Who's getting the 12" PB?
Damn, if I didn't already have a TiBook, I'd be all over this thing. I'd been saying since I got my Ti and sold my iBook that I really liked the iBook form, but needed the expandability and power of the Ti. So I had to settle. Now people don't have to. Wow! What a great machine and what a great price.
I wonder how expandable it is. Like HD upgrading, etc. But still, amazing.
So who's gonna get one?
I wonder how expandable it is. Like HD upgrading, etc. But still, amazing.
So who's gonna get one?
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Why is the FW only (ha ha ha "only") 400?
[ 01-07-2003: Message edited by: Scott ]</p>
Escher
<a href="http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html</a>
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I think I will wait for the 2nd Gen. though (I should have enough by then) or maybe the next 15.2 incher update.
My first impressions of the 12":
I want one.
Wow, it's really small.
DDR! Wow.
867 Max, bummer
Airport Extreme? Cool.
Kinda thick.
It's the iBook with a G4!
NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go! Sweet!
Holy sh&% you can get a superdrive in that thing!!!
No Firewire2, dang.
Overall I really like it, but I think I will wait until the next-gen, or the 970 lite to buy one, because I will be able to afford it then
It also has a third mid-range speaker, so we might just be surprised by the sound...
Seems great. I'll have to see and feel one in person though.
However, the only, and I mean, the ONLY gripe I have is that they seem to have soldered a 128MB RAM chip in allowing only a max of 640MB of RAM.
If I got one, I'd like to be able to max it with a couple of 512s....
Maybe I'll get a 15"... but I want the 802.11G and bluetooth.
Hmm...maybe I should just spring for the 17"...
ah hell. who knows. Guess I'll just have to wait till I play with one and come up with the cash.
Who wants my iBook 500mhz/384 RAM/Jaguar&9.2.2? $650!
I had to give up my iBook 500 recently when I switched jobs. Was going to buy a new iBook and waited for the show to do it.
This book is costing me less than the 500 did when I got it during the keynote when it came out. (Think I had to pay for the combo drive or the bigger hard drive. Can't remember.)
I am as happy as a clam! If it is anything like my old iBook it will be fantastic. Can't believe I will have a Powerbook and a G4. :cool:
I bypassed on the superdrive option as we will be getting that on a future iMac.
fun stuff...i wanted a G4 iBook and now we have one it seems...i expect the iBooks will get even cheaper....
do you think they will make a PB 12" Special Edition with FW 800 and lighted keyboard....i would spring extra for those two things....g
good call, that's an interesting question, I say no it probably wont. Although he said iLife will be bundled with every new mac, but why would you need idvd if you didn't have a superdrive?
I would have gotten a 12" but I just spent a little more than that on a new synthesizer
it reminds me of that 10"sony laptop, my freind had one in japan, i called it a "life book" cuz you could put it to sleep and take it everywere.
i could use one of those 17's at work though <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
[ 01-08-2003: Message edited by: Ti Fighter ]</p>
<strong>I'll upgrade to a 12" PowerBook as soon as it sports a 1Ghz processor and 1GB RAM. The current 12" is great, but there's still some useful life left in my iBook/500. Plus I've told myself that I wouldn't upgrade to any less-than-1Ghz systems, laptop or desktop.
Escher</strong><hr></blockquote>
1 GHz will happen, but I'm not so sure about 1GB of RAM. This seems like an iBook with a few updates. They speeded up the bus and threw in a G4.
They probably did have to do some major modifications to use the Airport Extreme card, as it looks different than the current Airport card. Notice that the CD slot is still on the side (and not the front) like in the iBook.
In other words, they've made some changes, but not too major. If the RAM hasn't changed, then it probably won't change until the next major revision.
Still, this is the iBook I was looking for a year ago.
<strong>... will the PB come with iDVD3 if it is not a superdrive PB???</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nope. Check the right side of <a href="http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index12.html" target="_blank">this</a> page.