AL-FAMOUS said:
you need to get on that asap as windows is a pile
I ditched Windows long time ago
. Well, I still have in on my computer for occasional game or two.
i now know this more than ever as i just sold my powerbook (newest 15inch) and have resorted to using windows xp... hmmm the darn thing has got 18 viruses already and stuff keeps popping up on the screen, 128 spywares detected. the keyboard is giving me severe cramp in my right arm.... it takes about 14 minutes to start up and get to a useable state.. other than that its great
Yep, you are absolutely right. Those are the things I mention to my family-members who are still stuck at Windows.
you dont know how much you need os x untill you use it for a month and then use a pc again (no windows lovers giving me a hard time please. and yes i do use anti virus stuff and spy bot stuff... pah)
Well, I have used OS X a bit (at stores, and a friend of mine has a 12" Powerbook). And while it's a fine OS (order of magnitude better than Windows is!), it still can't replace my favourite. But I can definitely see why so many people swear by it
. As to the hardware it runs on... It's certainly as good as it gets, espesially the laptops!
the video card and faster hardrive only give marginal almost unnoticeable increases, a worthless exercise?
Depending on what you do with the machine. They wont help everywhere, that's true.
i however dont believe for a second that steve p. jobs will get up at a huge event and say WOW GUYS look what we got for ya!!!
you are right, he wont turn it in to a humungous event. He will mention it and show the differences between the old and the new, but that's it.
in reality your just guessing/opinion based on what they can/cant get in there, apple continually come up with improved ways of cooling (air flow techniques ect )
I said that they can't put dual-core G4 in there because dual-core G4 is not available yet.
Related to this: If they can get thermals of dual-core G4 right, I would rather see it in the PB than a G5. DC-G4 would have the precious faster FSB, and it would let Apple differentiate iBook and PB by other means besides Mhz. PB gets the dual-core, iBook gets the single-core.
As of today... It seems that the way to get faster FSB in there is to move the system to G5. And, like I said, that would not give any benefits in the end.
as for the FSB. having a large fsb is an advantage whichever way you look at it
Sure it is, assuming that the CPU and the rest of the system around it is otherwise identical. But boosting the FSB might mean compromises elsewhere. Apple could put G5 in PB right now. But it would run at about 1GHz (my guesstimate). And it would therefore be slower than the current G4-PB is. Faster FSB would not help one bit there. Is 1Ghz G5 with 500Mhz bus faster than 1.66Ghz G4 with 166Mhz bus is?
correct its still a good solid chip, but still its old and can be improved apon (dual core/ g5 technology, g5 is a FP powerhouse)
Well, it has better Altivec-implementation than G5 does (Altivec on G5 was more like an afterthought), and it has better thermal-characteristics. Dual-core is on it's way here.
marginal difference (7200prm would be a good thing)
yeah but t should be 7200rpm
7200rpm eats too much power.
if i could be bothered to find it would likk you to barefeats wheree they show you just how little improvement this upgrade gives! makes a small difference for gamers but thats it
And G5 would make the system slower, not faster.
hardly a vital thing for the powerbook to have
Not vital, true. But still, it's a "nice to have"-feature.
you are, of course intitled to your opinion, but they dont change the facts of the matter. they in no way are significant, a 9800 mobile would be significant
That might require re-designing the circuit-board and the surrounding system. Bumbing the CPU-speed does not require that. I would guess that they will re-design the board when they make more substantial changes to the system. They can't make those changes now, since there's very little they can do (no "next-generation" CPU's that are suitable are available yet).
Which are not available yet. In the summer, maybe, but not yet.
all significant... messing about a little is an improvement but such a tiny one that uprading from the 1.25 is not really worth it
Why would you need to upgrade, 1.25GHz is still plenty fast. I don't upgrade my 2.2Ghz A64 to 2.4Ghz A64 either.
i take back all my disagreements because you are obviously someone high up in apple to know what they can and cant do and what is and is not ready
I'm not "high up in Apple", I just use common sense. G5 in PB does not work right now. They managed to get in the iMac, but that doesn't mean they can get it in the PB (which is half as thick) as well. They can't use dual-core G4 because it's not available yet. This is not about what Apple can or can't do, this is about what Freescale is capable of doing. And they are not capable of delivering dual-core G4 yet, so that's it. IBM IS capable of delivering G5, but it's thermal-characteristics make it REALLY difficult to cram it in to PB. They were able to cram it in the iMac, but it's twice as thick as PB is (and that's without a keyboard) and it has several fans to cool it off.
Really, I'm not disparaging Apple here. There's very little they can do with chips that do not exist yet. And G5 runs so hot that cramming it in PB in such way that it actually outperforms a G4-PB is very, very difficult.
