Gruber reviews the crap out of his new PowerBook

John Gruber has posted "Full Metal Jacket," one heck of a review of his new 15-inch PowerBook G4, and there's one quote that almost made me spit out my Mountain Dew: "Apple is slated to soon start using the same Intel x86 guts as other laptop manufacturers, but I'll eat my hat if they start boogering up their cases with "Intel Inside" decals."

On a more serious note, Gruber really delves into the machines and gets his hands dirty with the typical stuff like the PowerBook's gorgeous design, materials and the upgrades he ordered. What I thought was really interesting and educational was a section devoted to the new higher-resolution displays. John mentions the fact that merely increasing pixels-per-inch within the same physical display space might not always be a good thing, (though he's happy with the new 15's) but he lets on that: "there is already developer-level technology in Mac OS X 10.4 laying the groundwork for a future release of Mac OS X with a scalable, resolution-independent interface."

See? Entertaining, and educational. Thanks John.