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  • Quote: Originally posted by ast3r3x yes need...im not saying they are bad, but thy are outdated as probooks with the 970 out...though i suppect it will probably be a year or whenever the .09µ shrink is done There's going to be nothing other t…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Omek What would be really hillarious is if this actually happened.... Yeah, just post every Monday "Something's going to happen tomorrow", sooner or later you'll be right. Actually, there could be a hint for thi…
  • Quote: Originally posted by applenut 3. Apple is cheap and shipping all machines with really crappy peripherals I'll go with 3.
  • Quote: Originally posted by ast3r3x possibly because powerbooks need to be updated and everyone wnats this...even if it isn't tru...but hopefully is *Need*? Get used to them not doing much for the next year or so... unless someone develops so…
  • Quote: Originally posted by JLL There will be one expansion chassis for PCI and one for optical drives. Don't believe. There's no point in a special expansion chassis for opticals, you may as well buy an external drive and hook it up to FW800…
  • Quote: Originally posted by johnsonwax A cookie if you can tell us why 1U == 1.75 inches. Because it's more than 1.5 and less than 2.0?
  • Besides anything else, four processors will *never* go in that case.
  • I'm not really sure there's a gap at all. Right now you have (the promise of) G5s G4 towers G4 iMacs Where does it say that the G4 towers are going away? Seems entirely possible to me that Apple with have parallel G4 and G5 towers for so…
  • Quote: Originally posted by dnisbet OK, so no new G5 PB's for a while it seems. But what if IBM have been working quietly on a smaller 970 chip that just hasn't been mentioned yet? Isn't that the 980, or am I mixed up?
  • Just remembered, someone posted in another thread that they had been a WWDC and seen one up close - so they do exist.
  • Quote: Originally posted by zounic The only graphics available on Apple website are 3D renderings... Not real photos...! Strange isnt'it ??? Is it featured in the keynote, I couldn't get it to load. I don't think it's strange, but it's go…
  • Quote: Originally posted by anamac The current models look so white and plastic next to that aluminum-clad G5...and Steeeeve was showing how easily you could manipulate Expose with a two-button mouse. Hmm. In part of the G5 video there's a ke…
  • Quote: Originally posted by emdash ...but I'm not in the habit of lifting 40 lb., 20 inch tall objects with off-center handles off of desks with one hand. I din't say it was commonplace, but it's a factor for me. I'd rather walk up and down…
  • Quote: Originally posted by fishdoc Now, Clive, you are just being silly ... How so? That thing weighs the better part of 20Kg, the "handles" are not "hand-shaped". They won't cut into you, but they'll be uncomfortable - you won't be able to …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Akumulator It'll be a little hard for me to buy one anytime soon knowing that 3ghz is only a year away. My G4 can hold out until then.................. or can it? Hey, hold onto your money, 10 GHz is just five yea…
    in Reactions? Comment by clive June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon With Quark 6 and a fall rise in Design/Publishing budgets...I can see Apple, along with pent up demand...make a killing in the next two quarters... A fall rise!? WTF is that? Do you mean "Autumn" perch…
    in Reactions? Comment by clive June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Flick Justice With this new font book feature will I be able to say good bye to Font management apps like suitcase? what do we know about this? flick. One thing to remember, Suitcase has a server component too. …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Voxapps Unless there's a sport of CPU-slinging that's popular in the UK, why not just get something with wheels to move your towers? Geeze, here in California we just put 'em on office chairs and wheel them wherever we…
  • Quote: Originally posted by fishdoc And it isn't even as though the argument is about IF it has handles - it is that the handles aren't tilted perpendicular to the center of gravity, nor do they *appear* rounded enough to protect delicate hands. …