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Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps

Posted by pudge on from the but-i-want-a-laptop-that-is-not-encased-in-metal dept.

sockit2me9000 writes "Apple released their new PowerBook today. They include faster processors across the board (up to 1GHz), Radeon 9000 GPUs, and the top-of-the-line model will include a slot-loading SuperDrive. Price points remain about the same. New iBook was released as well."

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  1. Nice going, voting moron majority! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    With Republicans gaining control of both the White House and Congress, Bush administration officials last night began to prepare an ambitious legislative agenda to press their new -- and somewhat unexpected -- advantage.

    Suddenly, items that had been bottled up in the Democratic Senate have new life. President Bush has new hopes for action on his conservative slate of judges, his energy plan calling for drilling in Alaska's wildlife refuge, and the policies he favors on topics such as homeland security, terrorism insurance and prescription drug coverage...Another priority for the White House will be passage of Bush's "faith-based" initiative to boost religious charities.

    --

    This country is going to hell in a handbasket...

    1. Re:Nice going, voting moron majority! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      did you vote, i bet you didnt.

      so bitch bitch bitch

      do you really believe that life would be soo much better if the democrats were in power, or if it was an even split?

      democrats and republicans are two of the same, but they differ on a few meaningless topics that effect several thousand people.

      and guess what, the people IN alaska want the drilling, they want jobs. its all of you people who dont live there that are against it. (and will never visit either)

    2. Re:Nice going, voting moron majority! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I wouldn't be whining if I didn't vote and voting gives me the right to do so.

      Would a Democrat house cave in and vote in conservative Supreme Court judges who, given GWBs "faith based" background, would most likely consider overturning hard won human rights landmark cases like Roe vs. Wade? Perhaps, but it's the Republicans seem to have more penchant for patriarchal "family values".

      Would a Democract house cave in and vote for the drilling? Nope. They already trashed that criminally stupid and greedy idea. If the people in Alaska are desperate enough to throw away one of the last remaining pieces of pristine nature on this planet, then they are not in a position to make an objective judgement on the matter anyway. I don't have to live in Alaska to know that polluting and stripmining the nature there is a bad idea.

      And has the GWB cabinet ever heard of the separation of the church and the state??? WTF is it with that "faith based" charities idea anyway?

    3. Re:Nice going, voting moron majority! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's odd, you consider abortion, 'human' rights. Unless you mean the right for a woman to kill a human...

    4. Re:Nice going, voting moron majority! by dbrutus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Funny, I always thought that it was the US Senate that votes to confirm judges. Silly me for actually reading the US Constitution.

      The people gave Clinton a mandate to rule with a fully Democrat Congress in 1992. It was such a disaster that the Republicans came roaring back in 1994 to take Congress.

      10 years later, the people have given the Republican party the same opportunity. The country didn't expire during Democrat rule and won't during Republican. They hyperventilation index seems to be much higher this time around though.

      Don't you see that if you over-hype the dangers nobody's going to pay attention anymore?

  2. Re:still not cheap enough by benedict · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe if you stopped compromising the working
    classes, you'd have an easier time of things.

    Your use of Marxist terminology with no apparent
    understanding of what's behind it is appalling.

    --
    Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
  3. Re:still not cheap enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm implying you're a student going trolling. I'm not from the US - I don't know which schools or universities make up the Ivy League.

  4. Oh - get on your bike... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and go home.

  5. Re:Slashdot Apple's bitch? by cbuskirk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod Parent Down

    You should have every post modded down for having a .sig like that. Besides that your a troll.

  6. Speed Bumps? by davemabe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I glanced at this topic, I thought Apple had done something to throttle down their CPU to run slower and therefore use less battery power. Isn't that what speed bumps do?

  7. Re:This is great!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But remember that they don't want to speak anything but French...

  8. Re:Time's are a-changin' by suffocate · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is your grandma hot?

  9. Re:RIAA by e8johan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dear moderators!

    The intention of my reply above was not to troll nor to put out a flamebait. My only intention was to be ironic about RIAA's standpoint. Please mod me up.

    Cheers!
    /Johan