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SemiOT – Apple Pro Mac PowerBook Intel
– 4 to 5 times faster than current Powerbooks!
– Mac Book Pro: dual core (Intel Duo)
– Thinner than the 17″, brighter displays
– iSight built-in
– 15.4″ Screen
– 1.67 Duo for $1999, 1.83Ghz Duo $2499.00Get this – this power cord is attached magnetically. Somebody trips over it, and it comes apart,
Apparently there is a PC Card slot – and all the proapps will got native Intel by March for $49.00.
Good news for everybody editing on a Mac.
Sorry for the Semi OT
David S.
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The most important feature of the new laptop (for this forum, I think), is that it doesn’t
have a cardbus slot, but an Express Card 34 slot instead. The throughput of this new
standard is supposed to be great compared to cardbus, but it’s much narrower (in the 34 implementation
anyway; there’s a 54 version, but not in this Mac Book). The talked about option of having your PB
in the field with you to offload P2 cards ain’t gonna happen with the new laptops, unless Panny also changes the size
of the P2 cards (or make an adapter). I do like the new Express Card slot though in general. The
new cards for this slot will allow SATAII NCQ drive, striped as a very fast array for a laptop, a 2
drive SATAII RAID will be much faster than my current 2 drive FW800 portable RAID.
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We’re all waiting on 3rd party hardware guys to come up with adaptors, card readers etc for P2. Hopefully the new, faster EC34 will attract some P2 adaptors.
Cheers
Bettsy
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That’s the point, adaptors. The possibility of simply plugging a P2 card into a laptop in the field is gone (unless you
keep an older PB). I think I remember some issues with PBs reading the cards (I could be wrong on this, but I seem to
remember a Mac-only issue); if true, then there’s no reason for Panasonic to work on the issue, since Macs have gone
to the Express Card 34 slot. I personally am hoping for a cute little hard drive plugged into the HVX to avoid P2 cards
until they get more capacity and the price comes down, but the PB in the field *was* a viable option for some folks.
Ed[Bettsy] “We’re all waiting on 3rd party hardware guys to come up with adaptors, card readers etc for P2. Hopefully the new, faster EC34 will attract some P2 adaptors.
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No FW 800!!!
The previous 15″ and 17″ Powerbook have both 400 and 800 FW connections where as the new 15″ MacBook Pro only has a 400 FW connector.
Randy Mason
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FW800 would be nice.. but don’t really care. Dual Layer DVD – THAT I care about… also back on the OT… the loss of the P2 ability is a major bummer…
Thanks,
Harry.Forum Cowmunity Leader: OSX
Forum Cowmunity Leader: Indie & DocDual 1.8 G5 ** 1GB ** 10.4.1
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