Re: Five small thoughts

Ian Robinson <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:41:45 +0000, Ian McCall wrote
> (in article <42kg8pF1jbj8dU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> If you were looking for a new
>> iMac or mid-sized laptop, well then that was your keynote.
>
> The 15inch laptop size is the sweet spot IMHO. The 12 inch is to small
> and the 17 inch is a bloody tray. I've been using a 867Mhz PB Titanium
> for the last 3 years. I think I got it in early 2003 IIRC. It's served
> me well. Time for a refresh and the new 15 inch MacBook Pro will do
> nicely.

I'm really curious if Apple will recognise the need for a small, light,
cheap, long-running notebook. For me the 12" iBook is the sweet spot and
I had a hard time deciding to buy that or a Mac mini (I got the mini).

Most people ("the rest of us", remember?) don't really care for pixels
and MHz as long as the thing is slick, slim, stylish, cheap and not too
thirsty. Well, a 1+ GHz G4 is surely fine for that (and the G4 CPU's are
dirt cheap, too), but what will they offer in the end (of 2006) with an
Intel CPU for the rest of us? That's the question the market will look
for answered. I actually expected such a thing as first Intel machine.
Make it popular first, for the masses and developers, then satisfy the
need for speed. A stylish single core low-budget Pentium-M iBook
would've generated more fuss surely. That MacBook thingy looks really
boring, runs 3 hours and is fscking expensive. Who needs that? Is that
the notebook-equivalent to the iPod? Surely not.

Just my 0.02€,

Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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