New PowerBooks

By C.K. Sample, III

You probably already heard about the new PowerBooks in our chatcast, but I thought I'd do a neater breakdown for the chatcast-adverse readers amongst you.

The 12-inch stays the same, but got a nice little price cut: it's now only $1,499. Both the 15-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks got a one hour boost in battery life. The 15-inch ($1999) gets a new 1440-by-960 display (up to 26% more pixels than its predecessor), and the 17-inch ($2499) is 46% brighter and has 1680-by-1050-pixel resolution. Here's the really cool bit for the pro-designers amongst you who have been dying for a portable powerhouse than can plug-in nicely to a bigger display: "And thanks to its built-in dual-link DVI support and 128MB of graphics memory, you even have the option of connecting your PowerBook to Apples breathtaking flat-panel displays, including the massive 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display." 

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