-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:53:49AM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >They may not have many (any?) left at this point since the announcement > >was made Tuesday night, however.. > > > >Digital Duck (UO bookstore) is selling Powerbooks at vastly insanely low > >prices right now, while their stock holds. > > iPods available also?
Seperately and at student prices. > > These Apples are the juicy > >kind. The Powerbook 12 I will be bringing with me tomorrow is a G4 867 > >with 640 megs and a 60 gig HD. Oh, the bundle includes the superdrive > >(DVD-R in a sub-5lb notebook!) and Airport Extreme for 802.11g wireless > >goodness. Cost? $1649. > > Built-in Bluetooth also! Included with the 12s. The 15s don't have bluetooth though since they are the older TiBook. If you're concerned about the crunchy shell/creamy filling issues of anodized aluminum though, you may prefer a TiBook, of which they have more, even without niftyness like bluetooth. > >Wednesday morning when I went in to buy it, they > >had 45 of them. Apparently half their stock went away just today. > > Definitely, if you are a student and qualify for this discount; it is more > attractive than the developer discount. Absolutely. =) Lane students, bring a unofficial transcript or something with you so that the UO people can see that you are indeed a student. > >Since many of us are Linux fans, some warnings about Linux on the above > >mentioned badass system: > > > >1. GeForce 420 Go is not supported well (at all?) by XFree yet and NV > > doesn't make even binary drivers for Linux PPC. > >2. Airport Extreme has no linux driver support. > > Don't personally know about Linux PPC specific issues. I downloaded the > latest Yellow Dog distro (allegedly the most mature Linux PPC ) and soon > will try to install it on my G4 Tower. My biggest concern about PPC Linux > is the status of Firewire support; "not ready for prime time" would limit > my use of Linux PPC vs. running native OS X. Lack of graphics support would > be a major disappointment, but we all are comfortable at command line, > right? Since I last commented on the state of firewire, I have actually begun using it with my iPod.. Because I have one firewire device, when I am finished using it, I unload the sbp2 module.. If I did not wish to do this, I could make use of the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script, which is IMO a bit of a hack (and one of the reasons the support for Firewire is not yet as mature as it should be..) It all works, at any rate. > No Airport Extreme support, but probably have support for older 802.11 a or > b? The issue is that the Powerbook 12 lacks a PCMCIA slot in any traditional place to put one. It features an internal slot inside the battery compartment, but lacks an ejection mechanism, so I am unsure if the standard airport would fit in its place. The Powerbook 15 is ready to go for Linux, as far as I know. > >Student pricing on an iBook 12 with combo drive (G3 900) with the same RAM > >and disk, which are maxed out of course, and an Airport card comes out to > >be within $100 of the Powerbook 12. Conclusion: If you want an OS X box, > >take some Lane class so you qualify as a student and get one while you > >can. Else, you probably can get a better deal on the slightly larger and > >heavier iBook without the DVD-R drive and find yourself much happier with > >the results overall. The difference between a G4 867 and G3 900 matters > >only to gamers and Photoshop people, really. > > If possible, get the one with the DVD burner. You won't regret it. Though, burning DVDs on a notebook has got to be impressively slow. > >UO has a similar nice deal on the Powerbook 15 - that's the actual TiBook. > >Someone else will have to describe the Linuxability of the thing. I would > >rather not have a case that is painted to make it look shiny (I actually > >like the darker look of bare titanium personally), and we already know > >from watching me lug the Gateway around that the size of a 15" screen > >based notebook is too much to carry easily. > > No chance to get the 17" Powerbook? Not at a deal like this! =D Here are the deals they offer: From: DigitalDuck Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Jun 17, 2003 18:59:24 PDT To: DigitalDuck Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PowerBook Specials!!! Hello All! We have a couple PowerBook summer specials to tell you about! The 12" PowerBooks are in stock and we have a ton* of 15" PowerBooks on the way. If you are purchasing for a department please contact us for your price. ==== 12" PowerBook Custom Configuration - 867 MHz SuperDrive 640 MB RAM 60 GB HD Bluetooth built-in AirPort Extreme card Standard Individual Price: $1983 Special Individual Price: $1649 === 15" PowerBook 1GHz M8859LL/A - 75 units due to arrive in the next two weeks. SuperDrive 512 MB RAM 60 GB HD AirPort card Standard Individual Price: $2449 Special Individual Price: $1899 - Both of the PowerBooks listed above qualify for the $100 and $200 'back to school' mail-in rebates currently offered by Apple on printers and iPods (not applicable to institution purchases). See the following site for further detail: http://www.apple.com/education/hed/students/bts/ - Limited to available stock on hand. Price and/or spec subject to change. * references a Digital Duck ton: a measure of 75 computers. ==== Enjoy the sun! The Digital Duck - -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cogito eggo sum (I think therefore I am a waffle) <Reed> It is important to note that the primary reason the Roman Empire fail is that they had no concept of zero... thus they could not test the success or failure of their C programs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3 iEYEARECAAYFAj7yILcACgkQj/fXo9z52rNy6QCgkLkEhNYBSWsSMfANnCS7AMaW gMEAnRbSofsBddIW8FjEwd/qd3J0oRrM =GgPF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug