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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.
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No you know how I feel! =P
...and it's also in my lap!
Lay down paper this po'st up. poor dead last
I have a 17" 1.33 with 768MB ram. It is a nice machine BUT -- it really isnt all that. A G5 would be nice since the PC world already has a 64bit AMD in a laptop. Also, Apple could work on faster boot times for OS X. It boots so much slower than XP, Linux or OpenBSD.
but I simply can't stand the Mac users with their imagined chip on their shoulder. They pretend their iWhatever is "against the institution" of Microsoft; that iMacs are so refined and so much better. Doesn't Apple have like 10% or less marketshare? Doesn't Apple charge way too much for their computers? Seems like your money can go to a much faster Intel/AMD PC. Get a computer that doesn't waste computing cycles on anti-aliasing and transparenting the Aqua theme.
I'm not saying Intel or AMD is the way to go, but I just don't like the arrogance I find so commonly associated with Apple. For example, read how arrogant the story poster (PurdueGraphicsMan) and editor (pudge) sound, like their shit smells so much sweeter than others. I have to wade through that time and time again and it makes me physically ill.
I personally don't like anything to be too smooth or bubbly. I like hard edges, I like my Windows buttons to be a simple 1-pixel-thickness box, not rounded buttons with shadows and whatever dressings. I feel the same way about other things too, like cars. I don't like the idea of driving in a bubble, it's not like aerodynamics are going to benefit me while I'm travelling at speeds where aerodynamics are irrelevant. Aerodynamics are important to Formula 1, Prototype cars (Le Mans racers) and other forms of high speed racing, no one else.
I'm posting anonymously because I just know some moderators opinions disagree and want to moderate me down to troll out of a knee-jerk reaction, and also because you should think of me as a pro-ia32 guy just speaking my mind.
"Professional" applications? You wouldn't happen to be a JavaScript programmer, would you? You should consider switching to Visual Basic, I heard there's more demand.
Also, I bet your friends can really process a lot of video with that 10 gig hard drive they have in their laptop.
I purchased a Titanium G4 laptop and after that an Ipod - now I consider my self an independent wehn it comes to OS's and such because of such diverse use between macs and ibm's when I was younger but soon after I purchased the laptop I returned it because of horrible performance, slow response time, and overall slow slow slow OSX because when I have to wait 15 seconds for a menu to pop up in photoshop I consider that a big obstacle in efficiency when it comes to an APP or scenario not 3 months after returning the laptop I started to see my $500 IPOD start to loose battery life very fast...sold it at a pawn shop before it completely died on me...my point is that even that I will admit apple's hardware looks like it is designed but armani or some high-class designer its inards are CRAP and I would go as far as to say all of these apple products or laptops atleast are much like the ferrari laptop that looks good but runs like Sh** not to mention products that have been built with such a low life-span on purpose are purely for the drones who believe apple a *corporation* actually cares about their interests and money - they don't , I think a $500 Ipod that start to loose battery life after a few months is just plain old crap...no other way to explain it. p.s. I blame the typo's in the above text on the stress apple has caused me over buying what you think is going to be a great electronic device for a really expensive tag only to find out you have to pay $100 to replace it...yeah apple is really cool, cool like when a someone farts next to you on a bus.
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend at his freelance gig with a titanum powerbook while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 5 hours. The amazing thing is at home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this MAC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. Now, I got the job to fix this as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy as the titanum powerbook!
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this TiBook at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too!. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of his mac addiction, he will definately be buying a Dell next!
OS X does not hold a candle to Windows XP or Linux. Let's see, a half-assed BSD clone with an ugly GUI on top. Sounds like OS X.
Sure, the defalult XP theme is ugly too, but at least it's completely customizable. Not to mention there's hundreds of times more useful applications. And it's just as stable.
If you want to talk about power, there are many benchmarks showing the G5 being beaten by various PC offerings, so shut it up.
Agreed. I was thinking of all the poor chaps who will get modded as troll or flamebaiter because Pudgey had to go and troll the headline. Kinda funny.
On the same note as you were addressing, if the G5 was such a performance giant, then why aren't we seeing these things in datacenters? If Apple is the consistant leader in performance and reliability, why don't we see more Apples out there?
Personally, I see them more as executive toys than real computers.
stick with IBM... why bother with g4s anymore in a laptop? motorola sucks anymore.
yes.
Wouldn't a G5 in a laptop generate enough heat and radiation to emit a gamma ray burst? Sure, it's portable, but the cooling system is a 3m ball that needs to be immersed in water.
I know, I know, I'm just a feckless troll.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
My two powerbooks have 60GB of disk each. That's more than enough space for editing a couple of hours of video in Final Cut Pro 4 using OfflineRT.
You're doing video on a powerbook harddrive?! You know that Apple uses 4200 and 5400 RPM harddrives in it's laptops. That's way too slow to do video capturing of any decent quality.
Watch a proficient Mac user work. You'll notice that the left hand is on the keyboard at all times, copying, pasting, opening, closing, undoing, answering dialogue boxes, AND CTRL-CLICKING to get contextual menus. It's a different way of working; not necessarily better or worse. For me, it feels right.
No, no, no. The left hand is: Holding the phone while they sit on hold waiting for Technical Support.. Since their system gets a girly-girl, frowny face error when opening their new copy of Photoshop.
I don't use windows, and I don't know VB. I am mostly a Linux user. I just think Windows is a better OS than MacOS X. Linux beats them both because it is free software and because it's infinitely customizable.
Here is a short list of my reasons for not liking OS X. First, it's way too dumbed down - I don't think it's even possible to customize the user interface. You can't replace Aqua with something else, right?
Second, it's tied to Apple hardware way too tightly and often doesn't work right with third-party hardware. I've personally dealt with a Firewire DVD burner that simply refused to work on OS X, and the dumbed-down, proprietary, mostly-undocumented operating system underneath was of little help in diagnosing the problem. OS X is OK when it works, but it's impossible to fix when it breaks.
I'm confused, is he a straight-man or an apple user?
Nice way to treat someone who only last year decided to try her first Mac. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering how long Apple is going to hold onto us "switchers" with vapor products.
No, no, no. This is not a sig.