Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac

Martin Kallisti writes "Apple has released new PowerBook models whose improvements include faster processors (up to 800MHz), better resolution, 1MB of L3 cache and 32MB of video memory. Also, a new computer looking much like the old iMacs, called the eMac, has seen the light of day. It's primarily targeted at the education market, and boasts a 700MHz G4 processor and a flat 17" monitor. " As Troc pointed out in another submission, the eMac will be available only to profs/teachers, students and higher education institutions.

Comments

more money well spent I see... NOT!

[potnoodle]

Nice to see tight education budgets being raped by IT losers who decide to buy Macs instead of what students will really have to use later on. Even Linux would be better than another expensively designed table-lamp pretending to be a computer.

Dell Vs Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Dell is slowly but surely muscling Apple out of the education market with cheaper/faster machines. And honestly, this is a good thing.

I like the Apple feel/look but feel schools should be focusing on the standard wintel machines and not Apple. If you want to attend an arts school or do graphics design work, then fine, stock up with iMacs. But sticking students with non-standard (Think Different!) Apple machines run the risk of leaving them under-exposed to the wintel machines most of the real world uses. Ideally, students could be exposed to both platforms, but that isn't going to happen.

Re:Compare old Powerbooks with the new

[ottffssent]

You bitch at me and *I* get the -1 troll? Well fuck you too.

The low-end powerbook used to be $2299 and is now $2499. The midrange one also went up $200, and the high-end is $100 more. Sure, you get a better product - that's what "refresh" means. Still, the prices went up - you can't get a powerbook for $2299 anymore. That's all I was mentioning. I don't know whether it's a less-public reaction to rising LCD prices or whether Apple's selling Tibooks as fast as they can make them and feel confident asking for more profit, or what.

The old midrange product, which you're referring to as "high end", is not the new low-end - it had half a gig before and is now down to 256M and Apple wants $200 to boost it up to 512 again.

Apple *FINALLY* outdoes Intel!!

[MissMyNewton]

And by quite a margin!

See this specs on this box - pretty hardcore!

"and 700 gigahertz G4 processors"

700 GIGAhertz!!! Holy smoking Itanium, Batman!!!

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