NoteBook

last year I guess was the year of the consumer desktop (iMac, eMac), and this year it is the year of the notebook, so we see great new PowerBooks, possibly iBooks too later on, so my guess is they are going to do big stuff with towers in 2004. Interesting that the new 64 bit PowerPC processors from Motorola and IBM should be available about then. By then, QuarkXPress will be...

Its the year of the notebook according to Jobs. Why put your money into a dying platform like the PowerMac? ...

Where did someone say that everyone should use Macs? Or PowerBooks? Or iBooks? In a Mac forum, the discussion is going to get Mac-centric, but I don't know of any Mac users who go to PC forums to tell them to use Macs. I got an idea, maybe we can all realize that pushing PCs in a Mac forum is going to meet with resistance. I personally think talking about PCs has as much...

You missed bastard. Honestly, I don't see a problem with the article. The guy ran several tests using PCs and Macs. In the end, the PC notebook won but even more shocking is that a $400 Dell Desktop cleaned the clock of a $3600 PowerMac. The guys a Mac user and can admit that Macs need some work. Maybe its time for Apple and its fellow Mac users to stop being in...

My friend has a Dell notebook with 15" screen and 1600x1200 resolution. I personally use 1600x1200 resolution on my PC, but thats with a 21" monitor. ...

something that is powerful but easy to transport when needed. The Alienware notebook fulfills the same needs. There is no need dissing PCs just because they are different from Macs. ...

The screen of my notebook is so bright that I don't even need a lamp in my room. ...

is good. It's the apps that are missing. Actually, you can have a very nice system running on an X86 based notebook or desktop computer, if you use RedHat 8.x. You're still screwed if you want to do the things you do on the Mac, though. ...

The PC notebook wins, fair enough, its a singled 3GHz CPU compared to the dual 1.25GHz Mac but what about the 1.8GHz PC? ...

One of our customers is doing the following on a Dual 1 GHz PowerMac (1.25 GB RAM, SuperDrive, 3x80 GB HDs) with no problems for a LONG period of time and that's the usual everyday scenario for the Mac anyways: -Burning DVDs with Toast -Encoding iDVD based DVDs -Playing some MP3s -Having VPC5 with Windows 2000 Pro running a DVD/VHS rental app -Exporting from iMovie DV...