From: Dave Bellamy (dave_bellamy_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 18:40:46 PST
On 2/10/04 3:31 PM, "Rick Ludwig" <bensisko_at_mac.com> wrote:
> There's been a lot of talk about planned obsolescence with computers.
> As a general rule, notebooks, wether they be PC or Mac, PO has always
> been a lot stronger. A desktop model can be gutted out and upgraded a
> piece at a time, whereas laptops cannot be easily upgraded except as
> hard drives and memory (newer dell models can upgrade the graphics
> card, but probably as a proprietary thing). So, as someone could never
> play Halo on a Pismo, take a desktop of the same time, and you could
> probably upgrade it to the point where you could play Halo.
>
> The first company that comes out with an upgradeable laptop (processor,
> sound card, graphics card, memory, bus speed) will have a big lead over
> others. While technically possible, it would be a brick, and the rage
> these days is lighter, thinner, cheaper.
>
> -Rick
I agree with you Rick, and as an owner of a Pismo I would pay very good
money to have an upgrade that allowed more than a pitiful 8meg of VRAM. I
have a new hard drive, a new G4 processor (courtesy of Daystar Tech) but I
have reached the limit of what I can do now. It is still a great machine for
most things though. Much tougher than my old TiBook.
Dave
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