PowerBook G4 17" 1GHz : Special Today

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The next big thing from Apple: The new 17-inch PowerBook G4. Featuring the largest, most spectacular display ever to grace a portable, miraculously engineered into a 1-inch-thin notebook that's ultralight (just 6.9 pounds), ultradesirable.


Megawide 17-inch display
The first thing you'll notice is its megawide display -- the largest ever in a notebook -- miraculously engineered into a 1-inch-thin body that weighs just 6.9 pounds. This PowerBook's stunning display gives you the same viewing area as a 19-inch CRT monitor. And as for the amount of information you can see on the screen at one time, the 17-inch PowerBook supports a resolution of 1440-by-900 pixels -- an eye-popping 1.3 million pixels appearing on the screen simultaneously, with room aplenty for your menus, toolbars and palettes. Featuring a scorchingly fast 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor.


Futuristic backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor
The 17-inch PowerBook features a fiber optic backlit keyboard that's right out of the future. Built-in light sensors automatically adjust the keyboard illumination and your screen's brightness based on the available ambient light.


Leading-edge industrial design
You'll love the high-resolution 17-inch active-matrix display with brilliant 1440 by 900-pixel resolution. And you'll marvel at the way we've fitted this supersharp display into such a remarkably small frame -- just 15.4 inches wide, 10.2 inches deep, 1.0 inches thin and weighing a mere 6.9 pounds. Housed in a lightweight and durable aluminum alloy enclosure, the new 17-inch PowerBook G4 is resistant to stains and scratches.


The Bluetooth connection
Bluetooth connects digital devices wirelessly. Operating within a much shorter range than AirPort, it enables high-speed wireless data transfers between a rapidly growing list of Bluetooth-savvy products.


High-speed architecture
The 1GHz processor gives a tremendous performance boost with an advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultrafast dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput. The 17-inch PowerBook G4 features 512K backside level 2 cache. Accessing data from main memory is significantly faster than accessing data from the hard drive, but L2 cache -- which boosts processor function by providing phenomenally fast access to data and application software code -- gives this PowerBook G4 an even faster level of memory. The 17-inch PowerBook G4 comes with 512MB of DDR SDRAM, expandable to 2GB of RAM -- allowing you to run several RAM-hungry applications simultaneously, or to store an entire graphics project in main memory for fast image manipulations.


Lightning-fast graphics
The 17-inch PowerBook G4 comes turbocharged with the ATI Mobility GeForce 4 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. The Ati GeForce4 features a number of cutting-edge graphics technologies, including prgrammable pixel and vertex shading for lighting and shadow effects never seen before on a notebook computer. It dramatically enhances all aspects of your visual experience in every application, perfect for photorealistic 3D games and cinematic-quality video.


FireWire and USB 2.0


The PowerBook G4 features FireWire for connecting external hard drives and DV cameras, and USB for connecting graphics tablets, digital cameras, printers and scanners. FireWire 400 has become the gold standard for high-speed data transfer, and now Apple ups the ante, effectively doubling data throughput with FireWire 800. The new 17-inch PowerBook G4 has two FireWire ports -- one for the hundreds of FireWire 400 peripherals already available, and the other for the coming generation of FireWire 800 peripherals. In addition, the PowerBook G4 offers the fastest connection to USB peripherals with two 480 Mbps USB 2.0 ports.


Lightning-fast graphics
The 17-inch PowerBook G4 comes turbocharged with the GeForce4 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. The Mobility Radeon 9