15.4-inch PowerBook on horizon
This <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/01/09&pages=01&seq=1" target="_blank">article</a> and it's table show a 15.4-inch PowerBook manufactured by the same company that will be making the 17-inch PowerBook.
The question now is when will it come out? End of January/early-February when they bump the PowerMacs?
The question now is when will it come out? End of January/early-February when they bump the PowerMacs?
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[quote]daSilVetZ:A couple of days ago, someone mentioned the article on Digitimes , and the 2 different 15" PB's. I sent an email to the person who had wrote the article, and just received a response:
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My orignal email :
Hello, on the article seen here
<a href="http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/A...3/01/09&pages=0" target="_blank">http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/A...3/01/09&pages=0</a>
1&seq=1 , the 2 Powerbook 15" have slightly different screen sizes. The
15.2" and the 15.4"? I am inclined to think that this is a typo, if not,
please let me know what the difference between the 2 is- as I had never
heard of a 15.4" Powerbook.
Regards,
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Reply:
Hi,
The 15.4" model will replace the current 15.2" model in the near future. On
Apple Computer's website, the company has pointed out that the actual 15"
PowerBook measured at 15.2" in diagonal.
Hope this help.
Chinmei Sung
DigiTimes.com
daSilVetZ <xx>
? 2003/01/11 03:21:45 AM
chinmei/DigiTimes@DigiTimes Re: Sources: Compal to produce Apple
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Hmm. <hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,106577,00.asp" target="_blank">http://pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,106577,00.asp</a>
[quote]Samsung will introduce a 15.4-inch WXGA (1,280 pixel x 800 pixel) thin film transistor LCD and a 17-inch WXGA TFT LCD for notebook PCs in January.<hr></blockquote>
I think Apple should standardize resolutions across the line.
Standard dispays have to be 4/3
Cinema displays should all be in a 16:10 form factor.
Cinema display 23" and 22" are OK.
iMac 17" is fine too (just like 17" AlBook)
But the 15.2" TiBook has a weird 1280*864 resolution.
1280 x 800 is much more like a Cinema Display form Factor, much more Apple-ish.
I thing 15" (1024*768) iMacs should be replaced by the same screen as above, thus providing a 16:10 display all across the line, except for ultraportables.
- The low-end PowerBook has a faster optical combo drive than the Titanium
- The low-end PowerBook has the option for a faster Airport card
- The low-end Powerbook has a sturdier keyboard; the Titanium PowerBook's keyboard is different in format and color from the models on each side
- Models on either side have Built-in Bluetooth
- Models on either side use nVidia graphics making the Titanium inconsistent
[ 01-14-2003: Message edited by: DHagan4755 ]</p><strong>Models on either side use nVidia graphics making the Titanium inconsistent
</strong><hr></blockquote>Yep.. sad that they didn't do the right thing and pick Radeon 9000 for the new hardware, too.
It goes toe to toe with GF4Go440 though being better in portables; also it happens to wipe the floor with GF4Go420 in the smaller 'Book.
- Gon
<a href="http://www.samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/search/datasheet.jsp?family=590" target="_blank">http://www.samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/search/datasheet.jsp?family=590</a>
You'll see that the Samsung 15,4" LCD are available in 3 resolution :
WXGA : 1,280 x 800
WSXGA+ : 1,680 x 1,050
WUXGA : 1,920 x 1,200
Perhaps Apple will choose the 1,680 x 1,050 one ...
but noooooo.... lets not provide options..... so silly
<strong>Take a look at the bottom of this page :
<a href="http://www.samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/search/datasheet.jsp?family=590" target="_blank">http://www.samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/search/datasheet.jsp?family=590</a>
You'll see that the Samsung 15,4" LCD are available in 3 resolution :
WXGA : 1,280 x 800
WSXGA+ : 1,680 x 1,050
WUXGA : 1,920 x 1,200
Perhaps Apple will choose the 1,680 x 1,050 one ...</strong><hr></blockquote>
With the 17" PowerBook sporting a 1440*900 screen while le 12" PB is 1024, future 15" PowerBooks won't go higher than 1280.
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:eek: Oh my god if I can get a 1920x1200 resolution PowerBook I'd beg, borrow or steal to get it NOW!</strong><hr></blockquote>
no you don't - you would not even be able to read anything. my partner has a 1600x1200 15" dell and man it kills me to try and use it and i have 20/20 vision.
unless of course they make a 19" Albook.
Just make sure any 15.x" model has most if not all the 17" features, especially level 3 cache and that cool ambient light keyboard.
Whatever they do, the new 15.x" PowerBooks are bound to come rather sooner than later. My guess is that before the end of March we'll have new iMacs, new PowerMacs and new PowerBooks, and that from July to September we'll see the _real_ updates with a processor strategy shift of whatever kind. I sure hope Quark XPress has had info about that shift for three or four years now.