Going to see the 17" PowerBook today.

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tontontonton
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Apple Hong Kong is holding a special event today to launch the new PowerBooks. I'm assuming they'll have a few 17" models to show off. I'll report here with my first impressions.



Sorry, I don't have a digital camera, so I won't be taking any pics.



Does anyone have any specific things they want me to check?

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    I actually got to see one last week. The thing is awesome.



    A couple of things I learned about it that I didn't know before:



    1. The screen is 'counter balanced' or something similar to the trick they used with the iMac screen. You can open and close it with the slightest touch of a finger (well, not too slight. It was just right - not flimsy.



    2. There are 3 'zones' on the trackpad from left to right. If you are typing on the keyboard and your hands touch zone 1 and zone 3 (the two outer zones) the trackpad doesn't accidentally respond. However, if you are playing a game or something, using the keyboard, and you want to control with the trackpad, simply touch the middle zone (zone 2) and it responds like normal - very cool.



    Oh, and it looks MUCH cooler in person than in the pics- not so gargantuan.



    I give it a 10. It was beautiful.



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  • Reply 2 of 9
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Tat's great!! Apple Singapore doesn't have 17" PB for sale...only 12" PBs. ME gonna go to some 3rd party stores this weekend to check it out.



    I want to look at the 12" cuties up,close and personal!
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  • Reply 3 of 9
    kennethkenneth Posts: 832member
    Good... many of my friends in HK totally missed the presentation due to time conflict. I saw the 'Books on MWSF, very good indeed but of course out of my range. Still want to see the new 20" in-person. Are you one of the member in imacguru.com?
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  • Reply 4 of 9
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    i ve been to the party too,

    the 12" and 17" powerbooks are really something.

    the 20" display......what can i say?



    but when i played around with the 12", i can feel some

    'lag' in response, imovie wasnt playing smoothly,

    hope it's just the 256mb ram, anyone charge it to 640 mb?

    and it was quite hot indeed.
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  • Reply 5 of 9
    michael greymichael grey Posts: 384member
    [quote]Originally posted by tonton:

    <strong>I'll have trouble deciding between an aluminized 15" PowerBook and the 17 incher.</strong><hr></blockquote>





    Wow, did Apple announce they would start making the 15" in Aluminum? I must have missed that, but I guess it makes sense...although I think it would be kinda cool to keep Titanium around. I've heard people had some problems with it, but its still nice to have the choice.



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  • Reply 6 of 9
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    Nope. The 15" PowerBook is still a Titanium. I'm typing on my new one right now!
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  • Reply 7 of 9
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by firehc:

    <strong>when i played around with the 12", i can feel some

    'lag' in response, imovie wasnt playing smoothly,

    hope it's just the 256mb ram</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I noticed the same when I was playing with one on the weekend, although the default mouse speed settings weren't a help.



    I'm trusting RAM will be a help, since that machine seemed less responsive than my 450MHz Cube with 1.5 GB...
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