At the moment, my portable computing needs are, mostly, met by a 1.33Ghz Powerbook G4 12", which I really rather like, the form factor is comfortable to rest on a single forearm, supported by a hand, whilst the machine is useable with the other hand.
Last year (oh my, is it that time already?), They dropped the 12" Powerbook, and didn't replace it with a 12" (or 13") Macbook Pro, instead preferring to let the Macbook, with it's polycarbonate enclosure (which to be fair, is pretty much indestructible, I've seen ibooks and Macbooks take falls that would kill most laptops outright) take up the slack in the lineup...
Except it isn't comparable to the Macbook Pro, but smaller.. there are obvious deficiencies.
Okay, so now everything has gigabit ethernet and all sorts of wireless connectivity out of the box.. But;
1) No dedicated graphics, I want to run Aperture on the thing, that means I want at least an X1300 or Geforce Go 7400, none of this Intel Extreme graphics nonsense.
2a) Glossy screen, These looks absolutely wonderful if you're sat in a dark room with the machine, and utterly hopeless pretty much everywhere else.
2b) Actually, just the general not-so-hot-ness of the panel in general, can we get some small form factor S-IPS loving going on please??? villagers need colour accuracy.
3) They're actually heavier than the 12" iBook and Powerbook were.
I'd even be happy to settle for a 2MB cache 1.83Ghz C2D, if the show stoppers above (pretty much numbers 1 and 2, 3 is just a niggle) were rectified..
And I'm fairly sure I'm not alone here?
as it stands, I feel like I'm being herded towards the 17" Macbook Pro (hey, if I'm going to have to get a new camera bag that it'll fit in alongside the camera kit ANYWAY, I might as well go all out right? :) )
So come on Apple, where's the dinky ultraportable pro machine? graphics gives you a differentiator between the pro and consumer lines, rather than it feeling like an ibook type-R as the PB12" often did... so get on with it!
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