Lucy still alone

by Volker Weber

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Last Friday I had briefly announced that I was going to buy an iBook out of Apple's demo pool. As I was about to transfer the money I quickly checked back on the technical specs. It turned out this particular machine was one generation too old for my specs.

I am holding off my purchase for now and wait for Apple's next move in the notebook space. It is going to be interesting in two respects: What are the specs for the second generation Al-Books, especially my preferred 15" size and second, what is the fate of the iBook. As much as I like the Ti-Book I still think that the iBook would serve my needs somewhat better.

Apple has a few tough choices to make. If they keep the iBook around, then they have three processor architectures to support. They could also discontinue the iBook and lower the price for the entry level 12" Al-Book and introduce a new 15" device to replace the Ti-Book. This move would let them step up 802.11b to .11g on the entry level machines. It would be interesting to know the sales figures for the different machines. I assume that the 12" Al-book is selling like hotcakes. I know a few people that have this machine as well as an equal number with the Ti-Book. I don't know anyone who has an 17" Al-Book though. Not even one contemplating to get one.

Comments

it's an interesting puzzle: the g3 is still a fine chip, but still stands out as an old-timer. apple has moved the g4 to the consumer line (the emac is a real bargain), but on the other hand, news of motorola screwing up with the g4 production line (again) might mean it limits apple's choices. the g5 is no where near making an appearance in a laptop, next year seems more probable, but it's still taking the new high-end 1st place.

so, AH, interesting.. my personal guess: ibook will stay g3, but will get kitted out with airport extreme, maybe a 1ghz cpu and some other nifties. no matter how retarded some consider the ibook to be, it still sells very well and got the right pricetag (in my opinion, again, the 12" powerbook is the current rip-off, its in dire need of a L3 cache)

alexei, 2003-08-06

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