Not actually, there have been two PB iterations for 2005 that I know
of. In January, they bumped up the CPU speeds, introduced the Sudden
Motion Sensor, better Bluetooth etc. Then in October they increased
the screen resolution and made some small tweaks as well. But in all
cases, the FSB is a lousy 167 Mhz or something like that.
The thing is that the PPC mobile chip has been stuck at the G4 level
for some time, while x86 mobile performance has been increasing with
the Centrino and even sticking with the 'desktop' P4 and ramping up
clock. The G5 had to be liquid cooled at introduction of the PowerMac
G5 ... so you can imagine it would pump out too much heat for a laptop.
Short story is PB performance lagged seriously and to preserve the
market, they had to keep adding stuff, to make it have value apart
from just speed. Intro of MacBook changes all of that, means PB can
have same horsepower as the newer Intel laptops.
AFAIK, Apple switched because PPC could not deliver the goods for two
of their most important segments, the laptop segment, and the
performance segment (clock speeds could not keep up with Intel,
although G5 delivers better performance cycle for cycle, compared
with x86).
So to not see the market for their laptops disappear/stagnate they
had to move quickly ... I wonder what the internals are and since am
using the old PB am seriously thinking about getting one of the new
ones, but a wise little bird tells me to wait for the next HW
revision :-)
What I don't doubt is that the PB is a great machine and I really
like it. Much better than any other PC I have ever used.
-- G.
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
Similar such discussions on slashdot: http://apple.slashdot.org/
article.pl?sid=06/01/10/1829252&tid=3
Short answer is they've kept the price the same and given the user
more. Happened at last iteration as well which was November last
year. Which brings up something else: Why upgrade the Powerbook
line so soon?
On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:41, Hari Kurup wrote:
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Interesting but it seems "intel inside" does not necessarily mean
the mac comes any cheaper.
Kurup
On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
For those who missed it, Apple yesterday trotted out its first
Intel machines. Visit http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20060110-5940.html for a quick view.
Unix on Intel now much more interesting.
P.
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