[Macpartners] 15" PowerBook discontinued

[Tom Pixton]

Hi Helen:

Thanks, but I was inquiring where we could order the "older" 15"  
PowerBooks. Surely there must be many in a resellers inventory  
somewhere. I'd need to demo running all the Adobe CS products at the  
same time on one of the new MacBook Pros to be convinced.

Tom

On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Helen Rose wrote:


On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:43, Tom Pixton wrote:

> Any chance our office can get a demo model of the MacBook Pro to see
> if we really want to get involved in yet another newer unfamiliar
> operating system environment? Does anyone know where we can purchase
> new 15" PowerBooks?

I have a few MacBook Pros on order (they haven't arrived yet). I  
ordered mine through the Apple Store (via ECAT).

While I do have some concerns about speed of applications under  
Rosetta, I am less worried on laptops than I would have been on  
iMacs. A 1.67GHz PPC Powerbook is quite a bit slower than even the  
slowest available MacBook Pro (which is dual core), not just in  
Megahertz but also efficiency in general. I anticipate seeing  
performance on a 2.13GHz MacBook that is *no worse* than a 1.67GHz  
PPC, even under Rosetta applications. And as for native applications  
(Safari, Mail), I hope for a significant speed bump.

--Helen