[Ti] 17" POWERBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brett V. Gaspers]

Looks like a desktop replacement to me. At another 1.5 pounds over 
the 15", I wouldn't relish hauling that through the airport. I'm 
still perfectly happy with my gig Ti; I also use a 1600x1200 external 
DVI display (Dell 2000FP, great display) with it, so display size 
doesn't matter so much.

I am kind of miffed that Airport Extreme isn't a backwards-compatible 
card, though.

Also, I believe the underlying bus, memory, etc. are still all the 
same as the existing PowerBook. I'll just wait a couple of years for 
the PPC970 with dual-channel DDR. Macs aren't going to do much Intel 
toasting until the infrastructure gets a complete overhaul.

Brett


>Message-Id: <a05200a01ba40de215725@[160.36.248.241]>
>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:44:02 -0500
>From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Ti] 17" POWERBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>>WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Yeah baby, yeah!!!
>
>It looks obscene. And unless you're flying 1st class you can't open
>it. The TiBook is big enough. If they put those specs in a titanium
>I'd buy it in a hardbeat.
>
>I'm not sure about this machine. Now the 12..... There's a different story.