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MacRumors
Jan 3, 2003, 07:00 PM
MacOSRumors posts (http://www.macosrumors.com) their update for upcoming releases... but is very vague about timeframes. Of their predictions, they mention 17, 19, 20 and 23 inch displays, iApp for music authoring, and a rumored Digital Lifestyle Device.

MacOSRumors' rumor track record over the past year has been very poor (http://www.macrumors.com/searcharticles.php3?searchterm=macosrumors.com):

No Superdrive'd TiBooks (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/11/20021101041008.shtml)
iMovie 3.0 due in Nov, 2002 (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/10/20021004221826.shtml)
Apple Digital Picture Frame (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/06/20020619030054.shtml)
100% Performanc Increase at MWNY 2002 (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/05/20020513204414.shtml)


whfsdude
Jan 3, 2003, 07:05 PM
lol Arn, I love the little history ;-)
jholzner
Jan 3, 2003, 07:24 PM
They got nothing we haven't seem before really. It looks like a lot of their stuff is collected from other rumor sites and passed as their own. Porbably just scraped it together. I remember when MOSR was a pretty good rumors site...not anymore. When was the last time they got something right that wasn't already glaring us in the face?
pyrotoaster
Jan 3, 2003, 07:28 PM
Has anyone read the article at MacOSRumors?
It's laughable! They're still insisting on new LCD screens and revamped iMacs!
After that they go on to talk about a big, gawdy, brushed-metal TiVo. With a (quoting here): "a button layout on its front panel that is remarkably similar to the new inset red-green-blue interface buttons on Cocoa brushed-metal applications."
Blue? :confused:
Since when has there been a blue button for minimize (I'm guessing the blue is minimize, because red and green aren't)?
This just shows how little anybody knows about this keynote right now.
Kudos to Apple on the best kept secret before an expo! Either SJ is announcing nothing (over his dead body) or something huge.
I'm having so much fun just reading this stuff!
Phechs
Jan 3, 2003, 07:33 PM
MOSR used to be a good site, I stopped monitoring it a while back after all I ever read were updates about their email and web server, not the news I was looking for.
medea
Jan 3, 2003, 07:37 PM
Yeah I take everything from macosrumors very lightly, but hopefully some of these will come true, I would still love an apple digital photo frame, I'd be the first to place an order or two.
And a music iApp is still missing so it would be great to see that as well, it would compliment iMovie in being able to mix your own soundtracks....lets wait and see.
Nebrie
Jan 3, 2003, 08:02 PM
Another video ipod rumor... http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&cat=INDUSTRY&feed=reu&news_id=reu-n03181110&date=20030103
Stike
Jan 3, 2003, 09:12 PM
Originally posted by Nebrie
Another video ipod rumor... http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&cat=INDUSTRY&feed=reu&news_id=reu-n03181110&date=20030103

I wonīt give anything on that article. Those people donīt have the slightest clue.


"The existing processor is running out of steam and Apple will make a processor change in the next 12 months," Enderle said. "So expect product announcements based on that new processor next year, because they'll move either to Intel or to the IBM version of the PowerPC."


Intel version of the Power PC??!?!?!?!
WTF are they talking about. Do they know ANYTHING???
Computer_Phreak
Jan 3, 2003, 09:27 PM
Originally posted by Stike


I wonīt give anything on that article. Those people donīt have the slightest clue.



Intel version of the Power PC??!?!?!?!
WTF are they talking about. Do they know ANYTHING???


Hmm... the P4 uses the x86 ISA... would it be possible for Intel to make a processor similar to the P4 but with the PPC Istruction Set Architecture? (probably impossible due to chip desgin differences, but I don't know).
DStaal
Jan 3, 2003, 09:47 PM
Originally posted by Computer_Phreak



Hmm... the P4 uses the x86 ISA... would it be possible for Intel to make a processor similar to the P4 but with the PPC Istruction Set Architecture? (probably impossible due to chip desgin differences, but I don't know).

Sure they could, but why? They basicaly own the PC market, they would need to design and test a new chip, as well as converting a plant over to making it. All for a chip that won't ever sell as well as their other products. (Even if it is better.) That's a lot of cost for not much return. Now, AMD might think it was worth the money, and they would get a lot of press for it that might help their x86 line, but there is no real upside for Intel. (Not to start the AMD rumor again, just saying it is plausable where Intel making a PPC isn't.)
MisterMe
Jan 3, 2003, 10:12 PM
Originally posted by Stike

....

Intel version of the Power PC??!?!?!?!
WTF are they talking about. Do they know ANYTHING???

That is not what he is talking about. You need to learn how to read.
Stike
Jan 3, 2003, 10:15 PM
Originally posted by MisterMe


That is not what he is talking about. You need to learn how to read.

Or that guy needs to learn how to write... :rolleyes:
canadianmacguy
Jan 3, 2003, 11:27 PM
Originally posted by Stike


Or that guy needs to learn how to write... :rolleyes:

No, he needs to learn how to read, closely and carefully:

"So expect product announcements based on that new processor next year, because they'll move either to Intel or to the IBM version of the PowerPC."
Kid Red
Jan 3, 2003, 11:32 PM
19" &20" displays? WFT? Why? For what reason? For who? Why?

haha, can't believe no one caught that.
Hawthorne
Jan 4, 2003, 12:52 AM
Never trust a rumors site that tries to overclock their computer with a pencil lead.:D
nicopra
Jan 4, 2003, 07:45 AM
I'm so disapointed!
I was really hoping they would release the 19.5 inches display as I absolutely need one.
I'm still waiting til Monday but if they don't I will have to switch to Fujitu - too bad!
:rolleyes:
bobindashadows
Jan 4, 2003, 08:12 AM
Originally posted by Hawthorne
Never trust a rumors site that tries to overclock their computer with a pencil lead.:D
I thought they (he, actually) tried to overclock his radeon video card.. but i could be mistaken. which one was it, video card or proc?
Uragon
Jan 4, 2003, 10:08 AM
A rumour is a rumour is a rumour. The site mentions that.

Who has a better track record?
OutThere
Jan 4, 2003, 10:15 AM
everything seems so hazy that there has to be something big and unexpected, apple couldn't let MWSF go by without making something happen? Could they? I think that there is something very cool waiting to come out from apple on the 7th that no one will know about till SJ announces it.
pkradd
Jan 4, 2003, 11:03 AM
MOSR likes to post fanciiful "rumors" as facts but then equivocates on the ideas by saying "if not at MW-whatever" pretty soon. It's the worst site on the net. The guy seems to make things up. Poor journalisim at its "finest". Honesty and truth has no place in the sites mantra. But, it's fun to see what the guy writes.
pyrotoaster
Jan 4, 2003, 12:00 PM
pkradd is right. If MOSR isn't making this stuff up, their "sources" are. It is fun to read, however. I like the part about the brushed-metal Apple TiVo with the "red, green, and blue" buttons. :rolleyes:
syntax
Jan 4, 2003, 02:31 PM
i also love how every mosr post somehow manages to integrate a reference to how much reader mail they supposedly (still) get (uh, nigerian ***** enlargement banking scam spam don't count, guys) and a plea for free hardware so they can "review" (rhymes with "screw") it. oh, and how they have three advertisers.

i remember the wild west days of summer 1998, when ryan meader and his posse, though nerdy and hopeless, actually had some sort of rumorological presence. the steve jobs lockdown at apple has really massacred them, however -- and the steady stream of increasingly outrageous lies emanating from mosr registers like the echo of some g(r)eek tragedy. sheer madness and carnage.

remember interweather? blacklightmedia? remember when mosr was a wannabe baby empire of half-baked ventures? now it's just a solitary can of botulism.

some good mosr parody action from back in the day:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mosr.net/macosrumorz/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mosr.net/mosr.shtml

plus some dish:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000708070023/http://mosr.net/articles/1999.10.22.mosr.apple.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/19991127133006/http://mosr.net/correspondence/1999.10.06.mosr.threats.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/19991127150341/http://mosr.net/correspondence/1999.10.07.mosr.threats.shtml
nissim
Jan 4, 2003, 04:22 PM
When is the last time Apple has live-streamed a keynote?

Isn't it quite a while ago? It's further back than Apple Expo in Paris, right? (Trying to think further back, but it's just a big blur!)

Is this a sign that Steve is gonna talk about something that nobody in the world should miss? Hope so...

Or is it just standard procedure to stream from SF? "We can just run a cable down to our Darwin-server in Cupertino", or something...
nissim
Jan 4, 2003, 04:36 PM
When is the last time Apple has live-streamed a keynote?

Isn't it quite a while ago? It's further back than Apple Expo in Paris, right? (Trying to think further back, but it's just a big blur!)

Is this a sign that Steve is gonna talk about something that nobody in the world should miss? Hope so...

Or is it just standard procedure to stream from SF? "We can just run a cable down to our Darwin-server in Cupertino", or something...
pyrotoaster
Jan 4, 2003, 04:48 PM
When is the last time Apple has live-streamed a keynote?
To my knowledge, it was MWNY back in July.
pyrotoaster
Jan 4, 2003, 04:52 PM
Sorry to double-post, but I thought I would answer the rest of the question.
Apple streams the two major trade shows, Macworld January (MWSF) and Macworld July (MWNY). Since there is no more July expo (after IDG tried to move the show to Boston), it looks like MWSF will be the only streamed event.
mcrain
Jan 4, 2003, 05:22 PM
Originally posted by Macrumors
MacOSRumors posts (http://www.macosrumors.com) their update for upcoming releases... but is very vague about timeframes. Of their predictions, they mention 17, 19, 20 and 23 inch displays, iApp for music authoring, and a rumored Digital Lifestyle Device.

MacOSRumors' rumor track record over the past year has been very poor (http://www.macrumors.com/searcharticles.php3?searchterm=macosrumors.com):

No Superdrive'd TiBooks (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/11/20021101041008.shtml)
iMovie 3.0 due in Nov, 2002 (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/10/20021004221826.shtml)
Apple Digital Picture Frame (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/06/20020619030054.shtml)
100% Performanc Increase at MWNY 2002 (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/05/20020513204414.shtml)

*********. Macrumors was the only thing that kept me from buying a 550Mhz Powerbook. I held out for the superdrive PB, and if you take the time to read my sig, you'll see that I was patient, and I got what I wanted, all thanks to MR.