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Yeah, I've thought about that...but right now since I have no history and no steady income, my options are next to nothing. I suppose I should go to my credit union (through our community's major employer - hint, it rhymes with "bow wow" and is thr…
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Thanks so much for the great suggestions -- the PowerBook G4/800 is what I was scammed on this summer...it might do my soul some good to actually have one. So far, it's between that and a 12" PB (with the combo drive). the AlBook looks very very…
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Thanks for the tip -- but my brother's (who is now 28) forays into the world of credit have taught me enough not to even think about credit cards/loans. The money for this PowerBook/iBook is coming from scholarship funds which weren't applied to tu…
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to add to this...I am a member with Apple's student developer program, so that helps quite a bit...right now (thanks to another highly similar thread) I am also swerved toward the 12" Mini PowerBook -- I can get it for US$1599 leaving me space to ge…
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Nikon, Nikon, Nikon!! Their Coolpix advanced models give you so much more control over the picture-taking process which you'll appreciate (unless you just really want to point and shoot away). I got a used Coolpix 950 last May and it has been a dr…
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Oh, how I hope you're being sarcastic. The invoice in the email I was sent was only for the expedited shipping charge; there was no mention of the Jaguar software itself. Apple's not operated like this before, so I was merely wondering if anyone e…
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Has anyone else gotten an email from Apple about their preorder shipping Monday? I just got one this morning, but I checked the status page in the AppleStore and it claims "your order has been partially shipped. Whenever the other items become avai…
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It seems to me that if they if they have enough CDs generated to offer Jaguar on the new Powermacs that ship in 1-3 days, they should be shipping out the copies we ordered almost a month ago soon as well --- or perhaps they really put their pro cust…
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Like some fellow posters, I'll as well be heading off to college -- in almost a month (Aug. 26). I've always been "behind the pack" as far as owning the latest Apple merchandise (i.e., when getting a new computer in 10th grade, I settled for a high…
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[quote]Originally posted by OverToasty: ...from what I read about the Power5, it seems the 970 might actually be a stop-gap chip, rather than the 7457, until the Power5 comes out (2004). The 970 would be quite the stopgap. I really don't se…
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Methinks the suggestion about heavy competition for the Linux server farms is valid, but I still don't see a way around the 970 not becoming Apple's next major chip for its server/desktop (and most likely portable -- ALUMINUM cases?). Unless they d…
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"Nope, not gonna happen." (in that Dana Carvey/George Bush-esque voice) Unless Intel's chips lose a LOT of weight in terms of heat production or unless they offer the chips for a much nicer price tag to Apple, Intel chips would be hard-pressed to b…
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Apple's gotta make some moves besides the whole "Year of the Laptop" thing. I envision some problems with that already -- namely huge numbers of preorders with some people not getting their fancy new machines until late March or April, perhaps even…
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Fake. I don't know what is supposed to be in the circle (or even if there really is one), but someone did quite an extraordinary job with Photoshop this time---quite exceptional, but Apple would not let their logo be displayed in such a manner -- a…
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A few mentions of the 970's potential for PowerBook placement have been mentioned -- I've been very much out of the Apple rumor loop for the past six months (just sitting on G3s that work just fine right now) and missed the report about the 970 even…
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I like the Jennifer Aniston suggestion...so would millions of other guys, but this ain't Europe. But American TV *is* slowly going in that liberal direction. Still, if they did do it, then wow. Talk about a trend-breaker. :cool:
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But how many average consumers are actually going to benefit from the 970? I have yet to even own a computer with a G4 processor, but I think that for most, coupled wtih AltiVec, a fast G4 (800MHz-1GHz) does the job beyond nicely, right? OSX hinge…
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Apple, knowing it has all its professional users and greedy teenagers with superfluously generous parents, will release the new machines at Seybold. It knows they will wait as long as they have to for the DDR boards and whatever else, as they alrea…
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Yeah, I agree with everyone else advising you to buy when it's needed -- don't wait on Apple for something better unless you want to (can't always plan economic decisions around their product release schedule -- that's just the way computer buying …
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Someone above mentioned that the Titanium PowerBook G4's actual metal structure/skin dissipates heat away from the CPU. However, the Titanium G4, as much as people would like to think, is not comprised of a metal case -- it is actually a polycarbon…