Buy Used/3rdParty More product information	Apple PowerBook Notebook 17" M9970LL/A (1.67 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive) List Price: $2,510.00    Our Price: Too Low To Display Manufacturer: Apple Computer MPN: M9970LL/A Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Platforms: Mac OS X Features: One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, two USB 2.0 ports, and Type I/II PC Card slot Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet, 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme wireless, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and 56K V.92 modem 17-inch (diagonal), 1680 x 1050 resolution, TFT widescreen display 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 processor with 167 MHz system bus 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 120 GB hard drive, slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
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Customer Reviews Buyer Beware! Great software platform, absolutlely worthless hardware to run it on! Don't make the same mistake I did; purchased a PowerBook Notebook 17" less than 6 months ago and it has spent a month, on and off total, being "repaired" for all kinds of issues. Read the fine print in the extended warranty; this company loves to use refurbished parts to fix their computers. As much as Steve Jobs likes to pontificate on his next operating system( you can watch it in all it's "glory" on Quicktime) he has forgotten two important factors: (1) A quality computer to run it on (2) Basic Customer Service 101, " The customer is always right". The reality of this is that Apple has become nothing more than an online music store (iTunes) and a maker of a MP3 player to listen to it on (iPod). A fine computer... but a few cautions to note Make no mistake, the PowerBook G4 17" is a heck of a machine. It's big, beautiful, powerful, and ridiculously easy to use--which is Apple's justifiable battle cry. When you open up this computer on a plane, you will be the envy of your row. IF you can open it. Try to use this sucker in coach and you'll instantly discover a disadvantage of that big, beautiful 17" screen. You can not rest the computer on the tray and open the screen. No way, no how.Even if you rest it on your lap and shove your elbows into your gut, you can just barely get enough room to use it. And be sure to tell the guy in front of you to give fair warning if he plans to recline his seat. I'd bet more than one 17" screen has met an untimely demise that way. Oh, and if you plan to use this on a plane, be sure to get seated in a row with a power outlet. The battery on this lasts just over an hour, fully charged. Another downside to that big, beautiful screen. You can stretch it a little by dimming the monitor as dark as you can stand, but it's pretty unlikely you'll make it through a full-length movie on battery alone--never mind if you want to work for a full coast-to-coast flight. (BTW... when pluging into a plane power outlet, for which you'll need a separate adaptor, be sure to buy a kit with both the cigarette-lighter style plug and the little round three-prong indented one, and bring then both; you can never be sure which a given plane or airline will have.) Finally, even closed, it's tricky to find a briefcase or packback that fits this monster comfortably. The ones designed for a 17" laptop are huge; you can squeeze it into a smaller one sometimes, but be sure to actually bring the computer with you to try it out. There are a few other petty annoyances with this machine (doesn't wake up from Sleep mode reliably; slot loading CD/DVD tray doesn't always spit the discs out far enough to grab the hole, so you have to finger the surface) but this computer's greatest strength is definitely its greatest weakness. For $1000 less, you can get essentially the same computer with a smaller screen. How much do you REALLY want that extra big screen? Ask yourself that question very seriously before you plunk down big bucks for something that is, in many ways, very impractical. Are you buying this computer as a traveling desktop you can take to clients to make them ooh-and-ahh at your presentations? It's great for that. Are you buying it to be a road warrior? Go for the smaller one. -- mm How can I top Stephen Hall's review?? I just received my 17" Powerbook and it was PERFECT out of the box! I have owned IBM/Sony/Dell and never have I just: 1)Open Box 2)Plug in 3)Turn on 4)Answer a few network questions 5)On-Line!! It launched into a quick software update and not one freeze, error message or hours on hold with tech support (somewhere in India-in the case of Dell) What a great design! What I can add to Stephen's review is this, consider the Apple Care protection plan. Not that you will need tech support but just to have batteries covered is worth the cost. Any battery is going to have a limited life especially if you have some heavy drain/charge cycles. Apple unlike other companies just asks some simple on-line questions and they will overnight you a new battery without delay, period! If you read consumer reports you will see for yourself the kind of quality and service you will receive. No other company even comes close! If you have a need for windows(Microsoft) you can purchase software to make your Mac act like Windows XP (without the crashes) and run the software you might need. Side note, if you are a student you can receive some nice discounts from Apple.