Star The New 12" Powerbook: Slick and Sexy, But Not Without its Faults
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Feb 2003 19:02 UTC
Apple My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook, came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine. Here is what I think about it.
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RE: Fonts are way better than X11
by Eugenia on Mon 10th Feb 2003 02:19 UTC

You misunderstood. YES, OSX's font rendering is better, BUT with this LCD screen that the Powerbook includes, makes everything ugly and blurry. Plus the fact that OSX does not have something like Clear Type, degrades it even more.

>Completely subjective review.

I wrote my experiences with it as fairly and as sincere as I could. I wanted to have this machine, I have NOT felt remorse about it. But the screen could and SHOULD have been better. And the heat issue is something you can't really know before you actually use it.