[anonymac]

My PowerBook G4 made in 2005 is still better than the new MacBook Pros. Thinner, no camera staring me down, and I can run every Macintosh app ever created. Try not to cry too much on your MacBook Pro.

[CaptainHaddock]

Bah.

How thin is your Powerbook, anyway?

[stwain2003]

Try and run CoreDuoTemp. HA!

[EdipisReks]

Originally Posted by anonymac 

My PowerBook G4 made in 2005 is still better than the new MacBook Pros. Thinner, no camera staring me down, and I can run every Macintosh app ever created. Try not to cry too much on your MacBook Pro.

for one thing, the aluminum powerbooks aren't thinner than the MacBook Pros. the 15" MBP is thinner than the 15" PB, and the 17" models are both the same thickness. i owned a 1 GHz TiBook, a 1.25 GHz AlBook anda 1.5 GHz AlBook, and my current C2D MBP is by far the best Apple portable i've owned.

[fisherKing]

don't trolls get bigger as you feed them more responses??

it would be hard to imagine a g4 powerbook 'owning' an mbp
(altho i personally prefer my 12" 1.5 g4)

yikes i'm responding to this as well...

[jmiddel]

Despite the somewhat provocative tone of the post, it poses an interesting question for me. My PB 15" G4 1.33 is approaching the end of its Applecare warranty. I would like to sell it (always easier to sell something still under warranty), and get a replacement. The 17" G4s are selling at a great price, $1,594. I use my laptop only on trips, and don't run anything processor intensive, just Word, InDesign, BBEdit, Entourage and the browsers. In addition my main machine is a dual G5, which runs everything I could possibly want just great. Given that the Intel MBP does not work with PPC formatted backup drives, what reason would there be to get one of those as opposed to the 17"G4?

Thanks for your input

[fisherKing]

Originally Posted by jmiddel 

Despite the somewhat provocative tone of the post, it poses an interesting question for me. My PB 15" G4 1.33 is approaching the end of its Applecare warranty. I would like to sell it (always easier to sell something still under warranty), and get a replacement. The 17" G4s are selling at a great price, $1,594. I use my laptop only on trips, and don't run anything processor intensive, just Word, InDesign, BBEdit, Entourage and the browsers. In addition my main machine is a dual G5, which runs everything I could possibly want just great. Given that the Intel MBP does not work with PPC formatted backup drives, what reason would there be to get one of those as opposed to the 17"G4?

Thanks for your input

anything you have on a backup drive from your PB will copy over to the mbp, and the mbp can certainly read & write to an external drive created on a powerbook...

[alain_30_alain]

MacBook Pros owns PowerBook G4s. Period.

[SierraDragon]

anony is a one-time troll, don't waste your typing.

[imitchellg5]

I could see why you would love having a huge FireWire webcam instead of a tiny built in one.

[SierraDragon]

Originally Posted by jmiddel 

...My PB 15" G4 1.33 is approaching the end of its Applecare warranty. I would like to sell it... The 17" G4s are selling at a great price, $1,594. I use my laptop only on trips, and don't run anything processor intensive... In addition my main machine is a dual G5, which runs everything I could possibly want just great...

I own a 15" 1.67 GHz PB G4 and a 17" C2D MBP and still consider the G4 a fine laptop except for heavy graphics users like me. For your described needs I cannot see why you would sell the 15" G4 PB at all unless you get an unusually good selling price and/or really want a 17" box.

-Allen Wicks

[goMac]

Originally Posted by anonymac 

My PowerBook G4 made in 2005 is still better than the new MacBook Pros. Thinner, no camera staring me down, and I can run every Macintosh app ever created. Try not to cry too much on your MacBook Pro.

My Macbook Pro is faster.

There, I win.

[jtrwallace]

yeah i have to say, even though i have a powerbook 15", i would love to have a MBP. but, im not sweating it, my PB is only 1.25 years old and it still works like a rockstar. I won't be upgrading till i know it will have leopard and that new robson technology. basically... if it doesnt have some fantastic new element I wont get it. Also... the style has stayed the same forever... maybe soon it will be different

[peeb]

The whole idea of one machine 'owning' the other is just bait for flamewars. The suitability of different machines for different users depends much on their tasks and a multitude of other factors. While the MBP might own the PB on most speed tests, the PB definitely owns the MBP on number of internal modems.