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Flash-based PowerBooks?

Barring the obvious pricing issues, wouldn’t it be cool if Apple did away with hard drives in the upcoming Intel PowerBook in favor of flash memory? It would allow them to further minimize the footprint (possibly fulfilling my dream of a PowerBook nano) and even offer the first instant-on machines. The Motley Fool has a […]

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More on PowerBook Safe Sleep

TUAW has an excellent article on the new Safe Sleep feature found in the October 2005 PowerBooks With the latest iteration of PowerBooks Apple just released, a new feature called Safe Sleep was introduced that Fabienne covered a couple weeks ago. In case you missed it, the short of the long of this handy new […]

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New PowerBooks Getting Closer?

An anonymous PowerPage reader writes “I have a friend in the UK who is trying to buy a PowerBook 15-inch. The Apple people are telling him they can’t get any because new models are arriving for some UK Apple show later this month.”

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The Apple Core: PowerBook nano to the rescue

I’m a little afraid that Apple may be putting all their eggs in the iPod basket. It seems that new iPods come out every six to nine months while the venerable PowerBook lineup hasn’t been refreshed since January and its form factor hasn’t changed since 2003. It almost seems like Apple re-org’d all their engineers […]

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7200RPM Hard Drives for Your PowerBook, or any Notebook for that Matter

TechRestore (a PowerPage sponsor) is offering an overnight hard drive upgrade service with speedy 7200RPM drives: 60GB 7200RPM @ $269.00 80GB 7200RPM @ $319.00 100GB 7200RPM @ $449.00 Is the industry moving to phase out all smaller hard drive sizes? Jump to the rest…