PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped

Currawong writes "Apple has, as rumors predicted, speed bumped its line of portables. The PowerBooks now come in 1.33 and 1.5Ghz G4 versions, including either NVidia 5200's or Radeon 9700 video hardware. The iBooks can now be had at 1 or 1.2Ghz with Radeon 9200 video included. All can be purchased at the Apple Store. This complements nicely the recent speed and feature increases on the eMac range."

Comments

5200's?

[meringuoid]

... Stop me if I'm wrong here, but... er... they suck. Really.

I bought one because I needed a new card to play Neverwinter Nights - my faithful old Voodoo4 finally having become obsolete. It's slow enough running that, yet it claims DirectX 9 capability; I shudder to think what it would do if I tried to play Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 on it in a few months' time.

Is there something I'm missing, maybe?

Speed Bump? Merriam Webster says.

[ayeco]

Main Entry: speed bump
Function: noun
: a low raised ridge across a roadway (as in a parking lot) to limit vehicle speed

We had to slow the car down, as there was a speed bump in the street.

Re:I'll keep my 64 bit laptop

[ruiner5000]

Exactly the kind of responses that I would expect from zealots who don't know hardware from software. Apple does both, although they should split into separate companies. One for hardware, one for software. Gaming is now bigger than movies. Do some research. 6.6 lbs. I'm no weakling, I can carry it around fine. Yeah, there are plenty of things 64 bit can do, like the 64 bit Freebsd dual Opteron server I'm running part of AMDZone.com on. That is real business. I would hope future posts my include some hints that any of you have anything to do with hardware. Just to piss you guys off I'm going to load BEOS on this sucker and post a screenshot.