Future Powerbook Logo

Look at the subject of this thread and then tell us why it's posted in "CURRENT HARDWARE."

why??? i mean, that looks not like my cup of tea... hmm.. i would have to cover that logo w/ the nice white apple sticker logo.. i dont like a lot of bright colors, especially ones that stick out like that in that contrast like color\

Jeeves, would you please pass me the revolver on the silver platter, I think it's time.......

is this revolver for me? nifty... can i use my lightsaber?

That's actually a very clever logo.

Looks like some people are still pissed about Apple moving to faster CPUs.

just keep the logo white and put a little centrino "pit" inside the apple.

the logo is interesting, but also not my cup of tea.
Don't get me wrong, I love the intel move.
But I don't like too much writing on my Mac, if it says G6 (which I would also disagree a bit with) ok.
But I don't want it to say Intel anywhere. It also never said IBM did it?

if it wanted to have basic writing on it w/ intel, and w/e... then ok.. but the color of it is just hiddious.. i mean... are they going to come out w/ pink cases for the pb? i like the basic grey/white cases now... and if they left the cases like that w/ a terquois and pink logo on the back of the screen, it would look weird -shivers- why not white?

well alright yes, if it is just written, on it I could at least live with it.
But it still feels abit weird

it would still be weird... but if the logo is white, and basic writing (times new roman) for example.. its livable.. not great... but nothings perfect, nor can anyone win them all...

Don't worry, Jon Ive would never put something like that on his hardware designs.

Macs will still look just like macs, beautiful.

Because with all the spurious threads being started in FH, I would look like an asshole if I dumped, I mean moved, it in there.

well to 'ad' to the fodder....

a double page spread in The Economist we'll be seeing in while?

i just threw up in my mouth

oh my... but i guess its that old saying coming back to haunt us from the 4th grade... "never judge a book by its cover" or in this case.... "never judge an apple notebook by its case"... hmm... will they really be better????

and if they do have that dual operating system thing going... how great will MS be on apple??? i mean... its just not right not right i say

My guess would be that Apple will handle this the same way they did with the G4 -- a text label under the the screen.

Grosse

Well our point is we do want to judge the book by its cover.
If we wouldn't we would use IBM notebooks running emulations of MacOSX or the real thing hacked nativly coming next year.

inaka, I like it. A lot.

Now granted, Intel will have to take into consideration Apple's established design paradigm. Maybe you would find the logo on the back of the unit. Something like that.

As for you "I love my Mac, I want to hug my Mac, I have named my Mac, don't you dare besmirch my Mac...", Apple fans, yikes.

Forgive me, but is that powerbook reddish cause of heat issues?

One thing to keep in mind is that apple's current offerings don't have a huge "PowerPC" or "IBM" or "Motorola" sticker/logo...come to think of it neither do PC's...most just have the sticker (which is also fairly unappealing I must admit).

Why should it cause heat problems? They will use the Pentium M, the best mobile computing chip available onthe planet.
cool, high performance per watt.
Highly energy efficient.

heh

now that apple is going to use a pentiumM or a descendant of it, its now the best mobile computing chip available

i'll just be dumping my powerBook in the trash tomorrow
stupid piece of powerPC garbage

You don't have a PowerBook

obviously

yeah and you'll notice the 're-entry tile' trackpad / ports!

well my intel books took me TWO minutes in Photoshop, but Inaka, much simpler and well executed. nice. lil' scary but nice.:

um, i may be missreading people's sarcasm, but perhaps this crazy logo is just a hoax. i dunno, i might be going out on a limb here.

of course its a hoax mate. the one who posted it (Inaka) did it in photoshop for our entertainment (and disgust), it's a bit of a dark-comedy kinda thing.

i assumed this from the begining. i was being sarcastic. however, i was under the impression that most people in this thread thought it was for real.

btw, why photoshop? i could have done this in MS Paint.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it was because this is an APPLE forum and that was MICROSOFT Paint...also Photoshop is pure awesomeness, and if you have it, why not use it?

NIce Job, love the lower 'e' thing you did there in the Inteligent Great.

Thanks! It was fun. Apple's going to have to work hard to spin..errr I mean 'frame' the whole transition...this was just one Idea I guess.

well, since i haven't been getting any lately, i'm still firmly standing by my idea of the
Mac g6 sextium

They're not faster, yet, than the G5. It will also be interesting to see what the e600/700 can do, even though they'll probably never make it to a powerbook.

Don't get me wrong, i'm excited about intel, but i also realize the reason why it's 2007 rather than 2005 is because Intel has a lot of work to do to get their stuff to not suck at FPU and SIMD.

After reading this post I realised that I wasted 5mins. Well there's 5mins that Im never getting back. Nice logo... did you also get splashed in the eye when you came? FH has become like Iraq... a hellhole u just can get out of. Someone lock this post for everyone's sake.

If anyone can, its Apple

I think there is a big misconception about the Pentium M. People think it is a cool processor. It is energy efficient, yes, but not cool. Let me explain what I mean.

If the P-M processor runs at its nominal speed, say 1.6 GHz, then it produces much more heat than a G4 at the same clock speed. So, how the P-Ms manage to stay cool? Quite simple: if almost nothing runs in the system (CPU usage below 5%), then the 1.6 GHz processor will scale down almost continuously to 36 MHz!! That's how. And you understand what this means for battery life. P-M laptops have great battery life not because the CPU uses less power when fully used, but because the CPU can drop its clock speed dynamically to very low levels under light or no use (e.g. when just reading some document). I saw this on my wife's Dell with special monitoring software and it is quite spectacular.

As I said, despite this wonderful technology of scaling dymamically the clock frequency accoding to the system load, I find the P-M processor rather hot. Less hot of course than a P4 (I don't know how it compares to the G5, I would say less hot too), but definitely more hot than an equally clocked G4.

Let me tell you this, taking as example the Dell of my wife: I cannot keep this computer on my lap to watch a DVD. Because after 15 min it starts to burn. And this is with 30-35% CPU usage. Keep in mind that this laptop is a thick one (4 cm or 1.6", comparable to the 17" iMac thickness) and it is plastic. All this make me think that today's high clocked P-Ms are completely inappropriate for the slim and metal Powerbook enclosure. And whatever improvements Intel is able to do, I seriously doubt that the Intel Powerbook will be metal. It's going to burn you if so.

For all of you hoping for high performance and cool Powerbooks after the switch to Intel processors, keep in mind that high performance (and the P-M is a high performance CPU) comes at a price: HEAT. The energy consumption efficiency of the P-M is for the moment the only measure to alleviate this problem and only when the system is not stressed.

PS: alright, who will fix now the images that screwed the page layout in this discussion?