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12" Powerbook: Slick and Sexy, But Not Without Issues

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-the-machine dept.

Gentu writes "Two very good reviews on the 12" Powerbook have been published today. The first review can be found at the Washington Post and is very positive but not very thorough, while the second one found at OSNews is an in-depth review of the popular Mac laptop, tackling down many issues that future purchasers should be aware of. 'The new 12" Powerbook is nothing more but an iBook on steroids with a G4 in it' OSNews concludes, but the overall read is very interesting."

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  1. oops? by moriya · · Score: 0, Redundant

    an Apple story showing an AMD icon. We're still a month and a half off 'till April 1st though.

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    ~ Old Warriors Society
  2. What's with the AMD icon by nothng · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think someone made a booboo...

  3. The Good: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Yippee, I can resize Safari and even IE now with not much lag."

    ROFLMAO, speaking of low expectations :-)

    (if this is "good", wait until you see "the bad")

  4. Re:"full featured" my ass by DdJ · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Sure seems full-featured to me, I can't think of anything I'd want a PC card for that this laptop doesn't have a connection to handle
    That's sort of the point. A PC card slot is for later expansion for things that you can't currently think of.

    Some examples that might be useful with the 12" PowerBook: high-speed firewire ports, a USB 2.0 bus, 802.11a networking, or heck, 802.11g networkin in other countries that use other frequency ranges for it, for international travelers.

    I'm not saying the lack of PCMCIA makes the thing useless. It's probably the right choice for a whole lot of people. I am saying it means it's unreasonable to call the thing "full featured".