Throughout all the debating that has raged on these boards in recent months concerning the future of the Powerbooks... if there will there be a g5, or will they go dual core g4's? …

I have had my 1.33 GHZ, 17 inch, 7200 rpm drive PBG4 for 25 months now. Aside from some key wear, it is in flawless condition. Even waited until last month to do the screen replace…

Quote: Originally Posted by volcano You'll be waiting a long[er] time for an Intel Powerbook, though. Like Apple said, they're going to transition the "consumer" computers first…

my current 1.67 will be fine until the 2nd or 3rd gen of intel pb's. i think those who own a fairly recent pb, 1.5ghz and up are in the best position. buying a 2nd or 3rd gen intel…

Why is anyone buying this pre-historic piece of crap? This is a very, very outdated machine. Nobody "needs" a laptop that bad. I can not believe people waste $2000 so easily. I…

Time= money. If I can get my rendering done faster... It's already paid for itse... OH HELL never mind. BAH, you don't care! I'm not even going to bother explaining. Why are you…

I don't know what you guys are all excited about with the first Mactel PBs. Heck, Yonah isn't even out and its being talked about in the past tense already. Given what we know why …

Quote: Originally Posted by TFunkadelic quit bitching about it. Apple isn't making you buy anything. No, but my school and my internship are. There's no good excuse for not…

Well, all I can say is that I'm going to hold on to my 1GHz TiBook for a while longer. The current machines just aren't enough of a boost to be worth upgrading to, I think. It's …

Power who.... get an ibook or wait for the mactels to be released

Can anyone identify any other Laptop that has the same specs, or exceeds those specs, of a new Powerbook 17"? I've looked quickly at Dell and Toshiba. Aside from a slightly faste…

I just bought the new powerbook 15" the resolution is much much better! bought I actually walked into the Apple Store in Los Angeles, where they had just got a shipment and bought …

Quote: Originally Posted by jhogarty Can anyone identify any other Laptop that has the same specs, or exceeds those specs, of a new Powerbook 17"? I've looked quickly at Dell a…

So, the new dual-core G5 Power Macs have some interesting new features: - two gigabit ethernet ports with jumbo frame support - support for ECC (error-correcting) RAM. This is ser…

16GB of ram. Wow.

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman 16GB of ram. Wow. and the price of that O_o, seriously though who would need the use of that, that wouldn't be using it as a server. Wha…

The old Power Mac G5s also supported 16GB of RAM in the 8-slot models -- but in typical Apple style, they didn't advertise this, since 2GB RAM modules didn't exist commonly back th…

two general comments: 1. the thing is a BEAST! 2. it's about damn time!

Quote: Originally Posted by voo What can you do with 16GB that you can't do with 8 or 4GB... Large database server applications, as well as scientific number crunching apps,…

Not that it probably matters for most users, but they dropped the internal modem also (as done on the updated iMac)

You can only assign ~2GB of RAM per application at this point, so unless you're writing or running some crazy applications at this point, more than 6 GB is probably overkill.

Is there water cooling on the Quad 2.5 Model????

Notice the 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200). That's nice but some PC's have 667 MHz available. (I don't know how much difference it makes). All expansion slots have been upgraded to …

Didn't know the PM came with an internal modem. I'm almost positive mine doesn't have one. J.

Quote: Originally Posted by bit.shiftr Is there water cooling on the Quad 2.5 Model???? I wondered the same thing. I hope it's relatively quiet, whatever the case. I notic…