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Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 04:04:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, "Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> writes:
> > > > I'm going to hold off until a 400 mhz model comes in. Ooh...
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> > > Whoops. My dealer (DataVision) called. Scott only needed 3 words: "I want it!"
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> Scott from Datavision called again today!
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> "Everything ok there? I just received 4 or 5 of the 400mhz units. You know
> anyone waiting for one?"
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> As a matter of fact, the big boss called me in on Friday to see the little
> beauty. "The 500 mhz model, huh?" Yeah, I was flexible. I took whatever came
> in first. "I'm waiting for a 400mhz model with a 30gb hard drive. My
> secretary is calling the stores every day to check."
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> Bing!
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> Scott said he could put in the 30gb drive. So I went to the boss's
> secretary. The boss was out, but she had EXPLICIT directions saying to get
> the 500 mhz model. Alas.
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> I pondered some kind of trade, but, I'm not sure it would be a good idea.
I heard somewhere (I think it was a discussion group on a Mac fansite) that
the 400 MHz units didn't play DVD's as smoothly as the 500 MHz units. I
can't remember if that was on battery power or plugged in.
My Vaio C1VN (powered by a 600 MHz Transmeta Crusoe) plays DVD's with an
external drive, but the jerkiness gets a little annoying. Sometimes it's
super-smooth and other times it's just not.
Something to keep a look out for, if you're into that sort of thing. But
maybe the price difference between the 500 Mhz and 400 MHz PowerBooks would
buy a whole separate DVD player? :)
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Titanium PowerBook
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| (...) I guess I won't be able to test this from my position. (...) The other cool machine on sale! (...) Yup. It's $900 difference, for a faster CPU, +128mb SO-DIMM (not sure if separate chip), and +10gb disk. The last two items are about $100 each (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?
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| You can talk about my software, Steve... it's even on the web too. More of the this story: (...) Scott from Datavision called again today! "Everything ok there? I just received 4 or 5 of the 400mhz units. You know anyone waiting for one?" As a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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