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No more powerbooks !!!!

Post by SuperMegatron »

Apple has killed off the powerbook and replaced it with the stupid named macbook pro it has 2 intel cpus and better battery life.
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Post by melancholy »

They ditched the white, therefore making it look like ever other laptop on the market.
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Post by Strapping Scherzo »

So does that mean this is the first official Apple to use the x86 version of OSX?
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Post by melancholy »

Strapping Scherzo wrote:So does that mean this is the first official Apple to use the x86 version of OSX?
It would have to be.
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Post by MulletMan13 »

Ditched the white? This is the predecessor to the PowerBook... the next iBook is yet to come out....
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Post by Disheveled DrFreeze »

holy crap those things are overpriced

and without the distinctive white to scream to the world "HEY LOOK AT MY I LOVE MY IPOD SO MUCH I BOUGHT ITS BIG BROTHER" you just payed twice as much for a intel core duo laptop as you should have, just to run a heavily modified version of unix

sounds like a deal to me

i also looked over the refurb section in the shop, full of rip offs if you ask me
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Post by Covar »

/me is going to look into getting the imac
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melancholy wrote:They ditched the white, therefore making it look like ever other laptop on the market.
Powerbooks have been aluminium for a while now.
Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:and without the distinctive white to scream to the world "HEY LOOK AT MY I LOVE MY IPOD SO MUCH I BOUGHT ITS BIG BROTHER"
Powerbooks have been aluminium for a while now.
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Post by MulletMan13 »

Hrmm... I don't see how you guys think it's any different... it's just a quicker PowerBook with the same prices that it was at before.

Also, dual yonah laptops (the ones that have been announced) are all upwards of $2000.... don't see how it's any surprise.
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Post by Matt »

So, its not dual core, its 2 separate cpu's wtf
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Post by MulletMan13 »

Nah it's dual core, but its not the "dual centrino" thats been going around.
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Post by Disheveled DrFreeze »

mattthemodder wrote:So, its not dual core, its 2 separate cpu's wtf
no it doesnt, they simply use a single "intel core duo" AKA yonah

oddly enough these same (mobile) chips are also used in the new imacs, i wonder if intel can keep up with demand for these things
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Post by Matt »

Ok, I wasn't entirely sure, they didn't call it dual core
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Post by greay »

"MacBook Pro" is a really dumb name, though.
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Post by mink03 »

oh noes. i needs new pants....but i don thave money for that.. gonna have to settle for a used dual g4 off ebay for my editing needs...i miss free school computers
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Post by melancholy »

ace wrote:
melancholy wrote:They ditched the white, therefore making it look like ever other laptop on the market.
Powerbooks have been aluminium for a while now.
Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:and without the distinctive white to scream to the world "HEY LOOK AT MY I LOVE MY IPOD SO MUCH I BOUGHT ITS BIG BROTHER"
Powerbooks have been aluminium for a while now.
Well they shouldn't be. If I cannot have a colored video game console, I prefer white over black or shades of grey. Same goes for laptops. That's why I liked the look of white Mac laptops over most of the PC laptops out there.

...at least until I found my blue Toshiba. :mrgreen:
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Post by SuperMegatron »

These things can boot windows too. Msnbc had interviewed a guy from apple and he said no steps were taken to block the install of windows onto either the imac or the macbook then a ms guy said microsoft was commited to making office for the mac for 5 years and that they were excited about having the ability to run windows on any pc.
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SuperMegatron wrote:These things can boot windows too. Msnbc had interviewed a guy from apple and he said no steps were taken to block the install of windows onto either the imac or the macbook then a ms guy said microsoft was commited to making office for the mac for 5 years and that they were excited about having the ability to run windows on any pc.
But the question remains; does it work the other way around? Can I install OSX on this PC I'm building next week? Because if I could, I would be ordering a copy of x86 OSX the day it was released.
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Post by MulletMan13 »

Very doubtful that you will freely be able to install the OS on any hardware.... officially.

Hackers will get around it, and people will complain when the OS freezes/locks up, runs bad, etc. when the hardware they're running it on arent even supported.

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Post by melancholy »

It just seems strange that Windows can freely be installed on a Mac, but Apple refuses to allow OSX to be installed on any system.

Actually, I guess it does make sense since they would practically be pushed out of the hardware industry if people could build their own computer and just use their software. Not that they couldn't fall back on the iPod, but still.
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