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Poll: This Week's
Poll : What
Factor Caused You to
Not
Get an iBook ?
Last week we
heard from an amazing 775
people who voted for options they wish were included in the
iBook. But we also heard from a lot of folks who said
"Where's the video out port?" option in your poll. Like
: Kim Cary of
Pepperdine Edu. & Psychology Grad School So,we can't spec
the ibook for our Profs or students because MANY
class projects require a (e.g. PowerPoint)
presentation... therefore,
we don't buy ANY.Does
this disqualify us from having a voice? Yes,
there are many ways around the problem, but they
all depend on a high level of user awareness of
the location and transportation of fonts and
graphics (or translation to HTML, which is ugly,
or PDF, which is extra cost. Uh-uh. You buy an
iBook to be simple, no? Having seen several
thousand faculty and students, my guess is 97%
don't want to manage those things at that
level. And from :
Michael O'Neal - Digital Producer I think the one
feature (or lack thereof) you overlooked in your
poll, and the MOST IMPORTANT feature for many
home and small business owners is the VIDEO OUT
PORT! And Mark Reschke
of Portland, OR I would have
voted for an iBook feature I wanted, but
alas,... RAM, HD, etc... these are all things
one could add on, and DVD, heck, I like watching
my movies on a 35" TV, thank you very much. Some of our
readers said that they are waiting for the Revision
B iBook, others
stated that they moved up to a PowerBook and still other's
are going with the competitively priced line of new
iMac's. So this week were
asking those of you who decided not to get an iBook.... Why
? What Factor
Caused You to Not Get an iBook ? Thank You for
Voting, This Poll is over look for our next poll on Mon Nov
15 Results
Of Last Weeks Poll #4 : In our last poll
we had over 775 people vote in our poll, our highest number
so far. In that poll we asked: What
would You like to see Improved/Upgraded on the
iBook? And the most
requested upgrade/feature was more base RAM to the shipping
iBook's. Many of our readers wrote and told us that 32 megs
of ram was just not enough and while it could be easily
added, most thought more should have been added. The only
reason I can possibly see is if both slots were filled and
you wanted to have more than 64 megs of RAM for
some that 32 meg chip would be wasted and unused
when you pull it out. 29% More RAM
! 28% DVD
! 14% A Firewire
port ! 11% A Larger Hard
Drive ! 10% A Larger
Screen ! 9% A Built in
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We would
have
bought a few iBooks for our ad agency
if
we could have hooked it up to a decent sized
monitor. Just thought I would throw my 2 cents
in...
No, none of this Tom-foolery for me, rather,
what I would like to see on the iBook is a video
out port for presentations. This way my wife
could teach with her iBook virtually all day
long, and I could then connect it to my 17"
monitor, should I ever feel the need.
This
feature is one I just can't simply snap in or
add on...Oh,
and a graphite model would be pretty sweet
too!
I know how they feel, the DV Special Edition iMac is a great
deal at the same price of an iBook... it has us
reconsidering how badly we really need a portable.... and
the thought of playing Quake Arena 3 :) has us
drooling...
For the Results
Of This Poll :
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Here
DVD came in at 28% and is an option Lot's of people and want
it badly !
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