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Macworld and the Powerbook G5
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hoping for a Powerbook G5 to be announced at Macworld. Basically, I’ve noticed that more and more often, apps are requiring a G5. The iMac is already a G5, and it’s a consumer product, and yet, the ‘Power’ laptop line has no G5. To put it bluntly, Apple is completely contradicting itself with the lack of any kind of G5book.
With the G4s, we had a PowerMac, then a PowerBook, then an iMac/eMac, then an iBook. At the rate we’re going, the cheapest desktop Mac may be a G5, and the most expensive portable one may not be.
Anyway, I just figured I’d rant and say to apple, “You better come through this January, so that I can plunk down $3,000 and get a Powerbook that’s actually… powerful.”
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ìYou better come through this January, so that I can plunk down $3,000 and get a Powerbook thatís actuallyÖ powerful.î
? :’( mine nifty albook isnt powerful?? wahh!!
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I think a G5 powerbook makes as much sense as a P4 notebook. If Apple wants to make a really good notebook system they should copy what Intel is doing with the Pentium-M. Aside from clunky desktop replacement systems running Athlon 64s, the only really viable notebook processors are the Pentium-M and Celeron-M. Everything else falls short of them in the power usage to performance ratio.
Apple should seperate their desktop and notebook processor lines. The PowerMac gets dual G5s, the iMac gets a single G5. The Powerbook should get the top end processor designed from the ground up for notebook use and the iBook gets a lower end version of it (maybe for the time sticking to a G4). This would also help from a marketing perspective as nobody would be complaining that there’s no G5 powerbook. The obvious answer is “of course not, the G5 is a desktop processor”.
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Think of the iMac as a stepping stone on the way to a Powerbook G5. It doesn’t have the monsterous size of the Power Mac, but it’s still twice as thick as the Powerbooks.
Don’t worry, the time will come.