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Here we go......haven't had one of these in a while. |
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especially since only a week ago there was an extremely deadly train wreck in japan. |
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C'mon 'nut. You trying to goad me into something? You knew exactly what I meant. Whatever. It seems that Chris wasn't up to it. Carry on. So it goes. |
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sorry, i was half joking. i really am a train nut as well, kind of pulls at my heart so see one in distress. back on topic, no powerbooks at WWDC. It is clear Apple has no where to go with their professional lines at this point in time. The processor technology is not here yet |
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That really is too bad. G4's are a good processor, but i won't be buying another PowerBook until they get a 64-bit processor with some better video hardware in there. I guess my Rev A 15" will keep on truckin' till then. I hope they get the thermal issues worked out soon.
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did anybody notice that the pb and ib pages in the hardware section of apples webside do still mention arduously panther as "serious software".
but hey i should preoccupy myself less. maybe it doesn't say anything that they didn't update this pages for the big tiger-hype |
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from the URL of the photo i would say 1997 and somwhere in NV
http://www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/1997/Aug-10-Sun-1997/photos/derail2.jpg <edit> No one died but many passengers suffered injuries when an Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed about 5 a.m. Saturday outside of Kingman, Ariz. Officials are investigating the possibility that floodwaters weakened a wooden trestle under the tracks, causing the accident. More photos: Click here for more photos, a map and an index to our coverage of the train derailment.Photo by Clint Karlsen. </edit> 12" PowerBook (1.5Ghz 512 meg combo) 3g iPod (15 gig) |
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How's that for irony? A train wreck pic derailing a thread.
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I'm hoping for an update to the Powerbook, but at least the iBook. I just can't find anything comparable to the Powerbook/iBook 12" in the terms of quality, aesthetics, and price. Everything else that is more powerful from an Intel solution looks like a piece of poo even compared to my current Dell laptop. |
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if you think HD screens will make it hard to see the roman alphabet you can be sure that it will make chinese and japanese characters tiny. I wish there was a way to increase the size of the chinese character selection popups
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Knolwing Apple, they will scale the text automatically once it detects the screen... Or so we can hope.
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nothing important to say except that I really hope we'll see G5 Powerbooks in 2 weeks. I am dying to switch over to apple, but I can't justify buying a Powermac when I have a pretty darn good pc. And since I want to get into Apple because of the great software (logic, motion, final cut and so) it would be pretty useless to get a g4 powerbook if it can't even run motion or can't handle more than 4 vst instruments + 4 vst effects in logic.
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If G5 PowerBooks were close, I think we would have heard rumbling about progress at IBM on low-power chips. I haven't heard anything lately. I seem to have heard more about Freescale's progress with G4s. Isn't it likely that's what the next bump will be?
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that's 600 euros minus edu and I won't buy them all at once. but thanks for caring so much |
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I ask why it would be so impossible for Apple to release a PowerBook G5, one week from today? A lot of people were not believing that Apple would ship an iMac G5 in September, when they did; even with Jobs a no-go for the Paris Keynote. Back then, it was about 50/50 about whether the next iMac would be a G4 or G5. It turned out to be a G5, as we all know, and better than most had expected.
I think we'll finally see the "mother of all thermal challenges" be solved, one week from today. Last edited by Messiahtosh : 2005-05-31 at 15:56. |
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On the subject of laptop screens, how close do Apple laptops stick to the Apple mantra of 72dpi?
I know that the 12" and 14" ibooks have the same resolution, so obviously not that close. Still, do you think it's a design decision to stay with lower res screens, or just neglect. I for one find very hi-res laptop screens rather hard to read... Then again, I'm probably just an old geezer :smokey: |
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Most Apple screens are close to 100 dpi at the moment. Apple themselves have concluded this is the sweet spot until a fully resolution independent UI has been created. |
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I think it's hard to go against the rumor sites these days but if you think about how much of the time they are wrong, and how many times in the past they have missed monumental product introductions (iPod), it's pathetic. |
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Back to the PB hoped-for upgrade and screen resolution issue: God, I am HOPING Apple will update these things! Dell offers their 15" notebooks at 3 screen resolutions - up to 1920x1280 pixels! If Apple can't offer a major update to the processor, they could at least bump up the screen to 1680x1050? Even the 17" PB is limited to 1440x900. I'm in the market to get a new PB now, but I'm not blowing my cash on something that's already a year outdated. I'll wait it out - but hopefully I'll only need to wait another week!
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How soon do products come out after they're announced at a conference like this? Shipping date, I mean.
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It depends. Sometimes it's two weeks, sometimes like the G5s, it's 6 to 8 weeks or longer.
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