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post #21 of 35
7/26/05 at 10:43pm
The refresh is quite good. For $1250CAD you can get a pretty solid notebook in the 12" iBook. Quite a bit better (for the most part) than what's out there for around that price at your leading Futureshop/BestBuy.

The mini I'm not so impressed with. Thought there would be a upgrade to the video at least which is pretty anemic to say the least.
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post #22 of 35
7/26/05 at 11:11pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
Tria...where did you hear the mobo in the mini is based on those of the iBook? I can't imagine that being true considering all the extra space the iBooks have compared to the mini.
from many of the reviews of the Mini. i didn't mean that it's the same mobo, just that all of the tech (ports, GPU, controllers, etc) were based off of the G4 notebook systems. i.e.-from macworld: "Although the Mac mini is a desktop machine, many of its components—hard drives, optical drives, processor, and graphics card—are the same as those in the iBook G4."
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post #23 of 35
7/27/05 at 2:25am
That's a completely different thing from the mobos being based off the iBook mobos.

Considering how small everything is in the mini they probably can't add better video without having to add another fan or a larger heatsink. They'll have to wait until better video chips can be made to fit the space and use mostly passive cooling.
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post #24 of 35
7/27/05 at 3:54am
Well i've ordered my iBook... it says it's shipped... but delivery time; 7 days? where are they shipping from, the moon?
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post #25 of 35
7/27/05 at 5:52am
but i guess the upgrades in speed couldnt go very far.... since currently the powerbooks lowest speed is 1.5GHz... they can't let the ibook be similar... so e nxt fastest after 1.33GHz and less than 1.5GHz would be 1.42GHz.... i guess apple's speedbumps are predictable by now in terms of numbers... if there is gonna be another revision for the pbooks... the nxt one will most probably be 1.8GHz... with 1.67GHz as the lower end... and for the next ibook rev it would be 1.5GHz...

1GHz... 1.25GHz... 1.33GHz... 1.5GHz... 1.42GHz... 1.67GHz... 1.8GHz... 2.0GHz...

pretty predictable numbers...
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post #26 of 35
7/27/05 at 6:22am
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Originally Posted by kuurosan
Well i've ordered my iBook... it says it's shipped... but delivery time; 7 days? where are they shipping from, the moon?
if u custom ordered anything it'll likely be shipping from china.
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post #27 of 35
7/27/05 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by kuurosan
Well i've ordered my iBook... it says it's shipped... but delivery time; 7 days? where are they shipping from, the moon?
If you BTO (built to order), then it ships from china and it may take a bit longer. It took my order (BTO) 7 days (including weekends) from order to at my doorstep.
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post #28 of 35
7/27/05 at 2:11pm
No, I've ordered a stock 12".. but from what people are saying about apple stores not having of the new iBooks, it might get shipped from over there anyway
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post #29 of 35
7/28/05 at 11:43pm
When will they upgrade the PowerBooks?
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post #30 of 35
7/29/05 at 1:04am
Most likely around October, assuming they don't hold off and wait until the Intel switch.
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post #31 of 35
7/29/05 at 5:38pm
They can't upgrade until Freescale releases the PPC7448.
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post #32 of 35
7/30/05 at 12:26am
They could upgrade to the low power G5s by IBM right now if they wanted to, but it's doubtful it's going to happen.
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post #33 of 35
7/30/05 at 5:45pm
IBM announced the low power G5s, they didn't say anything about them shipping.
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post #34 of 35
7/30/05 at 9:38pm
it would still take time even if they wanted to upgrade to the low power G5s...
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post #35 of 35
8/1/05 at 2:55pm
Ok, so my iBook finally arrived. I'm typing this while having a cigarette in the garden. No dead pixels! That's the main thing, my only little gripe is that when the book is closed, there is quite a lot of 'give' between the screen lid and the base... I guess what im trying to say is when closed it just doesn't feel tight enough. Anyways, it's all good so far with me and my first Mac
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