re new duo dock with processor here s why an cleveland freenet edu travis grundke writes why would apple release a duo dock with a processor of its own here s why people have hounded apple for a notebook with a processor in it apple can t deliver that right now because the saps too much power radiates far too much heat and is too large for a notebook how does one get around that without designing a new chipset use existing powerbook technology to your best advantage the duo dock gives apple a unique ability to give users that power in a semi portable fashion by plunking the into the dock you ve got quadra power at your desk on the road that mhz should be able to handle most of your needs okay not the best solution but its an answer to a no win situation so does this mean one will be able to use the powerbook s processor in parallel to the dock s processor okay we re getting really hypothetical now it would also be great for another reason when not docked it could serve as an ara server to the large internal hd your corporate email etc in a pinch you would also have two machines instead of if they could couple that thought with rocketshare and let you use both the on the pb and the on the dock it would be a mighty powerful dock brian hall mspace netcom com mark space softworks applelink markspace america online markspace do not disturb i m on a mission from egghead
