Talk:PowerBook G4

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Any objections to merging this with PowerBook#PowerBook G4, and changing this to a redirect? --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:51, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Updated.

My gosh. Nobody beat me to it? Um... okay. I didn't change much info, but a few rearrangements seemed warranted.

1. The fact that the 15" and 17" AlBook models are widescreen has been true ever since there've been 15" and 17" AlBook models. In fact, it's been true for the 15" models since the TiBooks, but anyway. So anyway, I moved it out of the paragraph about the latest specs, and up to the 2003 introduction of the 15" AlBook.

2. The nifty-keen new technologies introduced this past February are no longer the latest news, so I moved them to a paragraph above the latest-news one. That paragraph REALLY needs some slimming down. I mean, yeah, the USB trackpads (which, as I also noted, were included in some pre-February 'books, including my own late-2004 17-incher) are nifty, and so's SMS (which sadly isn't in mine), but, well, they're not the latest news any more, and that's a big graf.

3. The latest-news paragraph now talks about the increased screen resolutions, standard superdrives on all models, larger HD capacities, standard Cinema-30 support on the 15-inch, and so on.

I hope all these changes are good, and I've tried to keep the language as good as possible, but if there are minor tweaks that need to be made, I'm not easily offended. ;)

[edit] iBook & 12 Powerbook replacement

A continuing theory among mac users is that a 12inch Macbook Pro is being designed to replace the discontinued 12inch Powerbook. Thus, I feel that the statement that the 13inch Macbook replaced both the iBook and 12inch Powerbook to be incorrect. The Macbook was a compromise between the 12 and 14inch iBooks, and retained the look and overall feel of the iBook as well, and does not convey a continuation of features offered in the 12inch powerbook.

So....I think for the time being, the article should be altered to show that the macbook replaced the iBook, and that the 12inch powerbook was not replaced, just discontinued.

Thoughts?