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The inch PowerBook has the same rock-solid aluminum-alloy case as the other PowerBooks. It measures It's also remarkably lightweight at 6. With the same keyboard layout as the inch and inch models, the inch PowerBook G4 has rounded keys that are shaped to fit your fingers. An ambient-light sensor automatically illuminates the keyboard in low lighting. The spacious touch pad's two-finger scrolling feature, for scrolling horizontally and vertically, is magical use it for a few days, and you'll wonder how you ever did without it.
The screen is the star here. Apple claims it has improved the brightness by 46 percent we did not test this claim and increased the top resolution to 1,x1, pixels up from 1,x , giving you 36 percent more real estate on your screen. The higher resolution makes icons and text quite small, but the image quality is crisp, and the display is equally excellent for graphics work, watching movies, and surfing the Web. Some of the inch PowerBook G4's lightness comes from what it doesn't have.
It also has a slot-loading single-layer DVD burner. Since it comes on the heels of the revamped iMac G5 , which has a built-in iSight camera, we wish this pricey PowerBook also arrived with a built-in camera and Apple's Front Row software and a remote. Like all Apple laptops, the inch PowerBook G4 lacks a true productivity suite, but it ships with one of the strongest software packages around. The new PowerBook has similar components to those in the previous inch model: a 1.
It's difficult to compare Apples and oranges or PC laptops , but the new inch PowerBook G4 isn't considerably faster than the previous version. While it turned in nearly identical results on our iTunes encoding test, it fared slightly better on our Photoshop test. Its scores on our Unreal 3D-gaming test show, again, that the PowerBooks don't cut the mustard for serious gaming.
Apple is touting the improved battery performance in this PowerBook, claiming 5. We did in fact see a significant improvement in our tests. Another cause is the trackpad area heat sensor; system logs report "Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep. To correct this, service groups will often replace the logic board or power converter, but the actual fix depending on the model for the first cause is to replace or remove the left or right ambient light sensors; and for the second cause, disconnect, remove, or replace the heat sensor, or the entire top case which holds the trackpad heat sensor.
Alternatively, there are reports which detail success in removing certain sensor kernel extensions or rebuilding the kernel using the Darwin Open Source project after commenting out the relevant sleepSystem call; permanent resolution of the sleep issue in this manner is little documented.
The 1. Initial reports pointed to this only being a problem with type M 17" PowerBooks introduced in Q2 , but then this problem was also seen in displays replaced by Apple Service Providers in this period e. After many months of usage, the displays may show permanently shining lines of various colors stretching vertically across the LCD.
Often this will start with one-pixel-wide vertical lines being "stuck" in an "always-on" mode. Various sites have been set up documenting this issue. Apple has since removed the recall from its website. One major factor that led to the discontinuation of the PowerBook G4 was Apple's internal experimentation with the PowerPC G5 for the company's next line professional-grade notebooks at that time.
The G5 powered Apple's Power Mac G5 and iMac G5 computers but proved to be too power-hungry and heat-intensive to use in a notebook form factor. After awaiting a new professional-grade notebook to replace the G4, on January 10, , Apple released the 15" MacBook Pro , its first Intel-based notebook. However, a replacement for the 12" subnotebook form factor i. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. See also: Timeline of Macintosh models.
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Free Local Pickup. Show only. Free Returns. Returns Accepted. Authorized Seller. The orientation of the Apple logo on the computer's lid was switched so that it would "read" correctly to onlookers when the computer was in use. The hinges on the Titanium PowerBook display are notorious for breaking under typical use.
Usually the hinge which is shaped like an L will break just to the left of where it attaches to the lower case on the right hinge, and just to the right on the left hinge where the right hinge is on the right side of the computer when the optical drive is facing the user. At least one aftermarket manufacturer began producing sturdier replacement hinges [6] to address this problem, though actually performing the repair is difficult as the display bezel is glued together.
In addition some discolouration, bubbling or peeling of paint on the outer bezel occurred, notably around the area where the palm would rest while using the trackpad, and around the rear of the hinges where paint on the back of the machine was often worn off. This appeared on early models but not on later Titanium PowerBooks. The video cable is routed around the left-side hinge. This will cause the cable to weaken under heavy usage.
Many owners have reported display problems such as random lines or a jumbled screen, although few have replaced just the video cable to successfully resolve this problem. There is also a backlight cable that might fail; one option is to replace either or both cables before replacing LCDs.
All Obsolete [8]. In , Apple introduced a new line of PowerBook G4s with , , and inch screens and aluminum cases. The 15" titanium model was still available until September 16, , when the Aluminum model replaced it. Notably, the 12" model brought a welcome return to the Apple subnotebook configuration, conspicuously lacking in their product line since the discontinuation of the PowerBook in The most obvious change was the use of aluminum, not titanium, to manufacture the body.
The keyboard, which was originally black, was changed to match the color of the body. Additionally, the aluminum keyboard was backlit on the 17" model and on one of the 15" models. This was the first case of keyboard internal backlighting seen on a notebook computer.
The design was considered [ by whom? The external design of Apple's professional laptops continued to remain similar to the aluminum PowerBook G4 until the Spotlight on Notebooks event on October 14, Some owners have experienced failure of the lower memory slot on some of the 15" models, with the typical repair being the replacement of the logic board.
Apple had started a Repair Extension Program concerning the issue, [11] but it has been noted that some models displaying the issue have not been included. Apple previously had a Repair Extension Program to fix the "white spot" issue on its 15" PowerBook displays. There has also been a rash of reports concerning sudden and pervasive sleeping of 1. One cause is the ambient light sensing, [14] and associated instruction set coding, with possible keyboard backlight and sleep light issues accompanying the so-called "narcolepsy".
Another cause is the trackpad area heat sensor; system logs report "Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep. To correct this, service groups will often replace the logic board or power converter, but the actual fix depending on the model for the first cause is to replace or remove the left or right ambient light sensors; and for the second cause, disconnect, remove, or replace the heat sensor, or the entire top case which holds the trackpad heat sensor.
Alternatively, there are reports which detail success in removing certain sensor kernel extensions or rebuilding the kernel using the Darwin Open Source project after commenting out the relevant sleepSystem call; permanent resolution of the sleep issue in this manner is little documented.
The 1. Initial reports pointed to this only being a problem with type M 17" PowerBooks introduced in Q2 , but then this problem was also seen in displays replaced by Apple Service Providers in this period e. After many months of usage, the displays may show permanently shining lines of various colors stretching vertically across the LCD. Often this will start with one-pixel-wide vertical lines being "stuck" in an "always-on" mode.
Various sites have been set up documenting this issue. Apple has since removed the recall from its website. One major factor that led to the discontinuation of the PowerBook G4 was Apple's internal experimentation with the PowerPC G5 for the company's next line professional-grade notebooks at that time. The G5 powered Apple's Power Mac G5 and iMac G5 computers but proved to be too power-hungry and heat-intensive to use in a notebook form factor.
After awaiting a new professional-grade notebook to replace the G4, on January 10, , Apple released the 15" MacBook Pro , its first Intel-based notebook. However, a replacement for the 12" subnotebook form factor i. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
See also: Timeline of Macintosh models. Apple Inc. June 9, Archived from the original on February 25, Retrieved June 11, Is Apple on the verge of big things, or is it becoming perfectly irrelevant? Fortune Magazine. Retrieved September 20, Macworld UK. Business Week.
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The PowerBook G4 is the last generation of the PowerBook series, and was succeeded by the Intel-powered MacBook Pro line in the first half of iBook G4 (Early ) - Technical Specifications · Model, MLL/A · Processor, 1GHz PowerPC G4 · Level 2 Cache, K at 1GHz · System bus, MHz. Technical specifications for the Apple PowerBook G4 series. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, estimated retail prices, and more.