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#1 2003-01-12 3:36 pm
When will there be a 15" TiBook with DDR RAM?
Looks like the new 12" and 17" TiBooks both have DDR RAM, built-in bluetooth (optional on the 15"), and the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go
video card (ATI Mobility Radeon 9000) Of course the 15" has all the old stuff. Will it ever be updated to match?
I'd like to get a 15", but I'd hate to do that and then find out in a month that they now ship with the newer stuff.
Or perhaps I'm splitting hairs and it doesn't really make that much of a difference? Should I just go ahead and get it happily?
Thanks!
Steve D
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#2 2003-01-13 2:43 am
- tigerwolf7
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Re: When will there be a 15" TiBook with DDR RAM?
The Radeon 9000 is quite a bit more powerful than the Geforce 4 Go (and has programable shaders), so for gaming performance the 15" PowerBook is more powerful, and should last longer than the 12" and 17" PowerBooks (in terms of how long it'll be able to run the newest games).
Personally I'm guessing the 15" one will be updated in May, along the normal 6 month time frame. I'm guessing it'll get the makeover and be turned into an Aluminum version, and all three models will get a Geforce 4200 Go (a real Geforce 4, not an MX like the current ones). All three models will be speed bumped.
The iBook will get a 133Mhz system bus, a 900MHz-1GHz G3, and a Radeon 9000.
Totally a guess...but I'd be surprised if that isn't pretty close to what happens.
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