder just how likely that will be....

CompUSA is still showing the old models and prices on thier site the last time I checked so that rules them out.
 
Originally posted by drastik
Sorry about that, too fast with the typing today, need more sleep, up crying about elections. ( and drinking)
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Why? The Repubs are gonna cut my taxes so I can get a new PB!
 
This is a great upgrade for both portable lines, but I'm curious why apple didn't put ddr vram in both laptops. The "old" powerbook had Radeon 7500 w/32Mb ddr vram.

Why didn't they just use that in the iBook?

Oh well, I'm gonna buy an 800Mhz iBook anyway and finally get to experience OS X.
 
Okay, okay enough with the spam everyone. If all you're going to say is go Apple then don't post. We already feel the same and know how you feel.

Okay to add some real input to this thread. Has anyone noticed that the top two iBook models at the store show 6 hours battery life. While the bottom two show 5 hours battery life. Seems odd to me.

Also here is the official press releases from Apple.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/nov/06ibook.html

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/nov/06pbg4.html
 
Woohoo!

Wow! I really wasn't expecting the SuperDrive or the 867/1GHz speeds. And I was seriously doubting the Radeon 9000 (especially with 64 Megs).

I was figuring that today I would be ordering a bottom-end 800MHz PowerBook for $2299, and that in January or a month or two later, a big revision would make me wish that I'd held off a little longer. I figured I'd be happy with it, but vaguely worried that in a year or less I'd be itching to upgrade again.

Instead, I've just ordered the 1GHz/Superdrive model, which I think is a great value; Normally I expect to pay more of a premium for the top-end than this. I'm super-excited, and confident that it'll be a couple of years before I even think about upgrading the machine.
 
Originally posted by Over Achiever


I would think so. I'm looking at the powerbook specs, and it the software it includes in OS 9 and OS X, so I don't think the boot into OS X only applys yet.

I think the iBook is the same way;)

And yeah, you can just use OS 9 if you want I suppose.
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i called apple store in sweden:

me "does the ibook boot up into os9?"
apple store "no i don't think so"
me "are u sure?"
apple store "yes i think so, 90% sure i guess"
me "cus i read that until 2003 u would still be able to"
apple store "yea, i don't know, but u can buy an os9 cd and install it"
me "oh... ok"


result:

me=confused...

does anyone know for sure?
 
Okay, okay enough with the spam everyone. If all you're going to say is go Apple then don't post. We already feel the same and know how you feel.

Okay to add some real input to this thread. Has anyone noticed that the top two iBook models at the store show 6 hours battery life. While the bottom two show 5 hours battery life. Seems odd to me.
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the 14 in. iBooks have always touted 6 hr. battery lifes unless i'm mistaken...thanks for the "real input"...jes' kiddin

Apple Rules! Go Apple!
 
i've been using macs since elementary school, but the 'faster' powerbook model will be my first owned mac. can't wait. :) :) :D
 
Originally posted by drastik
Sorry about that, too fast with the typing today, need more sleep, up crying about elections. ( and drinking)
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i feel that...i was so happy i almost cried too.

Originally posted by F/reW/re
An iBook with 128 MB RAM, hmmm
What can I do with that..? Perhaps the calculator will do it for me..
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errrm...so buy more ram...512MB of notebook memory is < $100. BFD.

Originally posted by MacBandit
Okay, okay enough with the spam everyone. If all you're going to say is go Apple then don't post. We already feel the same and know how you feel.
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hey screw you buddy. if we want to gush over our favorite company so be it...you dont like it, dont read it. for me its a breath of fresh air after all the negativity flying around for the past couple months.
 
Re: *sigh*

Originally posted by evilpenguin21
My powerbooks not uber anymore :(
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I feel you.... *sob*

I've been crying all morning.... and drooling at the same time.....

superdrive... *sob*
1ghz... *drool*
64mb radeon9000.... *sob* and *drool*

I still love you, my powerbook...
 
hey!

What happened to the brighter screen?, thats one thing i hate about notebooks the screens are not bright enough, oh well i hope they come out with a new powerbook duo, anyway there is a cool stand out on the net that looks like an imac base without an LCD its cool now you can have the stand with your powerbook and use it as a desktop system like an imac, only its portable :) cool huh?
 
Regarding the calculator. All I know is that the jaguar calculator on my Ti 550 512MB was too slow to be usable and couldn't even keep up with me keying in numbers! So the 700ibook with 128MB probably can't really use the calculator effectively.

Almost all the rumors were true except 13" ibook and new monitors. This is probably it until MWSF for anything new.

sucks to have bought a $3300 Ti800 in the past month. What's it worth now? $2000 maybe. hopefully the refurbs prices will drop dramatically which would bring them even lower for those who want to save $. glad I just sold my ti 550 before these were announced, otherwise who would buy that slowpoke that gets trounced by a $999 iBook?

i am so tempted to get the $1299 ibook. let's hope they can be software overclocked to 900MHz. I wonder if Apple found a way to prevent that.
 
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