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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:08:40 -0400 Subject: Which Powerbook? From: Jim Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My wife is buying a new Powerbook to go with her new teaching job. So the question is, which one? My suggestion is for the 12" G4. My reasoning is that it represents the most recent technology, where the 15" TiBook is a bit older design and the iBook even older with a G3 processor. It also is very small and light--a plus. Still, it would be nice to have a bigger screen than the 12". If that were so, how would the 14" iBook go versus the 867mhz TiBook. Any thoughts or suggestions?
One immediate thought - wait until after 16 September! It seems quite possible that there will be announcements on that day regarding the portable range. The most common rumours are of a replacement for the TiBook, to match the 12" and 17" AiBooks. There may also be speed-bumps for those two machines,especially the 12" - its minimum speed (867 Mhz) is looking slow now. And who knows, there may also be price cuts. Of course it's unlikely that any new machines will actually be available immediately, but at least you'll know the overall situation.
I won't go over the ground that others have already covered. One thing that I don't think anyone has mentioned is the ability of the Powerbooks to run a second monitor at a different resolution from the LCD screen. I have recently bought a 12" Powerbook, mainly for the portability, but when I'm in my office here at home I generally hook it up to a good 19" monitor and run that at 1280 x 1024. When I'm settling down for a Photoshop Elements session it's nice to have that extra screen area to use. Only the Powerbooks can do this; the iBooks are limited to mirroring, at the same resolution as the LCD screen.
Oh, I also learned that the 12" Powerbook, with its mini-VGA connector, certainly benefits from using a high-quality VGA lead to the monitor. The crappy cheap lead I was initially using caused screen ghosting, and had me worried for a while. Switching to a good VGA lead changed everything.
Tom Burke
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