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Hoping for 12" iBook G4 (Rev. B)
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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By Macworld SF 2004, I'd like to see three new iBooks as follows:
12.1" TFT
1.25 GHz G4 processor
Combo Drive
256MB RAM
Built-in Bluetooth
1 x FireWire 800
2 x USB 2.0
Mac OS 10.3.5 installed
mini-DVI port
14.1" TFT
1.6 GHz G4 processor
Combo Drive
256MB RAM
Built-in Bluetooth
1 x FireWire 800
2 x USB 2.0
Mac OS 10.3.5 installed
mini-DVI port
14.1" TFT
1.8 GHz G4 processor
SuperDrive
256MB RAM
Built-in Bluetooth
1 x FireWire 800
2 x USB 2.0
Mac OS 10.3.5 installed
mini-DVI port
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Join Date: May 2001
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Good luck on a 1.8 G4. I wouldn't hold your breath on it.
As for the rest, it looks to be somewhat conservative!
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My guess is something around a 200 (+/- 50) Mhz cpu increase on all the iBooks.
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are you taking the piss?
these look alot more like the powerbook specs.
if they cant make a g5 powerbook, how are they going to make them better than these specs just quoted?
they do have to justify an increased price, i dont think just a superdrive and glowing keyboard will cut the mustard.
anyone else agree with me on this?
personally, it would be cool to see the return of colours to the ibook line, the current line of macs are looking increasingly plain.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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C'mon Apple!
No Firewire 800?
No DVI?
No Better display?
I hope the 12" iBook will get a processor > 1GHz and an ATI card (NVidia one of no use with Linux)...
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Since we don't really have the 970fx (or what its name again?) yet, then a PB G5 is still far away. BTW is the G4 really that bad CPU for a portable? 
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Originally posted by sniffer:
Since we don't really have the 970fx (or what its name again?) yet, then a PB G5 is still far away. BTW is the G4 really that bad CPU for a portable?
Hell, a 1 GHz PowerPC G3 with 512k L2 cache would be fine in Mac OS X for web browsing, e-mail, and light gaming. A 1 GHz G4 is even better.
No way in hell will there be a 1.8 GHz G5 in an iBook anytime soon. I doubt the next PowerBook revision will include a G5.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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It would be nice too if the 256MB of RAM was built-in and not 128MB built-in with 128MB in the expansion slot.
The G4 currently tops out at 1.5GHz.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally posted by sniffer:
BTW is the G4 really that bad CPU for a portable?
I would prefer the IBM G3+Altivec.
The G4 architecture is mainly born to give G3 a bit of SMP (multiple processor) support. But iBook don't need SMP.
After the G4 was born, G3 makers focused on faster integer and floating point units, while G4 ones researched parallel optimisations, altivec coprocessor.
So we got G3 without Altivec, with slow BUS and slow PC133 RAM, and so on.
Current G3 (IBM) are faster than G4 (Motorola) at the same clock speed and need less power.
As iBook don't need SMP, all Apple have to do is drop Motorola and adopt IBM G3+Altivec+DDR.
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Yes that's true, IIRC the latest generations of the G3 I've heard supported higher bus speeds (200MHz?) or something?
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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All I ask is they increase the FSB and I will buy one.
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Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally posted by Captain Obvious:
All I ask is they increase the FSB and I will buy one.
FSB = frontside bus?
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Can't wait to see what's under the new lineup.
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If the 12" iBook hits 1GHz (though I suspect it'll be 933MHz) and if the new graphics chip still works with the display spanning firmware hack, I'll be buying one.
The 12" iBook is small enough and probably fast enough for me, but I need QE-enaqbled dual-display ability (for Keynote and PowerPoint). And I don't need the very slightly smaller but more expensive 12" PB for this feature alone.
Though, with the new models, I bet the 800MHz'ers will be nice and cheap. And I know they work with the display firmware hack.
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Agree with you Cadaver, but I also think there is a good chance that Steve will just bump all the modells above xxx MHz. There is some prestige in breaking new barriers and so, and he can use that in his next speak, or something. "Leaving the 1GHz barrier.." 
(Last edited by sniffer; Apr 18, 2004 at 04:53 AM.
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