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Thursday September 18, 2003

Test driving the new PowerBooks

I called my local Apple Store today to see if they had any new PowerBooks in. They did (though they've sold out of their 15" with combo/super drives for the day), and now I'm here test-driving the 17" with 1.33 Mhz and 512 MB RAM. It wouldn't be right if I didn't compare this machine against these performance numbers. So here goes:

  • Opening Eclipse (3.0 M2): 10 seconds
  • Opening Photoshop (7.0.1): 8 seconds
  • Running "ant rebuild" on Roller (0.9.7.3): 32 seconds (ooh, this actually beats the 2 GHz machine I had at Comcast, by 4 seconds).
  • Running "ant clean package-web" on AppFuse (0.9.1): 21 seconds (3 seconds slower than the 2 GHz Pentium)

I'm not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Good thing I left my wallet in the car!

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 18 2003, 06:17:43 PM MDT 2 Comments
Comments:

Leaving your wallet in the car when you go to the Apple is store is a good financial move. Unfortunatly it isn't as fun to walk out of the store without a box full of goodies! I think you should pair down your specs and go with a 15 inch with a 512 RAM and a superdrive for a more affortable option.

Posted by Kurt on September 18, 2003 at 07:29 PM MDT #

One of my biggest complaints (long ago) about the PowerBook was its screen resolution. I like how you can get 1200 x 1600 on PCs, and I always found it frustrating how Macs displays were. Unfortunately, I'm smitten with the PowerBooks form-factor - so I if I get a new laptop, it'll have to be a PowerBook. The ZX7's 17" display rocked - I absolutely loved the big screen.

Posted by Matt Raible on September 18, 2003 at 08:18 PM MDT #

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