The new PowerBook G4 really is as beautiful as it looks in photographs. Not that the new PowerBook is perfect.
Every portable computer is an exercise in compromise, a balancing act between form and features.
The PowerBook G4 is more than a pound lighter than its predecessors, but it lacks some of their capabilities. Still, most people will be happy to trade a few second-tier features in exchange for some weight loss. And that screen. Mounted within a titanium frame a scant quarter of an inch thick, the screen measures 15.2 inches diagonally. I tested the 500-MHz model and do hereby pronounce it fast.