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20060109 Monday January 09, 2006

Steve, PLEASE announce Intel PowerBooks I totally agree with Dion. For the love of God, pppplllllleeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssseeeee announce Intel-based ass-kicking PowerBooks tomorrow!! I love my PowerBook, but I hate the speed. It's extremely frustrating developing in Java on it, especially when I spend 60% of my time on a dual-core AMD 64. If Apple doesn't announce new PowerBooks tomorrow, it's likely I'll buy a Ferrari instead. Posted in Mac OS X at Jan 09 2006, 12:39:03 PM MST 12 Comments

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I just went to purchase a Mac Mini for my parents at CDW and they're not selling them on-line today. I wonder if this has anything to do with the upcoming announcements?

Posted by Geof Harries on January 09, 2006 at 03:22 PM MST #

Don't buy the Ferrari, Intel just announced the dual-core Centrino and AMD will follow later this year. Can't wait to get one. This cpu might be inside the new Powerbooks.

Posted by Hendrik on January 09, 2006 at 03:42 PM MST #

Dual-core - ThinkPad T60 looks good - let's see what Apple bring to compete :)

Posted by Thomas Risberg on January 09, 2006 at 04:30 PM MST #

That would be quite a surprise. The rumor mill suggests some laptop upgrades but we'll see. I'm hoping for a kick-ass Media Mac to replace the pile of crap DVR Comcast gave me!

Posted by Winston Rast on January 09, 2006 at 04:34 PM MST #

You're so strange, why wait. Do buy a Ferrari! I have one. And it just rocks! I've never worked on anything as fast as this one. My 2Ghz G5 iMac just doesn't come close.

Posted by Sergey Doubov on January 09, 2006 at 09:42 PM MST #

How is your dual-core AMD working out? I'm in the market for a new desktop and was looking at them over the standard P4 Intel chip. I wish I had a wife that would run out and buy me a dual-core machine over a little harddrive problem. :) Who knows. Maybe instead of an AMD dual-core I'll be able to go get an Intel Powerbook. That would be nice! Erik

Posted by Erik Weibust on January 09, 2006 at 11:11 PM MST #

Erik, it's working out great! I got a TV Tuner tonight and hooked up my machine to Media Center - which is waaayyyy cool. I've also been using Skype to video conference with my family. With 3 GB of RAM, I haven't had any issues - while the rest of my family is struggling with their machines.

Posted by Matt Raible on January 09, 2006 at 11:16 PM MST #

Matt, it looks like your prayers have been answered. :)

Posted by Ted Bergeron on January 10, 2006 at 12:31 PM MST #

Two MacBook Pro models: 1.67 GHz Core Duo for 1999 USD, 1.83 GHz for 2499 USD. Ships in February. Both models have 667 MHz DDR busses, an ATi x1600 graphics card, iSight/FrontRow etc. and weigh 2.8kg (not lighter than previous models).

Posted by Ted Bergeron on January 10, 2006 at 12:41 PM MST #

WHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooo wwwwwwwwwhooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! NICCEEEE!!! I was watching the "live feed" on macrumors.com. This fricken' rocks!!! To bad I have to wait another month to get it...

Posted by Matt Raible on January 10, 2006 at 12:44 PM MST #

are they still going to release intel powerbooks? if so, will they be better than the mac books?

Posted by mac mcmac on January 24, 2006 at 07:31 PM MST #

mac mcmac - the MacBooks *are* the Intel PowerBooks. ;-)

Posted by Matt Raible on January 24, 2006 at 08:48 PM MST #

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