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October 19, 2005
New PowerMacs and PowerBooks
In what could be one of their last updates before the switch to Intel, Apple's PowerMac and PowerBook lineups are now a little more powerful. Here are the major changes:
PowerBooks
- Still G4s processors, 12-inch: 1.5GHz, 15/17-inch: 1.67GHz
- All models come with SuperDrives
- 15- and 17-inch PBs now have 5.5 hours of battery life, 12-inch now has 5 hours
- 15-inch now has 1440 x 960 display, 17-inch now has 1680 x 1050
- 80GB hard drive in 12- and 15-inch models, 120GB on the 17-inch
- Built-in optical digital audio output on 15- and 17-inch models
- 128MB VRAM graphics cards for 15/17-inch PBs
- 512MB memory standard on all models
PowerMacs
- New "Quad-Core G5" with two dual-core 2.5GHz G5 chips, four processors in all
- PCI Express expansion slots
- New graphics cards with as much as 512MB of VRAM
Posted by Alan Joyce at October 19, 2005 06:38 PM
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