Anyone wants to buy a 1.25GHz 15″ PowerBook for cheap? I’m really thinking of putting my hands on one of the new Intel MacBooks. I was prepared to be disappointed by this year’s Macworld keynote, as I didn’t expect much more than an Intel Mac Mini or iBook, but Jobs surprised all of us with the new products. Hereby some impressions on the announcements.
Sporting a brand new Intel Core Duo (Yonah) in a laptop, Apple is once again at the head of the pack, even in the hardware arena. And to think that it’s been barely seven months since the Intel move has been announced. Many observers predicted that it would have taken much longer for Cupertino to deliver its first significant Intel models, and that the wait would have cost them a significant drop in market share in the meantime. Nothing of this has happened and we can expect to see more and more Apple laptops around. With the new MacBook, there is no compelling reason (apart from the price maybe) for geeks and even most ordinary people to use a Wintel machine.
The price difference between the 1.67GHz and the 1.83GHz models is huge, even after upgrading memory and disk on the slower one. I’m not sure I’d take the latter.
The absence of an internal modem and a FireWire 800 port is mildly annoying. But I used the former only occasionally and never the latter, so I can live with that.
The new iMac and the software: nothing interesting to me here. My recently bought iMac G5 20″ is still a great machine and the software is nothing more than updates, apart from iWeb for which I have no use, personally.
For Gianugo: to me the MacBook looks the same color as the PowerBook, that is aluminum (not titanium). The darker color in some photos looks like an artifact of lighting.
The first? Really? Aren’t you being a Mac zealot?
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2697
Or this: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_9400?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Unsubscribed.
I’d beware first-gen hardware, especially Apple Laptops. The Aluminum Powerbooks were *notorious* for defects, and they were even having problems as late as the third revision.
Granted, all hardware has problems, but I’d not be at all surprised if, 6 months to a year down the line, people start reporting something failing (screen, motherboard, etc).
I’d wait a revision