New Apple titanium Powerbook

[kgraeme]

New 800MHz G4 Apple Powerbook

The revised PowerBook is now up to 800MHz and features a 15.2" wide screen at 1280x854 (up from 1152x768). It also appears to feature a standard DVI port and Apple is selling a DVI-to-ADC connector to connect to their fancy LCDs.

It's more evolutionary than revolutionary.

 

[MazerRackham]

Ah, I'm glad to see that they have bumped up the CPU speed and especially the screen resultion on that puppy... nice.

 

[nortexoid]

what up w/ all the apple news?

i like.

if only i could afford.

 

[smp]

i like.

if only i could afford.
DITTO!
I think I'de rather have an i-book though .. not only cause they're cheaper, but because then I wouldn't feel like such a rich SOB. Is that wrong of me?

 

[w9design]

Sweet. I'd buy one in a heartbeat if I didn't already have a 667MHz one from October. I'm sorry, but I have yet to see a PC laptop that holds a candle to this little monster. Slow as molasses for web browsing, sadly, but hey, I'd like to see real-time DV editing/transitions on a PC laptop -- final cut pro rocks. Don't think I'd buy a desktop mac, but their portables rock!

 

[kgraeme]

<< I'd like to see real-time DV editing/transitions on a PC laptop -- final cut pro rocks. >>



Have you tried Vegas Video by Sonic Foundry? It had real-time DV editing/transitions before FCP did. I use Final Cut Pro and it is quite nice, but Vegas Video has a lot that makes me drool too.

 

[Go3iverson]

<< i like.

if only i could afford.
DITTO!
I think I'de rather have an i-book though .. not only cause they're cheaper, but because then I wouldn't feel like such a rich SOB. Is that wrong of me? >>




I just got an iBook....love it! Still would love a TiBook though! OSX is just too sweet on a G4 system. Then again, I do have an 867 G4 Tower, so I really don't need a laptop that's as strong as this new one.......now if it was my only computer, different story!


Mike D

 

[Eug]

Not much of an improvement. If only the iBooks had G4s though, I'd be VERY happy. I don't need the extra non-features of the TiBook, except the G4 would allow me to do some DVD-related stuff I can't do now on the iBook.

 

[kgraeme]

<< Not much of an improvement. If only the iBooks had G4s though, I'd be VERY happy. I don't need the extra non-features of the TiBook, except the G4 would allow me to do some DVD-related stuff I can't do now on the iBook. >>



One significant advantage of the TiBook is that Apple supports using it with the cover closed and driving an external monitor. This doesn't work on the iBook.

 

[Eug]

<< One significant advantage of the TiBook is that Apple supports using it with the cover closed and driving an external monitor. This doesn't work on the iBook. >>

Well, at least you can turn off the iBook monitor and it still displays fine on the external monitor (since X.1.3), although it's only a mirror and you can't use higher resolutions. This however, isn't an added feature per se on the TiBook, this is a feature intentionally deleted from the iBook (since the video chip is very capable of doing this).

I was talking more about stuff like Ir, slot load, Gigabit Ethernet (although this may be important later), Ti case.

 

[Draco]

Apple's laptop's are so damn cool. Maybe by the time they release the update for OS X (Jaguar), which comes out at the end of summer, I'll have enough to get one. That along with whatever the latest iPod is.

Hopefully they'll update the iBook by then so I don't have to go all out on a TiBook.