More PowerBook Talk

So many PowerBook rumors, I think my head will explode!




*pop*

This accounts for our weekly powerbook rumor from some unheard-of source.....:o

Oh please.... come on... I hope they aren't going to put nVidia cards in the ENTIRE line!?!? ATI has them beat, at the moment, so why not put ATI's cards in there.... grrrr...

Come on Apple, don't disappoint me... I've been waiting too dang long.....

I say, they should give us the option of ATI or nVidia.... that would be fair....

does anyone know how hard it is to swap out a video card in the powerbooks? Perhaps you could mod it and void your warranty.

$50 says that we'll be disappointed with nVidia video cards come tomorrow. I don't mind the minimal speed bumps, but the nVidia crap is going to be a big let down.....

I don't know, I've been waiting since April to get a new 15"AlBook but with all these little disappointments I hear, I am not so sure anymore...my G3 can last me another semester of college...by then maybe we'd get a nice ATi Radeon...maybe a G5...maybe faster than 1x Superdrive...and most definitely Panther. I know Apple was going to release these months ago, but you'd think they'd be able to do something so when it is released it won't be stuck with hardware from a few months ago.

Originally posted by Parikh1234
does anyone know how hard it is to swap out a video card in the powerbooks? Perhaps you could mod it and void your warranty.

Duff-Man says...laptops generally tend to have the graphics chip directly on the motherboard - swapping them is not really an option.....oh yeah!

Originally posted by Omek
Oh please.... come on... I hope they aren't going to put nVidia cards in the ENTIRE line!?!? ATI has them beat, at the moment, so why not put ATI's cards in there.... grrrr...

Come on Apple, don't disappoint me... I've been waiting too dang long.....

I say, they should give us the option of ATI or nVidia.... that would be fair....

I don't know. Nvidia is putting out some great products. There demos at Siggraph were incredible. That being said, I don't know which model will be making it in to a laptop.

Hopefully Apple will use ATi Mobile 9600 which support direct x 9.0 If not how are we suppose to play games like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 (even though I don't think those games are coming out for macs).

P.S. Finally broke down and bought a 12" with $200 bucks rebate with an iPod. If Apple update tomorrow, I wonder if the store will let me return it

Originally posted by Rx7 Fan
Hopefully Apple will use ATi Mobile 9600 which support direct x 9.0 If not how are we suppose to play games like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 (even though I don't think those games are coming out for macs).

Maybe because they use OpenGL, not crappy DirectX?

Doom 3 is definitely Mac-bound; I have no clue about HL2.