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Re:The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR by bluedino on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:30AM (#18844898)
The same went for the MacBook lineup. I don't want a Retina display, quad core, etc. I'll live with a lower spec for a $999 machine. And as a bonus my battery lasts longer!

By comparison I think the iBook was always a crippled version.

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Re:The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR by CoolGuySteve on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:16AM (#18845224)
The iBook was fairly comparable to the PowerBook in specs but it weighed more, was larger, and the plastic was less durable than the magnesium case.

For $999 or $800 old/refurbished, it was the only small (5 lbs) laptop you could get with a decent GPU back then. The pentium 4 stuff of the day was huge and power hungry and the Centrino line didn’t support it for some reason.

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