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New PowerBooks - Finally

Congrats Cress! and Toeknee!!!!

After you've finished wiping up all of that drool from the floor and actually used them a bit, please give us your impressions and some benchmarks if you care to. Then you can how much faster they are compared to my old TiBook 500 :D

Phil, did yours come yet?

:cool:

MM
 
I ordered the 12" with only a 40gig disk because I wanted to swap in my own 60 7,200rpm disk. But I'm thinking now, can I actually do this? Anyone know? Should I cancel the order and get an 80 gig disk put in?
 
Does anyone else find it really annoying that Apple advertises products as being available to "ship immediately", but when they say ship immediately they dont mean ship to the customer, they mean ship to the distribution center? I mean I guess technically they are being honest, but it just seems like when you get an email notifying you that your order has shipped, its kind of assumed that it's being shipped TO YOU, not to some intermediate location.
 
Originally posted by somecows
Does anyone else find it really annoying that Apple advertises products as being available to "ship immediately", but when they say ship immediately they dont mean ship to the customer, they mean ship to the distribution center? I mean I guess technically they are being honest, but it just seems like when you get an email notifying you that your order has shipped, its kind of assumed that it's being shipped TO YOU, not to some intermediate location.
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Actually, it does ship to you. The fact that it ships to you by way of Chicago is merely an inefficient but necessary complication. It's not exactly economical to ship it directly from Taiwan to you.
 
Originally posted by somecows
Does anyone else find it really annoying that Apple advertises products as being available to "ship immediately", but when they say ship immediately they dont mean ship to the customer, they mean ship to the distribution center? I mean I guess technically they are being honest, but it just seems like when you get an email notifying you that your order has shipped, its kind of assumed that it's being shipped TO YOU, not to some intermediate location.
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I totally agree with you. I thought when they sent me the email saying it had shipped that it was coming to me. i didn't find out until I read on here that it actually meant they were coming from Taiwan to the distribution center. I called Apple and confirmed that was the case and told the guy it would have been nice if the email they sent me would have stated that fact. I understand that they have to do it this way, but the way my email looked, it made it look like it was shipped from IL that day instead of Taiwan.
 
Mine's in. Spent last couple of hours transferring 34 gig of stuff from my trusty ol' Pismo on this this sleek machine (15 1.25 stock).

Oh sooo coool (okay, slightly warm, but not as hot as some people have suggested).
 
is it just me...

These new 'books are REALLY quiet and VERY cool running!!!

Plus, battery life is amazing, if you ask me.. I've been using mine all afternoon and I finally ran it down and now I'm recharging it.. hopefully it'll be calibrated now. :cool:
 
My PB 17" 5400 rpm drive arrived @ 2:30 pm - it is gorgeous! Slick packaging job, doesn't seem as big as I thought it would (a good thing). Playing radio via iTunes/Airport while I work...the speakers are pretty darn good.

I'll Xbench the drive later...
 
Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Actually, it does ship to you. The fact that it ships to you by way of Chicago is merely an inefficient but necessary complication. It's not exactly economical to ship it directly from Taiwan to you.
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Right, I totally agree that it's more economical to do it that way, I'm just saying they could make that fact more explicit. Most everything you purchase on-line originates in a location other than where it ships from. If I buy a book on amazon, the book presumably arrived at the amazon warehouse in a bulk shipment from the factory where it was printed. But generally when amazon says something has shipped that means it has shipped from their warehouse to my home, not that it has shipped from the factory to their warehouse. (I'm not saying amazon is so great, I'm just using it as an example.) My computer was shipped, along with 612 other machines, from Taiwan to Chicago. Now I need to wait for it to be unpacked, sorted, sent out again, etc. It just adds on a lot of extra time. Which is fine, I just wish they would warn people about it before hand. I love apple and I know I'll be real happy once the machine arrives, but I am consistently annoyed by this type of stuff. I guess all companies probably engage in it, though.
 
Here it is, Xbench Drive Test on a PB G4 17" 1.33, 5400 rpm drive, all networking off, Energy Saver at Maximum Performance:

Results 79.61
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.1
System Version 10.2.7 (6R55)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerBook5,3
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.33 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.33 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV350M10
Drive Type Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00
Disk Test 79.61
Sequential 94.20
Uncached Write 90.21 35.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 82.00 32.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 135.57 21.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.69 34.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 68.93
Uncached Write 59.72 0.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 70.67 15.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.22 0.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 78.83 16.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
This is very frustrating.

My 15" 1.25G still not arrived. Ordered on 19th.... it was due to ship on the 22nd....then 23rd and now it's due on the 3rd October......

Here I sit with my ipod, printer, AE base station, but no computer!

I don't suppose ringing them up and 'giving them hell' would help get it to me any quicker - anyone tried it?
 
Originally posted by somecows
If I buy a book on amazon, the book presumably arrived at the amazon warehouse in a bulk shipment from the factory where it was printed. But generally when amazon says something has shipped that means it has shipped from their warehouse to my home, not that it has shipped from the factory to their warehouse.
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With Apple, once it gets to the warehouse, it's immediately sent off to you.

BTW...I GOT MY POWERBOOK!!!! So this is the last MacRumors posting from my iMac 400 ever.
 
This is my first-ever MacRumors posting from my PowerBook G4.

It's great! Keys are removable and replacable. Have to get used to the keyboard though. Ran the battery down.

Screen is real nice. LCD baby! A big change from an iMac 400.

If I had a car and some friends, I'd take this baby wardriving.
 
Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
This is my first-ever MacRumors posting from my PowerBook G4.

It's great! Keys are removable and replacable. Have to get used to the keyboard though. Ran the battery down.

Screen is real nice. LCD baby! A big change from an iMac 400.

If I had a car and some friends, I'd take this baby wardriving.
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Congrats Phil!!!

:D

Still waiting, but getting closer... Hopefully tomorrow:)

:cool:

MM
 
Battery

After a 10 year hiatus, I've just reinserted myself into the Mac realm with my new PB. However, I'm having battery problems. I started it up and ran the battery down in about 2 hrs. I recharged it fully and I only had an estimated 1:45 minutes estimated life. Are there some tricks for saving battery life?
 
DEAD PIXEL! oh no

yeah so im here working on my PB and i noticed that about half way down the right side about an inch and a half from the border i have a dead pixel... what a load! I'll just call up the apple guys tomorrow while at work and see how long it would take to get the screen replaced... has anyone else had a problem with the display latch like mine or is mine the only one? On a lighter note... I can't believe how light and quiet this thing is, its uber great! It gets a little toasty but what do u expect from all that firepower underneath.
 
Mine got searing hot playing UT2003 (to impess my friend with the graphics capability, of course--why else would I play silly games? :) ).

And no dead pixels.

Between my iPod and my PowerBook, I'm the pimp of my dorm.
 
I have been looking at these boards for a while, waiting to see if I should buy a PowerBook or not. Well, after the Keynote address last Monday night, I decided to take the plunge and become a Mac user. I just recieved my 15 inch PowerBook 1.25 Ghz yesterday and I LOVE IT! I don't know much about the technical specs or anything like that, but all I know is that it is easy to use, beautiful, and fast.

The light up keyboard is pretty cool, although it is a little overrated, I think. The battery life doesn't seem to last anywhere near the advertised 4.5 hours, it estimates that at full battery there are 2 hours left.

Anyway, while I am extatic to be a Mac convert (I've had PCs all my life), the one thing that irritates me is the way that they shipped my equipment. I paid for 2 day shipping, and ordered on the 18th (a Thursday). Although my PowerBook and iPod both shipped on Friday, 19th, I didn't recieve my PowerBook until this Wednesday, and my iPod hasn't even reached the States yet (as they both shipped from Taiwan or China.) Although Apple refunded my expedited shipping charge, I still am really upset with they way it is being handled. Airborne doesn't even know when my iPod will get to the States - which is rediculous for a shipping company.

Anyway, sorry to make it negative at the end, but I LOVE MY POWERBOOK!
 
Originally posted by somecows
If I buy a book on amazon, the book presumably arrived at the amazon warehouse in a bulk shipment from the factory where it was printed. But generally when amazon says something has shipped that means it has shipped from their warehouse to my home, not that it has shipped from the factory to their warehouse. (I'm not saying amazon is so great, I'm just using it as an example.)
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Actually most of the products I have purchased at Amazon have been drop shipped. This means they were shipped directly from the production facility. Amazon has very little storage facilities. That's why they can afford to sell things cheaper. They just say it's shipping from there warehouse but it's actually coming from the manufacturers warehouse.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Actually most of the products I have purchased at Amazon have been drop shipped. This means they were shipped directly from the production facility. Amazon has very little storage facilities. That's why they can afford to sell things cheaper. They just say it's shipping from there warehouse but it's actually coming from the manufacturers warehouse.
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Well like I said in my post, I was just using amazon as an example. Their actual shipping practices don't have much to do with my point, which is that if apple is going to say that your order has "shipped", they should mean that your individual machine has shipped from the factory/warehouse to your home, not that a mass shipment of machines has arrived in the U.S. and is ready to be distributed. Regardless of where amazon ships things from, they still go directly from point a to point b. Or maybe they don't, but they SHOULD. That's my point.
 
Re: DEAD PIXEL! oh no

Originally posted by Toeknee
yeah so im here working on my PB and i noticed that about half way down the right side about an inch and a half from the border i have a dead pixel... what a load! I'll just call up the apple guys tomorrow while at work and see how long it would take to get the screen replaced... has anyone else had a problem with the display latch like mine or is mine the only one? On a lighter note... I can't believe how light and quiet this thing is, its uber great! It gets a little toasty but what do u expect from all that firepower underneath.
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I don't mean to open the "dead pixel" can of worms, but if it's less than 10 dead pixels (estimate), Apple will laugh at you. It would be wonderful if all you had to do was simply mail it back to Apple and they would happily replace your entire screen because of a single dead pixel...but it ain't gonna happen.

You have to live with it. That's the luck of the draw (or unluck).

Isn't it strange how Windows laptops almost never have a single dead pixel, but Apple displays are like a craps shoot?@#
 
Re: DEAD PIXEL! oh no

Originally posted by Toeknee
yeah so im here working on my PB and i noticed that about half way down the right side about an inch and a half from the border i have a dead pixel... what a load! I'll just call up the apple guys tomorrow while at work and see how long it would take to get the screen replaced... has anyone else had a problem with the display latch like mine or is mine the only one? On a lighter note... I can't believe how light and quiet this thing is, its uber great! It gets a little toasty but what do u expect from all that firepower underneath.
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Read up on the massage technique. You could quite likely get that pixel to work. Apple will not do anything for just one or even a half-dozen pixels if they aren't grouped together.

No Apple is not the only one with this problem. PCs have the same problem.
 
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