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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.
>...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.
And you can't afford it. And the fact you're even considering buying an Apple product means you're more concerned with style than substance, and the white would clash horribly with your ugly retro NHS glasses and laughable Nathan Barley goatee.
You don't think they'd fix any heat issue by release? You can be assured that by release, your precious penis will be safe from harm's way (at least from the computer, not anything else you do to it...)
I'm used to seeing the trolls come from Michael, but I guess he's too busy lately...
Blar.
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.
But, if I was given a choice, I'd take an AMD 64bit based PC over a G5.
Except with an AMD, you can't run OS X, so what's the point?
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.
If your grad students are too stupid to learn how to use Windows, Solaris, Linux, or any other operating system, they should not be grad students. Period. The same applies to CS faculty.
A little off topic.
I have a friend that works in Apples nor-cal plant repairing their machines, which he says are the biggest pieces of junk he has ever seen (he has been in the industry for years) that on top of the outrageous price for a newer Apple and their dismal software selection why on earth would anyone buy an apple? I don't get it.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Oh, just when they got out of the red.
TOOOOOO BAD!
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?
"I develop professional applications "
Might as well run up the clueless flag, set it on fire and scream "ME AM DUMB" rather than post something so stupid.
Anybody who has to tell me they develop "professional" applications almost certainly does not.
I suspect you mean that you programmed an excel macro at your job as a bookeeper at the local jiffy-lube.
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
You're obviously a rookie with computers, maybe you should try to learn how to suck cock more effectively than attempt to sound like you have some sort of clue? Fag.
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.
STOP PRESS
Apple's "benchmarks" actually duped a member of the public!!!!
Considering that an Alienware laptop beat the fastest G5 tower in Photoshop tests (yes, those Photoshop tests that Apple Fanboys used to rely on when cold hard figures looked so bad).
But let me guess, all of a sudden Photoshop tests are not a good assessment anymore? Now it's specint benchmarks etc.
Apple User in the 90's "Hahah, peecee users suck! They have a GUI over the top of a CLI"
Apple User of today "Hahah, we rule! We have a GUI over the top of CLI!"
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"?