Apples new Powerbooks (12″ & 17″)
I can’t believe i didn’t comment on apples new powerbooks yet, but i suppose i was just too surprised. I remember i went out with a friend on the day of steve jobs mwsf keynote. He recently purchased a shiny new 15″ powerbook and we were both very excited, so i kept checking back the apple-site on my visor regularly and when the news finally hit me, i didn’t really know what to think about those two new powerbooks, featuring a 12″ and a 17″ screen. I had really hoped that apple would announce a tablet that day, so i was rather disappointed in the first place. But after closer consideration i have to say that it was imho a smart move: apple had no professional subnotebook, but only a great consumer-sub with its ibook. Let’s hope that they can attract people looking for a powerful sub with their new 12″ powerbook. I still don’t know what to think of the new 17″ powerbook, but it simply feels wrong to me to build notebooks with 17″ screen (and i don’t think that i’m alone, all people i told about thought that it’s insane). On the other hand, apple managed to keep the weight of it bearable (6.8 lbs), considering the weight of several less feature-ladden windows-laptops. I just can’t figure out their targetbuyer group for that device: as a graphics designer or deverloper i would rather go with a much more powerful (and much cheaper!) powermac, as a corporate user i would go with the slim and lightweight 12″ powerbook and as a consumer i wouldn’t spend $3299 for a desktop-replacement laptop.