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Gruber reviews the crap out of his new PowerBook

by David Chartier Nov 12th 2005 at 9:00AM

Daring Fireball logoJohn Gruber has posted "Full Metal Jacket," one heck of a review of his new 15-inch PowerBook G4, and there's one quote that almost made me spit out my Mountain Dew: "Apple is slated to soon start using the same Intel x86 guts as other laptop manufacturers, but I’ll eat my hat if they start boogering up their cases with “Intel Inside” decals."

On a more serious note, Gruber really delves into the machines and gets his hands dirty with the typical stuff like the PowerBook's gorgeous design, materials and the upgrades he ordered. What I thought was really interesting and educational was a section devoted to the new higher-resolution displays. John mentions the fact that merely increasing pixels-per-inch within the same physical display space might not always be a good thing, (though he's happy with the new 15's) but he lets on that: "there is already developer-level technology in Mac OS X 10.4 laying the groundwork for a future release of Mac OS X with a scalable, resolution-independent interface."

See? Entertaining, and educational. Thanks John.
 

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subfunk

Perhaps Apple made quietly made a deal with Intel to use USB 2 exclusively on all of their iPods and, in turn, Apple won't be required to put those advert stickers on their cases.

November 14 2005 at 8:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zeno Crivelli

I can't believe he is not seeing the "horizonal lines" issue: http://15inpbscreen.appleplace.com http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=158751 http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=274170

November 13 2005 at 8:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matthew Huie

He may be incredibly detailed, but he got one point wrong. The 15" AlBook started at 1.0GHz, not 1.25GHz

November 13 2005 at 2:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Optimus

Gruber close to David Every in article detail, quality, and analysis. I miss MacKiDo.com.

November 12 2005 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ZX

John Gruber = 1 post a week..and please no Q vs. Q BS.

November 12 2005 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robb

John always has been an incredibly detailed writer. Cheers to him.

November 12 2005 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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