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WIRELESS WORLD: Putting G before A - Apple surprisingly deploys the unofficial 802.11g Wi-Fi standard for its future wireless offerings.(new Apple PowerBook has 17-inch display)

InfoWorld

| January 20, 2003 | Schwartz, Ephraim | COPYRIGHT 2003 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE WINTER edition of Macworld Conference & Expo has come and gone, but it has left some lasting impressions.

Apple introduced a version of the PowerBook with a huge (by notebook standards) 17-inch landscape display. Literally, it's the same size as the piece of glass used in the iMac. The wide-screen PowerBook has a 1GHz processor and a nice backlit keyboard with photo-sensitive sensors that brighten the alpha and numeric portion of each key as the light grows dimmer.

The unit is made from anodized aircraft-quality aluminum, but -- I'm sure much to the surprise of the adoring audience hanging on every word of Steve Jobs' keynote on opening day -- it doesn't …

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