Who will get the 17" Powerbook?
I was wondering. This is really a beast of a machine. You will never need no desktop if you get this. Anyhow. Does it have appeal in the real world? It sure does show the balls are still on Apple, but what will it get them. I do understand the appeal of the small Powerbook. I'd get one for sure, but my eyes are on the bad side... That is portability in a new way.
Well, as with the thread on the 12" ones, somebody care to confess they have an order pending, or seriously thinking about getting the beast? I'm not inclined to get this computer. It's too big. Nice additions, but the tibook appears to remain the winner.
Well, raise your hands, please.
Well, as with the thread on the 12" ones, somebody care to confess they have an order pending, or seriously thinking about getting the beast? I'm not inclined to get this computer. It's too big. Nice additions, but the tibook appears to remain the winner.
Well, raise your hands, please.
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But the palmrest is nice and large. I just hope those who buy it have long arms. And it can double as a dining table.
A/V guys, great machine to bring onto the stage side control booth or into the studio, where it might not leave, but gets shuffled from here to there. I went to see the Lion King here in TO and the guy had a PB set up to control all the stage lighting. In the pit there was another for the orchestra's tech.
On set video production. Wanna commision a few digital experiments while you still have director, actors, set and permits still at the ready, that's your machine.
DJ's? Set it up in the booth with your control board and all your software effects and what not.
Architects/designers giving a battlefield sales pitch or moving the machine around a studio.
Scientists in lab.
Anywhere where it might get shuffled about in one location or moved exclusively from one workstation (home) to another (work)
It's strictly a pro offering.
I used to work for a prof that ran two big 21" CRTs from his PowerBook (not at the same time). He never used it as a laptop, or on the go, when we were at the pub, etc etc. At night it went home with him, in the morning it got effectively docked, and he just plugged away. He liked his gadgets, his screen real-estate, and he hated leaving that machine to the relative security of the university, even back-ups can't keep someone from stealing/selling your work if it sits on the machine they've just stolen from you. The 17" PB would be perfect for him.
I've been dreaming about a 17" portable for a long time (if you search through old posts you will find me describing one as my ultimate powerbook).
Of course, I wanted one with a larger keyboard that had a numeric keypad and dual G4s, but this one will do.
I now need to decide what to do with the $1750 I got for it?
Get the Mini-Book? with no reall added expense?
or get a 867 for almost no more money???
or throw another $1750 on it for the DaddyBook?
Hmm difficult...
I need to see one in person though...
I just folded an 11 x 17 piece of paper down so that it is 15.4 x 10.2 inches I then folded a piece of paper down to the minibook dimensions.
It's an interesting compatison.
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Now people whine that Apples new 17" is too big.
WTF????????????
Forgive Apple for not coming out with a 17" subnotebook size laptop!
Everyone wants a big screen but doesn't want the size.
Something has to give guys. No way this thing could be made any smaller.
<strong>Something has to give guys. No way this thing could be made any smaller.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why not a folding display? I'm sure you'd get adjusted to the hinges in the middle of the image in no time. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
The big question is: Do you fold the display into halves or thirds? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
<strong>I sold my G4 400 in late December because of a "gut feeling".
I now need to decide what to do with the $1750 I got for it?</strong><hr></blockquote>
You must have been the beneficiary of some frantic bidding on eBay. You actually managed to find someone willing to pay more for an old G4 400 than they would have had to spend to buy a new dual 867!? :eek:
Even if you threw in some software and a monitor and a printer... wow. I wouldn't pay more than $300-$400 for an old 400 MHz system.
I think I will get the DiddyBook as a second machine, 'tis well usefull for my photography, my 15 looks like it's been in a war..... too delicate for field use.
They might throw a 970 into it an make it the professional notebook - thus all the stuff that the 12" and the 15" don't have (yet?) - dropping the iBook line and making the 12" and an updated 15" the consumer and prosumer line.
Any thoughts?
I will get the 12" cutie PB though!
I had wanted to order the 1Ghz TiBook when introduced in November, but now I'm glad I didn't. I use my PowerBook as a mobile desktop computer, and while it may be big for the jetsetter, it is ideal for the power user who needs portability.
Now I can use the same computer at the office, home and job sites.
The only thing that could have made this a better computer for me would be the dual G4s or a single 970. But duals won't fit in a laptop and the 970 is still vaporware. Next year though....
Terry