Charles Moore’s Road Warrior column discusses new processor upgrades from Daystar for the PowerBook G4 Titanium. Last week Daystar/XLR8 quietly added Titanium PowerBook processor upgrades to their existing Pismo and Lombard G4 upgrade solutions. I have a Daystar 550 MHz G4 upgrade in my own Pismo PowerBook and am delighted with it and the excellent […]
The MacComparisonZone pits a PowerBook G4 (12-inch) 1.33GHz against a Power Mac G5/1.6 GHz and askes “What Are The Performance, Feature And Price Differences?” The article points out the performance inherent in the faster G5 processor and notes the paltry US$50 price difference. Spoiler: The G5 processor is 37% faster and gaming graphics performance is […]
XLR8YourMac’s Friday news page had the first reader report on runtime from a PB G4/1GHz owner (4+hrs vs 2.5 w/stock battery) using the Newer Tech 4800mAh battery for PB G4 Ti/15in models. Here’s another reader’s comments on runtime with it: I’ve been using Newer’s 4800mAh battery in my 500-MHz Titanium, and I gotta say, it’s […]
InfoWorld’s Chad
When considering the purchase of any piece of mobile technology it is important to consider the entire real cost of the item including the accessories. The devil in certainly in the details and with PDA and smartphones especially, you should expect to spend almost the cost of the base unit on the requisite cases, batteries […]