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I'd go into an explanation of color temperature... 955 Views / 13 Replies  
I'd go into an explanation of color temperature and why you can't have pure white anything, but I'm going to just say that it's white.

It's white, jim.
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 16, 2003 at 12:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks
booq. 2,099 Views / 37 Replies  
I've been most impressed with the Booq Folee Messenger 17.
It's a cavernous bag with a built-in laptop sleeve, and most
important it looks rather stylish...

http://www.booqbags.com/folee.html
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 15, 2003 at 03:10 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Oh..my..gosh... You are totally right!... 1,182 Views / 13 Replies  
Oh..my..gosh...


You are totally right! That is an ibook!

Argh! I'm sorry for the misinformation! Is there any way to delete this post?
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 10, 2003 at 04:28 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Don't worry, I don't randomly take pictures of... 1,182 Views / 13 Replies  
Don't worry, I don't randomly take pictures of people using computers. He's a freshman here and I sent him copies of the pictures I took. All I did was talk to him a bit about the powerbook and told...
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 10, 2003 at 02:42 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Powerbook 12" sighting... 1,182 Views / 13 Replies  
Finally, a real life, non-store, non-geek owned sighting of a powerbook g4 12".

http://www.nd.edu/~ekang/kidincafe3.jpg

'nuff said.
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 9, 2003 at 05:54 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, looks like it's about time for the 2006x854... 1,404 Views / 30 Replies  
Well, looks like it's about time for the 2006x854 23" LCD laptop.
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 8, 2003 at 02:23 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Hello, Wow Aykew, you've poked the hornets... 1,404 Views / 30 Replies  
Hello,

Wow Aykew, you've poked the hornets nest here. If you were to ask a bunch of cinematographers what "anamorphic meant", there would be more heated passions than you can imagine! Anamorphic...
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 7, 2003 at 03:08 PM, in Mac Notebooks
My friend and I once knew a girl, stunning,... 1,759 Views / 34 Replies  
My friend and I once knew a girl, stunning, really. 6'3" thin, leggy blonde bombshell. Really sweet, intelligent (masters in Civil Engineering.) Friend thought she was too tall. I thought she was...
Posted by sonoronos, on Apr 6, 2003 at 09:52 PM, in Mac Notebooks
XTraz, Dang, you must be patient to play... 2,869 Views / 39 Replies  
XTraz,

Dang, you must be patient to play War3 with that kind of processing latency...

Just watching your videos made me want to go into a bloody rage.
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 27, 2003 at 09:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks
That's a great idea, and will probably be... 883 Views / 13 Replies  
That's a great idea, and will probably be implemented using faster access NVRAM technologies! There are technologies coming out soon with 10 times the access time of Flash, 10x the density, and 10x...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 27, 2003 at 02:11 PM, in Mac Notebooks
MTBF vs. operating temperature 1,332 Views / 19 Replies  
Lower temperatures will always result in higher CPU reliability in MTBF. Even a difference of 1 degree fahrenheit will make a difference. All CPUs are manufactured using the same processes and while...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 25, 2003 at 10:19 PM, in Mac Desktops
What I would really love to have is a laptop that... 1,322 Views / 19 Replies  
What I would really love to have is a laptop that uses the same 17.3" screen as the old 1600SW wide aspect flat panel from SGI.

I used that monitor when I worked at SGI and while the backlight...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 22, 2003 at 06:03 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Here's a screenie. Notice that the amount of... 1,183 Views / 12 Replies  
Here's a screenie.

Notice that the amount of screen area you get from moving up from a 1024x768 to a 1280x854 screen is more than you get moving up from a 1280x854 to 1440x900.

I'm glad to meet...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 21, 2003 at 01:21 PM, in Mac Notebooks
What I originally meant 930 Views / 11 Replies  
Is that I would buy a 15.2" powerbook today if:

1. It was made of aluminum

2. Made and looked exactly like the 12" powerbook, except bigger to accomodate the 15.2" screen (and maybe hence a...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 17, 2003 at 01:15 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Are you shallow too? 930 Views / 11 Replies  
I just came to the conclusion that if the successor to the original TiBook was spec'd exactly the same as the original TiBook, but just had a new look on the outside (and rearranged airport...
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 16, 2003 at 05:05 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Congratulations. 707 Views / 1 Replies  
Congratulations.
Posted by sonoronos, on Mar 11, 2003 at 03:53 PM, in Mac Notebooks
strange. 2,815 Views / 46 Replies  
My orderstatus is still marking March 20th.
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 20, 2003 at 08:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
>And a dirty little secret is that P3-M and P4-M... 1,733 Views / 42 Replies  
>And a dirty little secret is that P3-M and P4-M chips scale back their clock speed the very moment you're not on AC power. Congratulations, while away from your desk you have a 1.2 GHz P4!

My...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 12, 2003 at 01:44 AM, in Mac Notebooks
not quite fair... 1,640 Views / 9 Replies  
Now, before you flame me, I also have a Powerbook 17" on order, but I do also own a Wintel notebook that really does keep pace with the 15" tibook quite a bit (and in some ways exceeds it)
...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 10, 2003 at 03:32 AM, in Mac Notebooks
If what you are saying is that the 12" Powerbook... 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
If what you are saying is that the 12" Powerbook cannot use 266 mhz SDRAM because its system bus is limited to 133 mhz, then I can understand that. However, what does DDR have to do with anything?...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 7, 2003 at 03:43 AM, in Mac Notebooks
John, I'm sorry, but 266 mhz memory is twice... 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
John,

I'm sorry, but 266 mhz memory is twice as fast 133 mhz memory.
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 6, 2003 at 02:02 PM, in Mac Notebooks
eug 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
Eug,

The 12.1" Powerbook clocks the memory twice as fast as the 15" powerbook.

Bottom line - it CAN be faster, forget the DDR!

My original question still stands. How long was the total...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 6, 2003 at 02:41 AM, in Mac Notebooks
FWIW 1,973 Views / 34 Replies  
For what it's worth, I have seen quite a few of the VPR Matrix 200A5 and 185A5's without a single dead pixel, and these things are made by some cheese taiwanese outfit (Quanta, I'm guessing). Plenty...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 6, 2003 at 02:30 AM, in Mac Notebooks
John, Thanks. Actually, I was going to... 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
John,

Thanks. Actually, I was going to delete that post, but the board didn't let me. I just realized after I posted that really I was arguing with myself. (It wasn't like anyone was disagreeing...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 5, 2003 at 02:08 PM, in Mac Notebooks
apple and DDR? 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
Even if Apple's proprietary memory bus does not support DDR, its memory bus still operates at twice the rate of the original TiBook. This compared to a slower clock speed by 1/8 means that in the...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 5, 2003 at 02:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks
hmph 4,145 Views / 56 Replies  
There is a way that this is possible. This has to do with the use of 266 mhz DDR RAM on the smaller powerbook, as opposed to 133 mhz standard SDRAM on the 15" book.

One big secret that us Computer...
Posted by sonoronos, on Feb 4, 2003 at 11:29 PM, in Mac Notebooks
not to be a heretic, but... 2,243 Views / 20 Replies  
If you're looking for a wide-screen notebook to tide you over until the 17" comes....why not try out the VPR Matrix 185A5? It's so cheap, and is built pretty well (much better than the original 15"...
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 27, 2003 at 11:31 AM, in Mac Notebooks
not to get too off topic, but.... 3,098 Views / 42 Replies  
Why do you need to boot into OS 9 to run Quark Xpress? Isn't the OS 9 emulation available in OS X enough?
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 26, 2003 at 02:08 AM, in Mac Notebooks
30 days? I doubt it. 3,098 Views / 42 Replies  
Mac Whispers is almost totally wrong about this. When was the last time Apple released a totally new product BEFORE an expo?

Anyways, I'd say that people will start treating the 15.2" powerbooks...
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 25, 2003 at 05:33 PM, in Mac Notebooks
woops 1,109 Views / 11 Replies  
Moki,

You didn't get the only real Wintel box out there comparable to the TiBook:

VPR Matrix 200A5

http://www.vprmatrix.com/images/imperial_300_300.jpg
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 23, 2003 at 12:10 AM, in Mac Notebooks
None at Indianapolis Store None at... 5,846 Views / 83 Replies  
None at Indianapolis Store
None at Chicago-Oakbrook
None at Chicago-Schaumburg

(yeh, I checked them all out a few days ago :)
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 17, 2003 at 10:44 AM, in Mac Notebooks
ARGH 1,402 Views / 19 Replies  
Apple just updated the Order Status page on their web site, and it changed to show more specific information about my order!

PBG4 17.0/1GHZ/512/60G/SD/AP/BT-USA
M8793LL/A

Est. Ship: On or...
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 17, 2003 at 10:18 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Invest in a flat panel display. (I'm serious) 644 Views / 4 Replies  
Invest in a flat panel display.

(I'm serious)
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 16, 2003 at 04:18 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Here's some more: The special MacOSX kernel... 1,037 Views / 9 Replies  
Here's some more:

The special MacOSX kernel used in the Powerbook 17 has a build date of Sat, Dec 14, 7:30 pm PST. This would mean that the fully assembled device was available before then! This...
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 15, 2003 at 07:22 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Serial Numbers of Powerbook 17's at Macworld? 1,037 Views / 9 Replies  
Does anyone know what the serial numbers were of the Powerbook 17's that were at Macworld? I want to get an idea of how many of these things have been made so far.

From what I could tell, there...
Posted by sonoronos, on Jan 15, 2003 at 05:09 PM, in Mac Notebooks
 
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