Re: What GSE-Reactive Really Needs to Make

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <qYGdnUO4JZU-CmrenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> >>The "low-midrange" laptop is a 1.73GHz Pentium M, 512MB, dual-layer
> >>universal DVD writer, 15.4" screen, integrated video, 100GB disk,
> >>and it's about $1100.
> > 
> > 
> > iBook 1.42GHz G4, 14 inch, NO integrated video (integrated video sucks 
> > from personal experience) is $1299.  Probably will be faster Intel by 
> > this summer.
> 
> Laptops mostly have integrated video, and it's getting to be plenty
> to satisfy all but gamers.  Certainly video is well handled.

Integrated video won't be good enough once Windows Vista comes out.  At 
least for all the graphical extras that are supposed to be shipping with 
Vista.  The manufacturers are going to take a bit of a hit once Vista 
starts shipping because they won't be able to list laptops (or desktops) 
with integrated video as being 'Vista Ready' fro what I've heard.

Meanwhile, every Mac Apple is shipping is fully compatible with Apple's 
Core Image which provides a lot of built-in graphical features.

> And the iBook has only a 60GB drive and a 1024x768 screen, instead
> of 1280x768 for the PC.  And still an 18% premium.
> 
> Better than before, though.  ;-)

And it'll supposedly change more once it becomes Intel based.  But the 
specs are anyone's guess outside of Apple at the moment.

> > And best of all with both of those is that you don't have to run 
> > Windows.  A major plus for a lot of people that I know.
> 
> Well, that's the real issue, isn't it.  Again, it's a matter
> of taste, like preferring Hartford to New York--you're safer,
> but it's a smaller world.  ;-)

Aside from games, it's not all that small.  There's much more software, 
be it commercial, shareware or freeware than I can really deal with.

Greg B.

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