Apple Hints at Product Refreshes?

[MacRumors]

Appleinsider reports on a conference call with Apple Specialists yesterday by Senior Director of Channel Sales and Distribution, Jeff Hansen.

According to Appleinsider, Hanson "provided hints that the company would be 'refreshing' many of its professional products during its World Wide Developers conference, set to take place in San Francisco during the final week of June."

Apple first released the PowerMac G5 at WWDC last year.

[Grimace]

I'll believe it when I see it. Even still, i'm sure we'll see people saying, "The Dual 3GHz came out two weeks ago - should I buy or wait for the next revision??" Apple has customers with an insatiable appetite to be on the cutting edge, which I like. It makes this forum pretty amusing sometimes.

[agreenster]

WWDC is sooooooo late. At least to me.

[jxyama]

well, i guess we can stop with "are we gonna get PB update this week?" threads until June.

[frinky23]

June seems like an awfully long time before a refresh.

[adamfilip]

ofcourse they are going to update the G5s at WWDC - Steve said they would..


but i think its crazy that since the last WWDC there hasnt been any speed bumps.. that doesnt make sense. there should be a 25% bump every 6 months.. minimum

[awesomebase]

You just have to wonder how Apple expects to maintain good sales of their professional product lines doing updates only once a year... especially when others are doing it anywhere from 2 to 6 times that often.
One of the problems here is that they do not distinguish between professional and consumer lines when it comes to planning out their updates. I think they should prioritize their "professional" lines to keep their technology at the forefront and to drive demand up from the consumer lines to the professional ones. Once a year just doesn't cut it for the "outside-of-Apple" world and certainly makes it difficult to bring in Windoze would-be-Apple-converts. Hope they do better next year.

[jxyama]

Originally Posted by frinky23

June seems like an awfully long time before a refresh.

not really. PB went without a refresh from jan. last year to sept. (with one price drop in between) that's just as long.

i imagine a price drop with the one year anniversary of iTMS launch and refresh at WWDC, at least for PB...

[lem0nayde]

Apple needs to refresh something...and soon.

I'm so over the iMac, it doesn't nearly have the lasting appeal of the first one. Nice gimmick, but time to move on.

Also, what's up with the eMac...Apple's poor ugly stepchild.

The iBook is nice still...but maybe they could do something with it to make it a little extra special.

Get rid of those ugly red lights on the white iPods...lets get some nice blue in there, or better yet, white.

Pro 3D Card? Hello? What is Pixar using in their G5s?

I love Apple, but I think they are stuck in iPod land right now (with good rea$$on) and need to turn their heads back to the rest of the product line. Everyone is calling for a G5 refresh...but that actually seems new compared to the others.

Innovate goddammit!

Joe

[Zaty]

Originally Posted by jxyama

well, i guess we can stop with "are we gonna get PB update this week?" threads until June.

PBs update before WWDC:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...threadid=67127

Edit: Further to my statement in the other thread, they just said updates to MANY (not all) of its products. I think they will in fact release new PMs, new iMacs plus if they don't drop them at all, new eMacs at WWDC. Perhaps they round it up by announcing updated iBooks as well but I guess they will release new iBooks sometime in May.

[jxyama]

Originally Posted by adamfilip

ofcourse they are going to update the G5s at WWDC - Steve said they would..


but i think its crazy that since the last WWDC there hasnt been any speed bumps.. that doesnt make sense. there should be a 25% bump every 6 months.. minimum

there was, not a full bump, but dual 1.8 came out...

i guess because Mac is more of a niche compuer market, it's not like you have a choice... so speed bump is not as critical as PC vendors, perhaps?

rumoring continues...

[Squire]

Anyone think this will involve some cool new software revisions and/or products, too? I've been thinking about buying Keynote but it's been over a year since that came out, hasn't it? I'm wondering if we'll be able to see Keynote 2 as a response to the new version of Office.

Oh, by the way, I got a $25 off coupon for the Apple store in an email today. It has to be used within the next two weeks.

Squire

[wPod]

so thats a year of the G5? shouldnt it move beyond to more than just the powermacs?

[MacsRgr8]

A whole year before updating the G5s?
A whole Ghz (Dual) jump (leap)?

How many of you are waiting for the updated G5s since January? You must be tired of waiting by now.... and maybe even 2 more months to go. I am glad I got my Dual 1.8 in December. And loving every moment of it!

To me, it only stresses how little we know....

[adamfilip]

adding the dual 1.8 isnt a speed bump.. since the high end hasnt been changed. they just rearranged the mid range which was good.. but not a speed bump

[Photorun]

A year between updates?!?!? WTF?!?!? WHAT MORONS!!! If there was another serious choice of computer for a graphics professional I'd so jump to it, Apple's heads are up their arses!

[Stella]

Wonderful, we have to wait until WWDC. Hope the G5 PB is included, if not i'm along with many others will be extremely disappointed.

Wonder about the consumer range...?

[Grimace]

Maybe Steve will have a Keynote speech that says - ALL MACS NOW FEATURE G5 PROCESSORS.

That would be badass.

[adamfilip]

they better go beyong 3ghz at WWDC..


i think the line up should be

Dual 2.0 with 512mb DDR - Raedeon 9600
Dual 2.5 with 1024 DDR - Raedeon 9800XT
Dual 3.6 with 2048 DDR and Raedeon X800


anything less then that and i will be disapointed
not to mention price cuts of 250 accross the board

[klaus]

Originally Posted by Photorun

A year between updates?!?!? WTF?!?!? WHAT MORONS!!! If there was another serious choice of computer for a graphics professional I'd so jump to it, Apple's heads are up their arses!

Why does macrumors follow the rumors that are posted on AI? I'm sure they have an agreement about those, that's not my point.. the point is there are not enough rumors around to feed us, hungry apple-monsters..

Apple is doing a good job at keeping their empoyees' mouth shut (and firmly shut!)

Something will come, and it'll be big, been too long to just "update" something.

[Zaty]

Originally Posted by adamfilip

they better go beyong 3ghz at WWDC..


i think the line up should be

Dual 2.0 with 512mb DDR - Raedeon 9600
Dual 2.5 with 1024 DDR - Raedeon 9800XT
Dual 3.6 with 2048 DDR and Raedeon X800


anything less then that and i will be disapointed
not to mention price cuts of 250 accross the board

Dual 3.6? Too good to be true, I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by Stella

Wonderful, we have to wait until WWDC. Hope the G5 PB is included, if not i'm along with many others will be extremely disappointed.

Wonder about the consumer range...?

To all of you still dreaming of PG G5s, dream on! It's not going to happen. You will have to wait until MWSF 05 for the announcement of PB G5s, available by the end of February 2005.

[ingenious]

apple just loves suspense?!? Dont they? I hope that they PB G5s come out before June. I want one!!!!!! LOL

[1macker1]

Well if I dont get a G5 power book before Aug. then i'm getting a dell laptop. I just looked around yesterday doing some comparisons, and the G4 powerbooks are lagging big time.

[Mac-Xpert]

So now that it may take till end of June before we see anything new, they really have to jump to 3 Ghz right away. If they introduce dual 2.4's as the top speed, I think we're gonna see a lot of disappointed people at the WWDC. Even a dual 2.6, that would have been great if it was introduced in march or something, would then seem like "to little to late".

Since appleinsider speaks of problems with the implementation of the 90nm G5's I'm somewhat worried that we won't see any 3.0 Ghz and maybe not even 2.6 Ghz at WWDC.

[jaw04005]

Originally Posted by Zaty

PBs update before WWDC:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...threadid=67127

Edit: Further to my statement in the other thread, they just said updates to MANY (not all) of its products. I think they will in fact release new PMs, new iMacs plus if they don't drop them at all, new eMacs at WWDC. Perhaps they round it up by announcing updated iBooks as well but I guess they will release new iBooks sometime in May.

In my opinion, they will not update the consumer line at WWDC. Its a professional setting, and just not the right venue for consumer updates. I can't believe they are waiting this long, they better have a Powerbook G5 to release at WWDC---because if they release a G4, Steve isn't going to get much of a response