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Re: Re: Re: woohoo?

Originally posted by fuge


excuse me as i veer off-topic for a moment...

That has to be one of the most ignorant remarks I've ever seen on these forums ...and there have been plenty. I'm not republican or democrat, I vote for the side that's right. :D

Be nicer to those who (now) rule over you. :D
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Re: YAAAH!!!

Originally posted by prefect
Just locked mine in!!!

Going to be a long 3-4 weeks!!!

1 GHz
1 Gig of RAM
SuperDrive
60 GB HDD
etc

All for $2300!!

woooo hoooo!! Glad I waited!
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How did you do that for $2300? Even with a student discount it's a bit more than that.
 
Compusa tell me they allread have the ibooks and expect the PBs in with in a "week or two"

Wow! I wonder if Apple is gonna surprise a bunch of people with PB's at their door sooner than they thought!


BTW Clinton left office with this economy in a downward spiral, and 9/11 didn't help things much, so don't blame Dubya.....he's doing everything (except Iraq) right!
 
hello, newbie to the forum here...

anyone have an opinion on buying new the 1ghz pb's from the apple store versus online retailers? any particularly good deals out there for non-students? i see macmall and mac connection seem to be including things like printers, cases and extra batteries... what are the incentives for buying directly from the apple store?

cheers.
 
Re: Re: YAAAH!!!

Originally posted by joelc73


How did you do that for $2300? Even with a student discount it's a bit more than that.
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Apple student developer price. It's quite breathtaking, but you can only buy one that low, ever. Check out the develpor link at Apple for more details.

Now excuse me as I go wipe off the drool from my keyboard :D .
 
Originally posted by katchow


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!
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Why would an iBook with a larger screen have lower power consumption?


edit: sorry I guess this was explained in a later post. The 14" iBook is larger and has room for a larger battery thus longer battery life.
 
Originally posted by sparkleytone


i feel that...i was so happy i almost cried too.



errrm...so buy more ram...512MB of notebook memory is < $100. BFD.



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.
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I agree totally but I have been ragged for doing just the same thing. It is considered spam to simply reply hooray and not add input. It's fine for a couple people to do it but when the next 50 replies are basically just a three word agreement. There's just no need for that.
 
Re: Too little too late

Originally posted by bigjohn
Wow, a 1x superdrive just as the 2x drives are hitting market - a real selling point would've been to have a 2x superdrive in the PB. that way, you stay ahead of the curve... which in the area of optical drives, apple has not done forever
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It would suck more power and create more heat. If Apple has created a Powerbook that can burn a DVD on battery power alone they are already ahead of the curve. The Sony laptps with DVD burner need to be plugged in to burn.
 
SWEET

This is totally awsome!! I hope I can convince the head of my schools AV department to buy a TiBook with a super drive for on the go video editing:) Even my die hard PC friends will be drooling over DVDs that can be burned on a laptop and 7.4 gigaflops is another great number:) Now finally I can afford an iBook with a big screen and fat graphics card:)
I just had a feeling that those Apple engineers could find a way to make the superdrive fit.

How did they get the new iBooks to use less power?
 
Re: Re: Great news for me!

Originally posted by MacBandit
I wonder what the difference is. This is all USD and I'm in Oregon so there is no sales tax.
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It depends on the school. I personally know that my prices are a tad lower than the regular store. And the colleges in CA seem to have the best prices of all;)

Oregon has no sales tax? Thats nice...that money must be coming from somewhere tho'.
 
I'm in high school and I got one of those 600 Mhz iBooks in August, though it was for 1080. Now I could get, for 220 more, an 800 with a combo, 32 MB video, and 10 extra gigs.

Oh well, I can get a 6 Ghz G6 when I go to college
 
I had ordered my PowerBook two weeks ago. They sent me a message Monday saying it wouldn't get here until December. What they were really doing is stalling me to make me get the new ones. Well, I did, and still saved 300 dollars. Way to go Apple. You are the winbest. Can't wait till it comes in.
 
Ah. I think I'll get my Powerbook sooner than December!

First off....I think due to the thing about them coming in Mid November, I think we'll see them sooner than you think.

Secondly, I am a college student, and ordered mine today at 8:30. I've been walking around campus today and all my friends were like, what are you so excited about? I guess they didn't like the answer because they either gave me a wierd look or told me I was a nerd. I think its funny. Yeah, I'm a total nerd, but so is everyone who would post to a BB like this. And a proud nerd at that!

This is my first portable (unless you include my iPod and Visor Prism), but, unfortunately, not much of a wireless network on campus, but I think this will be a pimped out PB. The 1 Ghz and the 1Gb ram (not too hard to afford with the $40 double your memory deal).

Also, I didn't think any of that guy's questions were relevant except the Airport one. He was not asking about Airport 802.11g. He was talking about antenna for whoever it was that said it wasn't a airport upgrade.

Luckily, I was one of those people who stayed on track, so to speak, and never lost faith in Apple. Granted, they overdid what I was expecting, but only in one field: The Graphics Card.

On an unrelated topic: YOu would not believe how heavy eMacs get after the 20th one when you are lifting them. My job as Mac Tech at UCSC is anything but the steriotyped image of a lazy computer guy stratching his @$$ while staring at his screen and not moving for hours. :)
 
Does it have that feature with the name that I forgot, that saves battery life :p ? I forgot what it is called, but it monitors how much of the system resources are being used, and then it assignes that much resources, and doesn't use the rest, and in turn it saves battery life. It was something like that. Do the new tiBooks and iBooks have it?
 
Originally posted by scem0
Does it have that feature with the name that I forgot, that saves battery life :p ? I forgot what it is called, but it monitors how much of the system resources are being used, and then it assignes that much resources, and doesn't use the rest, and in turn it saves battery life. It was something like that. Do the new tiBooks and iBooks have it?
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Variable bus timing, right? Then the answer is no, not yet
 
Is the 7500 good enough for handling Jaguar and Quartz Extreme?

I just wanted an opinion from people who have used the TiBooks with the mobility 7500. Do you think this chip will help make the IBook less sluggish in Jaguar? In general, I'm curious as to whether or not these new Ibooks will be able to run jaguar nice and smoothly with no sluggishness. any thoughts and opinions are appreciated.
 
when do u think apple will re-design their laptop, iBook and PowerBook? it has been 2 years now, since Apple introduce this "design" for ice dual iBook
 
Re: Re: Powerbook Airport

Originally posted by Over Achiever


Yeah, the slits have been there since the 500 MHz Ti-books ;)
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My 400mhz TiBook has the slots. Airport reception sucks compared to my buddy's Pismo.
 
Re: Re: PB Battery Life

Originally posted by Over Achiever


How ironic, I just compared the two pdfs right before I logged on...

So does this mean if the newer battery was put into an older model, they you could run the older model (say the 667 MHz) for 6, 7, maybe 8 hours? Now that'd be cool.

Take notice: The 5 hour runtime refers to the 867 MHz in "ideal" conditions...the 1 GHz in normal conditions will probably only last 3-4 hours at most.
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funny, i have a now-ancient pentium 266 (with "mmx"!) laptop with a 14" screen (one of the first with said screensize) and a battery that weighs in like Tyson and it gets me at best around 1.75 hours... 3 to 4 hours in something as handsome and light as the new pb is really pretty impressive, considering the power of the thing.
 
Re: Re: Re: PB Battery Life

Originally posted by vixapphire
funny, i have a now-ancient pentium 266 (with "mmx"!) laptop with a 14" screen (one of the first with said screensize) and a battery that weighs in like Tyson and it gets me at best around 1.75 hours... 3 to 4 hours in something as handsome and light as the new pb is really pretty impressive, considering the power of the thing.
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I know how you feel. My 550 MHz AMD-K6-II barely gets over an hour of light use...less than 20 minutes at full CPU! So yeah, funny how technology changes...

Anyway, has anyone ever put a battery intended for a newer powerbook into an older, slower one? I'd imagine the battery life would go over the 5 hours apple expects...
 
Originally posted by ibigo
hello, newbie to the forum here...

anyone have an opinion on buying new the 1ghz pb's from the apple store versus online retailers? any particularly good deals out there for non-students? i see macmall and mac connection seem to be including things like printers, cases and extra batteries... what are the incentives for buying directly from the apple store?

cheers.
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None. Absolutely none. Have you ever seen it be cheaper to buy directly from the manufacturer than on of it's retailers?

Let's not forget that MacMall, ClubMac, etc. also doesn't charge you sales tax. And they sometiems throw in triple the ram for free. Many many extras.

And many people don't realize you can call them on the phone and haggle on top of all that... "hey man, I'm gettin all this stuff... can you throw in Norton?" Doesn't always work, but sometimes. If I know people make a commission, sometimes I just cut to the chase and ask flat out "Hi, I'm prepared to buy the new Powerbook from you right now. What's the best price you gave give me?"
 
Originally posted by bentmywookie
I just wanted an opinion from people who have used the TiBooks with the mobility 7500. Do you think this chip will help make the IBook less sluggish in Jaguar? In general, I'm curious as to whether or not these new Ibooks will be able to run jaguar nice and smoothly with no sluggishness. any thoughts and opinions are appreciated.
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the mobility 7500 with 32 MB is an awesome deal for an iBook. it's dated for a powerbook, but i promise you won't complain any with the Quartz extreme perfromance. it should be a dramatic improvement over the previous iBook's videao processor. in fact, it's not much worse than the 9000. don't worry at all:)

[edit] not that i have any real experience but in-store with the "old" powerbooks & radeon 7500, but... i think my opinion is valid. i was really surprised apple put them in iBooks even now-- they aren't economy laptop video processors. [/edit]
 
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