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Apple PowerBook with Goggle Display?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cool-rumors dept.

James Outlaw writes "InfoWorld has a very short article about Apple's new PowerBook- code named Lombard. It's slim and reportedly weights about 3.5 lbs. The most interesting feature is that the LCD panel is detachable and replaceable wth a set of goggles." I've been lusting after a vaio for so long, but if this holds true... yum. Might be time to try out LinuxPPC.

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  1. LOMBARD ? by Bigman · · Score: 2

    S'funny, but in England LOMBARD is an acronym like YUPPIE that means "Lots Of Money But A Right D***head" - Are Apple trying to tell us something :-)

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    *--BigMan--- Time flies like an arrow.. but personally I prefer a nice glass of wine!
  2. Lombard is actually 2 things by webslacker · · Score: 2

    Lombard is that curvy street in SF that you see in the Guiness Book of Records. It's also the British equivalent of Wall Street. Both references are plausible in connection to the new Powerbooks because 1) The current Powerbooks are codenamed "Wall Street" and 2) The new ones are supposed to be curvy as hell.

  3. G4 Portable before G4 Desktop? by DougLandry · · Score: 4

    It is *highly* unlikely that Apple will release a G4 notebook system before a G4 desktop system. At no point in Apple's history has a new generation of processor debuted on a portable system. The other assumptions in the article are unlikely. For more info on lombard, visit www.pbzone.com/lombard.shtml.


    Doug

  4. Head-Mounted Netwinder by victim · · Score: 2

    Well, speaking as someone with VirtualIO glasses and netwinders...

    You need better resolution than VirtualIO to use a computer. You can crank the font size on the console enough to be legible (not clear, just legible enough to tell lowercase characters apart) you only get 53 characters across the screen.

    Lots of programs are unhappy with that screen size.

    Now, when I can get a REAL 640x480 for not a lot of money I'll be ready to use it, but VirtualIO isn't it.