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RAM RE: Business Week
G3/iBook Article QUICK
REPORT:
In the
August 16,1999 edition of Business week... In the
Technology & You section entitled: "More Punch In
Apple Portables" Stephen H. Wildstrom. He gives a brief
overview of Apple's new consumer notebook the iBook and
some coverage to the 400mhz PowerBook G3 . A quick glance through
the article and you could say it appears to be fairly
"balanced", After all he throws in a positive
statement with every negative one ! Then I got to
thinking, since when does an article have to start with a
positive comment and end with a negative ? or vice versa
? or have equal parts bad and good ? Overall for positives he
mentions the G3's battery life, the bright screen and
PowerPC G3 chips and dramatic design... "that the rest
of the industry ought to study.. " ( and to think
some were complaining that it wasn't like the Sony Vaio!)
The two main issues that
I wanted to add to, is that Stephen and many others seem
to think that only students and folks with lite`
computing needs will want to use an iBook. The truth is,
only a few years ago desktops weren't this powerful. I
plan on getting one. Right now I'm using a 6220/75mhz
with 40megs of ram total !(running Photoshop no less!)
The 160 max in an iBook running at 300mhz will be quite a
step up and enough for web graphics. Any way lot's of
other people will be upgrading, there is alot of pent
up demand for a cheaper Apple notebook and people will be
more than happy to snap them up - Fast. Huh? 1. If you
accidentally open a program twice in Windows it doesn't
know it has already opened an App and opens a multiple
copy of the program! 2. Can anybody say Blue Screen of
Death? Is that why multitasking is so important in
Windows, to save it from it's self? and 3. Security? Mac
web servers are the most secure out there! NT ? How
secure is Swiss cheese? Talk about comparing
apples and oranges, then again he notes, currently it's
Apple's only offering till OS 9 and Mac OS X comes
out. Finally he ends his
review with.. "Still.(I'm sure you won't forget all the
negatives I threw in there!).. the important news
is that Apple has followed up on it's iMac
success.. " BTW - on the back cover
of Business Week is a picture of the Airport wireless Hub
"Hovering" in air! with the web address above it
of... (Editor's Note added)
8/31/99
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RE:
Business Week G3/iBook Article 8/09/99
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And why is it that when it comes to Apple they Have to
start by digging up dirt from the past.. "as has so often
been the case in the company's tortured
(*my emphasis) history ..." I guess that's why pundits
(in general) are often so wrong they are too busy looking
at the past compared to what's happening
today.
And lastly he claims that the Mac operating
system "has fallen behind to Windows, especially
Windows NT.. " in regards to "running multiple
programs, crash proofing and security.. "
Which redirects to Apple's Airport site.
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