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12inch iBook End-of-Life'd?

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MacBidouille adds fuel to the fire by posting an advertisement from a French distributor which labels the 12" iBook G4 as "End of Life"'d.

Products typically reach End-of-Life designation when it has been discontinued to make room for a newer/updated model.

With Apple's attention to secrecy, most retailers do not have much forewarning about new products or discontinuation on old models, so take this claim with a grain of salt.
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2005/12/21/12inch-ibook-end-of-lifed/
apple would not be dumb enough to drop the 12' iBook. Unless they will replace it with a 13.3' widescreen model...:D
 
reberto said:
Unless they will replace it with a 13.3' widescreen model...:D
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My thoughts exactly. :D

12" is a tad small, unless they can pump the screen resolution up to 1280x960; anything is better than 1024x768.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
This story requires a very large grain of salt.

The form factor has been popular, and I'd be mighty surprised to hear it was on its way out so soon.
 
It might be both iBooks.

Apple Australia have started selling "prebuilt systems" of both size iBooks consisting of RAM upgrades and faster shipping. This is the first time I have ever seen Apple Australia (Apple who?) do a promotion like this. They're also doing a post-christmas sale day on the 28th. Never seen that here either but I reckon there'll be some bargains about on the iBooks when the day rolls around.

My thread about Apple Australia
 
Doesn't end of life'd just mean that upgrades are coming with different model numbers? I think apple should keep the 12", and keep the current 14" with its low resolution screen, AND add a 14" high resolution widescreen. Not everyone has good eye sight and the 14" iBook has some really big pixels which many of my older customers really like.
 
maybe they said "end of life" just to create confusion...
apple has a very bad policy with re-sellers like FNAC or other big stores..
apple leaves re-sellers shelves empty before christmas so they can sell more on the apple on-line store. I think re-sellers get a little discount on high numbers when they purchase by apple, so in this way the discount money of the many apple products they sell during christmas is all in thir pocket...

really hoping for the yonah laptop, I read on anandtech the review, seems impressive. I could also imagine that they will adopt only one line with different sizes and different chip and graphic card possibilites. at the end ibooks and powerbooks were the same computer till now...
 
Doctor Q said:
This story requires a very large grain of salt.

The form factor has been popular, and I'd be mighty surprised to hear it was on its way out so soon.
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Well, it's nice to know that my little white iBook is gonna be a rarity...you must acknowledge...it's time for Apple to change the form factor...the snow white iBook design is long in the tooth already.

Expect something awesome at MWSF, a much slimmer white machine...the notebook market will be totally Apple's next year, I am pretty sure...we're gonna be blown away by Ive's ideas.

For sure: 13.3" slimmer white iBook, 15" and 17" liquid metal PowerBooks.
 
Lacero said:
Yes, I have. And it's sickening. :D Cliches you are sick of..

12" is too small to begin with. 13.3" is a much more natural evolution to 15" and then to 17".


Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
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12" is not too small. It's ultra portable. I have a 12" pb and I love it. Before buying it I was concerned if it was too small. But looking at the 15" and 17" in the store, made me realise that I wouldn't bring with me as much if I had bought one of them.

I aggree that the resolution could use an upgrade, but not the size. With regards to the ibook currently you get the same resolution on 14" and 12" so I would definitely prefer 12".

I hope a new form factor family includes an ultra portable version. I think it is erroneous of Apple to always make the smaller one also the one with the least features. I think there is a market for an expensive full feature ultra portable notebook.
 
Chundles said:
Apple Australia have started selling "prebuilt systems" of both size iBooks consisting of RAM upgrades and faster shipping. This is the first time I have ever seen Apple Australia (Apple who?) do a promotion like this.
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With the first generation of Mac minis, Apple NZ was selling models with 8x SuperDrive standard. US had no SuperDrive standard, and the optional addon was only 4x. I didn't see the "NZ" configurations for sale in any other country.

I guess that wasn't really relevant :rolleyes:
 
Well I'm choosing to interpret this as EOL for the 12 inch iBook G4... seeing as the intel versions are (apparently) just around the corner. Not EOL for the "12 inch iBook" itself. Although the notion of a 13 inch widescreen isn't that far-fetched.

I'd have thought that perhaps they'd replace the 12 inch PowerBook with a 13 inch widescreen to match the rest of the [widescreen] line-up and keep the iBook range at 4:3.
 
Nermal said:
With the first generation of Mac minis, Apple NZ was selling models with 8x SuperDrive standard. US had no SuperDrive standard, and the optional addon was only 4x. I didn't see the "NZ" configurations for sale in any other country.

I guess that wasn't really relevant :rolleyes:
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No, not really. But I remember it and it was kinda strange.

I'm going out on a limb here and I reckon that they're getting their far-flung distributors to get rid of all their excess stock to avoid shipping the old ones back.
 
l008com said:
Not everyone has good eye sight and the 14" iBook has some really big pixels which many of my older customers really like.
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That will become a non-issue once the resolution-independant display feature in OS X is stable (probably 10.5). It's already in 10.4 as a preview to get developers ready, but currently the whole system flakes up when you enable it.
 
l008com said:
Doesn't end of life'd just mean that upgrades are coming with different model numbers? I think apple should keep the 12", and keep the current 14" with its low resolution screen, AND add a 14" high resolution widescreen. Not everyone has good eye sight and the 14" iBook has some really big pixels which many of my older customers really like.
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Umm.. you do know you can change the resolution of a screen. So a 1024x768 can be adjusted to only show 800x600 pixels.
 
BlizzardBomb said:
Umm.. you do know you can change the resolution of a screen. So a 1024x768 can be adjusted to only show 800x600 pixels.
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LCDs don't work very well at anything other than their native (maximum) resolution. They can look fuzzy. :(
 
Oooo.... a 13.3" Widescreen iBook at 1920 x 1200 with the wonders of Leopard's resolution independence - wouldn't that look cool. You could watch HD movies on it and yet all the interface would be a decent size - just very, very sharp and clear. Photos would look amazing, movies would be superb in full 1080p HD and if they managed to stick in a HDTV tuner I wouldn't need anything else.

Yeah, not gonna happen but maaaannnnn, that would be sooo cool.
 
say it ain't so!!!!

NOOO!! no one can ever quit selling my baby! If I can't get a new Intel 12 in iBook, i don't know what I'll do!! But I gotta admit-while the 12 incher is totally usable, I enjoy using the 14 inch. If they only have that at a decent, I can buy it price(I am asking too much really, thats like $500-i'm dirt poor), I'll be happy. Although, that eBay sale is looking better and better...
 
Sure the 12" is portable, but im certain Apple could make the 13.3" widescreen iBook just as portable. Notice the white rims around the current display? The diagonal of that adds an extra 2" to the overall size of the iBook.
 
It may be the end of its life in the UK
anyways what do the French know

ibook 12" will still be sold refubished and probally new, just not though apple's main store
i perdict may 2nd hand apple resales will still have the ibook 12" for a long time to come
and i also perdict a small price cut on it (my turn to buy on now lol)
 
EOL usually just means update impending with new model number, if I recall, not a full discontinuance.
 
JeffTL said:
EOL usually just means update impending with new model number, if I recall, not a full discontinuance.
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Tell that to my Dual 2.3 G5 Mac :)

Technically it was EOL'd when the new dual core G5 came out because Apple stopped selling them.

I said this before the French show...
The new Intel laptops will be brought into a single line of laptops..
13.3" 15" and 17"
No "iBook" naming convention.Not even a "Powerbook" naming convention..
Don't know what their gonna be called tho.
 
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