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One more G4 for the PowerBook?
PurdueGraphicsMan writes "Much as we'd love to see the next PowerBook revision include a processor evolution to the mighty G5, we know it's not that simple. The Register provides some sound reasoning (and boatloads of model numbers and voltage specs) as to why we'll probably see a 1.5GHz G4 PowerBook before any G5 PowerBooks materialize." I don't want a G5 on my lap anyway. It'd make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a PC tower. Oh, and I don't want to burn my lap.
Please attempt to explain to us PC lusers why 64-bit processors are faster at rendering or Matlab than 32-bit ones. I could use a good laugh today.
...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.
You have some real issues there. Afraid that people are going to switch from your beloved Windows and all your Visual Basic "l33t skillz" will be wasted?
seSales, Point of Sale software for OS X.
It's a different way of working; not necessarily better or worse. For me, it feels right.
Control clicking can be argued one way or another (I personally hate it, especially since the ctl key on my powerbook is so damn sketchy). But I don't know how any mac user can live without a scrollwheel.
Having to install SideTrack in order to get my powerbook's trackpad to act like it does by default on XP is pretty lame.
Having to install SideTrack in order to get my powerbook's trackpad to act like it does by default on XP is pretty lame.
By extension, would it then also be lame that you'd have to install some other third-party app on Windows XP to get the trackpad to act like it does on MacOS X?
do laptops really NEED to be faster? thinner? lighter? better looking? for one half the cost of a laptop you can typically get a machine twice as powerful. what's the point in laptops if a deskotp is so much cheaper.
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laptops are meant to be portable. your average 8-9 pound 1 hour battery life monster isn't portable. it's a portable desktop. apple doesn't make portable desktops, it makes laptops. there's a difference between the two. they could have easily put a 1.6-2ghz g5 in a 2" thick laptop months ago, but apple doesn't make ugly pieces of crap so they take their time.
- tristan
In this article we see, "The 970FX, meanwhile, consumes a mere 12.3W at 1.4GHz." Now which one of those would you rather have on top of your "small package"?