Day: January 10, 2003

MacNN reader Noah Sager notes that Apple’s new 12-inch PowerBook G4 features a new midrange audio speaker. An AppleCare document expands on the technology: “The PowerBook G4 (12-inch) is the first portable computer made by Apple to have a midrange-enhancing speaker. The midrange-enhancing is designed to produce a separate channel of midrange sound. There are […]

Bare Feats has posted benchmark results from the new 867MHz 12″ and 1GHz 17″ PowerBooks. The 1GHz 15″ and 17″ PowerBooks performed similar, except on Memory and OpenGL Graphics tests, in which the new 17″ PowerBook dominated. The 12″ PowerBook rated similar in most test to the 800MHz iBook, beating it out considerably in only […]

News.com’s Enterprise Computing and Personal Technology editor Michael Kanellos shows a remarkable lack of perspective in his “Perspective” column today, entitled “Macintosh: An Acquired Taste”. He calls Keynote “completely impractical”, says the 17″ PowerBook is “not all that different than 16″ screen models from Sony and Toshiba” (even claiming there’s “a nearly identically configured Sony […]