Apple Opens The Book On 17" PowerBook Specs 35
maxentius writes "Apple released detailed specs on the new Aluminum 17-inch PowerBooks, apparently intended to spur compatible hardware development. A PDF is available."
With your bare hands?!?
Wonderful (Score:1, Insightful)
Shame about the prices being so high but you are paying for the quality
Re:Wonderful (Score:3, Insightful)
I think it's hypocritical to praise Apple for producing high-quality products and then criticize them for charging more.
Re:Wonderful (Score:1)
How does mac ownership make you not a troll? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:How does mac ownership make you not a troll? (Score:2)
It means.... (Score:2)
Any time before that, you'll wind up with some section of the userbase pissed about not being able to boot into 9, for whatever reason, when the previous revision of the same hardware DID. A big change in hardware is a great way to soften the blow of OS 9 no longer booting- something some people may miss, b
Re:It means.... (Score:2)
Apparently... what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Huh? This technote isn't "apparently intended" to do anything. It's just part of Apple's normal documentation. Every time a new [apple.com] product [apple.com] comes out, Apple releases a technote [apple.com] documenting [apple.com] that [apple.com] product [apple.com].
In fact, technotes just like this one are available for every Apple product [apple.com] going back to the original Mac Classic.
Re:Apparently... what? (Score:1, Informative)
HTH
WM
P.S. BTW, you're 100% right about
Re:Apparently... what? (Score:1)
Re:Apparently... what? (Score:2)
This developer note is intended to help hardware and software developers design products that are compatible with the Macintosh products described here.
Apparently it is designed to help developers release hardware and software.
Not compatible *computers* (Score:4, Insightful)
So what? (Score:2, Informative)
Apple != Sun (Score:2, Funny)
Sun = does not release specs on their hardware
there, got it? good.
Great feature (Score:5, Insightful)
The Ethernet port on the PowerBook G4 17-inch computer supports Auto-MDIX. It switches between MDI (Medium Dependent Interface) and MDI-X operation automatically, so it can be connected to another device by either a straight-through cable or a cross-over cable.
This attention to detail is why I love Apple hardware. Why don't all computer companies do this?
Re:Great feature (Score:4, Funny)
That must be why they have so many ads spotlighting auto-mdix
Re:Great feature (Score:3, Interesting)
1. I doubt that it costs more than a dollar (maybe two tops) at the volume that Apple runs.
2. Almost everyone I know who has a machine with this capability has used it at some point or another.
3. Nope. See (2). I've personally used it for large file transfers w/ PCs using SMB. (They don't have FireWire, so no target disk mode, and can't mount HFS+ natively anyway.) It's great for setting up appliances (i.e. Base Statio
Re:Great feature (Score:3, Interesting)
When you build a PC, you get what you want.
Re:Great feature (Score:3, Insightful)
an interesting idea... (Score:1)
Re:an interesting idea... (Score:2, Interesting)
It's just as well in my opinion. Dual processors wouldn't actually boost speeds that much for the kinds of applications most people run on notebooks, even high end notebooks. A bit of photoshop work is one thing and might benefit a bit, but noone runs a renderfarm of laptops or serves a big database intensive site from one. And the cost wou
Re:an interesting idea... (Score:1)
Re:an interesting idea... (Score:2)