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sold pb 15inch now waiting for pb g5

post #1 of 8
4/10/05 at 4:02pm
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ohhh the misery ad the pain for waiting for apple to refresh their pb line. I know the imac, powermac and emac are being updated this spring as thinksecret stated but they havent talked too much about the g5 pb even though other sources claim the pb g5 is coming out in Q2 05 i mean it does seem very realistic. What do you guys think?
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post #2 of 8
4/10/05 at 4:08pm
Nah...

I hear they are having MAJOR cooling issues fitting the G5 into the PowerBook shell without adding alot of weight / thickness, so it may not be as viable a possibility...

Thats my 2 cents, then again, I only know what I've read :P
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post #3 of 8
4/10/05 at 5:47pm
apperently IBM have some new g5 chips that should fit in a powerbook, maybe Q3 or Q3 2005.
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post #4 of 8
4/10/05 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by bobx2001
apperently IBM have some new g5 chips that should fit in a powerbook, maybe Q3 or Q3 2005.
ahh but i do think ad i think everyone will agree the resoultion sucks on apple i dont understand why they give the crappiest lcd to the top of the line powerbook.
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post #5 of 8
4/10/05 at 7:21pm
Is it the resolution? I know they set the screen to like 100 dpi because it is the most comfortable for reading text, looking at graphics, etc...but by "resolution", you mean 1024x768, etc.?
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post #6 of 8
4/10/05 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by Cliekid
Is it the resolution? I know they set the screen to like 100 dpi because it is the most comfortable for reading text, looking at graphics, etc...but by "resolution", you mean 1024x768, etc.?
yea resoultion like 1024x768 will i tihnk apple should have two options at no cost ppl who have eye probles or people who like high resoltions! And not this crap of how its easier to read i mean this screens are really ugly looking.
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post #7 of 8
4/13/05 at 8:21am
If the G5 does come out this soon, it's gonna be hobbled to deal with the heat and power consumption.

Personally, I wish Apple would bite the bullet and build a dual G4 laptop and just say, here it is, 1.5 inches thick, 9 pounds and the battery lasts 1 hour, but it's still portable.

I just need a portable mac that I can approach desktop work with. Now the gulf is too large. Edit and MPEG-2 compress a 1 hour long video on a G4 1.5GHz? No thanks.
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post #8 of 8
4/13/05 at 8:07pm
it's not going to, during the quarterly call the g5 in a laptop was said to still be "the mother of all thermal challenges"

perhaps they say that so they get mad credit.. but even the processor specs are showing it's no where near ready for a powerbook. Once again i think i dual g4 may come out sooner.. but even that will be toward the end of the year.

fwiw see my post about performance increase.. from a usability standpoint tiger is going to have a major impact..at least it seems.
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