Apple Computer Inc. is a company that's made its reputation by following the beat of its own drummer. In fact, I can't remember another time when Apple has publicly cited another company's product as ...

COMMENTARY--When I read about Apple's new PowerBook G4 (PBG4), I was initially nonplussed. It seemed to be a straightforward and unexciting evolution of its predecessor. Sure, it was thinner and ...

I was originally going to title this entry, “A funny thing happened on the way to the rating.” It’s been weeks since I posted my last diary, and I know many of you have become restless with ...

When I entered the Lab that fateful day last week to retrieve the PowerBook G4, I didn’t realize we were culturing viruses as well as testing Macs. But once the proper gestation period had passed, the ...

Apple's most portable PowerBook has the same size and resolution display as the 12-inch iBook G4, but it's lighter, and it features better components: a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor; an 80GB, 5,400rpm ...

For those who found the ultraportable 12-inch Apple PowerBook too small and the 17-inch too large, chances are the new Apple PowerBook G4 15-Inch ($1,999 or $2,599 direct, depending on configuration) ...

A favorite among graphic artists, the 1-inch-thick Apple PowerBook G4 is a sleek laptop with a gorgeous wide-screen, 15.2-inch LCD. Going mobile with this machine is easy; it weighs 5.4 pounds with ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near the speeds expected by consumers. Most artificial intelligence projects ...

I have a confession to make. I’ve been involved with computers for a couple of decades now, and for all that time was firmly in the "PC" camp. It’s not that I didn’t like Macs — just that they really ...