Talk:PowerBook

message: The article currently indicates that the PowerBook is out of production. Is this based on any evidence?
I have not heard of PowerBooks being End-of-Lifed. Currently, there is no way to buy a 12" or 17" pro laptop from Apple except to buy a PowerBook. And there's nothing on the Apple Store or the Apple PowerBook page to indicate that they are out of production.
Some people may be of the opinion that Apple is not actively manufacturing PowerBooks anymore, but is that actually known, or just a guess?
:Apple's press release says that the MacBook Pro is "up to four times faster than the product it replaces, the PowerBook G4." That obviously means that the 15" PB G4 is going away, and it's probably safe to assume that the other sizes will follow suit, but there's no need for speculation. The article can simply state that the MacBook Pro is replacing the 15" PowerBook, and not comment on the 12" and 17" PowerBooks until they are officially retired.
:Another interesting thought - does the 'Pro' in MacBook Pro imply that the iBooks will be replaced by (non-pro) MacBooks? MFNickster 05:30, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've changed it to reflect the reality. As for the iBook becoming the MacBook (non-Pro), there's a ton of speculation about that here. Enjoy! Epastore 14:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to remove the speculative aspects regarding the decommission of the 12 and 17 powerbooks until official sources come forward. --DDG 22:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PowerBook isn't dead yet, is it? 

message: "The PowerBook is a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers manufactured and sold by Apple Computer between 1991 and 2006".
This sentence is semantically and factually correct, no matter how far into the future it is read.  I know it's tempting to say that the PowerBook was a line of laptops... but the phrasing here is intentional: PowerBooks do indeed still exist; it's the fact that they are no longer manufactured and sold by Apple that is something we characterise as being in the past, by employing the past tense on those specific activities, not the product as a whole.  PowerBooks are still a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers... that hasn't changed.  In short, "it is something that was".  Warrens 06:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If there's continuing disagreement, we could always use an alternative like "The name PowerBook refers to a line of Apple Macintosh laptop computers..." MFNickster 15:38, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That works too.  Another alternative is, "Powerbook is the name of a line of..."; we use that kind of wording on some of the operating system articles.  Warrens 15:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  is/was 

message: With the PowerBook no longer being Apple's current portable line, I think the Portable section is now entirely too prominent. Thoughts? --Steven Fisher 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't do a very good job explaining this. The Apple's pre-PowerBook laptop section seems to be a concession to "Hey, maybe they're really after details on the portable, but the PowerBook is Apple's current model and the only thing they know." Given that this is no longer true, I think the section needs to be scaled back or possibly removed. (As an aside, the idea that the Portable is a laptop is somewhat misguided.) --Steven Fisher 21:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portable section 

message: Are the G4 PowerBooks the first ones introducing the FireWire 800 port?
I think there should be something about that in your article.
Thanks :)
--Asorka 10:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introducing FW800 

message: This is very temporal, and will lose relevance and interest with time. I don't think it is encyclopedic. Proposal: delete it. Life.temp (talk) 14:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defective Battery Section 

message: The overall quality of this article is extremely lacking. I'm going to adopt it and attempt to repair it in the next few weeks. Are there any objections?--nblschool (talk) 14:51, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would anybody object to an improved article? :) MFNickster (talk) 23:17, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know but we need one. Lots of issues. Cites lacking, lousy formatting, etc... Jo7hs2 (talk) 12:19, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overall Article Quality 

message: I can't find any evidence in the linked article for the claim, that the team left for Compaq. What is more, it's easy to find, that John Medica, who was the head of the team, left for Dell to design the Dell Latitude. GL1zdA (talk) 06:42, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the original team left to work at Compaq"