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What about new powerbooks?
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titanium can be annodized into black or red, but with varying results
steve jobs wanted the titanium to be black but the yield of annodization to black was not cost effective
either red or black would look really cool
steve jobs wanted the titanium to be black but the yield of annodization to black was not cost effective
either red or black would look really cool
Black? too PC (and I don't mean politically correct)
Red? Blue? I dunno, the flavored imac days are behind us now.
Titanium's nice, and maybe a thin gold stripe would be the ticket for the "bling! bling!" crowd, or other color stripes to denote which model it is.
Oh, and to Buffsldr, don't need the power of a powerbook, just a zippy laptop to send emails and make short imovies? iBook is exactly the machine you described.
Red? Blue? I dunno, the flavored imac days are behind us now.
Titanium's nice, and maybe a thin gold stripe would be the ticket for the "bling! bling!" crowd, or other color stripes to denote which model it is.
Oh, and to Buffsldr, don't need the power of a powerbook, just a zippy laptop to send emails and make short imovies? iBook is exactly the machine you described.
I think...
Black would be awesome. Think of that shiney, lusty, black titanium metal on a powerbook
Nice white apple logo...white lettered keyboard, 14in screen, G4, and were set!
Black would be awesome. Think of that shiney, lusty, black titanium metal on a powerbook
Nice white apple logo...white lettered keyboard, 14in screen, G4, and were set!
hey, spg, long time no see!
black does seem a little pc like to me also, it was steve jobs' concept that he called for and word is that it took him a little while to accept the titanium color...i am glad that i wasn't the person to try to tell steve black titanim would be "too expensive"
From the desk of Steve Jobs,
Memo
All Apple employees re: Dress Code.
HR dept will be emailing you a request for your mock turtleneck and jean sizes, these are due by end of work Friday. Beginning Monday all Apple team members will become more efficient and color coordinated to the new line of black anodized tiBooks.
your pal,
-Steve.
PS: Don't tell anyone or you will be killed. Especially those macrumors guys.
Memo
All Apple employees re: Dress Code.
HR dept will be emailing you a request for your mock turtleneck and jean sizes, these are due by end of work Friday. Beginning Monday all Apple team members will become more efficient and color coordinated to the new line of black anodized tiBooks.
your pal,
-Steve.
PS: Don't tell anyone or you will be killed. Especially those macrumors guys.
Hey Jef, back to your original name? I was out of commision for a while with a broken finger, and then wouldn't you know it I actually had work to do. Now I can go back to going broke donating $.02 at a time....woohoo!
i went back to jef when mischief and eyelikeart went into the high postings...especially eye...i can't compete...i am just on year three of being a network technician/engineer en route to being a network administrator in a couple of years, and then if i am lucky, i could transfer my pc skills and be a mac tech one day...even for less money...it is just that the only way to become a paid mac tech is find someone who knows the trade and will show you...and right now the only mac tech i know who knows enough who lives around me is totally burned out with high tech and the whole topic makes that person cringe...i still hope he will show interest one day and take me under his wing
man now we are one week or so before a macworld and the tibook fuzz is out of control.
my personal wish list:
-733-867mhz velocity (brumm brumm) engines
-ddr ram, with as standard support for 1gb ddr ram
-new geforce4 mobile gpu
-some 'support device' for apples own screens
-two firewire outputs
that's it, as far as i know the gforce4 mobile edition should be done by now and it's hightime to introduce ddr to the mac. as for two firewire outputs, aye the old powerbooks had 'em!
and the whole crap about "no new cpu's", the bloke most likely ment no G5 chips, or even, 800-900 G4 chips already excists right?
if that comes at tokyo i'm a buy buy buy
my personal wish list:
-733-867mhz velocity (brumm brumm) engines
-ddr ram, with as standard support for 1gb ddr ram
-new geforce4 mobile gpu
-some 'support device' for apples own screens
-two firewire outputs
that's it, as far as i know the gforce4 mobile edition should be done by now and it's hightime to introduce ddr to the mac. as for two firewire outputs, aye the old powerbooks had 'em!
and the whole crap about "no new cpu's", the bloke most likely ment no G5 chips, or even, 800-900 G4 chips already excists right?
if that comes at tokyo i'm a buy buy buy
Firewire2 and 2 firewire ports... Firewire2 hasn't been introduced into too many things yet, in fact I haven't seen it in anything personally. 2 firewire ports? You don't really need them as much as you think. Firewire works very well chained together especially since every firewire device except the iPod and DV camera have two or three ports.
I'd happily trade a firewire port for another USB port since very few of those devices have more than one plug.
I'd happily trade a firewire port for another USB port since very few of those devices have more than one plug.
In a few spare (bored) moments at work I made a very simple animated GIF of a TiBook turning metalic black and then metalic red. But the "Browse..." button has gone from the "Post Reply" window and the "Forum Rules" box tells me "You may not post attachments", so I can't attach it... Oh well, back to work.
Hypothesis
I don't believe there is any statement you could make in these forums, no matter how humorous, impossible or downright absurd, such that you wouldn't have at least one person take you seriously.
I don't believe there is any statement you could make in these forums, no matter how humorous, impossible or downright absurd, such that you wouldn't have at least one person take you seriously.
Let me start off...
Mac_User, to correct you, the Titanium G4 has a 15.2 inch wide screen.
Since so many of you happen to talk about color codes for the new Titanium, a solid, non-metallic black would be too much of a PC color. A metallic, reflective black, dark red, or dark blue would go nicely, and it would go well with the high tech line of computers, while the cheaper boys (the iMac G4 and the iBook G3) keep their white attire. Eventually, if this is so, we may see new Powermacs sporting a reflective, or darker, or both, outer cover.
Firewire first came out on the Powermac G3, 13 months before any portable computer had Firewire. (If you need a reference, try using Mactracker, created by Ian Page. It is free.) I don't see Firewire 2 on any portable computer until 2003. I hate to disappoint, but that is how I feel.
________________________
Bad PC Advertiser: All you need to upload pictures from your camera is a PC and some expensive software.
KC: Well I have a Mac, and the software I use is free. Does that make me better than you?
Mac_User, to correct you, the Titanium G4 has a 15.2 inch wide screen.
Since so many of you happen to talk about color codes for the new Titanium, a solid, non-metallic black would be too much of a PC color. A metallic, reflective black, dark red, or dark blue would go nicely, and it would go well with the high tech line of computers, while the cheaper boys (the iMac G4 and the iBook G3) keep their white attire. Eventually, if this is so, we may see new Powermacs sporting a reflective, or darker, or both, outer cover.
Firewire first came out on the Powermac G3, 13 months before any portable computer had Firewire. (If you need a reference, try using Mactracker, created by Ian Page. It is free.) I don't see Firewire 2 on any portable computer until 2003. I hate to disappoint, but that is how I feel.
________________________
Bad PC Advertiser: All you need to upload pictures from your camera is a PC and some expensive software.
KC: Well I have a Mac, and the software I use is free. Does that make me better than you?
I Caved!
Like many of you, I've been holding out for an update to the PowerBook too. That is, until I walked into one of my local computer stores today and saw the low-end iBook on sale for $799. Unbelievable. Granted, a 500 MHz iBook ain't gonna fly like a 667 (or higher) PowerBook, but the ability to break out of the office for a while and take my work home or to the local coffee house...how could I pass that up?
So I caved. For less than the price of one TiBook I got two shiny new iBooks and tossed a bunch of extra ram for good measure.
At least now I won't feel so sketchy about leaving some hot new $3000 machine that some jack*ss might someday walk away with.
Like many of you, I've been holding out for an update to the PowerBook too. That is, until I walked into one of my local computer stores today and saw the low-end iBook on sale for $799. Unbelievable. Granted, a 500 MHz iBook ain't gonna fly like a 667 (or higher) PowerBook, but the ability to break out of the office for a while and take my work home or to the local coffee house...how could I pass that up?
So I caved. For less than the price of one TiBook I got two shiny new iBooks and tossed a bunch of extra ram for good measure.
At least now I won't feel so sketchy about leaving some hot new $3000 machine that some jack*ss might someday walk away with.
Re: Re: I Caved!
A: One for me, the other for my girlfriend, who works (designs) with me.
And as long as I have the soapbox for the moment, I have a message for Steve Jobs...
Hey, you should have seen the mad rush today (mostly first-time Mac buyers) for those $799 12-inch iBooks. Seriously, I know the rumor mill has you guys converting all iBooks to 14s, but maybe consider keeping at least one 12-inch on the product line for that (convert) demographic. From what I saw today, they were on those iBooks like flies on doo-doo. Not stinky brown doo-doo. Beautiful smelling white lucite doo-doo.
I don't want to go on a rant here Steve, but the 12s are a lot more portable and 'cool' than 14s. If we want a bigger screen, we'll shoot for the TiBook. And were you aware that the friggen screen on the 14 is too heavy and won't sit still when disturbed by the slightest turbulence, or uneven road? Kind of a bummer if you have to use it while travelling.
As a pro user, I love Apple, but...sometimes I get that weird feeling, like it's '95-'96 again. We need to stay on track.
Okay, I'm done.
A: One for me, the other for my girlfriend, who works (designs) with me.
And as long as I have the soapbox for the moment, I have a message for Steve Jobs...
Hey, you should have seen the mad rush today (mostly first-time Mac buyers) for those $799 12-inch iBooks. Seriously, I know the rumor mill has you guys converting all iBooks to 14s, but maybe consider keeping at least one 12-inch on the product line for that (convert) demographic. From what I saw today, they were on those iBooks like flies on doo-doo. Not stinky brown doo-doo. Beautiful smelling white lucite doo-doo.
I don't want to go on a rant here Steve, but the 12s are a lot more portable and 'cool' than 14s. If we want a bigger screen, we'll shoot for the TiBook. And were you aware that the friggen screen on the 14 is too heavy and won't sit still when disturbed by the slightest turbulence, or uneven road? Kind of a bummer if you have to use it while travelling.
As a pro user, I love Apple, but...sometimes I get that weird feeling, like it's '95-'96 again. We need to stay on track.
Okay, I'm done.
wow, you scored big time
my wife loves to do her portable graphics from our ibook and from her g4 at work...she has an old 450 or 400 g4 and the new ibooks we tried out were almost as fast to her and the new ibooks, 500 and 600, have larger hard drives than the first generation g4 towers...and the ibooks are a whole lot lighter ;-)
it was once thought that one could not run their own business with an ibook doing graphics, but i see more and more pros using ibooks without the need for a powerbook, but there are some who absolutely need the powerbook but i have not met any except for video/audio side techs...this one guy at the local mac club edits the local news and some radio shows with his powerbook g3 which i think runs 250 mhz, or maybe 292? mhz and i see the results on the news...it's so cool
i don't know this line of work, but does the new ibook do video out?...if it does, then i could see my friend doing the local news editing with an ibook...he uses adobe software and final cut pro
my wife loves to do her portable graphics from our ibook and from her g4 at work...she has an old 450 or 400 g4 and the new ibooks we tried out were almost as fast to her and the new ibooks, 500 and 600, have larger hard drives than the first generation g4 towers...and the ibooks are a whole lot lighter ;-)
it was once thought that one could not run their own business with an ibook doing graphics, but i see more and more pros using ibooks without the need for a powerbook, but there are some who absolutely need the powerbook but i have not met any except for video/audio side techs...this one guy at the local mac club edits the local news and some radio shows with his powerbook g3 which i think runs 250 mhz, or maybe 292? mhz and i see the results on the news...it's so cool
i don't know this line of work, but does the new ibook do video out?...if it does, then i could see my friend doing the local news editing with an ibook...he uses adobe software and final cut pro
The thrust of my work is print and web, and I held out for a long time waiting for the next TiBook upgrade. But when push comes to shove, portable flat screens just don't deliver the same precise color (or real estate) I get on my 22" Sony CRT in the office.
As an art director/designer, a laptop is just a crutch whenever I feel the need to break out of the office for a while, or take my work home. Moving around from place to place subjects you to a multitude of uncontrolled lighting conditions and varying colors. In the end, I want to see my work on the CRT under controlled light.
I'd hate to lose ANY laptop to theft, but given the potential of losing an $800 laptop versus losing a $3000 one, I think I can learn to be quite happy hanging with the iBook.
As an art director/designer, a laptop is just a crutch whenever I feel the need to break out of the office for a while, or take my work home. Moving around from place to place subjects you to a multitude of uncontrolled lighting conditions and varying colors. In the end, I want to see my work on the CRT under controlled light.
I'd hate to lose ANY laptop to theft, but given the potential of losing an $800 laptop versus losing a $3000 one, I think I can learn to be quite happy hanging with the iBook.