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Butters
January 31st, 2005, 02:22 PM
http://www.apple.com/uk/powerbook/

New PowerBooks, pretty sweet, the new trackpad looks **** cool.
gonzales
January 31st, 2005, 02:42 PM
it looks like they didnt change much. why they hatin' on the G5 powerbooks?
rhine
January 31st, 2005, 04:30 PM
it looks like they didnt change much. why they hatin' on the G5 powerbooks?

I read somewhere that it was due to the amount of heat they gave off. It would probably make soup of any motherboard in a laptop case.

I like the harddisk locking mechanism.. that's pretty neat.
Stratification
January 31st, 2005, 04:43 PM
Well, their CFO described a G5 laptop as the "mother of all thermal challenges" (http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=836), so . . .
Butters
January 31st, 2005, 04:47 PM
Yeah it's all about the cooling, the G5 is one hot processor.

We wont see one until 2006 probably, they will crack it eventually :D
GW02
January 31st, 2005, 04:49 PM
Oh man, the rumors website regulars are gonna be really pissed.

They've been expecting a G5 Powerbook (HA I almost wrote "poserbook," oops) for months now.
Disco-Stu
January 31st, 2005, 05:49 PM
They've been expecting a G5 Powerbook (HA I almost wrote "poserbook," oops) for months now.

LOL. Why the oops? :evil:
Maxtr0sity
January 31st, 2005, 05:52 PM
The motion sensing thingy is hott, why hasn't Intel made something like this?
Butters
January 31st, 2005, 05:59 PM
Becuase Intel isn't Apple ;)
Stratification
January 31st, 2005, 06:04 PM
The motion sensing thingy is hott, why hasn't Intel made something like this?
Well, I've seen a couple of places pointing out that IBM has a similar feature. Haven't really looked into it myself since I'm not in the market at the moment.
gonzales
January 31st, 2005, 06:07 PM
The motion sensing thingy is hott, why hasn't Intel made something like this?

???
whats the motion sensor? i thought it had an ambient light sensor...
Stratification
January 31st, 2005, 06:09 PM
An acceleration sensor to lock the hard drive when it senses acceleration. Basically to protect the drive if the laptop gets dropped. It does have a light sensor too for the key backlighting if I'm not mistaken.
Butters
January 31st, 2005, 06:11 PM
Yep, it has a light sensor which will fade the underlit keyboard up or down depending on the light around it.

So if you have a dimmer, dim the lights and the underlighting will slowly dim up, it looks so **** cool.
dreeft
January 31st, 2005, 06:31 PM
looking horny as always. I want 7.