“This year has seen a lot of ink spilled over Apple’s PowerBook line of computers, in particular the high-end 17-inch model. Critics drooled over the unprecedented size of the laptop’s screen and the elegant and relatively lightweight case, to say nothing of the sex appeal of the polished aluminum finish,” writes Tiernan Ray for E-Commerce Times.
Ray reports, “I’ve been using the 17-inch PowerBook for the last three months on a daily basis, and I think much of the hardware lust surrounding it has ignored the main benefits of the machine. For example, few reviews of the big-screen PowerBook have mentioned the operating system software, OS X , which to my mind is the key to many of the computer’s advantages over its Windows brethren. In fact, I think the 17-inch PowerBook is the first notebook that’s really capable of running Apple’s OS X software with very good performance.”
“Leaving that aside, the machine’s main appeal lies in its excellent speed and reliability when executing everyday tasks… I highly recommend it for anyone seeking better computing resources, not just those in the traditional ‘Pro’ or ‘Creative’ ranks that serve as Apple’s core base,” Ray writes.
Full article here.
Today I had a meeting in Norwalk, CA. The meeting was in a Hotel. I got there early. I waited in the restaurant. While waiting, I whipped out the old 17″ G4 PowerBook, connected to the hotel’s WiFi network, popped on my iSight camera and had an impromptu video conference with an associate before the meeting. Talk about attracting a crowd. Same old stupid questions…
That’s a Mac?
Apple makes that?
How much did it cost?
That guy can see you?
You’re on the Internet?
and so on…
People lead such Wintel sheltered lives…
TM, that is priceless, and Amen to that, brotha Mac!
Too bad your associate could not “capture and save” the conversation with you with the crowd in the background. So that you can share it with all of us. We would have laughed. Like martians looking at the little earthlings plus the oooOOOh’s and aaAAAhh’s.
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“In fact, I think the 17-inch PowerBook is the first notebook that’s really capable of running Apple’s OS X software with very good performance.”
It performs very well on my 15″ 1ghz PB too!
The 800mHz 14″ G3 iBook with AirPort that I am typing this on runs Mac OS X very well, thank you. I have access to a P4 XP Pro box at work and it’s not any faster at common tasks.
I have absolutely no complaints about the performance of 10.2.6 on my 550 MHz 15″ Ti PB with 512 MB RAM. And I’m doing a helluva lot more than email on this mule.
I’m right there with Atomic. I have a 3 year old 15″ TiBook at 550MHz with 768MB of RAM, and it’s running Jaguar flawlessly. I routinely have Photoshop, Illustrator, Mail, Safari, iTunes, iChat AV, Transmit and Dreamweaver running without so much as a hiccup.
266mHz G3 Lombard clicking along quite well, I might add.
C’mon old girl, just make it till the PB G5
400MHz 15-inch TiBook (no Quartz Extreme) runs Jag just fine, thanks.
I have a Sonnet G4 500 Mhz chip in my 1998 Wallstreet, and am running OS X just fine thank you…of course the video chip is not as great as on new models, but still…imagine running Windows XP on a five year old wintel laptop….
I also have a 400 Mhz TiBook with 256 MB of RAM and 10.2.6 runs just fine. I’ll definitely be ponying up for Panther, though, but I won’t be upgrading until Apple comes out with a PowerBook G5.
I am not entirely dismayed with the performace of Jag on my Kanga G3 PowerBook. And with 2 PCMCIA ports, I can use my Kritter Cam to video conference and go online wirelessly via my Orinco PC card. Well, not really.
In all honesty, that laptop is a brick and I’m so depressed with it I don’t even turn it on anymore. I wish I had some Apple stock left I could sell to buy a new 17″ PowerBook (or 12″ ibook.) Too bad I sold it all for $13/share a year ago to pay off my ex-brother-in-law.
Sigh.
Well, I just recorded, mixed, and mastered a music demo for a friend of mine using only my TiBook 667 DVI and a FireWire harddrive. No other external devices (MIDI keyboards, etc.), plus i wrote some emails and surfed the Net while the music was rendering in the background.
God, I love Technology!
Pismo 400 Jag user here… A bit pokey in Photoshop, but 3D renders in the background while I type this, can’t beat stability and multitasking, even on a BatMobileBook from another era…
Panther will squeeze out more performance on this three-year-old axe, I’m short on cash and look forward to “Buy a New Mac for 129$”!
I’d love a 17 incher right now, but until I get flooded in cash, you couldn’t pry trusty old “Mr Black” out of my dead, cold fingers!
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