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20030917 Wednesday September 17, 2003

PowerBooks aren't cheap I priced my ideal 15" and 17" laptops this morning. 15"/1GB RAM/5400 RPM/Extra Battery/AppleCare is $3,702.00, 17" version of the same is $4,002.00. Not much of a difference for a couple more inches on the screen. Is this the only difference between the two - or does the 15" have Aluminum and the 17" is the same as my old 15"/667 PowerBook?

Boy is it tempting to get one, but I can't seem to justify it. The only thing I can come up with is that I really *want* one, no need though. The mind wants, the pocketbook doesn't.

Anyone know when they'll be available in the Retail Stores - I'd love to take one for a test drive. Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 17 2003, 05:17:49 AM MDT 6 Comments

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[Trackback] I ordered a new 15 inch PB last night. I got the 1.25 Ghz with a combo drive and 512 MB RAM (1 DIMM) for about $2600. I figured I don't have much use for the Superdrive since I don't have a digital video camera. Someday though. :) Pretty sweet if you a...

Posted by kdub's log on September 17, 2003 at 08:59 AM MDT #

See my post for a answer to most of your questions. :)

Posted by Kurt Wiersma on September 17, 2003 at 09:04 AM MDT #

Well Matt, I just got my new 1.33 Ghz 17" powerbook today, and it is sweet. Eclipse runs really well, Safari launches pretty much instantaneously, and the screen is gorgeous (and big!). Easily the nicest laptop I've ever used.

Posted by Robert Rasmussen on September 17, 2003 at 10:38 PM MDT #

Congrats Robert - I'm jealous. =80)

Care to run compare against these performance numbers?

Posted by Matt Raible on September 17, 2003 at 11:39 PM MDT #

Matt - get one, you'll know why when you hold it in your hands, believe me....

Posted by Frank Koehntopp on September 18, 2003 at 02:35 AM MDT #

Hey Matt...sorry I'm not an appfuse or roller user so I don't have performance numbers. If it helps, maven clean java:jar on xwork takes 22 seconds. Would it be faster on my Thinkpad? Probably. Do I prefer using the Powerbook? Definitely. In the interest of full disclosure, I initially bought a 12" Powerbook a few weeks ago, and it was way too slow for dev work (although I think it's by far the most attractive of the powerbooks)...so it's not as though performance doesn't matter at all to me. But the 17" seems fine...hell, it runs Unreal Tournament 2003 which is no small feat.

Posted by Robert Rasmussen on September 21, 2003 at 08:07 PM MDT #

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