[Ti] Hardiness of the AlBook/TiBook replacement

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 19:26 +0100 31-3-2003, <c.buttimer at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
>Dear owners of AlBooks,

I am (an original, RevA) Ti-500 owner, but took the liv=berty of replying ...

>Being an owner of the rather delicate TiBook, I was wondering whether any of
>you had yet had reason to be grateful for the toughness of their aluminium
>casing? In other words - are they as durable as might be hoped for?

I do not feel that my Ti-500 is "delicate".  It is not solid and 
durable like the Pismo, but it gets a lot of movment and handling by 
me over the last 2+ years, and I have seen no effects.  Where it has 
been in and out of my briefcase thousands of times, there is some 
wearing of the grey surface, but it is minor cosmetic.

>And a second more generally directed question - will Apple continue to
>manufacture the 15" TiBook for much longer or is it likely to be recased to
>be more consistent with its larger and smaller siblings?

I have no knowledge, but I am expecting that the 15" will re-vamped 
soon, once the 12" and 17" are really out there in some numbers.
Nobody makes any computer as slow as 500 MHz anymore.....
I myself would definitely prefer to have all the connections at the 
back, to make for a neater desk, but am realistically expecting that 
the new hinge design will dominate over that consideration.
To me, the 15" seems an optimum between portability and performance.
I can see no reason why I - for what I do - would ever buy a desktop 
machine ever again, after 6 years with only a laptop.  I expect that 
later 2003 or early 2004 I will move to a new 15" laptop.
With my 40Gb 5400 drive and soon to be 1 Gb RAM, running 10.2.4, I 
will be fine for about another year, if I can keep my desire for "the 
latest" under control.

regards,  Trevor