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The Washington Post praises the new iBook's lightweight design and low cost, but questions whether a 5-hour battery life is actually achievable with even light use and notes its "smallish hard drive" as the laptop's one real shortfall.
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..dismissive comment at the end .
He basically says, "Nice job, Apple- you gave the REAL computer manufacturers something to shoot for."
grrrrr
Manage the power and it's fine. All of these pundits ought to realized YOU CAN BTO A 20MB HD! Sheesh. This is a comsumer machine that is darn close to pro specs. And check this - you cannot (w/o applecare) even config an iBook up to the minimum price of a TiBook. Also - anyone notice we haven't heard a peep out of Dvorak? Or am I just not looking iunder the right rocks?
PC users are used to getting 2-3 hours max. from their laptop batteries as shipped.
If the PC world make products like the Mac, there really would be no reason to use a Mac.
However when you compare actual features Mac vs. PC you see the Wintel starts out at a disadvantage many more times in the Laptop arena.
Yes you can get like 500 different DELL laptops, and there are (currently) 2 Mac laptops - but how many different combinations of screen size and weight do you *need* to have?
I was watching Silicon Spin and he made a brief comment that he liked the new iBook.
There is no dedicated key for it but there is fn-delete. And if you want fun try deleting whole words with option-delete or forward fn-option-delete.
AppleWorks 6.1.something imports MS Office. However, he's right, the AppleWorks that's pre-installed on this iBook doesn't have this I just noticed. Huh.
A very reasonable article.
I have just pre-ordered the new iBook w/DVD and 256MB! As I am in Hong Kong, the iBook with DVD will be arrived in mid of June. I have waiting for 2 weeks!!!! I am so exciting about it.
Listen, as someone who has worked in the print and radio medium, everyone has always got to remember that journalists are practically trained to find SOMETHING...h***...ANYTHING...that COULD be a 'negative' angle, spin, or feature of a story or product announcement so that they don't come off as slamming something negatively, or getting too gushy about it. It's practically in their blood.
So if a 10GB HD is all they could b**** about, let them do it. I survived two years with a 6GB HD in a G3 doing pre-press work. I think I can handle 10.
My 6 year old Dell laptop is good for 4 hours on its original battery. My new SONY runs for 6.5 hrs.
Where in the h*** are you getting this misinformation?
PS, no executive would be caught dead carrying an iBook - it's far from 'trendy'.
My 6 year old Dell laptop is good for 4 hours on
its original battery.
6 year old Dell, as in has a processor so slow and pathetic that a watch battery could run it for 5 hours.
My new SONY runs for 6.5 hrs.
As in an ultra thin book, that also has a throttle down pathetic CPU and no optical drive and no, etc.. and so forth...
Try comparing a full featured laptop and stop spreading your disinformation.
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Yeah, it can do that!