appleinsider.com — In revealing a timeline to abolish the use of toxic chemicals in Apple products, company chief executive Steve Jobs on Wednesday confirmed that the first Macs to sport LED-backlit displays will begin turning up later this year.
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jackaxeMay 2, 2007
I'm going to buy to LED MacBookPros and position them on either side of my TV so I can use them as my Wii's sensor bar. :p
tetracaMay 2, 2007
DEATH TO CONVENTIONAL THINKING!
ocelot13May 2, 2007
um macparrot, i had vista installed on my 5 year old hp. nothing was changed from when it was first bought. so your point is kinda invalid.
inkswampMay 3, 2007
> OS X is a sloth on the older machines.I have a 5-year-old 600Mhz iBook G3 with 384MB of RAM running 10.4.9 at home that would beg to differ with you. OS X appears to scale down fairly gracefully. While my iBook wouldn't cut it for professional needs, it runs exceptionally well for casual home and moderate work use, and I see no apparent slow downs. I frequently use it to VPN to work and do network stuff via Remote Desktop and I have no problems with that.In fact, 10.4 actually runs a little faster and more smoothly than 10.3 did.
ksudesignerMay 3, 2007
@ BootesI've got an iLamp one and the newer one and must say I prefer the look of the newest iMacs far over any previous design. My biggest complaint is the large white area on the bottom. I hated it at first, then it grew on me, but I still think it'd look far better if it weren't there. I miss the left and right tilt of the old screens though. They were much easier to get the viewing angle just perfect. Here's to hoping the next iMac is as sleek as the iPhone looks. Apple tends to keep metal finishes out of the iMac line, which is a shame because they would be beautiful if they looked just like the cinema displays.Was tempted to eBay the old iMac, but they aren't fetching much these days. $200-$300 is the highest I've seen them go for. I'd rather hang on to it and use it as a media player in my bedroom like I have been. Runs great though, except the DVD drive, which died a year ago.
tothemax64May 3, 2007
My 600 g3 imac runs 10.4 prefectly (as you might know you cant upgrade these) so for what I use it for it runs great, yeah it wont play call of duty on its 16mg video card but it still runs the newest OS X and Im betting it will run 10.5 as well and I plan on using this computer for a few more years as well, id like to see an old pentium run vista
johnbelloneMay 3, 2007
Why should I throw away my Mac when I plan to purchase a new computer? I don't even throw away my old PCs when I am done with them. Personally I bought this MacBook because it was the best thing on the market for the price range I was looking for. I wanted portability, battery life and the ability to use Windows when I need to jump into Visual Studio. It works for me. Now, I suppose, back onto the topic.I am sort of peeved that I did not wait until the end of the year (or closer to next semester) to buy the laptop because I would have been able to take advantage of this hardware revision. But that's what you get. You can never buy a laptop at a prime time except for the day or week that it comes out. But I am sort of irritated that I won't be getting a free upgrade for Leopard (I was waiting to buy the laptop until around when Leopard was due so that I could get the free upgrade - unfortunately, well, we know where that went). I'd be interested in knowing exactly the difference in battery life with this. If I'm just listening to music and not running Airport I can get about five hours out of the battery life (I have the screen brightness all the way down - how I've always used notebooks). For me that's more than enough. I am usually not away from an outlet for more than five hours.
tenoqMay 3, 2007
@ DonRoberto:Get your hand off it. You friend is running supreme commander on a first generation Pentium 2? Would that be with the Riva TNT, or a Voodoo graphics card? And what, 128MB RAM, at most? Nice try pulling that statement out of your ass. Might work on your grandma, but even a retarded Digger knows that a 10yo computer won't run Supreme Commander. Hell, it'd only run Windows XP in Slideshow-Mode. :p
srg13May 3, 2007
I'm not sure wether you're joking or not, Ambicar, but I dugg you down anyway
okadoneMay 3, 2007
"You had a sony laptop for six months? In my own experience this means your laptop will last three more months before the motherboard dies and they tell you it's your fault. (True story...)."Probably was your fault... probably dropped it... or you just have bad luck.
ob20Oct 19, 2007
well with enough sports merchandise available through <a class="user" href="http://www.sportsnutshop.com,">http://www.sportsnutshop.com,</a> why would you really even care about the prospect of the mall retailer?