Itunes Question

jeepnut · 10-05-2005, 12:48 AM

If they can get the powerbook to work well with a G5, that would make my decision a lot easier. As long as it doesn't jack up the price a ton.

gekko · 10-05-2005, 12:52 AM

They won't. It would cost too much to implement a G5 into a laptop for the year or so it'll last before they do it all again with the intel chips.

Plus, this event is for the video iPod. Adding a G5 PowerBook would distract from that, which is the main event.

GameMaster · 10-05-2005, 02:52 AM

I'm still trying to decide on whether to go with a G5 desktop or a G4 laptop. The portable factor just seems really attractive to me right now. And in another year I'll be transferring out from my junior college to a standard school which makes the laptop even more ideal. Then again, it takes me a while to save up that much money, and for a bit less, I could get a G5 iMac, I'd like to get something with a lot of power since I wouldn't be getting another one for 4-5 years unless I become wealthy.

I wonder what Kramer would do?

gekko · 10-05-2005, 09:15 AM

In your situation, probably a laptop. I'm a desktop man myself, but my current situation has me with a PowerBook.

Desktops are so much faster, and I like the desk factor. I like being able to have docks setup, and I love dual monitors.

Needless to say, July of 07 has me buying a new G5 w/dual 23" cinemas

Jason1 · 10-06-2005, 11:22 PM

Ah, just for the record, I just found out my brother is getting the 2Gig Ipod Nano for his birthday. It'll be coming in the mail in a couple of days, although I wont get to see it out of the box until his birthday on the 26th.

jeepnut · 10-07-2005, 09:42 AM

If you want to get him something, get him a case for it. I hear scratching is a big problem with them.

Shadow Fox · 10-08-2005, 09:11 PM

On the subject with powerbooks, I just recently bought a custom 17" Powerbook with all the fixin's and I LOVE IT.

The 1.64Ghz G4 chip runs OSX Tiger like a dream, and the screen is OMG

*ejaculates*

ahem. The screen is beautiful, and widescreen DVD's look even better than my HDTV...

The 8x DVD+/-RW drive is nice, but not as good as the G5's DL drive, which is to be expected (and by default, encoding speeds are slower than G5 too, but generally faster than most desktop PC's).

And for some reason, I can run DOOM 3 (yes, DOOM 3) in 1024 x 768 with all effects at a respectable 26-32fps, which is VERY good for a mobile Radeon 9700. The GPU also sports an adapter for dual-DVI so you can hook up dual monitors!

I've got the backlit keyboard, with ambient light detection so it comes on and off automatically whenever it gets light or dark in the room. I also took advantage of the bluetooth and bought a bluetooth wireless mouse (from apple, of course).

For school, it also comes with a trial of Office and adapters for projectors (to show off powerpoint and keynote presentations).

I upgraded the RAM to 1GB, and added a second firewire 800 port, which ran me around $2900. A similar PC I ordered (IBM Thinkpad R54) cost $3700 after all the customizations I made to make it CLOSE to the Powerbook in terms of features.

Needless to say, I'm happy with my purchase; I don't think I'll need another laptop until well after the whole MacIntel deal comes to market, and probably longer than that...