I’ve got my fingers crossed that significant upgrades to the 17″ PowerBooks will be announced at MacWorld tomorrow. If they are, I’m going to go ahead and put an order in.
If they aren’t major improvements, I’m heading over to Crucial to order some more RAM for my 15″ TiBook.
I haven’t quite gotten enough donations to pay for the 17″ PowerBook yet, but I’m optimistic. 🙂
so, how much ram will you have?
I just upgraded my 15 to 768MB.
I may go to 768 as well, I have 512 right now, but it is 2 dimms.
No dice! Maybe you should get an iPod mini instead.
I think Apple blew it on the initial price point of the mini. Expect it to drop to $200 when the channels are filled.
I’m holding out for a G5 powerbook. I think I’m going to be waiting for quite a while…
From what I’ve heard, they aren’t very close to being able to cool a G5 in a laptop. One guy told me that really high-speed G3’s w/ altivec (that would be called G4’s) might be the next big upgrade to the PowerBooks. I hope *something* gets here soon, though I’ve been pretty happy with my current set up (PowerBook + external monitor).
RAMming Speed
I got the RAM I threatened to buy a few weeks ago. I hadn’t noticed much difference really, then I noticed I’d had Photoshop open in the background all day… guess an extra 256mb comes in handy.
I’ve also been using the CodeTek Virtual Des…
New PowerBooks?
It’s been a few months since I was hoping to buy a 17″ PowerBook but it sounds like they are still a little ways out. Not only that, but the speed increase in the new models doesn’t seem that great…
I wonder if it will make sense to skip …
Close Enough
The new 17" PowerBooks are hereby deemed a significant enough upgrade for me to take the long awaited plunge. After Jason’s experience with hard drive speed in his PowerBook, I’ll definitely be getting the faster hard drive option, but the r…