Quote: Originally posted by maffioso: <STRONG>If you can honestly tell me that in its current form a PB is worth $2800 then you have way too much money.</STRONG…

By taking the Alienware comp down to a 1.8ghz P4, the price drops to $2384. Mac or not, that is a good deal. However, I am loyal to Apple. I just hope that they can boost the TiBoo…

...oops... http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.html There goes another one at $1995. Somebody SLAP me... ...yikes... http://www.eurocom.ca/ Remember; I must wait for the new v…

Quote: Originally posted by Spheric Harlot: <STRONG> You link to that Toshiba laptop. Nice machine. Cheaper than a tiBook. Also lower-specced. Need FireWire? Whoo…

Thats awesome! It can have 2 cd-drives in there at once. But it too has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 64MB DDR . I sure hope that the next Tibook revision comes with the 64mb versio…

My Dell Pentium90 laptop also had the ability to change batteries on-the-fly - back in 1995...and so does every laptop made since then. Also, if you close the lid on ANY laptop ma…

Quote: It is also a quite well-known fact that the lower-specced Powerbook ($2000) is a better deal, price/performance-wise. This has been the case at least since the…

The only real bummer is that it weighs about 10 lbs; twice the weight of my little lovely Ti. http://homepage.mac.com/bhardy3/PhotoAlbum3.html [ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: urr…

Quote: Originally posted by urrl5201: <STRONG>The only real bummer is that it weighs about 10 lbs; twice the weight of my little lovely Ti. http://homepage.mac.com…

Hey, you're not supposed to talk me into buying one! I'm calling the MacHead Police on you!

VERY VERY VERY UNLIKELY: Powerbook Ti 1Ghz 400Mhz FSB 512MB DDR ATI RADEON 7500 64MB 60GB Harddrive Superdrive(removable) so an extra battery can be added! Bluetooth Increased sc…

Quote: Originally posted by maffioso: <STRONG> Well take a look at these figures it may interest you... Powerbook: 550Mhz G4 100Mhz FSB 256MB SDRAM 20GB Harddri…

Wow, I never get tired of reading threads like these. On one side we have the guy who says Apple's hardware is a ripoff (even if it is roundly praised by every tech publication an…

Quote: Originally posted by maffioso: <STRONG>How much would you pay for my dream PB? Any extra suggestions?</STRONG> I'd pay double the price of t…

I think I'll sit on my 500 Mhz Ti another year at least, simply because it does the job (video editing, DVD, etc) well. I do plan to take the chipped paint off of the metal hinge e…

My 500 Mhz Tibook does the job just fine. I can email, surf, write, edit sound, update my website, retouch photo's do some lightweight video. Never a problem. Ofcourse it would be…

I've got a laptop with 2 optical drives- It's very handy. You can install 2 things at once, etc...

Quote: Originally posted by urrl5201: <STRONG>I do plan to take the chipped paint off of the metal hinge ends with paint remover. The Titanium underneath looks fan…

One other thing - note that this machine is not made by Toshiba, Sony, Dell or even Comcrap . . . Alienware? Eurocom is a company I know, and boy, do you ever want to stay away fr…

Quote: Originally posted by milhaus: <STRONG>One other thing - note that this machine is not made by Toshiba, Sony, Dell or even Comcrap . . . Alienware? Eurocom …

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…