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I saw a 12" Powerbook at the Apple store.... :drool;

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I wish there was a PC notebook that looked as cool 🙁

I love my Thinkpad T23, but the 12" Powerbook was really sleek.

The 17" Powerbook was too huge, IMO. It was amazing, however, that the sucker was so damn thin!

Anyone other PC users have a little Powerbook envy? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: iamme
anyone else think the Powerbooks are pretty sweet?
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Sweet but still overpriced when I'm accustomed to a VERY FAST Dell or IBM loaded for $1500.
 
Yea those are beautiful machines.

I would definitely look to get one later. They are really convenient and light, although a bit overpriced...
 
Originally posted by: Dacalo
Yea those are beautiful machines.

I would definitely look to get one later. They are really convenient and light, although a bit overpriced...
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Ditto.

I really don't see why another company doesn't just build it to look pratically the same and with the same dimensions. I would be all over that. I would go the way of the Mac but I like my Win2kPro platform. I have a bunch of abbs for my Win2kPro and going to a Mac I would lose all of it 🙁.

Can't find a 15" lcd laptop that has a thickness of about 1". Pretty amazing.

Koing

 
Im definitely fixing to buy a 12" PB when they update the line next. Hopefully it's sooner then later!

 
I just got my 12" yesterday, and it rocks.😀 It isn't the fastest thing, but OS X, AirPort Extreme, and its ridiculously small size and weight make up for it. Now all I need is some $4 coffee, and I'm set.😉 So far, it's definately been worth the investment.
 
😕 Honest question here. No offense to people who own powerbooks but why the hell would you buy an uber expensive laptop with limited functionality (if you've got a lot of windows apps, etc) because it looks cool? Granted, I've never played with a powerbook so maybe I'm missing the appeal but I don't get it.

Also, now that I think about it I remember a thread a few months back where someone posted that their friend bought a G4 because she liked the way it looked or something like that. "What a dumbass" comments abounded. So what gives?
 
It's not really limited; it does everything I need and then some, as I don't intend to game with it(I have a tower PC for that, I wanted a laptop for lugging around for notes, browsing, etc). I went with it, as opposed to a PC machine partly because of the size compared to the features(most 12" sub 5lb machines tend to take something out to get there), such as an internal Airport Extreme(802.11g) card and full-sized 6 pin Firewire port, and more so for the operating system itself. MacOS X is extremely stable(more so than XP I believe, but this isn't saying XP is bad), and its Unix base is great to work with. The software written for OS X tends to follow a standard design, which makes using new software pretty painless, and the fact that it's pleasing to the eyes doesn't hurt it either.

I have a "power machine" for my power needs, but I don't want a laptop that follows that philosophy(keeping track of more than 1 PC really is hard work), so I wanted something that was simple and easy to use as my laptop, so that I could use it and forget about it, instead of trying to maintain that. I also wanted something *nix, since as a CS major, it's good experience, and the toolkit offered is great, but Linux distributions are opposite to what I wanted, since they take a lot of tweeking and upkeep to keep going under ideal conditions, so this left me with a Mac, a simple machine with a *nix OS. While it's not the fastest machine on the block, there aren't a lot of words to describe the relief of pulling it out, and just being able to do stuff without worrying about the machine, or dealing with WinXP's general inconsistencies.

As for looks, that's really one of the last things I thought about. Looks are a stupid reason to buy a completely different machine(similar machines it would make sense, but different machines, no), but since I was already looking at a machine like a PowerBook, it was another point for the Mac. The fact that it looks great is nice for gloating reasons(and chicks😉), but it's really not something I'm concerned with as long as another machine would have the same general dimensions and weight.

It's really the sort of thing you have to try, otherwise most of this doesn't make any sense. As far as laptops go, the overall Mac exerience is just better than anything I could get from a PC.
 
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
😕 Honest question here. No offense to people who own powerbooks but why the hell would you buy an uber expensive laptop with limited functionality (if you've got a lot of windows apps, etc) because it looks cool? Granted, I've never played with a powerbook so maybe I'm missing the appeal but I don't get it.

Also, now that I think about it I remember a thread a few months back where someone posted that their friend bought a G4 because she liked the way it looked or something like that. "What a dumbass" comments abounded. So what gives?
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Apple is successful at making cool looking, expensive machines. I know a guy who bought a loaded Mac II at nearly $10,000 when they first came out and was still paying it off ten years later. Asked if it was worth it, he said yes, "it still looks cool a decade later."

 
I just got a new 12" Powerbook last week. It rocks the house. It wasn't that much especially with a student discount and practically free iPod, I'll give Apple the upperhand on this one.

Anyways, I already have a PC desktop that I use for everything that requires a powerful machine. Basically for a laptop I wanted something hasslefree, and OS X so far seems extremely hassle free.

On another note, I downloaded the demo of UT 2003 just to see how this little powerbook could handle it, AND on default settings it was extremely playable, so I wouldn't exactly say these things are "limited."
 
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