Here's something to wonder: How is Apple going to appeal to customers in a megahertz-influenced world? The average consumer is going to think the portables are getting slower! ht…

I'd imagine the Mercury's will be 500 MHz. Don

I agree with Sean, I also hate the ibook trackpad. The button is way to hard and tricky to be functional. I guess a 500/600MHz range would be resonable, ie purchasable, even thou…

Quote: Originally posted by seanyepez: I hate the new trackpad on the iBooks! Please do not replace the solid-state kind... http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/frown.gif …

Quote: But,laptops are getting extremely slim and shiny and I have no idea how Apple is gonna stand with all this... Let's hope Apple can keep the design mome…

Quote: If they made a laptop as beautiful as the Cube I might have to purchase it on the spot. Amen. I am still stunned by the look of the Cube. Especially wh…

Quote: Amen. I am still stunned by the look of the Cube. Especially when it's driving the 15" flat screen Wow. Do that to a PowerBook and they'll sell like hotcakes. …

Quote: Originally posted by Don Pickett: If God's in the detail, I know what kind of computer s/he/it uses. . . You do remember the old joke about Bill Gates dying …

I do remember that joke, and some others. There isn't a computer maker around (and hardly a manufacturer, for that matter) with design as integrated and effective and Apple. Every…

Emailed Newer and asked them this: Quote: What are the chances for seeing a G4 upgrade for the PowerBook (Firewire)s sometime in the future - say, one year, or two? I …

Don: That's very encouraging news indeed. But the gentleman from Newer put it best when he said that an design that is made specifically for the G4 (i.e. Mercury) will be able to …

Which is why I set the time frame at a year or two. Hopefully, by that time, lower power/heat G4s will be out. As far as I can tell, the big difference between the Mercury and the …

I would say that everything depends on the charm of the new comer, ie mercury. After all, I like to have a new machine every season and people asking me "Oh, is this the new one?..…

[quote] But it would be easier and cheeper for me to upgrade the cpu and vram.[/qoute] Upgrading the processor is, as we have seen, relatively easy. Upgrading the VRAM is some ver…

What I want is a 3D card that you can add to a notebook via PCMCIA. It's fast enough, right? The only problem is getting the signal from the PCMCIA slot to the display without cau…

Both Newer and Magma make PCI expansion chassis which give the PowerBook the ability to add video cards, SCSI, etc. I don't know how the performance is with video, but it might be …

Quote: What I want is a 3D card that you can add to a notebook via PCMCIA. It's fast enough, right? I would imagine. ATi and 3dfx make and sell PCI versions o…

http://www.internetishop.com/pictures/newlap.jpg WEIGHS 7.0 x lbs (7.0 x 10?!?!?!!?!) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2016106106 Right down the tibook's isle!!! Pe…

Now *that* is funny. Quote: Mobility A DeskNote performs at the same speed of a desktop, uses less space than a desktop, and functions as well as a desktop, With ad…

Doesnt sound all that practical to me... a laptop format for a desk use only, where you need an external battery, and where the thing weights 7 pounds? Heck the web site says that…

Place your bids now!! You just know that this is going to be a popular one!

I would much rather remove my Ti battery and make it about 3 lbs.

anyone (apart from a collector or someone with way too much money) who buys this hunk of crap is a complete idiot.

I don't know.... it's not for me but I can see how this type of machine (maybe not this one in particular, but this type) could appeal to some people. I happen to use my laptop in…

Hmm, that looks exactly like a laptop my no-brand-name local computer reseller just started selling... and at $500 less than what this e-bay guy wants, too. http://www.ditcorp.com/…