Geek & Mild by Sean Sperte

Oct 21st, 2005 Apple “Enhances” PowerBooks

Interesting word choice Apple is using for their HotNews article about the new PowerBooks. No upgrade, update or “new.” It’s “enhanced.”

I got a chance to play with an “enhanced” 15-inch PowerBook today and I must say it was nice. The extra pixels really do make a difference, and the trackpad (though not officially updated) felt a lot nicer and tracked better than mine — I have the 1.67ghz model, introduced earlier this year.

In my extremely professional lab test (turning off the lights and placing the two laptops next to each other), I concluded that the so-called increased brightness isn’t real-world evident. Meaning I couldn’t tell the difference.

But whatever. It’s probably the last “enhancement” this line will see, as most of the world is anxiously awaiting the dual-core or Intel PowerBooks.