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Apple Opens The Book On 17" PowerBook Specs

Posted by timothy on from the r2d2-has-a-hologram-of-this dept.

maxentius writes "Apple released detailed specs on the new Aluminum 17-inch PowerBooks, apparently intended to spur compatible hardware development. A PDF is available."

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  1. Re:Great feature by Ster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Cost.
    2. Number of people who use it.
    3. Apple only does it for bragging rights.

    1. I doubt that it costs more than a dollar (maybe two tops) at the volume that Apple runs.
    2. Almost everyone I know who has a machine with this capability has used it at some point or another.
    3. Nope. See (2). I've personally used it for large file transfers w/ PCs using SMB. (They don't have FireWire, so no target disk mode, and can't mount HFS+ natively anyway.) It's great for setting up appliances (i.e. Base Stations) or SSHing into a box who's GUI has locked (much less frequent of late, thankfully!).

    -Ster