Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #39
I used one at the Sony store in Ginza. (I'in Tokyo right now.)
They're solidly-built machines, but they're heavy as hell. The display was purely amazing, though.
I still prefer m…
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Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #40
Video card junkies,
From what I've read a pin compatible Radeon 7500M ought to fit right in to the current TiBook MoBo with little revision, bump it to 32MB and that's probably t…
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #41
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Originally posted by Matsu:
<STRONG>Video card junkies,
From what I've read a pin compatible Radeon 7500M ought to fit right in to the current TiBook MoBo…
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #42
If you ran that thing at full 1.7ghz with the screen on full desktop brightness and cd-r burning ufll blast, you'd see it catch on fire and run out of battery in about 1 minute.
R…
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #43
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Originally posted by TNproud2b:
<STRONG>Sony with 16" screen is 8.4 pounds including one battery and optical drive. Battery life is described as 2.5 - 3.5 …
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #44
Actually, it has the same battery life as a TiBook. Consumes the same amount of watts.
How long do the batteries last on a Mac laptop running OSX? 2.5hrs
It's simple mathematic…
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #45
I agree that the build quality on Sonys are sorely lacking. Along with the rest of their shortcomings. I just hope this DOES make Apple going a little bit higher on screen rez, and…
Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #46
I don't know about everybody else here, but I just really love using my tibook and macos x. Everything works smoothly, setting up networks connections is a breeze, the pb is beauti…
Where to buy Travelstar 60GB? — #1
Does anyone know a good deal for the Travelstar 60GH 60GB hard drive? The Dell deal is over and the only places I've found are TransIntl ($419) and Googlegear ($403). Anyone know a…
Where to buy Travelstar 60GB? — #2
Googlegear.com is the cheapest source of the 60-gigabyte IBM TravelStar 60GH. They're also a very reputable vendor and users from this forum have had excellent experience with them…
Motorola 667 7451 features — #1
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps...odeId=01M98653
Power Management
MPC7451 processors feature a low-power 1.8-volt design with three power-saving user-programmable modes -- …
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #1
Take a look at the MPC7445 chip:
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps...30450467M98653
Looks to me like Apple might use this chip in the next PowerBook??
Faster and cooler than …
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #2
mmm, yah, but at 140 to 180 percent increase in power usage (goin by that chart) you'd see a corresponding drop in battery life...ugh... not any time soon...
:r
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #3
The PPC is just one component it wouldn't produce a directly proportional drop in battery life. Besides, the battery could be improved -- larger, denser (heavier ) designs are p…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #4
How long did it take to get from 500 megahertz to 667 megahertz? Too long. The fastest Apple's jumped in portable "megahertz" is 167 megahertz, and that took two PowerBook revision…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #5
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
<STRONG>How long did it take to get from 500 megahertz to 667 megahertz? Too long. The fastest Apple's jumped in portable "m…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #6
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
<STRONG>The fastest we'll see are 800-megahertz G4's.</STRONG>
Together with a (purely speculative of course…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #7
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Originally posted by workerbee:
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Together with a (purely speculative of course) 32MB ATI Mobile Radeon 7500, this would mean the TiBook is almost ex…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #8
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Originally posted by workerbee:
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Together with a (purely speculative of course) 32MB ATI Mobile Radeon 7500, this would mean the TiBook is almost ex…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #9
From what I understand the current Ti's use the 7451:
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC7451&nodeId=03M9430304504 67M98653
I talked to a Pow…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #10
They're actually different chips.
The third-generation iMacs are actually "prosumer" machines and not entry-level computers anymore. Apple is retaining its CRT iMac as the low-e…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #11
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Originally posted by seanyepez:
<STRONG>A Pismo user myself, I think I'm going to have to upgrade to the next PowerBook revision. It's sad to say, but the P…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #12
Very strange!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I looked at this page two weeks ago and it said that the 7445 was only available up to 800Mhz?!?!? What happened? All of a sudden they got 1Ghz versions.…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #13
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Originally posted by workerbee:
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Heck, all the Macromedia stuff I'm using runs much better on Wintel anyway, and XP runs rings around OSX in its pre…
1GHz PowerBook using the MPC7445?? — #14
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Originally posted by msykes:
<STRONG>Why the heck do you want an Apple anyways, sounds like you are happier with Wintel... so go for it!</STRONG>
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