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15inch PowerBook Details and Supplies

Thursday August 21, 2003 11:32 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Despite high expectations for PowerBook updates, the earliest reported date has come and gone.



Still one recent rumor confirms that PowerBooks are imminent.



In the meanwhile, a new reliable report casts some light on the 15" PowerBook update... and reports that the new 15" PowerBook screen comes in at 15.2". This is contrary to an early report (and subsequent report) from Digitimes, which claimed that 15.4" PowerBooks would be coming this year. This screen size was then echoed by a number of sites (1, 2, 3) over the course of this year.



The 15" PowerBook will also sport an illuminated keyboard and similar improvements to bring it in line with the Aluminum PowerBooks.



Adding more fuel to the fire is ongoing reports of depleted PowerBook supplies. Reports of low-to-zero PowerBook stocks haved littered MacRumors' Page 2. The most recent addition is this report at MacTeens.com which shows little inventory remaining at distributors: IngramMicro and MultiMicro.

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ratspg
111 months ago
i really dont mind, but if they come, great... apple took a while with this update ;)
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Grimace
111 months ago
15.2 or 15.4 - whatever. Just bring em out. People are going to have a heart attack here!
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Abstract
111 months ago
Shut up.......just shut up about the PB's. :( These stupid August dates didn't sound right anyway. September always seemed more logical, and yet I allowed this rumour to get my hopes up anyway. ****!!!! :mad:
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virtualsid
111 months ago
Does this mean it is likely that the resolution of the 15.2" screen will be the same as the existing 15" PowerBook?

I was hoping it would be higher really - some of the PC laptops now have some nice high resolutions, 1600x1200 in 15"...

Still waiting to see what the new powerbook will be like, and the pricing, to see how much I need to save :-)

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garymm
111 months ago
It's actually not necessarily advantageous to cram more pixels in the same screen size. at 1280x854, the 15in is already high-resolution, and I think going higher would make some text hard to read, and of course, remember that running games on an LCD works best when you run them at the native resolution, and most laptops have graphics cards that get outdated fairly quickly.
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Powerbook G5
111 months ago
Holy crap, I hit back on my browser and IE refreshed to the main page and saw "15 inch PowerBook..." and I swear I nearly had a heart attack...until I saw it was yet another rumor roundup! I swear, sometimes this site is hazardous to your health! Anyway, 15.2" screens, who cares! I've already read enough disappointments if it will really still be the 7455 PPC G4s and another nVidia and all that uncool stuff. It's at that point where I don't care as long as Apple just lets me buy a frikken 15" Aluminum PowerBook!
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virtualsid
111 months ago

Originally posted by garymm
It's actually not necessarily advantageous to cram more pixels in the same screen size. at 1280x854, the 15in is already high-resolution, and I think going higher would make some text hard to read, and of course, remember that running games on an LCD works best when you run them at the native resolution, and most laptops have graphics cards that get outdated fairly quickly.


I understand your points, but I don't believe the 15.2" is currently a high resolution... I am too lazy to work out the dot pitch, but the resolution of my current PC laptop with a 13.3" screen is 1024x768, and that seems low resolution to me...

SimCity4 is the only game I want to play anyway ;)

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Powerbook G5
111 months ago
Sim City 4 rocks! I'm currently in control of the fates of over 600,000 Sims, mwahahaha!
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actionslacks
111 months ago
Do we really need another rumor round up?

Clearly NO ONE KNOWS when they are coming.

I miss the days when rumor sites would actually predict a release based on a tip. Where are all of the sources these days? how many people must know about the future of the 15inch powerbook and none of them have said a word to anyone? screw NDAs. There used to be someone who leaked a little!
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MasterMac
111 months ago
Ahh, I really hope that ThinkSecret is right, I can live with the lower processor speed and smaller screen size, I just want this new PB!!
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