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PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped

Posted by Hemos on from the ka-whump dept.

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."

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  1. Any system software updates also? by Debian+Troll's+Best · · Score: 1, Troll
    About 6 months ago I switched from a Dell running Linux to a 12" PowerBook. The attraction of Mac OS X's polished GUI, with all the raw power of UNIX available at the command prompt was too much of a temptation in the end. Of course I missed a lot of the software I used on my older Dell/Linux notebook, but these needs were well taken care of with the 'fink' software, which allows you to install many popular open source applications alongside Mac OS X.

    So, my question is, alongside these great hardware updates just announced (12" PowerBook got bumped 33% to 1.33GHz!!!), has Apple updated any of the included software? I'm especially interested in things related to the Darwin UNIX core, or the Fink system. It'd be really great if Apple included a newer version of Fink, because the version of apt-get which was included with my 2003 12" PowerBook is a little out of date now. If apt-get has been updated, then I'll be getting my current PowerBook onto eBay, and I'll be ordering a new 1.33GHz 12" PowerBook tomorrow!

    I look forward to the community's response!

  2. Re:Benchmarks by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 1, Troll

    MHz for MHz, G4 is faster than P4.

    How much faster, I will not say, but a 1.4GHz G4 is very different from a 1.4GHz P4. Or P3.

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