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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

There is rumor of a new 15" PowerBook in the near future, but the 17" is so
new it probably will not be upgraded for 4-7 months. The towers , on the
other hand, may see a major upgrade in the next few months.

As a side note to Drew, I have a machine similar to yours (dual 500) and I
would suggest dropping some more RAM in it, especially if you are running OS
X. RAM is not as cheap as it was, but you should be able to find 512MB for
about $75. I think you need a minimum of 512MB for OS X to be happy. I have
1.5GB of RAM in mine, from back when RAM was really cheap (about $1 per MB).

Konfabulator looks neat--I'll check it out.

David

On 5/6/03 12:43 PM, "drew johnston" <drew AT mmteach.com> wrote:

> I agree...
> 
> In my opinion, though, if you're going to buy an apple, buy whatever it
> is you want and don't worry about it.
> 
> Honestly -- I'm a mm designer, who puts a lot of stress on his machine
> (crunch through video editing/encoding, 3d animation, graphic design,
> and web development all in one night, on one HD, then play some high
> end games, then do some beta testing, blah blah blah).  I'm running an
> older G4 tower (dual 450 chips, 256 ram, 16mb vid card).
> 
> I've upgraded the OS with every stable release of osX, and download and
> install most new software that comes out that I'm remotely interested
> in (apple users, if you haven't seen konfabulator, it's some pretty
> cool crap--go take  a look @ http://konfabulator.com), including the
> new and awesome iTunes4.
> 
> And guess what?  My mac is still humming along, pretty as you please,
> and still smoking some of the newer PC's my friends have bought.
> 
> Unless it's extremely important to you that you have the latest and
> greatest of all technology available, I wouldn't freaking worry about
> what Apple is about to do.  As long as you buy an Apple, you'll be
> highly likely to enjoy it for at least the next few years...at least,
> IMHO....
> 
> D
> On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 12:12  PM, zman wrote:
> 
>> Amidst all the rumors, and the fact that I am a diehard Apple
>> supporter, I
>> must say your safer with the powerbook right now. I believe at the
>> WWDC we
>> will see new towers with the IBM 970 chip. I don't give ant credit to
>> the
>> AMD rumors as IBM is manufacturing some of the Operton chips for them.
>> Buy
>> yourself a big 'ol 17 and have fun till' the new powerbooks arrive next
>> year sometime.
>> 
>> On Tue, 6 May 2003, David R. Matusiak wrote:
>>> But here is the /real/ question  --  IS Apple going to do something SO
>>> fundamental (*cough* switch chip manufacturers *cough*) or drastic
>>> (*twitch* move Darwin to new architecture *shake*) that one would be
>>> ILL ADVISED to purchase their hardware at this time??
>>> c'mon you industry insiders -- gimme the dirt on Apple!!
>>> thanks!
>>> dave m.
>> 
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