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July 3rd, 2004, 02:04 AM
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| Agent at the main office bought an eMachines AMD-64 laptop, thought he was all cool and stuff with his monster of a machine. That is until it died on him less than 1.5 hours later...dead battery. Sad part is all he did was surf the net for a little while and some light typing...and 30 mins of that was in sleep mode. No...Apple has chosen wisely to hold off on the G5 PBs. They've been the best of the bunch in the past few years in terms of actual portability, particularly battery life. They'd have to throttle the G5 way down to get it near G4 consumption levels, which would destroy any advantage of having a G5 in there in the first place. Supposedly IBM has a solution in the works for that issue, but it'll be 2005 before we see that. People I work with are astounded by the battery life I get out of this iBook...it's easily 3x the amount every other person does. I'm the only one capable of leaving the power cord home, which is really nice. I unplugged this morning (9am) and put her to sleep. 2 hours later I opened it for 20 minutes to sync files from the server. Put her back to sleep. Used it for about an hour after lunch on the net...put it back to sleep. Left it in sleep until I got home around 2am, opened her up and it's only down to 85% on the charge. The least amount of time I've seen so far was during constant PS/DW/FW work on a client website...that was 3.5 hours. Sure the G5 might be 3x faster than the G3 I have, but if the battery lasts 1/4 as long then it's a worse case scenario isn't it?
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July 3rd, 2004, 03:56 AM
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| I completely agree. Portability/freedom are the main reasons for a Laptop/Notebook computer. I do also have an iBook, and if a G5 computer will mean 1/4 of the performing time of the one I do have now... forget it! I'm glad I wasn't seduced by the red shining covers... Perhaps Apple should thing of making a deal with, instead of a car-factory, and aeroplane-factory, rockets might be even better, and what about NASA..? |
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July 4th, 2004, 01:22 PM
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| Nasa people already bought loads of Mac computers  Especially PowerBooks 
__________________ I find your lack of faith... Disturbing! Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition ...not the sharpest knife in the drawer... |
