[Ti] New Powerbooks!

[Sherman Gregory]

At 1:23 PM -0400 4/20/04, John Griffin wrote:
>OK, I think I have decided to make the jump from my perfectly good, defect
>free 1ghz/DVI Titanium Powerbook to one of the new 15" Aluminum ones (with
>the 5400 rpm drive and 128M video). I hope I am making the right decision -
>especially with questions about build quality on some of the newer ones!
>
>It appears that Apple will be putting off the G5 Powerbook for awhile, until
>they get the heat issue solved and the price on these new units seem almost
>too good to pass up.
>
>Anybody else taking the bait?
>

I did.  I BTO'd the options that you mention, plus I also kicked in 
extra $100 for the single 512MB stick instead of two 256MB sticks.

As far as the memory option goes, I put together a spreadsheet 
looking at seven different final memory configurations against the 
five options offered by apple.    The seven configurations that I 
looked at were 512,768,1024,1536,2048, and then 512 and 1024 leaving 
a slot open for the future.

Obviously if 512 is going to be the final size, then you don't want 
to spend the  extra $100.  If 768,1024, or 1536 are going to be your 
final size, or if you want 512 for now, but a slot open for the 
future, then spending the $100 is the cheapest way to go.  If you are 
going for the full 2GB or want 1024 with an empty slot, the don't 
spend the $100 and just throw away the 256s (OK,  or leave on in for 
a total of 1280).  In no case could I make the three higher options 
from Apple make sense unless you just like having Apple blessed RAM 
in you machine.

     Sherman