Ah, The "stuff not made yet" applied to the TiBook.Andrew W. Hill on 1/9/03 2:21 PM wrote:As for something that ain't been invented, ten bucks says it won't work with
anything less than OSX when it hit's the market.
Well, yeah... we're talking about the 12" TiBook here right?What I meant was, if someone invented some cool new PC card doohickey, and actually wrote drivers so that you could use it on a Mac, they would probably only develop an OSX version. Hence rendering it unusable on a 2400.
When the 2400 came out, USB was available on PCs, and Firewire was heard of. Ethernet and modems were common. If we look at common things, or things on other platforms, we get builtin flash readers. That's basically it. 802.11 wasn't known of outside of real technical forums. If we see that 802.11 wasnt heard of in 1997, but getting quite common now. Imagine there's something that gets invented in five years time that we all want - we'll need to buy new computers. Perhaps that isn't so bad for people with jobs, but I'm a student. I budget about $150 a year for hardware purchases.
Yeah, I'm pretty pi... upset. I'm gonna give it a whirl in a Titanium under X and see if its useful there. If so I'll hang onto it in case I ever put OS X on this 2400.> I guess computing style comes into it. I don't take AC adapters orexternal drives with me. If you still have that smartmedia PC card I'd be interested in buying it from you. I just got one at Circuit City that said it would work with all PCs, scanners and printers. Doesn;t work with my 2400 (works on a Dell PC though).How strange that it doesn't work.
Yeah, the compact flash ones are pretty cheap, but the smartmedia ones seem slightly harder to find. I think my grandparents paid like $40 for this four-in-one, and it was the only SM one in the store...I'm actually hanging onto mine. Occasionally my kids use the PB1400 with the camera. However I think I bought this one at a Target Store here in Indy for $10, but that's been a while back...I think. Heck, I buy so much crap I don't remember where most of it comes from...
The 970 is a decent processor. Its a scaled down version of IBM's POWER 4 workstation chip, so it has reasonable speeds and power consumption. Currently all the 970 stuff is hearsay. There was a rumor a few years ago that IBM would take over from Moto, which would make sort of a lot of sense, and then IBM released the POWER4, a chip of about the right speed for a Mac. Then they announced the 970 and everyone thought that'd be better in a Mac (which it would). There isn't anything even pointing towards actual evidence of this beyond webmonkeys wet dreams.Speaking of waiting, there is one thing that might make me wait a bit longer. I just read about a new 64-bit, PowerPC 970 processor that IBM is coming out with. Smaller and less power-hungry than the best G4 and runs at 1.8GHz. I saw it in the February issue of MacAddict. I skimmed through the article Tuesday so I don't recall details (were the heck did I leave it laying) but I think they indicated that Apple hasn't publicly committed to it yet. But if/when they do, there's a good chance it will be in Macs before the end of the year. If so, it will make for one killer processor for PowerBooks (they mention a 1.2GHz model).
Which isnt to say it wont happen, but I'm not holding my breath
Peace
Aqua
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