Powerbook/iBook Specs Roundup
Very Likely
Powerbook 800Mhz-1GHz with Superdrive
iBook G3 up to 800MHz
Probable
November 5th, 2002 Release Date
Possible
Bluetooth
Uncertain
13" iBook Screens
Radeon Mobility 9000
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(View all)I would love to go portable, but with all the desktops with dual processors.. I can't justify paying so much more for less!
I would be very tempted by a dual powerbook.. hopefully it will happen with the IBM 970 since it was built for SMP.
" about the ATI 9000. I thought this was a done deal? I mean come, you gotta update that 7500 in the powerbook.
Ah, well.
The Superdrive is a good plus, and may push me over the edge (assuming that a faster internal wireless card will be forthcoming and available as an upgrade, I can probably live with an external antenna while at work). I guess we'll see what happens when they're officially released.
The real win for me would be a better resolution (the Dell I'm typing this on does 1600x1200 for crying out loud), but I think that I'm just out of luck there. I guess its a tribute to the quality of the hardware/OS that I'm even buying one considering the 50% real estate reduction (and 30-40% DPI decrease) though.
-Richard
Originally posted by rjstanford
The real win for me would be a better resolution (the Dell I'm typing this on does 1600x1200 for crying out loud), but I think that I'm just out of luck there. I guess its a tribute to the quality of the hardware/OS that I'm even buying one considering the 50% real estate reduction (and 30-40% DPI decrease) though.
-Richard
Ahh.. 1600x1200 is just inanse on a small laptop screen. If the option was there, then fine. But like on PC machines, if that is the optimal res, then anything lower looks like ****. SO, it is not acceptable to force everyone to look at something as small as 1600x1200 if everything below it is ****.
What about the possibility of an LCD display being able to scale higher than its native resolution? Right now it would require pixels to act as multiple pixels, but maybe new hardware would allow this somehow, or maybe its just impossible with LCDs all together.
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