[Ti] PB's were in real danger of falling behind

[Gary Wall]

Please, I've seen one of those Porche designed so called "challenging". 
What a cheap piece of CR*P!. I've seen it once in a magizine article. 
Sure looks cool on paper, but up close. The case is plastic, feels and 
looks cheap. No comparison at all to the TiBook at all. When the sony 
Viao came out it also had it's share of problems. All the little plastic 
doors used to break of at the hinges.  I've seen some truly nice Toshiba 
laptops, some of them have really good sound for a laptop. That's about 
the only place I see TiBooks falling down. But I'd rather use a set of 
those new creature speakers from Bose anyways.
Just my 2cents.
Gary
TiBook 667MHz GB Ether

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 02:34 AM, XXL wrote:

>> On 1/18/03 7:43 PM, "XXL" <xxl at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It
>>> was felt that PB's were in real danger of falling behind.
>>
>> Falling behind what? The TiBook was pretty much the top of the line 
>> laptop.
>
> The screen and case and a lot about the TiBook had been "matched" (a 
> poor
> word, but in the mind of many Windoids it applies) by a number of other
> machines.  Apples strategy is having something demonstrably better.  
> The new
> Porsche design machine in particular was challenging the TiBooks claim 
> to
> coolest notebook and Sony had some pretty nice stuff as well.. So it was
> time for Apple to "knock 'em dead' with something like the new 
> PowerBooks.
>>
>>> We decided if
>>> there were no new PowerBooks that there had to be pretty substantial 
>>> price
>>> cuts on the existing ones.  And I doubt Apple is in that business of 
>>> price
>>> cutting.
>>
>> Apple cuts prices on products all the time.
>
> Prices of all electronics fall, it is the nature of the industry.. A 
> firm
> can either compete by lowering prices with the herd or bringing out 
> fresh
> models at the higher price points. Apple likes the higher margins of 
> fresh
> models.  Yes, Apple cuts prices all the time.. But only when absolutely
> forced to by the market.
>
> I think that Apple is still way behind on processors.  I know the Mac
> faithful will go nuts when they read this but Intel has kicked Motos 
> ass.
> Rubensteins group has done  an amazing job of making the pokey Motos 
> shine,
> but they are really not up to the same design standards as Apples 
> hardware.
>
> We need a G5 chip from another vendor that can manage to get the clock 
> speed
> up.  I have given up on Moto ever doing it because they do not really 
> care
> about it.
>
> Oh, yea, while I am pushing all the buttons of the cult.. Steve is NOT 
> worth
> that $400 million he got last year.. NO ONE is worth that.
> -Joel
> P.S. I am guarded by armed soldiers 24/7.  LOL
>
>
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