iBook ... Ciao 12.1" ... Buon Giorno 13" ... ???
<a href="http://www.irumors.net" target="_blank">http://www.irumors.net</a>
"The 12.1" iBook will be discontinued when the Paris Expo rolls around in less than a week, to make way for a new 13" model. The 12.1" iBook may possibly become an education only or "Special Edition" model, retailing for around $1099."
What do you all think ???
"The 12.1" iBook will be discontinued when the Paris Expo rolls around in less than a week, to make way for a new 13" model. The 12.1" iBook may possibly become an education only or "Special Edition" model, retailing for around $1099."
What do you all think ???
Comments
I know I'd buy one...hmm is the TiBook's res lower than the iMacs? Damn...
But perhaps this is a clue that the Powerbook is about to move ahead again.
<strong>I think irumors.net is currently the bottom of the barrel amongst all rumor sites.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Spymac got a promotion!? Yeesh.
Screed ...really, really hoping to replace his TangBook for a 12" iBook, especially if it'll be on the cheap!
yes... irumors is quite "low" on the "chain"...but then again, the only super-accurate ones tend to be thinksecret.com and the "real" websites that publish Apple news.
Give us that and the size no longer becomes a major decision issue.
Its GREAT for a more stable place or if you dont mind bigger laptops.
I havent been travelling with it much, but when I do, I SO would want a 12inch. 12inch is awesome.
14inch models do NOT eat at TiBook sales.
TiBook 'plusses': video spanning, DVI port, G4, 2 sodimm slots, frikken amazing 15.2 inch widescreen, and 32MB vram, bigger HDs...
they are two totally different beasts.
If anything Apple, make the next gen 14inch get to at least 1280x960 rez. or 1280x1024.
And please...the 14" iBook doesn't eat into Powerbook sales, that's silly. I suppose with that logic Apple should introduce an 8" iBook because then more people would buy the Powerbooks? You people need to realize that not everyone can afford a Powerbook, and Apple still needs to get sales out of these people. The problem is that they may want a larger display than the 12" iBook, now they have the option of buying the 14" iBook and that's a good thing. Without the 14" iBook, a large portion of Mac users who want a nice laptop would be screwed, because the 12" is too small for them, and the Powerbook is too expensive for them.
Apple can't please everyone by making every imaginable hardware configuration, but they can please MOST Mac users by offering smart configurations. Offering a 12" iBook alongside a $2500 15.2" Powerbook isn't smart, all it does is give people reasons not to use a Mac.
I Also think that the 14" iBook looks like a frankenstein monster. The keyboard looks so weird surrounded by all that plastic.
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