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amac4me

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I stumbled upon something interesting. A webpage in Google's cache titled "Apple Announces PowerBook G5 for August Availibility"

It looks like a press release with a date of June 7, 2005. The page was crawled by Google on June 2.

It outlines the following systems:

Pricing & Availibility
The new PowerBook G5 line will be available in August through The Apple Store® (http://www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores and Apple Autorized Resellers in four standaIrd configurations.

The 1.8 GHz, 12-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $1699 (US), includes:

a 1440x900 HD widescreen LCD;
a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
ATI Radeon Mobility x300 64MB video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
two USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400;
optional backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.

The 2.0 GHz, 15-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $1,999 (US), includes:

a 1680x1050 HD widescreen LCD;
a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
ATI Radeon Mobility x600 128MB video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.

The 2.3 GHz, 15-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $2,299 (US), includes:

a 1680x1050 HD widescreen LCD;
a 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±R/CD-RW);
512MB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
128MB ATI Radeon Mobility x600 video card (256MB optional);
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and conposite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800;
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor; and
an 80GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.

The 2.3 GHz, 17-inch PowerBook G5, for a suggested retail price of $2,899 (US), includes:

a 1920x1200 HD widescreen LCD;
a 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±R/CD-RW);
1GB of 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
256MB ATI Radeon Mobility x600 video card;
AirPort Extreme wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0;
DVI, VGA, S-video and conposite video support;
three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400, FireWire 800;
backlit keyboard with ambient light sensor


Was this page accidently put up by Apple and then crawled by Google or is this some kinda of fake? As you ca see, the link for the page in Google's cache is: (Give it time to load).

http://64.233.167.104.search.q=cache:5iRmnZTn43cJ:www.apple.com+applehl=en&lr=&c2coff=1

When you go to it it looks like a page from Apple's website. When you read the cache in the upper pane of your browser window you see the following statement from the Google cache:

"This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/june/pbg5.html as retrieved on June 2, 2005 21:00:16 GMT."


However, when you reach the page it get redirected to:

homepage.mac.com/dzweben/pr/jun/pbg5.html

A couple of points:
If this is a fake, Apple needs to find out about it.
There are some typos on the page.

I just wanted to share my find with you all considering all the Powerbook G5 discussions.
 

amac4me

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Oh ok. thanks for the link. I didn't know that this was already discussed.
 
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