A story over at Engadget speculates that Apple may be recruiting a team of ex Sony VAIO notebook engineers to design the new Intel PowerBook:
A reliable source tells us that Apple has been ?having trouble playing catch up with the learning curve for designing using the Intel platform? and that in order to have an Intel-based PowerBook out by next year they?ve been scrambling to recruit an engineering team with some experience building light and thin Intel-based laptops. And how are they going to do that? By poaching from Sony apparently…
PowerBook cognoscenti will find this story highly plausible because it was Sony that either totally or partially developed (depending on who you ask) the original PowerBook 100 for Apple in 1991. The PowerBook 100, incidentally, was voted the Best Gadget of All Time, by Mobile PC 2005.
A story over at Engadget speculates that Apple may be recruiting a team of ex Sony VAIO notebook engineers to design the new Intel PowerBook:
A reliable source tells us that Apple has been ?having trouble playing catch up with the learning curve for designing using the Intel platform? and that in order to have an Intel-based PowerBook out by next year they?ve been scrambling to recruit an engineering team with some experience building light and thin Intel-based laptops. And how are they going to do that? By poaching from Sony apparently…
PowerBook cognoscenti will find this story highly plausible because it was Sony that either totally or partially developed (depending on who you ask) the original PowerBook 100 for Apple in 1991. The PowerBook 100, incidentally, was voted the Best Gadget of All Time, by Mobile PC 2005.
