There were also battery recalls with this model. Indeed, the 15.4″ screens were not fully debugged by September, with many early adopters experiencing “white spots” appearing on the display screen, a problem Apple got sorted out over the first few months of production. If 15″ AlBook had to be reengineered to use the slightly smaller 15.2″ display that had been used in the Titanium PowerBook, that might have explained its long hello. There had been a reported supply bottleneck with the 15.4″ screens and scuttlebutt about technical problems with the first ones ones being used in Dell notebooks. The puzzling delay in Apple’s releasing a 15″ aluminum PowerBook, which might reasonably have been (and was) expected in May 2003 (or, failing that, in July), might have been attributable to a change of plans on display size. After eight months of anticipation following the release of the 17″ and 12″ aluminum PowerBooks in January of 2003, it turned out to be pretty much what PowerBook fans had been hoping for and expecting. The 15″ PowerBook (or AlBook) was rolled out by Steve Jobs at Macworld Paris in September 2003.
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