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New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the need-a-g5-first dept.

no_demons writes "This morning Apple iCEO Steve Jobs gave the keynote at the Apple Expo in Paris. The whole PowerBook line up got an upgrade, with the 15" model now sporting the much rumoured goods (1.25GHz, backlit keyboard, bluetooth, Airport Extreme), available from today. Apple also announced a new wireless keyboard and mouse."

8 of 699 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wow... it's bluetooth! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    belkin makes a usb bluetooth adaptor that works well on both platforms. why you would want a crippled apple keyboard, or a single button mouse is beyond me though.

  2. Hooah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Boot OS9 to play games? Neanderthals! Already ordered a new 15", you gotta love it. It will fill the role of my unix workstation as well as a linux box would, but with a solid _usable_ user interface for apps (and a real version of Office rather than butt-slow StarOffice), real support, and great battery life and build quality. Apple definitely makes the best stuff.

  3. Double Bah. by LiberalApplication · · Score: 0, Troll
    I think that even more impressive than the Bluetooth wireless wizardry is the fact that this new Apple keyboard finally has a separate island for INS/DEL/HOM/END/PUP/PDN and the cursor keys.

    Huzzah! The future is here! Pack your bags and let's leave the past for a shiny new future where PC users can manipulate Apple devices via the text-entry slab for hours without so much as a single vulgar slur escaping from between their lips.

  4. Re:Target Market is the Key by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    And that target market is what, exactly? 100 lb weaklings that can't carry a 5 lb computer? Oh wait. My fault. Girls. Little girls. That's the target market. Makes sense now. Sorry for this interruption.

  5. Re:encryption key? by seanadams.com · · Score: 0, Troll

    It uses a 0-bit key, which you enter by clicking the single mouse button.

  6. Games? For the Mac? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, there's uh Breakout and uh Superbreakout.

    When you go to the PC game section, there's aisle after aisle of games. With the Mac, there's one little section so its not so confusing.

    And you know which ones are good, because you played them on the PC like 5 years ago.

    (yes, I did steal this material)

  7. Re:where are the G5 Powerbooks? by sevenofnine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Guess you should stop reading the register and start reading something where the people writing the article doesnt pull the information out of their ass?

  8. Re:No longer the latest and greatest... by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bullshit.

    Apple users don't care about performance! If they did, they would have fucked off to Wintel years ago.

    --
    That was classic intercourse!