[Michel_80]

Just for research looked at the pc side, nothing there except the Samsung X30 which looks like a nice option for those who need to use PC's (like me unfortunately).
It's not as good looking (and runs xp), but still means things are moving forward.


Specs

[KraziKid]

It still uses that horrible PC styled keyboard with all the keys on the right side of the keyboard (you know the home, end, Pg Up, Pg Dn). I truly think the PowerBook has the most ideal keyboard for a laptop, even if it lacks a num pad.

[dwood]

porsche designed a laptop for bestbuy

http://www.macobserver.com/shootouts...k_bestbuy.html

[Squozen]

Ironically, considering we're talking about a Windows laptop, when I clicked the Samsung link I got a page saying, 'We are sorry - an error has occurred.'

[Switched2Mac]

These two are the closest to a PowerBook 15" that I have seen so far. I had owned a Compaq X1000 series too.

Sony PowerBook Clone

Compaq X1030

Both are Centrino laptops. Light, powerful, quiet.

But still not PowerBooks though....

[RooneyX]

Samsung has had slim and thin designs for two years now. The X30 is a little ugly tho, but the specs kill the Powerbook:

Intel� Pentium M 1.7GHz processor
nVidia GeForce FX5200 Go with 64MB DDR video memory
15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) TFT display
512MB PC-2700 DDR memory
80GB 5400RPM UDMA hard disk
SPDIF digital audio optical output with 5.1 surround sound
8xDVD/24x write/24x re-write/24x CD DVD/CDRW

[RooneyX]

Originally posted by Switched2Mac:
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Sony PowerBook Clone
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You think that looks like a Powerbook????

[SEkker]

wow -- $2200 and no superdrive on the sony!

[teknopimp]

Originally posted by RooneyX:
You think that looks like a Powerbook????

not i.

i don't see the point of this thread, unless it were named 'sad attempts to copy powerbook'. hasn't been done since the first powerbook, i don't think it will ever happen. i've tried most of the others; the porsche design one is nice, but still a windows machine.

[RooneyX]

Sleek laptops didn't start with the Tis though. Apple just did it better.

[tooki]

Originally posted by RooneyX:
Samsung has had slim and thin designs for two years now. The X30 is a little ugly tho, but the specs kill the Powerbook:

Intel� Pentium M 1.7GHz processor
nVidia GeForce FX5200 Go with 64MB DDR video memory
15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) TFT display
512MB PC-2700 DDR memory
80GB 5400RPM UDMA hard disk
SPDIF digital audio optical output with 5.1 surround sound
8xDVD/24x write/24x re-write/24x CD DVD/CDRW

Come again? Kill the PowerBook? Let's look at each spec:

-The G4 will be faster than the Pentium M.
-The Radeon Mobility 9600 is decidedly faster than that nVidia.
-A screen with that resolution results in text too small for many people to read comfortably.
-RAM? Same as my PowerBook.
-HD? Same as my PowerBook.
-The digital audio output is the only thing it has better.
-Whooptiedoo, I have a DVD-R drive in my PowerBook.

Significantly, it lacks a DVI output -- it has only VGA.

Curiously, it has an internal fingerprint scanner. I wonder if it's one of the models that can be defeated with a gummy bear.

tooki

[Link]

Originally posted by tooki:
Curiously, it has an internal fingerprint scanner. I wonder if it's one of the models that can be defeated with a gummy bear.

tooki

I want one of those! I love gummy bears!

[Ryan1524]

no, actually THIS is. the Asus W1000N.

[misnomer]

Originally posted by tooki:
Come again? Kill the PowerBook? Let's look at each spec:

-The G4 will be faster than the Pentium M.

Did you mistakenly leave of a negative qualifier here (as in "will not be faster than")? Even the low-end Pentium-M based laptops outperform the Powerbooks at nearly every crossplatform benchmark including G4 stalwarts like Photoshop bakeoffs.

At one point Barefeats had a decent set of them (Photoshop 7, Cinebench 2003, Bryce 5, Quake 3, UT2003 and After Effects 6) between a P-M 1.3GHz w/ crappy integrated graphics and a number of powerbooks, including a lapzilla (here: http://barefeats.com/al15.html), but, for whatever reason, they removed most of it and all that's left is this:
http://barefeats.com/al15b.html
(note the P-M laptop in the UT2K3 benchmark is crippled by an integrated Intel "Extreme" Graphics chipset)

On the Arstechnica forums you can also find a number of Powerbook and Pentium-M results for PS7Bench and Cinebench.

[Maflynn]

Regardless of the speed issue, it still runs (well maybe crawls) windoze - with its daily or even hourly security patches and inconsistant user interface.

Even if the pc runs quicker, I can work faster thanks to the mac's thoughtful design, the implementation of OSX. Besides its just plain cooler

Mike

[wy4tt]

yes, to say the g4 will be faster than a pentium m is just plain wrong on most accounts. lets face it, we don't own/buy powerbooks for pure speed anyway.