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Apple releases new... everything
PowerMac:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on March 06, 2009, 01:17:19 AM ---Macs before the sealed batteries were fine for durability. Now I wouldn't touch an Apple notebook. For a long time I wanted a G4 iBook as a transport for my DAC due to its silent, fanless design.
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Fanless??? I have a iBook G4 and it most certainly has a LOUD fan. Sounds like a jet engine when it comes on. Very annoying.
iindigo:
If by "sealed battery" you mean the battery being inside the case and unremovable, only the 17" Macbook Pro does that, and it gains around 4-5 extra hours of operating time by doing so. The rest still have removable, replaceable batteries.
PowerMac:
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 06, 2009, 01:40:49 AM ---If by "sealed battery" you mean the battery being inside the case and unremovable, only the 17" Macbook Pro does that, and it gains around 4-5 extra hours of operating time by doing so. The rest still have removable, replaceable batteries.
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iindigo, The MacBook Air also has a unremovable battery.
iindigo:
Ahh yeah, I forgot about that. For some reason, my mind refuses to classify it as part of the Macbook line and casts it off as its own entity.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 06, 2009, 01:55:16 AM ---Ahh yeah, I forgot about that. For some reason, my mind refuses to classify it as part of the Macbook line and casts it off as its own entity.
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For some reason I was associating it with the new macbooks, and assumed that only the 15" pro had a user replaceable battery. Still annoying that the battery is internal(no extended battery), but not nearly as bad as unreplaceable.
On the subject of the G4 iBook. It was the only laptop I've come across that ran without its fan under light to moderate load. I've only been around one, at high end audio convention, so it might have been modified.
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