Oh, no argument that they're desired and people are anxious for them. But, for me, the questions of necessity and price/power trade off come in to play. For what you can spend on a top end notebook of major power, you can alternately get yourself a decent iBook or low-end powerbook, *and* a sweet G5 iMac. I would venture to say it's the rare person who *needs* the power of a major dual G5 PowerMac *and* a top end PowerBook or the portability it offers.
Apple would be really ill advised to rush a niche product to market before it's really ready. Pentium/4 top end notebooks are an abysmal failure because of... wait for it... power consumption and heat... You won't hear much about it but Toshiba just recalled *another* 889 b'zillion batteries or system-boards for charging systems, or some crap like that, and Intel is secretly/quietly admonishing notebook makers for building machines out of spec (Intel does not officially recommend any P4, non "m" class, for portable use). Behind the scenes, to which I'm partially privy due to some friends I've made over the years in various companies, it's a pretty hectic time to be in the computer manufacturing biz.
Anyway, the Centrinos are kicking butt (again, if you can stomache the rediculous case designs and over-engineered plethora of pointless buttons) because they were made from the git-go to address problems particular to the mobile market.
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Originally Posted by texanpenguin The reason that most people are so anxious for G5 PowerBooks is that they know that it's only a matter of time before Apple releases a G5 in a laptop form-factor, and they don't want to go out and buy a really high-end G4 PowerBook that, in two or three months time is completely out of date. I have a G3 PowerBook. It is the weakest system in my house in OS X - there'll be an OS revision in the not TOO distant future (I'm thinking 10.7) that will be fully 64-bit, in which case the G4 PowerBooks will again be useless.
It's perfectly understandable to want for a G5 PowerBook; they're supposed to be Powerful machines. Now they're just iBooks with shorter battery life, better screens and slightly faster clock-speed. |