iBook 13.3 on track for January
Thinksecret is sure of it : http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0512briefly.html
Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch display.
The 13.3-inch widescreen iBook is said to sport a WXGA resolution of 1280x720, serving up about 15 percent more pixels than the current 14.1-inch model. Sources also note that the 12.1-inch model will continue to live on in iBook form factor, but that its days are numbered as a PowerBook configuration. The 12-inch PowerBook was hardly touched with Apple's October revision, seeing only a price drop on the SuperDrive model and the elimination of the Combo drive version.
A 13.3 widescreen 1280x720... cool !
Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch display.
The 13.3-inch widescreen iBook is said to sport a WXGA resolution of 1280x720, serving up about 15 percent more pixels than the current 14.1-inch model. Sources also note that the 12.1-inch model will continue to live on in iBook form factor, but that its days are numbered as a PowerBook configuration. The 12-inch PowerBook was hardly touched with Apple's October revision, seeing only a price drop on the SuperDrive model and the elimination of the Combo drive version.
A 13.3 widescreen 1280x720... cool !
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Originally posted by Existence
I think ThinkSecret meant 1280x800 which is 30% more pixels than the 14.1" iBook.
Widescreen portable+OSX = cash saying good bye to my bank account
on a powerbook though.
whats the point in widescreen though? is there one if u aren't watching a movie on it?
seems stupid
Originally posted by Existence
I think ThinkSecret meant 1280x800 which is 30% more pixels than the 14.1" iBook.
Yeah. The resolution ThinkSecret is quoting is 16:9. Computer displays are hardly ever 16:9, but 16:10 (or, in the case of the 15-inch PowerBook, 15:10/3:2).
So they either mean 1280x800 or 1152x720, both of which are fairly common 13.3-inch resolutions.
Originally posted by Elixir
i like the thirteen inch size
on a powerbook though.
whats the point in widescreen though? is there one if u aren't watching a movie on it?
seems stupid
Originally posted by Elixir
whats the point in widescreen though? is there one if u aren't watching a movie on it?
Widescreen tends to work out as more usable screen space due to the way our eyes work. We see wider than higher.
Widescreen also works out as a more compact laptop.
Originally posted by Elixir
whats the point in widescreen though? is there one if u aren't watching a movie on it?
seems stupid
Is not stupid. ever noticed you eye sees wider than it does upwards - also widescreen allows you to view two pages side by side. Eventally, all PC content will be designed for widescreens, so it only makes sense to get widescreen now.
Intel key Q1 2006 product launches will come on 6 and 9 January, respectively, it has been claimed.
First comes the debut of 'Yonah', the 65nm dual-core Pentium M processor, to be launched alongside the next incarnation of Intel's Centrino platform. So claim "a few Intel partners", cited by CoolTechZone.
The following Monday will see Intel launch its Viiv home media centre platform, according to moles from with Taiwan's hardware manufacturer community by way of a DigiTimes report.
The Viiv unveiling may well take place at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, though the sources make no suggestion as to the location of the launch. Curiously, the Yonah launch is said to have been scheduled to take place in India, though the possibility of a CES event too can't be ruled out.
The availability of 'Centrino 3' kit doesn't appear to have been addressed by the sources, but the Taiwanese moles reckon volume production of Viiv kit won't kick in until early February. Like Centrino, Viiv is based on Intel's Pentium M processor line - at least as far as small form-factor models are concerned - and Intel may prefer to push initial volumes of Yonah to notebook makers rather than companies producing the desktop machines. ®
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...onah_launches/
Originally posted by pyriX
Widescreen portable+OSX = cash saying good bye to my bank account
PB 15" & 17".
*kaching*
Originally posted by hmurchison
I wonder why they are considering a 13.3 when the 14in widescreen panels are being used by almost everyone. I would think it would be cheaper.
You answered your own question: "because everybody else is doing it."
That's not what Apple does.
Originally posted by Smircle
*sigh* I hope it will become a 13.3" PowerBook. Having to deal with the way Apple cripples the iBooks (VGA out *please*, no PCMCIA, substandard GFX chip) would take a lot of the fun out of the form factor.
Maybe a new small PowerBook will be 13.3" like the purported new iBook, but will be thinner, lighter, have PCMCIA, and a higher screen resolution (more pixels per inch)?
Originally posted by bikertwin
You answered your own question: "because everybody else is doing it."
That's not what Apple does.
Consumers tend to think 14" is a little small. I like Apple being different in ways but no at the expense of basic usage.
Differentiatiation in other ways is going to be key because Apple has no more "megaherz myth" drum to bang on.
Originally posted by bikertwin
You answered your own question: "because everybody else is doing it."
That's not what Apple does.
Hopefully Apple has a better reason than just "Because everybody else is doing it." (And I imagine they do. I'm sure all options were thoroughly explored)
I can see Apple execs sitting around like the goth kids on South Park "Everyone is using 14 inch screens... bunch of conformists living in their conformist Barbie Dreamhouse world."
*takes long drag on cigarette*
"We'll make our computers with the ones that are 7/10ths of an inch smaller. That'll show those conformist bastards that they can't control us."
*takes another long drag on cigarette*
"God is dead and if he were alive he'd hate me."
With no overlapping sizes, doesn't this look like they might be unifying the notebook line?
14" Widescreen iBook
15.4" Widescreen iBook/Powerbook
17" Widescreen Powerbook
Great availability on all the panels.
Originally posted by Guartho
Hopefully Apple has a better reason than just "Because everybody else is doing it." (And I imagine they do. I'm sure all options were thoroughly explored)
Yeah, just trying to imply that smaller screen means smaller, more portable notebook. Laptops seem to be limited by screen size nowadays. Even if iBooks are less than an inch smaller, if Apple can make them thinner and lighter than the competition, they'll have differentiated their product.
Originally posted by Guartho
I can see Apple execs sitting around like the goth kids on South Park "Everyone is using 14 inch screens... bunch of conformists living in their conformist Barbie Dreamhouse world."
*takes long drag on cigarette*
"We'll make our computers with the ones that are 7/10ths of an inch smaller. That'll show those conformist bastards that they can't control us."
*takes another long drag on cigarette*
"God is dead and if he were alive he'd hate me."
You do that so well!