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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Sunday, June 08, 2003 Thoughts on the 2003 PowerBooks
I came this close to buying a 12-inch PowerBook G4 the day they were announced in January (actually, I did order one, but later cancelled it). Since then, I purchased a 17-inch iMac, but I've been waiting for the right machine to upgrade from my quickly fading iBook, which was never a speed demon but is now slower feeling than ever. I won't buy a 15-inch PowerBook until the new Aluminum model appears, and now that I've spent some time with the 17-inch, I can say it's just too damn big (it's also too damn expensive and Apple should be ashamed of that crappy keyboard; how about an ergonomic option with all that space?). That brought me back to the 12-inch PB, which is, alas, this close to being perfect. Last week, Apple dropped the price $200 to $1599, which is sweet. But I won't touch the thing until it packs at least a 1 GHz processor (the current models are a lowly 867 MHz) and I'd really prefer a machine with L3 cache, for Virtual PC. I guess I'll wait and see how the new 15-inch models pan out, but methinks this summer will mark a new Mac portable; two years ago this August, I bought the iBook. [ Posted at 4:21 PM | Permalink ]
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