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Widescreen iBooks?
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I can't see Apple dropping the iBook line for the foreseeable future. There's a definite difference between the iBook and the PowerBook. I think it's important - and obviously so do they. I like the distinction between pro-sumer and consumer markets. It also means that it there's an affordable laptop in the lineup. A 13" widescreen Powerbook, which is what you're suggesting, would cost too much for the people they're aiming the £699 iBook at.corywoolf said:
this is the first good news i have heard in a long time... i guess there is light at the end of the tunnel
Widescreens would very much make this worth the wait and right after my rave about the anger apple was driving me into with their failure to update ibooks 
Having trouble loading apple.com on my fast internet connection here. Perhaps they are updating the home page right now?
Widescreen <12"
I was at compusa over the weekend and they had a white laptop with a similar finish to an ibook but was widescreen and <12" running what looked like XP. I would dump my 12" in a second for something a little smaller. Widescreen ibook mini pretty please.
P.S. Both things I bought at compusa that day had to be returned because they were junk. The Belkin KVM switch worked haphazardly and the video resolution was poor. And the cheap memory I bought was bunk.
I was at compusa over the weekend and they had a white laptop with a similar finish to an ibook but was widescreen and <12" running what looked like XP. I would dump my 12" in a second for something a little smaller. Widescreen ibook mini pretty please.
P.S. Both things I bought at compusa that day had to be returned because they were junk. The Belkin KVM switch worked haphazardly and the video resolution was poor. And the cheap memory I bought was bunk.
Grrrrr Apple just get on with it this would make me very happy. There are a lot of students buying laptops right now for college and its not going to be cool if you don't update the ibook line soon. I had been using some new emacs and old G4s/G3s for yearbook during school but I am ready to switch over to mac I am just waiting for an update people.
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You can control basically everything in your house from a touch panel- lighting, HVAC, Audio, Video, Surveillance, etc.
You can have "themes" for different lighting/audio/video atmospheres- party, dinner, etc. It's really the total "Smart Home" package.
That wouldn't happen. Changing product lines costs money, so to release an update, it will have to have a few big changes or people won't buy it. Sure the widescreen would be one of them, but it alone wouldn't merit an update. Couple the screens with products "IBM has down the pipeline" as stated by Apple and you've got a nice little update.cr2sh said:
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Uh, LCDs don't go higher than native resolution, only lower. And they don't go lower very gracefully. It's not something as simple as a firmware update. In fact, it necessitates replacing the entire screen.
(Note: I assume that by 10x7 you mean 1024x768).
Unless you bought one of those special edition CRT iBooks...
cannibalize!!
how is this even possible? unless they keep same specs but new enclosure.. other than that and it'll wreck powerbook sales. if they put a 64 mb vcard, standardize 512 mb ram, and give it a speed bump that'll be the death the pbook this year.
how is this even possible? unless they keep same specs but new enclosure.. other than that and it'll wreck powerbook sales. if they put a 64 mb vcard, standardize 512 mb ram, and give it a speed bump that'll be the death the pbook this year.
i don't know about this. i don't see it happening this week. the most they could bump the chip to is 1.42ghz like the mac mini, but you can't touch 1.5 or 1.6 like the pbooks. perhaps this computer will use an intel processor?? we'll see. right now the powerbook seems like a ripoff, it's only useful for its ports.
Ha! Ahh, the sweet taste of the inevitabile
I gave Apple a deadline for updating, taking a view that a small graphics card and CPU bump wasn't going to be worth too long a wait. Thus I bought my 12" iBook 2 weeks ago.
I've had the machine for almost a week.
Having got the thing, I'm actually not that bothered about updates. As much as the update may be long delayed, the iBooks remain fantastic pieces of kit, with or without CoreImage. It's well built, OSX is outstanding and despite the jibes about the cheap keyboard, it's still of better quality than any other portable I've seen (bar the PowerBooks in the Apple store, of course). These systems are still plenty fast enough.
It's strange, before I bought it I had images of being really angry if they immediately did updates, but now that I have, I think I'm just happy with what it is.
Congrats and nice luck to those who've waited until now and face reward, but if (like me) you're hugging a brand new one I wouldn't be disheartened, it remains an outstanding piece of kit.
Of course, if the new ones are made with diamond casing and contain one of the laughably over-the-top hardware specifications members have been touting around here recently, then maybe I'll be a little miffed.
I've had the machine for almost a week.
Having got the thing, I'm actually not that bothered about updates. As much as the update may be long delayed, the iBooks remain fantastic pieces of kit, with or without CoreImage. It's well built, OSX is outstanding and despite the jibes about the cheap keyboard, it's still of better quality than any other portable I've seen (bar the PowerBooks in the Apple store, of course). These systems are still plenty fast enough.
It's strange, before I bought it I had images of being really angry if they immediately did updates, but now that I have, I think I'm just happy with what it is.
Congrats and nice luck to those who've waited until now and face reward, but if (like me) you're hugging a brand new one I wouldn't be disheartened, it remains an outstanding piece of kit.
Of course, if the new ones are made with diamond casing and contain one of the laughably over-the-top hardware specifications members have been touting around here recently, then maybe I'll be a little miffed.