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Would there be any forseeable difficulties in replacing the PowerPC of a 12in powerbook g4 (Albook) with the Duo?
And installing that system onto a powerbook would be impossible?
"...of the 1995-1996 time period where the company teetered on the brink of death." Seems a bit opinionated to me. Apple wasn't doing well but I wouldn't say it was teetering on the brink of death.
If anyone wonders why the PowerBook G4 17inch picture was removed, please open the image and take a look at the screen in the picture. It's something hand-drawn on the screen. Do some "invert colors" if you don't see it yet. I may be wrong but ... Dent 18:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Needs to be de-biased:
The current Powerbook runs at 800Mhz G4, and sports a DVI port and a huge, high res display. Even the new 667 is freakin awesome!
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Ellmist
Here's my translation: The current PowerBook G4 processor runs up to 800 mHz. The display has a resolution of 1280x854, but a DVI port exists. -- Ellmist
Anyone against changing the g4 pb pic for this one:
12inch g4?
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Jørgen Adam
There exists a short article about the PowerBook G4. Perhaps split off the PB G4 from PowerBook#PowerBook_G4 into there, or merge that here? -- Christopherlin 09:12, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The image at the bottom is captioned correctly, but the name is "G4iBook.jpeg" (in big huge letters on the top of the page, if you click on it for a closer look). Can we change this, so it's not misleading? It's a PowerBook G4, not an iBook G4.
User:193.15.190.221 has changed the article from American to British English... Is this not erroneous, as the article is about a product from an American company...? -- hooverbag 11:55, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
"All the 500 series featured active-matrix LCD displays [all models had color screen options if so desired]" - this is incorrect.
Not all of the 500-series 'books had active matrix displays. Only the 540, 540c (and 550c in asia) had TFT displays. Even more so, the 500-series did not introduce active matrix displays to the Powerbook line...the 170 did. Somebody should correct the article as it is currently inaccurate.
The article currently indicates that the PowerBook is out of production. Is this based on any evidence?
I have not heard of PowerBooks being End-of-Lifed. Currently, there is no way to buy a 12" or 17" pro laptop from Apple except to buy a PowerBook. And there's nothing on the Apple Store or the Apple PowerBook page to indicate that they are out of production.
Some people may be of the opinion that Apple is not actively manufacturing PowerBooks anymore, but is that actually known, or just a guess?
The Timeline image is extremely hard to read, ironically, using Apple standard gamma, because the distinction between the colours on it are hard to make out. It looks okay under PC gamma, but could probably be a bit easier to distinguish.
"The PowerBook is a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers manufactured and sold by Apple Computer between 1991 and 2006".
This sentence is semantically and factually correct, no matter how far into the future it is read. I know it's tempting to say that the PowerBook was a line of laptops... but the phrasing here is intentional: PowerBooks do indeed still exist; it's the fact that they are no longer manufactured and sold by Apple that is something we characterise as being in the past, by employing the past tense on those specific activities, not the product as a whole. PowerBooks are still a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers... that hasn't changed. In short, "it is something that was". Warrens 06:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
With the PowerBook no longer being Apple's current portable line, I think the Portable section is now entirely too prominent. Thoughts? -- Steven Fisher 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Are the G4 PowerBooks the first ones introducing the FireWire 800 port? I think there should be something about that in your article.
Thanks :) -- Asorka 10:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
This is very temporal, and will lose relevance and interest with time. I don't think it is encyclopedic. Proposal: delete it. Life.temp ( talk) 14:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
The overall quality of this article is extremely lacking. I'm going to adopt it and attempt to repair it in the next few weeks. Are there any objections?-- nblschool ( talk) 14:51, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I can't find any evidence in the linked article for the claim, that the team left for Compaq. What is more, it's easy to find, that John Medica, who was the head of the team, left for Dell to design the Dell Latitude. GL1zdA ( talk) 06:42, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
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Would there be any forseeable difficulties in replacing the PowerPC of a 12in powerbook g4 (Albook) with the Duo?
And installing that system onto a powerbook would be impossible?
"...of the 1995-1996 time period where the company teetered on the brink of death." Seems a bit opinionated to me. Apple wasn't doing well but I wouldn't say it was teetering on the brink of death.
If anyone wonders why the PowerBook G4 17inch picture was removed, please open the image and take a look at the screen in the picture. It's something hand-drawn on the screen. Do some "invert colors" if you don't see it yet. I may be wrong but ... Dent 18:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Needs to be de-biased:
The current Powerbook runs at 800Mhz G4, and sports a DVI port and a huge, high res display. Even the new 667 is freakin awesome!
--
Ellmist
Here's my translation: The current PowerBook G4 processor runs up to 800 mHz. The display has a resolution of 1280x854, but a DVI port exists. -- Ellmist
Anyone against changing the g4 pb pic for this one:
12inch g4?
/
Jørgen Adam
There exists a short article about the PowerBook G4. Perhaps split off the PB G4 from PowerBook#PowerBook_G4 into there, or merge that here? -- Christopherlin 09:12, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The image at the bottom is captioned correctly, but the name is "G4iBook.jpeg" (in big huge letters on the top of the page, if you click on it for a closer look). Can we change this, so it's not misleading? It's a PowerBook G4, not an iBook G4.
User:193.15.190.221 has changed the article from American to British English... Is this not erroneous, as the article is about a product from an American company...? -- hooverbag 11:55, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
"All the 500 series featured active-matrix LCD displays [all models had color screen options if so desired]" - this is incorrect.
Not all of the 500-series 'books had active matrix displays. Only the 540, 540c (and 550c in asia) had TFT displays. Even more so, the 500-series did not introduce active matrix displays to the Powerbook line...the 170 did. Somebody should correct the article as it is currently inaccurate.
The article currently indicates that the PowerBook is out of production. Is this based on any evidence?
I have not heard of PowerBooks being End-of-Lifed. Currently, there is no way to buy a 12" or 17" pro laptop from Apple except to buy a PowerBook. And there's nothing on the Apple Store or the Apple PowerBook page to indicate that they are out of production.
Some people may be of the opinion that Apple is not actively manufacturing PowerBooks anymore, but is that actually known, or just a guess?
The Timeline image is extremely hard to read, ironically, using Apple standard gamma, because the distinction between the colours on it are hard to make out. It looks okay under PC gamma, but could probably be a bit easier to distinguish.
"The PowerBook is a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers manufactured and sold by Apple Computer between 1991 and 2006".
This sentence is semantically and factually correct, no matter how far into the future it is read. I know it's tempting to say that the PowerBook was a line of laptops... but the phrasing here is intentional: PowerBooks do indeed still exist; it's the fact that they are no longer manufactured and sold by Apple that is something we characterise as being in the past, by employing the past tense on those specific activities, not the product as a whole. PowerBooks are still a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers... that hasn't changed. In short, "it is something that was". Warrens 06:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
With the PowerBook no longer being Apple's current portable line, I think the Portable section is now entirely too prominent. Thoughts? -- Steven Fisher 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Are the G4 PowerBooks the first ones introducing the FireWire 800 port? I think there should be something about that in your article.
Thanks :) -- Asorka 10:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
This is very temporal, and will lose relevance and interest with time. I don't think it is encyclopedic. Proposal: delete it. Life.temp ( talk) 14:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
The overall quality of this article is extremely lacking. I'm going to adopt it and attempt to repair it in the next few weeks. Are there any objections?-- nblschool ( talk) 14:51, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I can't find any evidence in the linked article for the claim, that the team left for Compaq. What is more, it's easy to find, that John Medica, who was the head of the team, left for Dell to design the Dell Latitude. GL1zdA ( talk) 06:42, 13 April 2021 (UTC)