New Powerbooks - We Need to talk about this!

[johnnyp]

Okay, so I know there's been some discussion around this anyways, but in the final week and a half leading up to the keynote, I find myself trying to make business plans and unable to do so.

My studio laptop (an 800mhz powerbook 15") has aged dramatically and is no longer fit for the musical applications I'm throwing at it. We need to remain mobile -- so I'm planning on getting a new 17" powerbook. Nobody seems to have any straight and reasonable sounding knowledge as to what is coming at MWSF.

I think it's obvious Apple will be releasing *something* -- it's been 9 months since an update to the powerbook line, which is almost unheard of. And after so long, a mere 0.17ghz update seems pathetic to me.

What on earth is coming in January, and somebody please tell me it's going to be better than that. Dual Core, bigger processor hike, G5s -- SOMETHING!

But make it realistic, and if possible, true. My accountant needs to know when this purchase is going through by the time this weekend is over.

Damn apple, your fetish for secrecy sometimes keeps us mac lovers from getting on with our lives.....

-JP

[Daveway]

Typical newbie post! Dude you know what we are going to tell you. There are a lot of threads about this already, no one knows what is going to happen. So stop wasting forum space and time. I'm surprised i'm even responding to this.

[edesignuk]

If anyone knew what was (or wasn't) coming don't you think we'd have said!?!

There's threads all over the shop about PowerBooks/MWSF, we really need another one :rolleyes:

[varmit]

Okay, so I know there's been some discussion around this anyways, but in the final week and a half leading up to the keynote, I find myself trying to make business plans and unable to do so.

My studio laptop (an 800mhz powerbook 15") has aged dramatically and is no longer fit for the musical applications I'm throwing at it. We need to remain mobile -- so I'm planning on getting a new 17" powerbook. Nobody seems to have any straight and reasonable sounding knowledge as to what is coming at MWSF.

I think it's obvious Apple will be releasing *something* -- it's been 9 months since an update to the powerbook line, which is almost unheard of. And after so long, a mere 0.17ghz update seems pathetic to me.

What on earth is coming in January, and somebody please tell me it's going to be better than that. Dual Core, bigger processor hike, G5s -- SOMETHING!

But make it realistic, and if possible, true. My accountant needs to know when this purchase is going through by the time this weekend is over.

Damn apple, your fetish for secrecy sometimes keeps us mac lovers from getting on with our lives.....

-JP

Dude, it will most likely be a G4, with only the possibility of going dual core. Most likely it will be a processor hike of a few points of a gighertz. Maybe 1.7 or something at the top end.

[jsw]

There's no way to know, as has been written above.

Just decide to buy a PB priced according to the current prices and decide to make the purchase after 1/11.

If something new is out, great.

If not, you'll still get something useful.

But, either way, it'll cost the same, give or take $100 or so.

[Logik]

i'll post it again... G4 speed bump.. no G5, no Dual core... dual core won't be sampled until 3rd quarter this year... far far away... G5.. too hot, too power hungry, too big... not happening... wait until they throw that speed bump out there, they might give bigger hard drives and the like.. that is all

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says.....new PB thread #652....rant - PLEASE people....learn how to search and use the existing threads instead clogging up the forums with useless new threads...../end rant.....oh yeah!