[Fooboy]

how do you check to see what revision a powerbook is? Please be detailed im a mac noob.

Thanks

[torifile]

The easiest way is to match up the specs with an up-to-date database like apple-history.com

[curiousuburb]

About This Mac (in the Apple menu at the top right^y^y^y^y left under the logo) links to a "More Info" button, which fires up the Apple System Profiler.

You can use this information to check against sites with a db like torifile mentioned.
(You'll also find serial numbers and version codes and lots of other specs here).

You could also try cutting it in half and counting the rings...

[octavist13]

Top left actually...

[psmith2.0]

I download - and keep updated - MacTracker from www.mactracker.ca

It has all sorts of info. You can get the basic info from the Mac itself (outlined above), then use MacTracker to pin down the various specifics, release date, discontinuation date, specs, features, etc. of that model.

I use it all the time.

[Brad]

I second the MacTracker recommendation.

Very cool software.

[Fooboy]

I downloaded that mac tracker software (im still on a PC) and was browsing around it - but I couldnt find revision information.

is a revision like 1.0 gz to 1.33 gz? or is a revision different models of the same 1.33 gz as they continue to tweak it till the next bump?

[Brad]

Well, something to keep in mind is that "revisioning" is a term that the geek community has coined. The "rev a" aluminum PowerBooks were the very first 12" and 17" at 867 MHz and 1 GHz. The "rev b" models are simply the next in the series, in this case the PBs at 1 and 1.33 GHz. There's really no way to track changes other than that.

When people say they don't want to buy a "rev a" product, they mean they don't want to buy from the very first batch of an all new product.

[Fooboy]

Ahhh ... thanks Brad.

Crystal Clear now.

[Fooboy]

so then ...

Rev A: 12" G4/867
Rev B: 12" G4/1 GHz
Rev C: 12" G4/1.33 GHz
Rev D: 12" G4/1.5 GHz

Ta-Daa