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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 Saturday, October 25, 2003iBook G4 12-inch disappointsOne thing I did do while in the Apple Store was check out the new 800 MHz iBook G4 12-inch. If it was awesome, I would have bought it. If it was very good, I would have considered configuring one online with better specs. But man. It was lousy. The case design is identical to the previous models, but it features a more solid colored (less translucent) keyboard; that keyboard, however, is the same loosy-goosy model iBooks have always had, and not the nice, rock-steady one you see on the new G4 PowerBooks. That didn't bug me, actually, and the fact that I could reuse my old batteries is a plus. But the performance... my God. This thing doesn't perform any better than the models it replaces, and that's horrible. To test this, I loaded up PhotoShop Elements 2 (which I use almost daily) and used its excellent Batch Automate feature to resize four images. No, no, no, no..... Damn it. It's just as slow as the G3 iBook I already own. When I do this operation on a PC--any PC, including the slowest imaginable laptops--the process is speedy, and over in seconds, regardless of how many images I resize. On the G4 iBook, it was like watching it happen in slow motion. I can't buy one of these things. That just stinks. [ Posted at 9:58 AM | Permalink ]
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