Apple: Less is more, more is more

Macworld Expo San Francisco With the slogan "Less is more. More is more,"Apple announced yesterday at the Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 two very different notebooks: one is said to be the world's first 17-inch portable computer, while the other is the company's smallest of its kind.

Apple has unveiled its smallest notebook ever: a new 12-inch PowerBook G4 with a brilliant active-matrix display housed in a lightweight aluminum alloy enclosure weighing just 4.6 pounds. The new offer brings a 867MHz PowerPC G4 processor, Nvidia graphics, a standard slot-loading Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive, built-in Bluetooth, and battery life of up to five hours on a single charge. The 12-inch notebook is being priced at US$1,799.

“The new 12-inch PowerBook G4 is a jewel,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It’s the smallest and most affordable PowerBook Apple has ever created and the most compact full-featured 12-inch notebook in the world.”

The 12-inch display comes with a 1024-by-768 pixel resolution. The new PowerBook G4 measures just over 1-inch thin and weighs just 4.6 pounds, informed Apple. It carries a 867 MHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine and offers 256MB of DDR memory (expandable to 640MB) and a 32MB Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go graphics processor.

Besides the new iSync software, this notebook also includes built-in antennas and a card slot to support AirPort Extreme. Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar in pre-installed. Apple's smallest notebook, Steve Job's jewel, is expected to be available later this month.

While some customers will like the compact size of the 12-inch PowerBook, other may enjoy having a wider screen. For them, Apple is announcing a new 17-inch PowerBook G4, which it claims to be the world’s first notebook computer with a 17-inch display, the largest ever in a notebook, said the company. The PowerBook measures only 1-inch thin and weighs 6.8 pounds, and is the first notebook to offer built-in AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless networking, new high-speed FireWire 800, a backlit keyboard with ambient light sensors, and built-in Bluetooth for wirelessly connecting to cell phones and other Bluetooth equipped peripherals.

The new product’s screen displays 1440-by-900 super-crisp pixels in a widescreen 16:10 aspect ratio. It comes with a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, Nvidia graphics and a slot-loading SuperDrive. Additionally, it brings 1MB of level 3 cache and 512MB of DDR memory running at 333 MHz, as well as the Mac OS X Jaguar, version 10.2. This offer is expected to be available in February for a suggested retail price of US$3,299.

Also new and included in these two notebooks is the AirPort Extreme, Apple's next generation Wi-Fi wireless networking technology based on the 802.11g standard. Starting at US$199, the new AirPort Base Stations offer 54 Mbps data rates for up to 50 users, and USB printer sharing to allow multiple users to wirelessly share USB printers connected directly to the base station.

(Sources: Apple)

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