If you remember the Apple PowerBook 12, that had an aspect ratio of 4:3 which is very square.
#MAC POWERBOOK G4 ASPECT RATIO PORTABLE#
Most displays are 16:9 or 16:10 which allows a wider display and has been in use by Apple on it’s portable range for a number of years. But most office applications will run fine on a less delightful, less costly notebook. Aspect Ratio refers to the proportion of width the to the height of the display. The PowerBook G4 could be right for a graphics or video pro. And when the G4 works hard, its battery life falls far short of the five hours Apple claims: my G4 pooped out two hours into Gladiator.
#MAC POWERBOOK G4 ASPECT RATIO MOVIE#
I had trouble getting a DVD-ROM movie to play without interruption while I tried to work on another application at the same time. 15.2-inch (diagonal) TFT XGA active-matrix display - Support for millions of colors at 1280-by-854-pixel resolution - Support for lower resolutions scaling at 3. (The last requires a $314 AirPort card.) The G4 packs an industry-standard ATI Rage Mobility graphics card with only 8MB of dedicated graphics RAM. The laptops 15.2-inch(diagonal) TFT wide-screen display is adequately sized for most productivity and entertainment applications, and its vivid 1, 280x854. To reach the outside world, the notebook has an IEEE 1394 port, two USB connections, an ethernet port and built-in wireless networking circuitry. On the front of the G4, the self-loading DVD-ROM slot noiselessly accepts disks unfortunately, you can’t swap out this drive for any other type of internal drive, and you can’t connect drives externally unless you buy relatively cumbersome USB or IEEE 1394 (FireWire) versions. Only a handful of high-end graphics and video-editing applications are currently optimised for the chip, however.
Complete PowerBook G4 technical specs are below. The PowerBook G4 was replaced by the MacBook Pro series. All use either titanium or aluminum case designs that were thin for their day. It’s the lightest laptop we’ve seen that carries a 15-inch screen.Īpple is touting this model, equipped with a PowerPC G4 chip, as the first laptop that is capable of supercomputer-class gigaflop speed. The PowerBook G4 - the last professional Apple notebook series to use the PowerPC processor - shipped from 2001 until 2006. To manage this feat, the 2.4kg notebook’s 25mm-thick, titanium and carbon fibre case extends 25mm wider than standard.
The G4’s screen, with an unusual native resolution of 1152 x 768 pixels and a 3:2 aspect ratio, accommodates large application windows side by side. I looked at a $9899 shipping unit equipped with a 500MHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256MB of SD-RAM, a 20GB hard drive, a 15.2-inch screen, a fixed 6X DVD-ROM drive, a built-in 56Kbit/s modem and a network adapter.
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