simple question. will a portable EVER be as fast as a desktop?

In the era of the Lombard PowerBook (USB & SCSI), the PowerBooks were just as fast as the blue G3 towers. tooki

Generally the chip fabs seem to be able to deliver a desktop-ready chipset (which runs hotter and uses more electricity) than the laptop-ready counterpart (which may have power man…

I seriously doubt a laptop will ever be as fast as a desktop. First, desktop cpus can run faster because they can run hotter. Second, it's a lot easier for desktops to sport dual…

It doesn't look like it will happen again, though as was mentioned in the past there were at least powerbooks with processors who's MHz rating was as high as the desktop (doesn't m…

Another factor is that the hard drives in PowerBooks generally spin at a slower rate than the drives in a desktop. This is done to conserve battery life, but performance takes a hi…

It's also because they're trying to save space. Notebooks use 2.5-inch drives, but desktops use 3.5-inch drives.

We will eventually get to the point where computer components have been miniaturized and refined so much that size will no longer really be a factor (in particular I am thinking th…

The speed differance for Apples desktops and laptops are increasing while in the wintel world it seems to be decreasing with the current laptops that actually use a 2.4Ghz Desktop …

Quote: Originally posted by maffioso: <STRONG> I can wish cant I Powerbook 1Ghz DDR 512MB 60GB 5400RPM GIGAWIRE Digital Audio Out Microphone ATI RADEON MOBILITY 7…

Quote: I think we will get only 933 Mhz... I totally agree, the move from 500 to 667 was roughly 33%. So going on that the next bump should be around the 86…

I doubt we'll have DDR ram, just because no Mac has made that leap, and I can't see it coming to the Powerbook at the same time it comes to the desktops. Besides that Alienware mon…

Running a Tibook 550 512/48gig/combo I have been doing all my Photoshop work in Sys 9 untill PSD 7 came out... I figured that since it was going to be optimized for OS X then the …

That's strange. The beta was pretty good even though it was slow at rendering filters. Can you please do some benchmarks so I can see the speed differences. I have the same laptop…

My lovely PB G4 400 cannot play DVD after I upgraded to OS X 10.1.4. So I think there is problem with the DVD-ROM. However, I found that it is still working when I insert music CD …

Not sure what to tell you except that my 400mhz Pismo still works fine after the update, so it is not a universal problem. It may just be that your drive is malfuctioning and that…

If the problem happened because you installed new software, then CLEARLY it's a software problem. Post your question in the Mac OS X forum AFTER searching it to make sure that nobo…

i was trying to fix this guys Lombard today. He has a VST DVD drive and hardware decoder card. They originally worked fine but he wierd his hard drive clean (he had 8.6) and inst…

Older DVD drives and software were finicky with certain DVDs - the Matrix was notorious for causing problems. Newer drives and software such as your Pismo fixed the problem. Vers…

I got the first post about the new 800 mhz powerbooks! Long live the Macintosh! Give us the G5... I kevin leidecker of KevTV.COM have claimed the first post about the new 800 mhz T…

hold on son, i'll go and bake you a friggin' cake and we can all party...

800MHz PowerPC G4 1MB L3 & 256K L2 cache 133MHz system bus 1GB SDRAM memory 60GB Ultra ATA drive Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 w/32MB DDR video memory Gi…

Thank you very much Apple, this is the perfect PB!!! Im ordering one tonight!!! Chris

God Bless Apple. A laptop that destroys most Desktops OMG! /me counts down days untill christmas DAMN

Now they just need to shave a $1000 bucks or off the price and it will be perfect. The screen rez is still too low. Tho for the price they are asking I would want the 64MB DDR vers…