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PowerBooks Still Delayed

You know, as long as you are willing to order from the Apple Store (online or brick-and-mortar), you can get a Powerbook 15". They are still building them, and can deliver them. Of course, this could change, like instantly, but I have seen enough people (physically and in forum-land) get them to convince me the channel is damp, but not yet bone-dry.

I think the 1GHz TiBook is still attractive if you can qualify for the EDU discount (especially if you are willing to wait 4-8 weeks to make an iPod an effective $69), or you can haggle the price down (this is possible, it doesn't hurt to try, at least). If you pay, say, $2200 for a SD 1GHz TiBook, that is still going to be at least $200 less than a new, 1.25GHz if they come out say, on the 16th. And you can flash your firmware to get the SD to 2x speed. Besides the mental anguish of not having the fastest G4 anymore, it is probably a fair tradeoff.

Of course, it helps if you like the looks of the TiBook better than the recycle-able Al. 😉
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Alienware IS a toy

Originally posted by joeyjojoe
I'm sorry but the XBox is total crap. If you like it, you might as well just buy a computer and play on that. Second, the controller was surely designed for an irate gorilla. That is all.
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Wow.. Such fire!! don't mince words, tell us how you really feel 😉 The controller has nothin' to do with the graphics.. Or are you experiencing any bad M$ memories?? Tell Dr. Bruja..
 
I'm sorry but the XBox is total crap. If you like it, you might as well just buy a computer and play on that. Second, the controller was surely designed for an irate gorilla. That is all.
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Personally, I like PlayStation2 better. But Xbox is not bad at all and its games are getting better all the time. And they do have smaller controllers, which was originally redesigned for Japanese market.

Going back to PowerBook issue, when do you guys think 15" Aluminium PowerBook will debut? Will it be G4? Or considering the delay, skip G4 all together and come out later with G5?
 
>Going back to PowerBook issue, when do you guys think 15" Aluminium PowerBook will debut? Will it be G4? Or considering the delay, skip G4 all together and come out later with G5?


read the last 3 months ranting & raving posts, in just about all the forums

year of the laptop? sheesh
 
I don't know... could it be possible for apple to release a g5 powerbook this soon, maybe.. but certainly not a 3 different g5 models. I could see them updating the 15" powerbook as a g5, without bringing updates to the rest of the lineup. I doubt it though, I think we're going to have a g4 revision in september and a g5 in january. 😕
 
Originally posted by AidenShaw
Funny, but actually Dell uses Loctite on its case screws....
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My Dell has lost so many screws its pretty dead right now. And I am very tired of it.

The other thing I'm tired of? Apple dragging their feet!! I can't stand this waiting!!! <insert maniacal pant here>

Isn't it about time for something to come out? Or can someone point me at some other solution. I waited and waited and now I'm at school sans useful laptop. What to do, what to do...
-rpc
 
Originally posted by Bruja
Perhaps 2004 coud be "The Year of A laptop" LOL .
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Come to think of it, maybe that's what Steve said back then, "This is the year of _a_ laptop", not "year of _the_ laptop".

Like when Armstrong landed on the moon and said "This is one small step for a man and one giant leap for mankind" but static made it sound like "This is one small step for man" etc.
 
Originally posted by ewinemiller
I have to agree, my father has one of those 10.5 inch Vaios from a few years back. It's awesome, weighs about as much as a thick paperback, wafer thin, relatively fast, battery lasts forever, fits in a purse, glovebox of your car, or small bag without a problem. I wouldn't use it to type a thesis, but it's a great traveling notebook. I wish Apple sold something in that segment.
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You're talking about the PictureBooks. They are not quite "standard issue" Sonys. They are simply what trickles down into the North Americas from Japan. Much better computers than the Vaios most of us here have had to deal with.

As for Apple making a unit of considerable size: here, here. I don't see why Apple couldn't slap a low-voltage G3 into a chassis of that size.

I've lugged my hot 15" G4 around on a 4 month business trip through Europe and would have gladly replaced it with a G3 of that size had that been an option.

IBM all the way, baby.
 
Finally gave in...

I finally gave in an ordered a custom build 12" Powerbook.

It finally hit me that I could get a 12" Powerbook at $400 less than its initial release price with my eduction discount. That is more than 20% off the original price.

I added an Airport Extreme card, and went with 640MB RAM and 60GB HD to bridge any gap an update might create.

I alsoy decided against a superdrive because of the 1X burn speed. Instead I put a Pioneer A05 in my Quicksilver and upgraded its harddrive. (it cost less and got more bang with the DVD burner).

For everyone's information, the ship date is NLT 9/18/03. That is 14 days from the date of order (10 working days). I will let everyone know if there are any delays to that time line.
 
In a quandry...

So, my 18 month old TiBook is in a state of shock. Its disk is nearly fubar'ed, and should be replaced, the trackpad has died on me, and the paint work looks like something from the Night Of The Living Dead.

So, why not just send it back to Apple under AppleCare? Well, coz its my primary work machine. I have a clunky G3 desktop, but that's not going to cut it. So I want to buy a new 15", and send this one back and have it as a backup.

But there is NO WAY, I am about to by a 15" laptop at the moment. No blue tooth, processor outdated, no uber airport.. I mean why would I want to buy a machine that is on the edge of its shelf life. Knock 1k of the the price and I might buy... as it is I am very tempted by the 12" iBook to be honest. Anyone got a benchmark vs a TiBook 15" -

Winton
 
Are you kidding me???

So, Im reading all of your posts on my G3 i-Book, thinking "Man, I can't wait for the new Powerbook updates" when my i-Book takes a dump on me. The screen went completely black, and never came back. $700 to fix it.....yeah like THAT"S going to happen. I can't beleive it!!! I've been hanging onto this slow 600mhz G3 for 6 months waiting for the new 15" AL and this thing takes a dump on me NOW??? ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Soooo......just ordered my new (old) Ti-Book.

Another one bites the dust..........
 
Had another dream...

Had another dream last night that Steve Jobs unveiled an Apple XBox in Paris.

Still waiting,

peej
🙂
 
Re: Are you kidding me???

Originally posted by songofthewoods
So, Im reading all of your posts on my G3 i-Book, thinking "Man, I can't wait for the new Powerbook updates" when my i-Book takes a dump on me. The screen went completely black, and never came back. $700 to fix it.....yeah like THAT"S going to happen. I can't beleive it!!! I've been hanging onto this slow 600mhz G3 for 6 months waiting for the new 15" AL and this thing takes a dump on me NOW??? ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Soooo......just ordered my new (old) Ti-Book.

Another one bites the dust..........
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MacBidouille has been hinting tonight at new products on monday. They don't say more than that, except that a rumour they had printed recently (my guess is: PBs not before mid-Oct) was possibly wrong...
In all likelihood, even if you ordered a PB today, you will be able change/cancel it on monday.
But maybe it's another one of the long line of (PBs tomorrow.../...unlucky). Who knows.
 
from AppleInsider

Apple may announce and start taking orders for a revamped line of PowerBook G4s as early as next week, one source tells AppleInsider. The tip comes amongst recent recent rumors that have pin-pointed Motorola for failing to deliver sufficient quantities of the PowerPC 7457 to support a successful product launch.

According to the source, Apple management feels that supplies of the faster chips are now ample and the new units could full-fill backorders and be shipping in quantity by mid to late September. Included in the new breed of PowerBooks is said to be a 1.25 GHz aluminum 15" model that sports a back-lit keyboard, ports on the side (as opposed to the rear), and an updated track pad and mouse button.

Sources could not confirm a date or time for the official announcement, but did mention September 9th or 10th as likely candidates. It should be noted that the deployment schedule for the aforementioned units has slipped several times over the past month, while channel inventory of several configurations has remained depleted. Meanwhile, the initial packaging and marketing material for the new portables was said to have been completed over a month ago
 
At this point, they should just forget G4 15" Aluminium PowerBook altogether and get their act together and push up the release date for G5 15" Aluminium PowerBook.
 
Why is alu cooler than titanium all of a sudden? Isn't titanium the sort of thing people make space ships out of?

Oh well, I reckon it should be magnesium. My little Vaio is magnesium and a lovely shade of purple (presumably the varnish to stop it exploding when wet). With different colored varnish, there's a whole new power-iBook range just waiting to be invented in California...
 
Here's a thought...

Maybe Apple's saving the keynote for something Completely new! Say, what's going on with that iPhone trademark, eh? And all those other whispers of new products. Maybe Steve hasn't completely given Motorola the proverbial kit-kat chunky, just their microprocessor department. Maybe they're helping build the iPhone!!!
What I'm saying is that, however far-fetched it may sound, the focus may be on something other than the (in my humble opinion undoubtable) slight speed markup for the G4 PBs. Something new and exciting. I'm probably wrong, but I can dream, can't I? 😉

- Reiginko
 
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