KDesignIT's Laptop Pics (Miranda)

[KDesignIT]

My brand new laptop. Yes its an Apple!! Don't hate it til you've tried it. I love the new OS, and its a wonderful break from the Windows OS.

Specs: 17" screen, backlit keyboard, 8x SuperDrive (DVD-/+R and RW and CD-R), built-in AirPort wireless (802.11G compatible with B), built-in bluetooth 2.0+EDR, Sudden Motion Sensor (helps protect the hard drive if the laptop moves suddenly or is dropped by taking the heads off the hard drive), PowerPC G4 processor 1.67GHz, 512MB DDR memory (up to 2GB, will expand later), built-in scrolling feature in trackpad, 128MB DDR ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, USB 2.0 x2 ports, one Firewire 400 port, one Firewire 800 port, DVI and S-Video ports, gigabit Ethernet, v.92 modem, optical digital audio input/output, PC Card Slot Type I/II compatible, 100GB HD

Software included: iLife ?05 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand), Mail, Dashboard, Spotlight, iChat, Safari, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Address Book, Classic environment, Art Directors Toolkit, FileMaker Pro Trial, GraphicConverter, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, QuickBooks For Mac New User Edition, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Zinio Reader, Xcode Developer Tools and Apple Hardware Test.

More Info @  http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

I did get a little carried away with the new digital camera, so bare with me, lol...



 

 

 

[QBall15j]

Hmm, looks nice!  
I just don't know if I could get used to that wide aspect display and having such a large laptop in general.  I think I could do it on a desktop but not a laptop.

One thing about Apple though, you can't beat the bundled software, we both know you'll never get that much from M$.  

What do you think about Apple switching to Intel processors?

[KDesignIT]

For sure! MS wouldn't ever give you a lot...heck, look what they're doing to the upcoming OS (whenever its supposed to come out, they keep pushing the date back)..they took the core features out of it and said they'll send them as a update somehow later....let alone them giving you a few nice programs like Apple does.

17" screen is a bit big, but I'm starting to have trouble with my eye sight so I need something big that would still look "normal" when things are blown up.

I think Apple's switch to Intel has its ups and downs. I neither agree with it nor disagree, sort of neutral...that is until I can get a Apple system with "Intel Inside (r)" hehe... But ever since the very first release of Mac OS X, they have been making an Intel version and testing it in the background... in their words: "Mac OS X has been leading a double life for the past five years." So at least they've been working on it for some time now, not like they just all of a sudden decided to switch platforms and start from the beginning now. They're making it really easy for software developers to make the switch too, which is nice. On a positive note, they'll be able to get the Mac's up to 3GHz and above now, IBM was holding them back from doing that (I hate IBM). Also, the G5 is having a tough time making it into the PowerBook and iBook lines because of the massive amounts of heat the G5 generates -- we all know IBM is not famous for making cool running processors. The only thing I'm really concerned about, the PowerPC processors from IBM that they were using, from what I've read, had some sort of special proramming that really proppelled the graphics. I don't know how Apple and Intel are working on that in the Intel chip insturction set. But I'm 100% Apple and Intel can easily work that out. Some are saying that the price of Apple's systems will come down, some say they won't - but we'll just have to wait and see now won't we? lol  

If you want to know more about what Apple is doing for its OS and the switch.. check out the keynote address from the WWDC:  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/