Exclusive Deal While supplies last, save 40% off over 40 iPhone 5 and iPhone 4/4S cases and chargers as well as Samsung S III cases at Kensington.com. Use coupon code 'SAVE40%' at checkout to receive this exclusive discount.      
toggle

AAPL Stock: 442.14 ( 0 )

http://www.macnn.com/articles/01/03/01/boston.globe:/

Boston Globe: "a ravishing new laptop"

updated 01:40 pm EST, Thu March 1, 2001

 
", 0, 0);


The Titanium PowerBook would be the one laptap Hiawatha Bray would take on a desert island, according to another glowing review in The Boston Globe that opens by saying "Apple is a personal computer company at a time when that's not good enough any more." (Oddly, the review does note excessive "stuttering and pausing" during DVD playback, which other reviews and readers have not noted.)


by MacNN Staff

Post tools:

TAGS :

 industry

Related Articles

Recent Articles

toggle

Comments

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:20pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    What an idiot

    This guy spends the whole time warding off consumers by talking about Apple being on the verge of going out of business. What a moron. Isn't his job to review the laptop? Instead of reviewing the product, this guy breaks into analyst mode and shovels too much of his own BS, then he spends the other quarter of the article on the "ravishing" powerbook. He must not be using it right, because I've never heard of anyone complaining about the DVD player on it.

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:26pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    dvd

    FYI the review of the titanium powerbook in the sunday chicago tribune (last weekend, I think) also found problems with the dvd player.

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:32pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    My God

    He expects to get the full five hours of battery life playing a DVD? What a moron, indeed!

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:35pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    iTunes

    He was also wrong about the iTunes streaming. If you have an URL. you can listen to any old MP3 stream you like.

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:58pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    Stuttering

    He's right about Apple's DVD playback -- it currently sucks. You move your mouse over the menu or press any of the control keys and the damn thing hangs for a good 5-10 seconds. Things were much better on the older Powerbooks which had hardware-accelerated playback. The worst part is, current ATI graphics chips have DVD playback features built-in, but Apple is choosing not to use them. Why? Who knows.

    They do the same thing with CD playback, too. Newer machines don't use the CD drives' built-in audio playback. It's software-only. I can actually understand that, since the D-to-A converters inside computer CD drives may not be the best in the world, so there is a legitimate issue of quality. But when it comes to DVD video, it's a different story. Apple would be getting much better image quality (not to mention better system responsiveness) if they used ATI's hardware. Let's hope things will be better when they release a DVD player for X.

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 02:59pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    crunching

    this guy likes to use the word crunching. what do you expect from someone who likes to crunch?

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 03:27pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    Hiawatha's right...

    ..about most of this stuff. You actually can't listen to Real music stations in iTunes. According to a couple of the above people, maybe he's right about the DVD players too. Any lucky Titanium owners want to comment? He called the G4 Cube an iCube though. What was up with that?

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 03:58pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    DVD Playback...

    I had issues with my DVD playback, too. I had AppleTalk, Filesharing, TCP/IP and Virtual Memory turned off with no improvement. I spoke with Apple, they told me to turn off the Appearance sounds, which I could care less about, and playback worked great!
    I still have a little stuttering with dual layered DVDs switching layers, but that's completely normal.

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 04:06pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    You guys...

    You guys make me look like an expert. DVD playback on Macs has been relative c*** due to two huge factor: multitasking of Mac OS (which X will resolve)/multithreading of the DVD player (I think, since I hardly use my PowerBook's DVD-ROM as a DVD player) and the fact that it's a software decoded playback rather than hardware only adds to the strain on the CPU.

    So, DVD, big farking deal, for the most part. Just get X out the door!!

  1. 0

    Joined:

    0
    03/01, 04:47pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    Bray the Fool

    Folks, you're forgetting the source. This guy is a complete and total moron. I lived in Boston for 20 years, and never was able to gleam any value from his dribble. He's one of the contributing factors to Apple's relocation of MacWorld FROM Boston.

    Hiawatha Bray, and John Dovark should be competing for the "We don't get it" award. These are Complete buffoons, reading either one of their spewings makes you wonder about some serious detachment from reality. At very least I wonder if Mr.Bray, isn't making this up as he goes like the rest of his contemporaries..

Show More Comments

Login Here

Not a member of the MacNN forums? Register now for free.

 
close
Photo
toggle

Network Headlines

toggle

Most Popular

MacNN Sponsor

Recent Reviews

MaxUpgrades MaxConnect for 2006-2008 Mac Pro

Nobody outside of Cupertino's privileged bunch knows the future of the Mac Pro line for sure. Despite Apple's reluctance to tell us wh ...

Brother HL-3170CDW LED Printer

We've mentioned before that we are far from a paperless society. For now, at least, there are tasks that require a piece of paper for ...

HTC One

It is hard to overstate just how critically important the HTC One is to the Taiwanese company’s fortunes. Despite its alarming decline ...

toggle

Most Commented

 

Popular News