{"id":1737,"date":"2003-09-15T20:27:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/16\/new-powerbooks\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:03:57","slug":"new-powerbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/15\/new-powerbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"New PowerBooks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" title=\"Apple\">Apple<\/a> has finally updated their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/\" title=\"Apple - PowerBook\">PowerBook<\/a> line (Apple&#8217;s page isn&#8217;t updated yet, though &#8212; Steve&#8217;s still onstage giving the keynote speech at the Europe Apple Expo).<\/p>\n<p>~~Since the keynote is still in progress, details are a bit sketchy, but~~<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some key points of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/\" title=\"MacRumors\">MacRumors<\/a> has posted so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powermac\/\" title=\"Apple - PowerMac\">G5<\/a> will hit 3Ghz by the end of summer &#8217;04.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ichat\" title=\"Apple - iChat\">iChat<\/a> is based on standards and should be compatible with Windows software soon.<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index17.html\" title=\"Apple - 17 inch PowerBook\">17\\&#8221; PowerBook<\/a>: 1.33GHz, 2GB RAM Max, \\$2999. Mobility Radeon 9600. 2x Superdrive.<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index12.html\" title=\"Apple - 12 inch PowerBook\">12\\&#8221; PowerBook<\/a>: 1GHz with 512k Cache, \\$1599. GeForce FX GO, USB 2.0. Both available today. \\$1799 12\\&#8221;\/Superdrive.<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index15.html\" title=\"Apple - 15 inch PowerBook\">15\\&#8221; PowerBook<\/a>: Aluminum. Slot Loading Drive. Backlit Keyboard. 15.2\\&#8221; TFT. 1.25GHz, G4. Up to 2GB DDR RAM 333MHz. Radeon Mobility, DVI, FW800, 2 USB, Airport Extreme. \\$1999 Combodrive model. Superdrive for \\$2599. One config has 1GHz, 60GB, 256MB. 1.25GHz has 512MB RAM and 80GB HD.<\/li>\n<li>A New <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore.woa\/72302\/wo\/WL5lPuM21ZhL2mxgdwo1zfX0FwB\/1.3.0.5.10\" title=\"Apple Wireless Mouse\">mouse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore.woa\/72302\/wo\/WL5lPuM21ZhL2mxgdwo1zfX0FwB\/1.3.0.5.10.3.0.13.0\" title=\"Apple Wireless Keyboard\">keyboard<\/a>. No wire, but bluetooth. adaptive frequency hopping &#8211; a new technology to keep a better connection. 128-bit encryption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>Added links to Apple official product info pages and replaced Euro pricing with USD pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened &mdash; Apple has finally updated their PowerBook line. Since the keynote is still in progress, details are a bit sketchy, but here&#8217;s some key points of what MacRumors has posted so far&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}