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Powerbook updates soon? dual core? (Page 3)
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Originally Posted by mgl
One other prediction: Maybe Apple will find a way to incorporate the scrollball from the Mighty Mouse into the PowerBook.
Since 'Books all have scrolling trackpad, that's unlikely. It is possible for new Powerbooks to adopt touch sensitive button technology found on new Might Mouse, however.
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Originally Posted by mgl
My prediction for September:
12"
- either same screen or widescreen
- 1.6ghz 7448
- 200mhz bus
- 512MB built-in
- not sure about the graphics card
15"
- same screen
- 1.6 and 1.8 7448
- 200mhz bus
- 512MB built-in
- same graphic cards as today
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- 1.8 7448
- 200mhz bus
- 512MB built-in
- same graphic card as today
One other prediction: Maybe Apple will find a way to incorporate the scrollball from the Mighty Mouse into the PowerBook.
For the 12" they should at least add the ati 9550gpu(still with 64mb of vram or even 128mb), if it's in the ibook it should be in the powerbook since it is a way better gpu than the fx5200. For the higher end powerbooks they should maybe start adding in newer gpu's from ati's x700 x800 series or nvidias 6600 6800 series. Powerbooks are quite pricey and they should at least incorparate newer technology(the ati 9700 is 3 years old)
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Originally Posted by Enigmatic
For the 12" they should at least add the ati 9550gpu(still with 64mb of vram or even 128mb), if it's in the ibook it should be in the powerbook since it is a way better gpu than the fx5200. For the higher end powerbooks they should maybe start adding in newer gpu's from ati's x700 x800 series or nvidias 6600 6800 series. Powerbooks are quite pricey and they should at least incorparate newer technology(the ati 9700 is 3 years old)
ATI X700 and X800 are both PCI Express, I don't think apple will include in this update (perhaps with the new intelbooks we will see PCI Express); I saw in the ATI website that there is a 9800 mobile version with standard 128Mb of vram this should be the next pb gpu.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Canada
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Originally Posted by Filburt
Since 'Books all have scrolling trackpad, that's unlikely. It is possible for new Powerbooks to adopt touch sensitive button technology found on new Might Mouse, however.
You're right, no scrollball.
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