Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #37
Come on people! Get with the programme!
Next PowerBook wants Ghz processor top model, with an 800Mhz as the entry model. iBook wants 733 Mhz G4 with less cache.
Give the iBook th…
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Sony raises the bar. How will Apple respond? — #38
while sony's laptops may look cool and be light, they suck. ive had to fix so many of them at work. i dunno what sony does to them but their quality is crap.
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…
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…
VST expansion — #1
want to backup my system folder or hard drive and think I would need a VST 10 GB expansion drive that I hear everyone talking about, but cant seem to find it.
just went to the…
VST expansion — #2
Well, the sad news is that they crashed the price on those hard drives so they could get rid of the extra inventory and remove the product from their stock.
You'll have to get one…
VST expansion — #3
My company is a reseller of VST/SmartDisk and we are out too. We've also been told they are gone. Sorry.
VST expansion — #4
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Originally posted by esuebrown:
<STRONG>...Is there a non firewire HD on that site that anyone knnows about ??? (as you can tell I really have little know…
VST expansion — #5
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Originally posted by jvoelzow:
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An expansion bay drive slips into the side port (the "expansion bay") of your PB, like the CD player does (or the b…
VST expansion — #6
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Originally posted by esuebrown:
<STRONG> I have a pwbk 400 bronze lombard 20 HD/ 512 RAM..... not using firewire although I do have it.</STRONG>
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VST expansion — #7
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Originally posted by cElls:
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Are you sure it's a Lombard? Lombards don't have FireWire, they have SCSI. Pismos (which look exactly the same, but it…
VST expansion — #8
oops! just got the yellow "posting on the wrong forum notice" sorry ! actually I really didn't even give it a thought that it was in the wrong forum when I posted it. will do b…
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…