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New iBooks and Apple Store
Vokbain writes "Apple just released new 800 and 900 MHz iBooks, and unveiled a redesigned Apple Store as well." Looks kinda cluttered to me.
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I think I speak for a lot of Apple fans when I say "YEEESSSS!!! This rocks!!! It's absolutely brilliant!! Steve Jobs, you're my hero!!! This just shows Apple's ability to reinvent the computer industry in a way that Microsoft can only dream of!! HAHAHAHAAAA!!!!"
what's this story about again?
Thank god for credit card companies, if i didn't get rejected i would of bought one of the 700mhz ones about 2 days ago.
:(
Now i can get one of these slightly faster beauts for the same price...oh wait i cant
"What do you mean you have no ice? Do you expect me to drink this coffee hot?" - Random Customer, Clerks
The Apple Store appears to be more usable to me. For starters, I can click on a picture of an iPod and jump right to the iPod page, instead of the digital lifestyle device page. This link used to be in the upper left of the old store.
I can see and pick from pictures of Apple products instead of going to a 'software' page and first. This is a big usability plus.
All of the laptops and systems are laid out and ready to be clicked upon.
If you want cluttered design, pick up a MacMall catalog, or visit the MacMall site, both grand examples of clutter and inappropriate exclaimation.
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
The new 800Mhz replaces the previous 700Mhz as the low end iBook. You probably have a combo drive in your 800, well the new 800 only comes with a CD-ROM (as well as a few other changes to make it the low end).
I dunno who it is
but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
Hate to say it, but this is pretty disappointing. I bought my current iBook 18 months ago - it's a 600 MHz G3, very close in configuration to these iBooks. Only a 50% speed bump in a year and a half? That's just pathetic.
It seems pretty clear to me that Apple is holding their iBook line back, limiting them to G3s, to encourage sales of their pro laptops. They are the only system Apple still sells with G3s, the iMac went G4 a long time ago and the low-end eMac is thoroughly G4. Oh well.
I love my iBook, and I'd love to upgrade it after this long - but not for only a 50% increase in speed. I might be an Apple die-hard, but I'm not quite that eager to give them my money.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Well, to Apple's credit, the iBook battery life still beats the pants off anything that Intel or AMD make. Also note that the iBook has held this advantage for a year and a half. IMNSHO battery life makes a much bigger practical difference than processor speed.
http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
Looks kinda cluttered to me.
And Slashdot is what? The web's best use of white space?
Call it a hunch but Apple probably spend a few million dollars on testing and revising the hell out of this design. You wouldn't be seeing it on apple.com if they weren't sure it would increase sales and confuse users less than the old one. This is Apple we're talking about.
If they put all that stuff in the iBook, it would be competing against the pro model.
The model you describe would even have more RAM and a higher processor speed (though no AltiVec).
It would be a foolish move from a marketing point of view, and the internals would probably need a significant redesign to fit the differently-sized Airport Extreme card.
So that's why.
- 15.1" screen, 16MB ATI Rage
- 667 MHz G4, 256 MHz L2, 133 MHz bus
- 30GB HD, 512MB RAM (in bottom slot), Combo Drive
- 2 USB, FireWire, PCMCIA, S-Video out, GigE, Airport
- OS X and 9.2, Graphic Converter, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, Snapz Pro X, PixelNHance
All for $2200! Had a scratch on the bottom. And you can get it with all the Apple Protection Plan you want, just like it was new. If you're a student, it gets knocked down by another 5% or so. Those Educational deals are more easily spotted as well in the new layout.The new design is busier for sure, but so is the rest of the web--hell, I can barely find the product I searched for on Amazon nowadays. They wanted more purchases on the front, trading "cleanliness" for "money."
blarg.
I think you can thank education users for this, as the iBook has made great inroads into education in the past two years. They still have a lot of need for OS 9.
runs OS 9 & OS 10, iLife, More Video Ram on low end model, 100MHz is 12.5% faster clock speed all for the same price.
What's your beef again?
I'm getting one of these for my wife (and it will be mine if she doesn't like it!).