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Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I hear eBay has no feelings.
And yet it's been so good to me for finding obscure records.
Oh well, back to gemm.com.
I see that the petition is gathering strength in numbers and posts.
Even if it's only a mental exercise for those of us signing it, it's still a small mental victory. I think…
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Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Even if it's only a mental exercise for those of us signing it, it's still a small mental victory. I think it's good.
Time a…
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Originally posted by Skip Breakfast:
eBay is not a monopoly. Take your business elsewhere if you don't like the policies.
I think Starbuck's is too damned exp…
Has anyone noticed that the images of the new PowerBooks are a lot brighter than old images? I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint, and is responding to …
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Originally posted by nuggetman:
my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness
i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes
You've obviously nev…
The same applies to my iBook. I was in Starbucks the other day with it and had to ask an employee to put the window shades down, as the afternoon sun was making my iBook screen har…
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Originally posted by ender2002:
most laptops screen have horrible quality outside...
Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios...
Fujitsu has the "Crystal View Outdoor Enhanced Screen" where as Sony simply calls it "XBRITE". Not sure what other PC manufacturers call this technology but there definitely is a d…
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
Apple has always had pretty good screens.
Yeah, I agree. Comparing to the Dell laptops that we use at school, (Centrino) the …
I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in my mind that the pictures on the screens were Pho…
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Originally posted by WJMoore:
I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in m…
Yep for sure.... It would be nice if Apple at least made better screens available BTO, kind of like, dare I say it, dell. You can up the price of a machine by quite a bit just by t…
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
Correct! The images on the screens are not real - there is no way to tell brightness from the images on the website.
Oy. I am a…
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Originally posted by tavilach:
I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint
To be honest, I haven't heard of any screen brightness compl…
my disappointment is when i put my revC 12" alubook next to my girlfriend's 15" revC;
her screen is noticeably brighter, sharper.
having said that, the 12" is, on it's own, brigh…
Hm... I have it the other way around, my PB 12" is not as good as the new iBook 12" 1.25GHz. I put them side by side and my father-in-law said how come your more expensive model h…
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Originally posted by phantomo:
Hm... I have it the other way around, my PB 12" is not as good as the new iBook 12" 1.25GHz. I put them side by side and my father…
Talk about nitpicking! They're images on a web site! I doubt there are secret reasons why the images are brighter. They are against a black background, for one thing. Relax.
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