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Fri, 06 Jan 2006
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What I am looking for next week
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Guy Kawasaki is blogging now and today he put up a post about new Powerbooks. Here's what I'll be looking for next (I don't mind if it doesn't get announced next week, but you never know)
- Dual Core CPU - because I'm tired of waiting for my machine - I want that second core to cut down those beachballs.
- Big, Fast, disks - because I'm stuck on a 4200RPM disk and that makes paging pretty slow, and because between my CD collection, IT Conversations, and Canon RAW, disks are just too small.
- A user serviceable hard disk - so that the machine can have a decent life time.
- Higher end GPU - for Aperture, and for that 30" display that I'll be needing as my eyes age. I have my 21" running at 1856x1392, and I'm not getting any younger. Thanks to Dell for putting some price pressure on Apple. Finally.
- Slimmer and lighter - because I have to lug the infernal thing all over the place.
- More RAM - because it hurts to page - Intel's 945PM chipset addresses 4G, and apparently the new IBM/Lenovo T60's can take 4G of RAM.
- At least 5 hours of battery life, preferably more -- After all, that's what all this Intel business was about, right? And I don't mean turning down the display to almost zero, and typing judiciously.
- At least one announcement of x86 virtualization software for Windows and Linux - and that's right, that means that the disks and RAM will be too small.
- An announcement about the number of applications to go Universal - a little confidence building there...
- At least one Firewire port - because of all those external hard disks
That's my wishlist. I'm not going to speculate about Intel Mac-Mini's, or iBooks, or iPods, or iAnything else.
[ After I wrote this, but before I posted, I read AnandTech's Core Duo review and T60 preview - Gives you an idea of what's possible. ]
Hey Ted,
Are you going to buy a Mactel laptop hot off the presses or are you going to wait for the first revision? I would love to get my wife one but I am tempted to wait until some of the kinks are worked out. Yes, I am expecting kinks...
Posted by Ed Hager at Fri Jan 6 22:23:10 2006
Are you going to buy a Mactel laptop hot off the presses or are you going to wait for the first revision? I would love to get my wife one but I am tempted to wait until some of the kinks are worked out. Yes, I am expecting kinks...
Posted by Ed Hager at Fri Jan 6 22:23:10 2006
I'm not actually expecting a Powerbook/Pro series machine next week, just the Mini and an iBook. The Merom chips that are due in mid 2006 look like a better fit for a Pro series machine. In particular, those chips are 64bits wide.
If Apple meets the criteria above next week, I'll be thinking long and hard about buying one, but I probably will wait until people have had them in hand for a month or two at least. If the Mactel laptops rely heavily on Intel chipsets/motherboards, then that probably reduces the risk of hardware related problems.
I expect that once they announce, we'll hear more from the people that have had the Intel developer machines for the past 6 months, which will give some indication of how stable the software side of this is.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jan 6 22:55:21 2006
If Apple meets the criteria above next week, I'll be thinking long and hard about buying one, but I probably will wait until people have had them in hand for a month or two at least. If the Mactel laptops rely heavily on Intel chipsets/motherboards, then that probably reduces the risk of hardware related problems.
I expect that once they announce, we'll hear more from the people that have had the Intel developer machines for the past 6 months, which will give some indication of how stable the software side of this is.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jan 6 22:55:21 2006
Posted by Pingback from Ted Leung on the air : The Stevenote - it didn't work at Wed Jan 11 00:22:07 2006
Hey Ted, Looks like the MacBook Pro fits your criteria pretty well. Any idea on the battery life?
Haven't seen any stats on that, which is weird given how that seemed to be a primary reason for going Intel.
Posted by chao at Thu Jan 12 10:10:34 2006
Haven't seen any stats on that, which is weird given how that seemed to be a primary reason for going Intel.
Posted by chao at Thu Jan 12 10:10:34 2006
Hi Chao,
Looks like you haven't seen my follow up post: http://www.sauria.com/blog/2006/01/11#1455
Posted by Ted Leung at Thu Jan 12 14:25:07 2006
Looks like you haven't seen my follow up post: http://www.sauria.com/blog/2006/01/11#1455
Posted by Ted Leung at Thu Jan 12 14:25:07 2006
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