Apple Store has new Power Books! — #46
Well 'mate' your not giving the Australian dollar enough justes. It is actualy like .53. It is pretty funny that the 'Faster' powerbook is more than $2,000AD cheaper in the USA t…
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Apple Store has new Power Books! — #47
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Originally posted by patrickjketelaar:
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Hey, Apple has this great new thing, much faster, and works better. AIRPORT....IRDA is dead. Embrace a new …
Apple Store has new Power Books! — #48
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Originally posted by clebin:
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And I have to be that person I'm afraid. I can't believe that Apple would remove IrDA from a professional laptop. Are…
Apple Store has new Power Books! — #49
I bought a 550 in early March. Last Friday Apple agreed that they would treat it as DOA owing to a recurrently faulty Power Adapter. I was told by them today that they have ordere…
Apple Store has new Power Books! — #50
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Originally posted by Rumpole:
<STRONG>I bought a 550 in early March. Last Friday Apple agreed that they would treat it as DOA owing to a recurrently faulty …
ATI RAGE in the new Powerbook — #1
When ATI announced the new Mobile video chip, they also siad it supports 8 MB VRAM on board, and 8 externally.....so, does the noew powerbook have this expandibility?
Dammit
ATI RAGE in the new Powerbook — #2
"Dammit",
I think what ATi means is that it can use 8 megabytes of system RAM for graphics. That happens a lot in the low-quality eMachines (gulp) computers. I would hope the Powe…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #1
According to FiringSquad the Rage 128 Mobility (same chip on Pismo) has hardware DVD decoding capability. Does anybody know if the Apple DVD Player takes advantage of this?
Here'…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #2
The player is aparently not using the Chip's mpeg2 decoding facility, as Apple advertise it as "Software DVD player". Maybe at a later date...
Maybe ATI should start to develop an…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #3
It would certainly be VERY cool if someone could get the ATI Mobility 128's DVD decoding to work.
Hardware decoding enables you go watch a DVD in the background or in a little win…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #4
Actually, from what I understand, Apple does use some of the chip's hardware. Just from looking at it on my Pismo, I would venture to say it does hardware scaling (because when you…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #5
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Originally posted by tooki:
I agree that ATI should write a DVD player for the Mac, seeing as how Apple refuses to make the effort...
And herein lies the one…
Hardware DVD on Pismo? — #6
from the ATI RAGE 128 FAQ:
Q13: Do the new RAGE 128 based Macintosh boards support DVD/Mpeg-2 acceleration?
A13: While the RAGE 128 chip can "power" software DVD playback, for it…