New PowerBooks?
Man these powerbooks smell of stop-gap to me, i mean no super fast super drive, no extended battery life, no 17" screen, no 120GB HD?! And to top it all off the processor isn't even faster then teh desktop ones or in dual config! I'm dissapointed in apple, and apple sales will suffer until they release good HW for cheaper, that can come close to comparing to the PC world!
...i've noticed a dramatic drop in apple bashign around here, just though i'd keep it up...if you cant tell i'm just joking around i like the new powerbooks alot, thinking about getting one once i'm not poor anymore
...i am 100% joking but how come these aren't stopgap powerbooks but they are stopgap powermacs? i just find the complaining about somethign just because you want better funny
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...i've noticed a dramatic drop in apple bashign around here, just though i'd keep it up...if you cant tell i'm just joking around i like the new powerbooks alot, thinking about getting one once i'm not poor anymore
...i am 100% joking but how come these aren't stopgap powerbooks but they are stopgap powermacs? i just find the complaining about somethign just because you want better funny
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<strong>Speaking up speed bumps, the PBs jumped 200mhz, curious if that's happened before?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nope. That's a new record for the PBs. Of course, if you go by %age, it's not quite so exceptional, but a 20% bump is nothing to sneeze at.
They should get another significant goose after the low voltage 7457 appears, and/or the 970.
Whee! It feels like Apple is finally in a place where they can start updating in earnest.
Next year should see 7457 and mebbe 7457RM (to solve the FSB issue, but with 200Mhz FSB and 512KB L2, even plain old 7457 will be pretty good in a laptop) I think we may even see the 970 in Powermacs (announced) as soon as January, but not shipping in quantity untill March.
While that's a long time to wait, it's what happened with the iMac too. Apple knows they need something, and if parts are ready for next year anywhere near a major show, they have to announce them at a major show to get the maximum exposure, even if they don't ship for 3 months after.
Laptop sales should be good through to the new year now, but I expect desktops to stagnate, and into next year it's going to be very hard to sell anything with a G4 in it as a pro desktop solution.