<strong>Can you tech guys explain wht Apple cannot or does not make the components of the powerbook easily, or at least possibly upgradable. ie swappable video cards. It just seems like a waste to buye a 16" LCD and toss it cuz the card blows 2 yrs later, that is a waste</strong><hr></blockquote>
They don't want us to upgrade. It does them no good. They want us to buy new.
I get four bars when I'm outside in the back yard where AirPort only has window to pass through, but when i'm downstairs in the family room (closer to the BS), I get 0-2 bars. Imagine that my family room has a two story sloped ceiling with the BS located in the room that halves a would be cathedral ceiling in two. So I'm right next to the goddammed thing but there's a solid wall and one story of air between us. 0-2 Bars. Hmm.
Answer this:
1) I am lazy when I use AirPort to transfer gigabytes of files? (I could use 10 times faster ethernet) The question really is bugging me.
They don't want us to upgrade. It does them no good. They want us to buy new.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...
<strong>Can you tech guys explain wht Apple cannot or does not make the components of the powerbook easily, or at least possibly upgradable. ie swappable video cards. It just seems like a waste to buye a 16" LCD and toss it cuz the card blows 2 yrs later, that is a waste</strong><hr></blockquote>
You mean like the Best Powerbook ever made...
The G3 Series with an easily replacable Harddrive, super easy access to upgrade the Memory, or even the smart design that allows the Processor to be replaced via a new daughter board.
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's just bad coding. Try the same 1000 images with graphicconverter. The first time will be slow as it builds thumbnails, next time is far faster than iPhoto.
I don't know of any laptop where you can upgrade the video card.
I think if Apple is going to keep the 1" think TiBook, they should expand their lineup to 3 models. They've sort of done this with the 14" iBook, but it should be even better.
The TiBook could be dropped to a G3 for heat issues, but make it faster. A Pismo-like G4 laptop could be the high end.
Doing this gives the lineup a thicker, studier high-end laptop. It could be semi-expandable like the Pismo, it could be plastic like the iBook (I don't care about the color) for strength, who knows what else.
The gap between the iBook and the TiBook, like the iMac & the PowerMac, is a bit big in my opinion.
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...</strong><hr></blockquote>
In a laptop, there is no video card. There is a chipset, which is soldered on to the motherboard. This is a universal practice with laptops.
The chipsets are specifically designed to be small and low-power (and inexpensive...), and they're soldered on so they won't get dislodged if the notebook gets dropped or whacked. In addition, there's less reason to upgrade it: A tower owner might well upgrade to a monitor that requires more power than the current video hardware can easily handle (heck, I've done that), but the display on a notebook is known and fixed.
You can't put a standard graphics card in a notebook; they're too big and they suck too much power. So you'd be looking at custom hardware: A small card with the portable video chipset that plugged into a proprietary port. It would be expensive, less reliable, one more niggling thing for Apple to support (and, eventually, to drop support for) and a consistently poorer performer than the desktop equivalent.
<strong>What's this need for an ultra-durable laptop? Of course you don't want the thing to fall apart at the slightest nudge, but really, what do you people do with your Titaniums that is so rough?</strong>
I, for one would be kind of scared to ask questions like that
<strong> And of course, all of them use G5s supplied by IBM, running at 2 GHz. Yeah, baby!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forget the burning smell being your thigh hair burning off, you'd have the pleasant aroma of your bone marrow boiling off if you used the thing on your lap.
I get four bars when I'm outside in the back yard where AirPort only has window to pass through, but when i'm downstairs in the family room (closer to the BS), I get 0-2 bars. Imagine that my family room has a two story sloped ceiling with the BS located in the room that halves a would be cathedral ceiling in two. So I'm right next to the goddammed thing but there's a solid wall and one story of air between us. 0-2 Bars. Hmm.
Answer this:
1) I am lazy when I use AirPort to transfer gigabytes of files? (I could use 10 times faster ethernet) The question really is bugging me.</strong><hr></blockquote>
First off you are not lazy, well you are but its the american way and we are proud. Second, it depends on what is in the wall, wires, tv cable, what the wall is made out of. Any interference could cause that. And its not just traveling out a window, radio waves don't bend...wel they kinda do but that is another story.
As for the PB, all of you are crazy, the current PB is fine, its great. Its fast (gets kinda warm but what do you expect from a fast machine?!). The graphix are good (could and will be better) and it will be. I bet its looks have increased sales more then you would think. Graphix profressionals care more about what it can do then what it looks like and how warm it gets, but normal peole that buy the PB want looks, so apple had to have a trade off. I think the PB is doing just fine and unless apple wants to get away from this design to show difference between G4 and nextgen chip watever it is, they will keep this design because they are happy with it.
<strong>BRING BACK THE PISMO!! Its black, it got curves and its black. And it adresses all the four points.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's right, the harddrive is the noisiest part of my pismo. But I don't want him back for sale allthough it's pretty sweet, obvious more populair than the pb G4 400/500 serie and black. I need something new and, for the money, it has to be much better than my pismo. Except for speed the PB G4 is not
That's right, the harddrive is the noisiest part of my pismo. But I don't want him back for sale allthough it's pretty sweet, obvious more populair than the pb G4 400/500 serie and black. I need something new and, for the money, it has to be much better than my pismo. Except for speed the PB G4 is not</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yea, and can run a Cinema Display! OK. I wish we could go back to various modular bays, as I have them all for my Pismo and they've saved me interminable unplugging cords and power bricks, and everything else. Of course, that was the one bad thing with my beloved Cube?THAT DAMN POWER LOZANGE. The new iMac fixed that perfectly?just wish the 17" had been out when I ordered mine.
Yea, and can run a Cinema Display! OK. I wish we could go back to various modular bays, as I have them all for my Pismo and they've saved me interminable unplugging cords and power bricks, and everything else. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you know MCE do a <a href="http://store.powerbook1.com/mcefirfirdoc.html"; target="_blank">Firewire Pismo module bay</a>? You can use all your modules on any Firewire mac. No good for me as I only have 1 module, but it sounds perfect for you.
Oct 15th? Wasn't there some noise about a possible Sept 25th update? Something to do with the end of an educational promo.
I'm dying here. All I'm asking for is 1ghz, ATI 9000 mobile(?), and the icing on the cake would be a superdrive version powerbook. That's not too much to ask for, is it?
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<strong>Can you tech guys explain wht Apple cannot or does not make the components of the powerbook easily, or at least possibly upgradable. ie swappable video cards. It just seems like a waste to buye a 16" LCD and toss it cuz the card blows 2 yrs later, that is a waste</strong><hr></blockquote>
They don't want us to upgrade. It does them no good. They want us to buy new.
I get four bars when I'm outside in the back yard where AirPort only has window to pass through, but when i'm downstairs in the family room (closer to the BS), I get 0-2 bars. Imagine that my family room has a two story sloped ceiling with the BS located in the room that halves a would be cathedral ceiling in two. So I'm right next to the goddammed thing but there's a solid wall and one story of air between us. 0-2 Bars. Hmm.
Answer this:
1) I am lazy when I use AirPort to transfer gigabytes of files? (I could use 10 times faster ethernet) The question really is bugging me.
<strong>
They don't want us to upgrade. It does them no good. They want us to buy new.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...
<strong>Can you tech guys explain wht Apple cannot or does not make the components of the powerbook easily, or at least possibly upgradable. ie swappable video cards. It just seems like a waste to buye a 16" LCD and toss it cuz the card blows 2 yrs later, that is a waste</strong><hr></blockquote>
You mean like the Best Powerbook ever made...
The G3 Series with an easily replacable Harddrive, super easy access to upgrade the Memory, or even the smart design that allows the Processor to be replaced via a new daughter board.
I say "BRING BACK THE G3 DESIGN WITH G5 POWER".
<strong>
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's just bad coding. Try the same 1000 images with graphicconverter. The first time will be slow as it builds thumbnails, next time is far faster than iPhoto.
I don't know of any laptop where you can upgrade the video card.
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Lemon Bon Bon
The TiBook could be dropped to a G3 for heat issues, but make it faster. A Pismo-like G4 laptop could be the high end.
Doing this gives the lineup a thicker, studier high-end laptop. It could be semi-expandable like the Pismo, it could be plastic like the iBook (I don't care about the color) for strength, who knows what else.
The gap between the iBook and the TiBook, like the iMac & the PowerMac, is a bit big in my opinion.
<strong>
You can't upgrade the video card? Try loading iPhoto with 1000 pictures in your library, or try loading System Preferences>Desktop and wait for the 1000 pictures in your change desktop folder to render. Can anyone say SLOW? This is with a new machine...</strong><hr></blockquote>
In a laptop, there is no video card. There is a chipset, which is soldered on to the motherboard. This is a universal practice with laptops.
The chipsets are specifically designed to be small and low-power (and inexpensive...), and they're soldered on so they won't get dislodged if the notebook gets dropped or whacked. In addition, there's less reason to upgrade it: A tower owner might well upgrade to a monitor that requires more power than the current video hardware can easily handle (heck, I've done that), but the display on a notebook is known and fixed.
You can't put a standard graphics card in a notebook; they're too big and they suck too much power. So you'd be looking at custom hardware: A small card with the portable video chipset that plugged into a proprietary port. It would be expensive, less reliable, one more niggling thing for Apple to support (and, eventually, to drop support for) and a consistently poorer performer than the desktop equivalent.
[ 09-13-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
<strong>What's this need for an ultra-durable laptop? Of course you don't want the thing to fall apart at the slightest nudge, but really, what do you people do with your Titaniums that is so rough?</strong>
I, for one would be kind of scared to ask questions like that
<strong> And of course, all of them use G5s supplied by IBM, running at 2 GHz. Yeah, baby!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forget the burning smell being your thigh hair burning off, you'd have the pleasant aroma of your bone marrow boiling off if you used the thing on your lap.
[ 09-13-2002: Message edited by: BobtheTomato ]</p>
<strong>AirPort reception is somewhat freakish-
I get four bars when I'm outside in the back yard where AirPort only has window to pass through, but when i'm downstairs in the family room (closer to the BS), I get 0-2 bars. Imagine that my family room has a two story sloped ceiling with the BS located in the room that halves a would be cathedral ceiling in two. So I'm right next to the goddammed thing but there's a solid wall and one story of air between us. 0-2 Bars. Hmm.
Answer this:
1) I am lazy when I use AirPort to transfer gigabytes of files? (I could use 10 times faster ethernet) The question really is bugging me.</strong><hr></blockquote>
First off you are not lazy, well you are but its the american way and we are proud. Second, it depends on what is in the wall, wires, tv cable, what the wall is made out of. Any interference could cause that. And its not just traveling out a window, radio waves don't bend...wel they kinda do but that is another story.
As for the PB, all of you are crazy, the current PB is fine, its great. Its fast (gets kinda warm but what do you expect from a fast machine?!). The graphix are good (could and will be better) and it will be. I bet its looks have increased sales more then you would think. Graphix profressionals care more about what it can do then what it looks like and how warm it gets, but normal peole that buy the PB want looks, so apple had to have a trade off. I think the PB is doing just fine and unless apple wants to get away from this design to show difference between G4 and nextgen chip watever it is, they will keep this design because they are happy with it.
They already do...it's called the iBook, and it's slow. The G3 is a dead chip....Apple should have migrated the iBook to a G4 at MWSF02.
<strong>BRING BACK THE PISMO!! Its black, it got curves and its black. And it adresses all the four points.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's right, the harddrive is the noisiest part of my pismo. But I don't want him back for sale allthough it's pretty sweet, obvious more populair than the pb G4 400/500 serie and black. I need something new and, for the money, it has to be much better than my pismo. Except for speed the PB G4 is not
<strong>BRING BACK THE PISMO!! Its black, it got curves and its black. And it adresses all the four points.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A G5 PISMO.....
That would really do it for me. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
[ 09-15-2002: Message edited by: MrBillData ]</p>
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That's right, the harddrive is the noisiest part of my pismo. But I don't want him back for sale allthough it's pretty sweet, obvious more populair than the pb G4 400/500 serie and black. I need something new and, for the money, it has to be much better than my pismo. Except for speed the PB G4 is not</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yea, and can run a Cinema Display! OK. I wish we could go back to various modular bays, as I have them all for my Pismo and they've saved me interminable unplugging cords and power bricks, and everything else. Of course, that was the one bad thing with my beloved Cube?THAT DAMN POWER LOZANGE. The new iMac fixed that perfectly?just wish the 17" had been out when I ordered mine.
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Yea, and can run a Cinema Display! OK. I wish we could go back to various modular bays, as I have them all for my Pismo and they've saved me interminable unplugging cords and power bricks, and everything else. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you know MCE do a <a href="http://store.powerbook1.com/mcefirfirdoc.html"; target="_blank">Firewire Pismo module bay</a>? You can use all your modules on any Firewire mac. No good for me as I only have 1 module, but it sounds perfect for you.
I'm dying here. All I'm asking for is 1ghz, ATI 9000 mobile(?), and the icing on the cake would be a superdrive version powerbook. That's not too much to ask for, is it?
I have been gearing up for a Sept 26 rev to the PowerBook line.
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but the suspense is killing me.
(( Where's the sweating smiley ))