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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=612
G4 Titanium "Powers Further Ahead"
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
July 5th 2002
The laudatory press for the TiBook never ceases.
David Firth in The Australian IT raves about the 800MHz PowerBook G4''s "brilliance"
in his latest column. While a PB G4 owner himself (and therefore not completely
unbiased), Firth clearly hankers after the 133MHz bus and big L3 cache in the latest
models.
One TiBook feature rarely alluded to in the media is that the PowerBook G4 is equipped
with the only widescreen 15.2" LCD on the market. While a number of PC notebooks sport
a 15" - or even 16" - LCD, none use the wide-format Apple employs. As Firth notes, the
crispness and color of the display makes DVD videos look sensational.
Despite the accolades, Firth finds two negatives: one is that battery life drops to a
mere 90 minutes running OS X (software power management is at an immature stage in OS
X, and virtual memory sucks juice), while he also found the sound quality poor.
We''d have to agree with the latter point in particular. We know that slightly smaller
speakers were squeezed into the Ti''s original design, due to its 1" height. This
means that Ti speakers are actually mildly inferior to those of the PowerBook G3
Series and not as good as those on the current iBook.
Heat is another area Firth identifies, although the current iteration of the Ti has
better cooling than its 550/667MHz predecessors.
The article doesn''t forget to mention the DVI connector, although the price of the
adapter isn''t cheap. Firth also says "very few" PC notebooks have a DVI connector.
Which ones do? And we are talking a mobo connector, right? Not a PC card or in a dock
of some sort. Anyone know?
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