that's a pretty serious issue, and they'd better do something about it. if this is supposed to be "the year of the notebook", then they need to watch their quality control.
oh, and they need to drop the G4 in notebooks in favor of fast AltiVec enabled G3s... AND PUT THEIR MARKETING DEPARTMENT IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD.
the 750GX, with Velocity Engine enabled is a superior product to Moto's 7400 series. The G4 sucks shit compared to IBM's stuff. Why don't they use a nice, fast 1.1GHz G3 with altivec in the new iBook?
THOSE GODDAMN MARKETERS
and that's their problem nowadays. I feel that engineering falls behind marketing. they said that the G3 "cannot be better" than the G4... no matter what. It doesn't matter that the G4 is going to run half again as hot, and suck down more battery power.
it doesn't matter if it's going to cause the logic board to fail three times within the warranty period. the G4 is "better".
better my ass. unfulfilled promises. I say drop all the Moto 7400-series processors, replace them with 750GX chips, and keep calling them G4s.
If I'm not mistaken, the 750GX also supports SMP as well if not better than the G4. If it's a marketing thing, then why don't they "market" 750GXes as G4s?
why don't they market better quality stuff? My Powerbook 1400 is going to run until the end of time. My iBook 600 probably won't be too far behind.
But these new books with ridiculous radeon graphics and mega-hot processors are gonna die in 5 years or so.
so anyway... they better fix the problem or there's gonna be a lot of pissed off people... oh wait... THERE ALREADY ARE!