Apple - PowerBook G4 12"

Ultra-compact. Ultra-advanced. Ultra-affordable.

Presenting the new 12-inch PowerBook G4, featuring a brilliant 12-inch active-matrix display housed in a stunning aluminum alloy enclosure weighing just 4.6 pounds. The most compact full-featured notebook in the world starts at just $1599.

Leading-edge industrial design
You’ll love the high-resolution 12.1-inch TFT XGA active-matrix display with brilliant 1024-by-768-pixel resolution. And you’ll marvel at the way we’ve fitted this supersharp display into such a remarkably small frame — just 10.9 inches wide, 8.6 inches deep, 1.18 inches thin and weighing a mere 4.6 pounds. Housed in a lightweight aluminum alloy enclosure, the PowerBook G4 is resistant to stains and scratches. It’s also perfectly smooth on all surfaces, with no doors, protruding latches or levers to break, no external buttons to accidentally press, and no sharp edges to catch on your clothing.

VGA Connectivity

Versatile video-out capabilities
The new 12-inch PowerBook G4 comes with built-in support for DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video signals. And since the 12-inch PowerBook supports dual display mode and video mirroring, you can extend your work area and mirror your projects to an external display or projector — perfect for presentations and for sharing your ideas. You can also display your multimedia projects on a big-screen TV, thanks to S-video and composite video output capability: Simply connect your TV to the mini-DVI port via the Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter, which is sold separately.

Now with the legendary SuperDrive
It’s the smallest portable we’ve ever shipped. In terms of volume (measured in cubic inches), the 12-inch PowerBook G4 is smaller than the iBook and even the PowerBook Duo, and yet it features your choice of a slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) or Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW). The 12-inch PowerBook G4 packs formidable processing power for graphic design and editing digital video — not to mention playing 3D games, listening to music and watching DVD movies between flights.

54Mbps AirPort Extreme — up to 5 times faster
Pop in the AirPort Extreme Card in your 12-inch PowerBook’s AirPort slot, and you’re ready for 54Mbps wireless networking. And with thousands of wireless-enabled “hot spots” in hotels, airport lounges, coffee shops and bookstores around the world, you can get online from practically anywhere. What’s more, you can use your PowerBook G4, AirPort Extreme and Rendezvous — the technology that recognizes and links computers and digital devices to each other — to create your own secure wireless network.

The Bluetooth connection
Bluetooth, built into the new 12-inch PowerBook G4 model, connects digital devices wirelessly. Operating within a much shorter range than AirPort, it enables high-speed wireless data transfers between a rapidly growing list of Bluetooth-savvy products. Using iSync, for instance, you can use Bluetooth to synchronize your personal information between your PowerBook, your mobile phone and your Palm OS-based handheld. And Bluetooth lets you take advantage of GPRS connectivity to check your email from anywhere — a benefit that comes in handy on those occasions when an 802.11 wireless hot spot isn’t available.

FireWire and USB cables

FireWire and USB 2.0
The PowerBook G4 features FireWire for connecting external hard drives and DV cameras, and USB 2.0 for connecting graphics tablets, digital cameras, printers and scanners.

Power PC G4

PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine
This 1GHz PowerBook G4 delivers blazing-fast performance thanks to its processor’s aptly named Velocity Engine, which processes data in huge 128-bit chunks, instead of the 32-bit or 64-bit chunks used in traditional processors. The PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine works with the PowerPC architecture to accelerate the data-intensive processing required by next-generation video, voice and graphics applications.

NVIDIA GeForce4 Go

Lightning-fast graphics
The 12-inch PowerBook ships with the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM to kick your 2D and 3D performance into overdrive. The NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 comes with hardware transform and lighting (T&L) and an advanced ultra-efficient memory architecture (Lightspeed Memory Architecture II) to give you a dynamic, visually rich, real-time 3D graphics experience.

Serious software
The PowerBook G4 comes with Mac OS X v.10.2 (Jaguar), Apple’s next-generation operating system. Mac OS X features automatic networking to make getting online a snap: Mac OS X senses whether you’re connecting from the office or on the road — and connects you automatically. And with Mac OS X’s Instant On feature, your PowerBook G4 wakes from sleep in less than one second. The ultimate platform for the digital lifestyle, Mac OS X works with today’s most popular peripheral devices.

In addition to Mac OS X, the PowerBook G4 comes loaded with iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and iDVD (iDVD software ships with SuperDrive-equipped model only).

Ready out of the box
The PowerBook G4 includes QuickBooks for Mac New User Edition. You also get a collection of graphics tools including FAXstf, Art Directors Toolkit, Microsoft Office v.X Test Drive, FileMaker Pro Trial, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and Graphic Converter.

Up to 5 hours of battery life
The PowerBook G4 comes with a lithium-ion battery that’s good for up to five hours, depending on system configuration and usage.

Massive storage to go
With mind-boggling hard drive capacities up to 80GB, the PowerBook G4 gives you as much storage space as some desktops — more than enough space for all your files, MP3s, movies and more.

Musically inclined?
You’ll be glad to hear that the new 12-inch PowerBook G4 features built-in stereo speakers with an enhanced midrange third speaker, stereo headphone output jack, stereo line-in and an internal microphone.

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