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PowerBooks in the Pipeline?

Originally posted by plinkoman
power has little to do with heat
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So the heat just appears from nowhere? Man, that's fantastic! Who knew that Apple had found a way around the second law of thermodynamics to mass-produce perpetual motion machines?

How could Apple Marketing miss touting this feature? Did they study at the Xerox PARC School of How to Invent Great Things and Forget to Market Them (eg Ethernet, GUI, mouse input devices)?

:p
 
Re: Re: Re: G5 Powerbooks

Originally posted by MasterMac
I'm with ya on that! This updated PB was supposed to be my graduation present (from high school), and as of now it's way overdue ;)
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Hell yea! The 15" al p-book is my graduation present too. Booya!

If it is somehow a G5 p-book i will cry tears of joy.
 
Sleep sounds good. I've gotten my hopes up before, but I trust ThinkSecret. (it's my HS graduation present too!)

I still want to know what that fourth thing is on powerpage....... :confused:

see you on the flip side of the 15" TiBook. :eek:
 
Re: Re: SHIZA!!!!!!!!!!


Nice interface notwithstanding, any bets on what Wintel machines will be doing by the time G5 PBs come out? Yeah yeah, of course they'll still look kind of clunky but when I PDF 300 page documents, I'm not looking to stroke my machine and drool at the design - I want it to wrap up as quickly as possible so I can go out and interact with human beings again...
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Although I do agree that this update will not be all that, your example is not good. Panthers PDF preview is supposed to be that much faster, so even 1 year old powerbooks will run circles around a new windows machine. For most other things this is not true of course.
 
Okay assuming the 15" comes out this week, does anyone know when the 12" is coming out? I'm sure its been mentioned 8 million times, but I'm not willing to drudge through all the posts to find the answer.

Also (according to O'Gradys), why does the first revision of the new powerbooks have NVidia cards if they plan on going back to ATI? Doesn't make any sense to me.
 
A few notes on the discussion concerning a possible G5 PowerBook (PPC970 processor).

First, the PPC970 can't use an L3 cache, it isn't designed that way. So even if you wanted one you couldn't have it (it isn't needed anyway, so the absence of an L3 cache is no big deal).

Second, a 1.2GHz PPC970 doesn't dissipate any more power than the existing 1.0GHz G4 (MPC7455). Also, the PPC970 can support dynamic clock-speed adjustments for power savings. In fact the dual 2.0GHz Power Mac G5 throttles back to just 1.3GHz when the system is under light load (this helps keep the system cool and significantly reduces power consumption).

Thus, given all of the above I believe that the current PPC970 could be used in a PowerBook G5 design (most likely at the 1.2GHz speed).

However, I don't expect that we'll see a G5-based PowerBook until first quarter of next year. Also, I don't expect PowerBook updates this week either, perhaps next week or at the Paris Apple Expo.
 
anyone know if the new 12" pb will have DVI finally?????? this is the only hang up on this powerbook... I can't hook it up to my 17" Studio Display!!!! (can't go from VGA to ADC)

also.. is backlit keyboard pretty much a definate??? on all 3 models???? (surely the 15 and new 17 but what about the 12???)
 
Originally posted by AllenPSU
Be carefull with the "your" part of that. I would hate someone reading this to think I actually bought the thing. I would never spend good money on a windows laptop!!! :)

As for its age, they replaced my old one about a month ago with this thing so it cannot be too old. It has a 2.0 GHz P4 (Or so the sticker says). It is fast but its picky. You can upset it by looking at it wrong. Comparing the three different ones I've had in the last year, its the fastest but the most unstable. The Panasonic Toughbook was the best of the bunch.

Still I would take a 800Mhz iBook over all of them.
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Yeah, I'd take the iBook as well.
 
Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
The L3 cache was one of those things Apple included simply because the G4 was so slow it needed an L3 cache to be useful at all.
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Wow, so the pMacs after 733mhz and pBooks after the DVI are the only useful Macs? I know of alot of pros that use machines that have G4s without L3 Caches.
 
Re: Re: SHIZA!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by hose this!
Yeah yeah, of course they'll still look kind of clunky but when I PDF 300 page documents, I'm not looking to stroke my machine and drool at the design - I want it to wrap up as quickly as possible so I can go out and interact with human beings again...
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Don't front like you have friends. (JK) Use whatever works for you.
 
has apple ever brought out any important products on a day other than tuesday? i mean is it a real possibility that if they arent released today they will be in the next few days?

i really hope they come out soon so i can get one for uni..
 
no more wait for new pb 15"

I just can't handle the pressure ! Aug. 19th is come and no new pbooks. I'm new to mac, never had one. Sorry guys just leave me behind as a casualty to the idea of new 15"pb. ok dell you win, i tried to fight you off, but i'm too weak.
 
bit impatient aren't we? remember its only jst gone 7am in america...they wouldn't announce it until at least after 9am.
 
Hopefully it isn't a PPC7455 r3.4, the timing is awfully close to a Motorola prouduct ship date for these -- seeing they just announced production shipment in a reasonable time frame for their use in the new laptops. :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by smartperson
7:54 AM EST and the Apple Store is still up...
Will we even see it go down?
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I think it is usually two hours more. And it could be later this week. That is the fun part, anything can come at anytime. But usually around 0800-1000 apple time tuesdays.
 
Originally posted by Don
has apple ever brought out any important products on a day other than tuesday? i mean is it a real possibility that if they arent released today they will be in the next few days?

i really hope they come out soon so i can get one for uni..
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Lol, I was in the same boat for the uni thing. I just couldn't risk missing getting mine shipped to my house AFTER I've already left on the plane to London...and if I waited for updates, that could've happed...so I bought now. Which brings me to an OT, which uni are you going to?


Originally posted by CrackedButter
How many hours are we in the UK ahead of the US?
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Well, you guys are 5 hours ahead of eastern time, currently 08:05
 
Originally posted by Don
kristianm, have there ever been any big exceptions to that rule?
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Not that I know, but hey, I'm just a MR newbie as well. I think Apple is trying to movie away from patterns though. So it could be anytime. Buy when you need, but have a look at macrumors buying guide.
 
im going to southampton for three years but it doesnt start until october 2nd so i have a bit more time to wait...unless all the new powerbooks are out of stock from the announcement :(

i guess if they arent released soon i'll get the superdrive 12" but i really want a 15" albook :)

so which college in the uni of london do you go to?
 
You know, as I think more about these PB threads, I begin to wonder why is this such an important topic to so many people? I'm not even in the market for a new computer (the wife would never allow it), and yet I still find myself checking the Apple store over and over...just to see if they finally did it.
 
I'll be going to LSE. We've a late start too (October 6th), but I've gotta be on the plane to get there Sept 26th.

Hehe, I wish you luck in getting your 15" Albook. It seems like it'll be pretty sweet if they can ever get their asses moving on getting it out.
 
Originally posted by beloit08
You know, as I think more about these PB threads, I begin to wonder why is this such an important topic to so many people? I'm not even in the market for a new computer (the wife would never allow it), and yet I still find myself checking the Apple store over and over...just to see if they finally did it.
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Maybe the powerbooks are a measure of Apple's vitality? Lol, ok, bad joke...

It's prolly just curiousity. You know they've gotta do it soon, but when, when? And maybe, just maybe, if the computer was really sweet your wife would fall in love w/it too and you could buy it? Hehe :)
 
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