Apple Powerbook G4 Promotional Ad from 2001.

[TheHalfO]

wtf is carbon fiber plastic....sounds like spin

[artlantis007]

Hi. Does anyone know the name of song used in the opening of this intro? Thanks!,

[wendileona]

I owned one of these. Good PowerBook, but in my case, the CD/DVD slot drive section caved in after constant normal pro use.

I started noticing cracks right around the center top of the slot and then it kept cracking and caving in to the point that the structure of the right palm rest and optical drive housing started touching and scratching discs.

They improved with later models of course, but that was my experience. I used OS 9 mostly, loved that OS.

- G

[2fast4uspartan]

Want the old YouTube back?

Remember when you go to your youtube page and there wasn't an advertisement at the top of the page?

Remember when music videos were uploaded by users and not VEVO

Remember when there wasn't advertisements that never go away?

Remember you couldn't have a limit to favorites?

Remember the famous yellow subscribe button?

WE MISS THE OLD YOUTUBE!

Post this in every video and lets start a youtube riot!

[oceancity27]

@2fast4uspartan wanna start paying for youtube then? cause i dont think anyone does...

[Alantgv]

@2fast4uspartan

Whats wrong with VEVO?

[86123maxxi]

@dinnerandashow actually Apple has been using NVIDIA GPUs for a very long time, but not as long as the ATI/AMD chips, they've had the GeForce 2 MX in some Power Mac G4s and iMac G4s and the NVIDIA GeForce 420 Go/440 Go/FX 5200 Go in the Aluminium PowerBooks 2003 12"/17" and 12" 04/05.

[s043487263]

it was sold for $3,499 10 years ago & i just found one on ebay for 128$ lol the apple products that are out today will cost prob within the 100-200 range by 2020 so i will be able to afford an ipad someday:)

[poetsguide]

If you check the benchmarks on many computer hardware sites Intel processors are more then two times faster then PowerPCs. The Core2Duos beat PowerPC chips in both power consumption and performance.

[TomHopkins24]

What's better this or MacBook late 2006 2,1

[poetsguide]

@TomHopkins24 This machine was introduced in 2001 so the Macbook Pro 2006 2.1 is better by miles.

[LeakedFiles101]

I love how johnny ives said aluminum the right way in the video :-)

[sealdog201]

omg, 10 to 20 gigabytes???? expandable to 30 gigabytes???? NO FREAKING WAY.

hahaha. it's funny to see how now that's close to nothing.

[patachu666]

>yfw this mac with a G4 is still as powerful as the current, bottlenecked intels on the modern macbooks

price, however stays $1500 for this shit.

[t2thei]

apple is dum

[Desmonddd2002]

Where this on my New Macbook Pro. All i get is some posh design and an illuminating keyboard.

Where did the fastest laptop in the world go, where did old apple go?

[dinnerandashow]

Apple laptops only became useful on my 4th Apple laptop I owned, when Apple finally put in Nvidia GPUs.

[rub23n]

OMG!!! forget about powerbook, BT is in the video, and TRANCE music !!

[TechForThought]

i wonder what city they are in for when they go down the street fast on the screen. It looks like something from Burnout 3.

[nikchan321]

lol @ 1:17

he's the CEO of the failing Palm company now.. good think palm was bought by a stable company like HP

[hunkashoo]

"It's not going to change it, it's going to revolutionize it!" I think I have heard it from the same guy in every introduction video powermac G4, and others!

[MrSpieldose]

LOL these look so archaic now... LOL

[AshMargrove]

Ha, The guy at the start did the iPad ad

[2000pcman]

@AshMargrove Yes, he is their lead designer, so He did the iMac ad, the iPhone ad, the iBook ad, the 1st gen iPod ad....ect.

[heartstones1235]

its a 15 inch i can tell

[thetechnologicone]

I believe that the song fits the ceremony being celebrated here.

[thetechnologicone]

A great computer overall. A milestone in Apple's portable history. I have one.

[Thegamer5150]

I wonder why they switched to aluminum when they said in 2001 that titanium is the best

[DominikDays]

maybe titanium cost too much :P

[MrFunnypeoples]

Does any one know how to make YouTube faster? I have a g4 PowerBook 800MHz 1 mb L3 cache 512 MB SDRAM.

[str8edgepunker]

Download Flash player 9 for 10.1-10.3. That's all you can do.

[RSimusic]

I heard that if you use Camino browser, it runs a bit faster. My old iBook G3 seems to take it well.

[MrFunnypeoples]

i have camino

[boomblaster9470]

@MrFunnypeoples

I have a PowerMac Dual 1GHz G4 with 1GB ram and I can't watch youtube on it :( and my PowerMac Dual 2,0 GHz G5 with 4GB ram can do youtube as long its not youtube HD. Vimeo is useless on a G5. Flash on Mac sucks

[RandomActsCorp]

@MrFunnypeoples Use Camino web browser when watching Youtube and lower the quality to 240p. It will run great. Use it on my iMac G3.

[perfectdruginc]

ibook g4 was way better, and still is.. and is kinda better then the macbook!

[CMKMSDinc]

Haha. I LOVE THIS COMPUTER. it was my first Mac.I still have it in my closet

[big4wheeler]

Quite the laptop for its time! I had a aluminum 1.5ghz and loved it.

[babalocaguagua]

OMG 3,500 bucks were a lot at there time

[bestelitegymnastever]

does it have a webcam

[JellyTheDonut12]

No. There was not even a word of Web Cam, Apple came out with video chatting in 2004, and only MacBook Pro in 2006 got it build in.

[Thegamer5150]

unfortunately no besides a netbook today would kick that things ass

[nealsoad]

@Thegamer5150 Umm... no. My old iMac DV SE 400 from 1999 is faster than my acer net-top. And since this PB is a faster G4, yeah. The 1.6 atom is sooo ridiculously slow.

[iCamiloTV]

I would buy one of these on eBay, but the hinge quailty makes this laptop a no no for me.

[insaneiaq]

Finally got my hands on an 867MHz Ti for $50. Great system and awesome design even 8 years later.

[thebettyfordclinic]

you know, I have one with a similar story. got it free, but the HD was dead, keys missing, had been dropped a couple of times (case actually cracked) and was covered in gouges and generaly damage (yes gouges - not just scratches). got it going, and there's something very groovy about a really messed up mac laptop. didn't have the balls to go to leopard though!

[atherrien95]

very bad condition is still very good compared to other laptops!

[FASSY524]

Wow! 9/11 happens and the only way to make people feel better is to make a new Mac!

[arnolddisco]

no as this was introduced at MacWorld 2001 in January

[FASSY524]

Ok then it's this way instead! Apple makes a thing to be happy about and then a few months later 5000+ people die! Wow!

[arnolddisco]

and let me guess, Steve Jobs planned 9/11???

what are trying to say here?

[Joedork]

Hey dumb fuck, this computer was introduced in January and 9/11 didn't happen until September, 8 months later. And I bet that the families of all the victims wouldn't give a fuck about a new Mac, even if it could scratch their balls!

[TheCousin666]

Jonathan Ive didn't change since 2001! :D

[vanessa041676]

anyone here know's how to open yahoo msgr in powerbook g4, it's just keep on bouncing in system preference..

[reallyred123]

I wish i could go back in time to like 1990 and show steve jobs my macbook air :D I don't know why but it would be cool. I was thinking about that yesterday.

[reallyred123]

I mean, if i could I would try to stop 9/11, but I said that from a technology standpoint. But of course i would do that, I would love to stop my uncle from dieing!

[elementality4me]

dude chill he just ment to show jobs his Air... dnt b a douche about tht man

[bmxbike525]

if i could go back in time i would kill the guy that invented school

[ColinCrespino]

and then after you went back in time you would come back to current time as a retard

[thomashome05]

God you take thing's so personal. Anyway I would not stop 911 or Perl Harbor because it might have have serious consequences on the future. We could be ruled by the Japanese, you don't know. I like today how it is.

[coonie1]

Jonny Ive is a Brit and he said Aluminium wrong!!! lol

[thomashome05]

I do that a lot! Most people understand me anyway!

[WindowsAndMacintosh]

US: A-lu-mi-num

UK: Al-u-min-(EEE)ium

[coonie1]

Actually its,

US: A-lu(OOO)-mi-num

UK: Al-u-min-ium

lol...but who cares, same shit different smell ;)

[Kamek00]

that's thin????

[berkeleyoverdrive]

...back in the day...

[drygnfyre]

Even today, 1'' is pretty thin for a notebook. A lot of the newer notebooks from Apple, HP, Sony and Dell are moving towards a wedge-design that is thicker than 1'' at the back but thinner at the front.

[kitdude21]

note for all the commercials for the g4 computers (apart from the imac g4, they call them all supercomputers. but they stopped saying that from the g5 computers onwards

[themacbookone]

Apart from the PowerMac, the 64-Bit Workstation

[drygnfyre]

They probably wanted to avoid any potential lawsuit from customers who felt misled when they didn't actually buy a "supercomputer." Not to mention that soon after the release of the G4 Titanium, cheaper notebooks became available that had better specs. The G4 Titanium had looks, but is power honestly was really not all that much better than its competitors of the day.

[safariapp1]

Why did the PowerBook G3 Pismo have 2 firewire ports while this PowerBook only had 1 port???

[ki2594]

more room for another port. Many people weren't using both firewire ports so thats y

[iAbsolution]

haha oh mang! BT!

completely unexpected!

[skyrider007]

up to 30GB hard drive, wow! my MBP have 200GB that's a huge change in just six years.

[Ryan123497]

yeah not long at all, and this technology has changed so much, I would still take one any day

[GeekOfComedy]

I hear they are using the aliminum on the 12'' powerbook on the new pros according to rumors in june.

[DarthSkywalker354]

Its The New Macbook Air

[Btroisi13]

Apple's Hypocritizm:

PowerBook G4: Lighter than Aluminum, 2 years later they use Aluminum in the new PowerBook G4s!

iBook G3: No latch! 2 years later, they put a latch on the iBook G4.

iMac G4: Don't put the logic board parallel to the displa and don't put the optical drive sideways. 3 years later, they put the logic board and optical drive sideways in the iMac G5!

1990s: PowerPC is way faster than intel. 2005, lets partner up with intel, the fastest CPU maker!

[thebettyfordclinic]

big deal...

[Btroisi13]

Im just saying... I'm an Apple fan too!

[thebettyfordclinic]

fair enough Btroisi13. I sort of misread the intent of your comment a little. but I wouldn't call the changes hypocritical - in general apple products do seem to do their best when it comes to design and materials. I'd have less respect for them if they stuck with a slower chip/outdated design just for the sake of it.

[Btroisi13]

Im just saying... Im an Apple fan too!

[adryanv]

In some cases, technology changes in that what was not feasable a few years back make it possible now so its not suprising that their engineering and design philosophy changes with it

[FearedBliss]

As Adranv said, Technology advances.. also if you didn't know this.. Titanium might be lighter then Al but the Titanium reduces wireless signal so it was literally a Wifi Shield.

[EuroCarfan00]

The PowerPC to Intel got my attention, it made trouble for people who have PPC, A 2005 PowerBook G4, wont be able to run after Mac OS Leopard OSs, PowerPC was good, not alot of Windows users were able to run OSX because of this... I like PowerPC better than the Intel chips...

[fatandlazy12]

I like PPC better then Intel as well. Running on a last revision iBook G4 for my main machine. But I don't think you are correct in saying that the G4 will not be supported after Leopard. Perhaps it will no longer support the lower-end G4's, but I imagine that the high end 1.5 and 1.67 GHz PowerBook will still be able to run 10.6 or whatever comes after Leopard, and perhaps even the 1.33 and 1.42 GHz iBook, as well as the 1.42 GHz PowerMac.

[lilmul123]

do a google news search for "10.6." Apple's next release will be Intel-only.

[adryanv]

@Btroisi13 Times change my friend. For example, before the PowerPC was indeed more powerful then the Intel chips on that generation. But intel eventually caught up with the Core Duo. :)

[segr3do]

@Btroisi13 Time changes, technology changes... sometimes what is worst could be better in the future. For ex, Intel in late 90 was really slow and PowerPC huge... Intel became better with multi-core tecnology, less power usage, etc... and PowerPC "slept on time" ... and moral of the story, I think its true, Apple always gave us the best computers on the right time...wich that for me, is all the matters.

[Chintendoeddman]

@Btroisi13 I see your point, but Apple switched to Intel not for the speed. Shortly after the Powemac and Imac G5's came out, Apple wanted to make a powerbook G5. However, the processor would suck up to much power to make the battery last long. So they switched over to Intel for the power efficiency,

[Oster131]

Powerbook rules!!!!!!!

[J25x]

Hell yeah. I love my Powerbook G4 Titanium. Still kicking ass and taking names.

[aliciagreening]

Love that BT's song, GodSpeed.

[DavidDude96]

i have an aluminum powerbook g4, even better.....

[creativeatheart]

has anyone noticed that since apple went to intel, there hasnt been any long promotion vids like these. WE WANT VIDEOS AGAIN APPLE! (please)

[ipodguru22]

i know=[

[jrh6666]

YEAH APPLE!

[mickjethro]

Because they are already successful in the market so they do not do long propagandas anymore. I think they are also preoccupied with promoting the iPhone and the new OS, Leopard.

[EuroCarfan00]

yes and thats not very good... we want the ads back!

[davenry007]

why don't they use titanium in their newer notebooks?

[hldan]

Titanium requires painting and the paint chipped back then so Apple stopped doing it and designed the new notebooks in Aluminum that has it own natural color with no paint required.

[EuroCarfan00]

Love the PowerBookl and the song

[MFfan310]

The song is "Rain Dance" by Adiemus, from the album "Adiemus III: Dances of Time".

[OSXMOBILE]

yes what is the song. I have it somewhere in my itunes library but i have way to many songs to go looking for it

[andersersand]

do you know wat that songs is?