I have seen the
object of my unknown
lust, and it is
titanium. The date is January 9, and my
upgrade fever is once more in full swing. For those that weren't watching,
Steve Jobs just managed (again) to pull some incredible products from
somewhere mysterious. Ladies and Gentlemen, the
Apple Computer Powerbook G4.
First of all, it looks cool. Silver. Wide so that it can support widescreen DVD. One inch thick, 5.3 pounds, but still sporting a slot-loading internal DVD drive.
Sorry. Here's more spec info.
- Processor: AIM PowerPC 7410 aka G4 at 400 or 500 MHz.
- Cache: 1MB backside
- Screen: 15.2" Active Matrix LCD (TFT)
- Drive: Internal DVD/CD slotloading
- Weight: 5.3 lbs
- Construction: Titanium metal, in what Apple is touting as '99.5% pure' grade.
- Internal memory: comes with 128 or 256, maximum unknown but at least 1GB.
- Internal HD available at 10,20 or 30 GB
- Network: onboard 10/100 Ethernet, and Airport-ready for 802.11 with no external antenna ($99 add-on)
- Peripherals: USB port, FireWire (IEEE-1394, iLink, etc.) port.
Price points: An astonishingly reasonable $2,599 USD for the low end, 400MHz/128 RAM/10GB hs model - still with the 15.2" screen and DVD drive. $3,499 USD for the midrange, which has a 20GB drive, 256 RAM and a 500MHz G4.
Sigh. Now if only I had a job, I'd be on the phone to Apple RIGHT NOW...oh, and, obviously, it runs MacOS 9.1 or MacOS X right now.