There's a new object of lust tonight for all us Mac heads - a DVD-burning top-end PowerBook launched today by Apple. The new 1 GHz PowerBook G4 will cost a cool £2449 (including VAT), but have the industry's first slot-loading CD/DVD burner, Apple claims. It will also have suitably souped-up graphics memory and a 60GB hard drive.
There are other new machines out tonight: a £1899 (including VAT) PowerBook with a 867MHz PowerPC G4 processor, and a more standard DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive and 40GB hard disk.
And the iBook line has been enhanced as well: £849 will buy you the 700MHz, 12-inch screen model, while £1,099 will up the speed to 800MHz and get a 30MB hard drive and DVD-ROM. For £1,349 you can buy the 14.1-inch version, with an 800MHz processor, but remember: the screen resolution on the 14-inch model is the same as the 12-inch one, which means the main difference is simply that everything is a little bit bigger.
