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Apple Press Event October 19 Confirmed

NewbieNerd said:
Not to be sexist or anything, but I assume most of you are guys, right? I think we are most nerds with less nerdy girlfriends/fiances/wives if there is a woman in your life, right? This a random post, no? :D

Okay, for those of who correctly classified above: do any of you guys have your wife/whatever on an ibook or powerbook? I definitely will get a powerbook for myself, but I was thinking an ibook would be perfect for the fiance because it's light, cheaper, and can do what she needs to do, which is internet/excel/word etc. Anyone have any experience with this and find the wife/whatever happy/unhappy with the ibook/powerbook? :eek:
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Heh. To add another data point to your poll:

I've my SO on a Fujitsu/Siemens. I tried to sell her on a Mac, but she's studying furniture design and needs CAD software, Rhino to be specific. She did complain, though, that PC's weren't as well designed and classy. The Siemens was the least bad of the lot and came with 1.7 pentium M, a 128MB ATI x800, 15" widescreen display, dual-layer DVD-burner, and the abillity to slap in another 2.5" HD and run them in RAID out of the box. All for less than the cheapest PB!

I've basically told her that she's on her own with Windows. I still help her and give her hints, but she's doing the actual administration of her machine. My hope is that, someday, our Windows-using friends will call her in stead of me when something goes wrong.

So I'm kind of dragging her down into nerd-dom with me..
 
iQuit said:
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I've seen one of their custom jobs.

Holy f*** was it BEAUTIFUL. It was Carbon. The pictures didnt do it justice. Shiny black with alumnium. :eek: It was HOT!
 
Peace said:
Maybe I missed this point but has anybody thought about how a built-in iSight's lens is going to be protected when one closes the display?.And if they do that with the new powerbooks why didn't they do it with the iMac ?
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Probably slightly missing your point, but how are the lenses on camera-cellphones protected when you put them in your pocket (e.g. on a Motorola Razr v3)?

They are not. (Don't come me with carrying cases, I don't buy a super slim phone just to make it 50% bigger by adding a case.)
 
Protecting a camera in a PowerBook would be easy.

Either move the latch mechanism to the left and right, then recess the camera into the centre top of the screen frame.

Or site the camera slightly off-centre and angle the lens slightly toed in to the central position.

Or be extra clever (like some cameras and phones) when the lid closes on your powerbook a small cover slips into place and covers the lens.
 
CyberDoberman said:
Dude... you OBVIOUSLY have no CLUE how to manipulate the kitty ;)

Your angst over her possibly having a faster machine than yours is EXACTLY why you should buy her the Powerbook.

THEN, my oh-so-clueless friend, when it comes time to really upgrade yours... and the wife/girlfriend/etc. says "Why do you need one? Don't you have a computer..."

You can look her dead in the eyes, and say... "Honey... I need a machine that will do x, y, z, whatever... and I mean, hey... even YOUR machine is newer/better/faster than the POS I'm working with over here"

hehehehe
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lol

I have successfully - through a complex program of jargon saturation - managed to convince her that questioning my motives/need/financial capabilities any time I desire to buy an Apple product is an exercise in futility.

Unfortunately - the damn powerbook still works too well for me to justify upgrading/updating
:mad: :D
 
u can just see Steve Jobs walks onto the stage and say, "well, you know how we said June 2006 for Intel chips? Well, guess what, they are here now..."

if anyone is gonna surprise u like that, it's apple...
 
Evangelion said:
IIRC, the speed of the bus does not affect how hot the CPU runs.
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Actually, it does. If the chipset gets hot, it's preventing the CPU from dissapating heat a quickly. Also, the G5 just runs hotter. Clockspeed does not directly mean the CPU is hot or cool. Just like Clockspeed is not a direct predicition of speed.
 
dcollierp said:
Please tell me why a 1.6 GHz G5 would run hotter than a 1.67 GHz G4.
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G4 was born to be an embedded processor, whereas G5 was born out of a hi-end server-CPU. The design-goals of the processors and their ancestros were very different.
 
LEgregius said:
Actually, it does. If the chipset gets hot, it's preventing the CPU from dissapating heat a quickly.
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Chipset and the CPU are two different things. And even Opteron with it's 1Ghz bus copes just fine with passive cooling (I mean, the chipset manages with passive cooling), I fail to see why it would be different with G5's chipset which also uses identical FSB (HyperTransport) at around same speed as Opteron does

Also, the G5 just runs hotter. Clockspeed does not directly mean the CPU is hot or cool. Just like Clockspeed is not a direct predicition of speed.
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You can say that "G5 runs hotter. And G5 has faster bus. Therefore the reason why G5 runs hotter is because of the faster bus". G4 and G5 had very different design-goals when they were designed. Just like Pentium M and Pentium 4 had very different design-goals when they were deisgned, and it shows in (among other places) their heat-generation.
 
I was just wondering, for all you long-time members, in the months before the release of the G4 Powerbook, were there similar rumours to what have been flying around here?

Were there arguments for and against putting the G4 into a laptop enclosure? What were those arguments? Were there alternatives to the G4 that were suggested?

I always wonder this when it appears that a new processor is coming (my bet is Intel in mid to late 2006) I just like to track the progress of the rumours as the years go by. I'm amazed at the G4 and how it heats up like nothing else in the PowerMac ie. Quicksilver but seems very cool indeed in my iBook.

Just interests me is all, anyone want to add feedback?
 
manu chao said:
Maybe one should see the Shuffle as a memory stick that happens to also play music. (Although it probably will always be noticeably bigger and more expensive than a simple memory stick.)
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Speaking of flash-based MP3's, doesn't the Samsung price-fixing suit mean cheaper prices for Apple to make its MP3 players? Since apple was listed as a victim of price-fixing, couldn't apple get some money out of the suit anyway?
 
Most, mabye

Not to be sexist or anything, but I assume most of you are guys, right? I think we are most nerds with less nerdy girlfriends/fiances/wives if there is a woman in your life, right?
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I know it was a couple of pages ago, but no, some of us ARE the nerdy girlfriends/wives . . . and have to convince the PC-using men to switch. :) Or one of us, anyway.

On-topic: I would be completely lured in by a palmtop or smaller PowerBook -- nothing else would separate me from my 12" 1 Ghz. PB. I don't see it happening though! I would kill for something like the Newton, a smaller PB or a do-it-all PDA running OS X. Hey, I dream small.
 
I'm thinking that there will be updated displays too... They need to refresh and put cheaper prices on them and a photo conference would be the perfect place.

If you ask me, these new displays will have a higher contrast ratio and also larger color gamut (Adobe RGB anyone?)
 
Silverrr said:
u can just see Steve Jobs walks onto the stage and say, "well, you know how we said June 2006 for Intel chips? Well, guess what, they are here now..."

if anyone is gonna surprise u like that, it's apple...
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I would agree with you. But Developers wouldn't. Apple told them 2006.
 
Interesting think about Current G5's

i need to buy a dual 2.3 g5 for school and so last tuesday i called to find out about one. However they told me they were out of stock, so okay cool she tells me to call back just before the day they come. (no idea there was going to be an upgrade) call the apple store again this time friday, told me they are out of stock still and the earliest they will have some is wednesday.. and they can't put something on hold for me or take my credit card number to secure one for me because they said they have nothing to scan..

alrighty.

so i call another place on my actual school campus. they tell me they do sell 2.3 dual PMs but he has none and he can't find any anywhere. however this sales man actually likes his customers and tells me there is a reason because there is going to be an innovation and to check back on wednesday. so he told me to relax and hold on.


so this is my question, are they changing all the powermacs? because wouldn't you still be able to get all the older ones.

although the innovation is cool i seriously need to buy the computer my homework is suffering as we speak and i hate staying late at school to work on their g5's. :(
 
I love to buy a new powermac dual-core mac but I'm very worried about software for it We will have fat Apps for them but have long will this last?
5 or 10 years from now> It has taken me very long time to save money to buy a powermac with a LCD monitor. In Australia a powermac 2.3 w 1gb , 400gb HD, ATI 850xt , Apple 20" LCD , Modem, = AUS $ 6,411.99. as you can see it is very expenive so I do not want to find myself without software. if software was around for 10 years then thats fine. The mac i have now is imac 233hz , 256mb with 10.3.9 bit slow ok. I can not aford a new mac in 18 months when the mactel macs came into market Now i need the power of a powermac not a g5 imac. What do you think about software for ppc mac???

please help me in this buying choice??

Alantis
 
TheMdude said:
Ooh, good point. They must have something significant to use that kind of wording. If it was purely speed bump they probably wouldn't hold an event for it. However, there could just be major "innovations" for the PM's. I sure as hell hope they at least update the PB's to 7448's. Anything less than that still leaves them behind where they should be.
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Well, this could refer to the rumored Pro iPhoto tool that Apple may be developing, or yes, it could just refer to innovative updates to the PowerBook and PowerMac line, as opposed to just normal updates - after all, just look what they did with the iMac, that was in no way a simple update!

I don't know what all Apple would do to the PowerBook, other than dropping a 7448 in, upgrading the RAM and video card, but minor updates could also be a good thing, indicating Intel PowerBooks are coming sooner rather than later.

As for the PowerMac, 970MPs would definitely be more than just a normal speed bump (especially if the top out the line with dual dual-cores!), and throw in DDR2 RAM, PCIe video cards and the like, and once again, you have a pretty significant update.

howellb01 said:
Just notice that on the US site, when you go to the imac page (www.apple.com/imac) at the top where it says Choose a mac: there is no longer an emac button? Is this the end of the all in one cheapie?
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This has already been discussed in great detail in this thread - it's on the front page, not sure how you missed it. :p ;)
 
Silverrr said:
u can just see Steve Jobs walks onto the stage and say, "well, you know how we said June 2006 for Intel chips? Well, guess what, they are here now..."

if anyone is gonna surprise u like that, it's apple...
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Not going to happen. There will be no Intel chips until 2006. After all, if Jobs did indeed do this, exactly which Intel chips would he put in the PowerMacs and PowerBooks? Apple has its eyes on Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest, not existing Intel offerings.

canadosurfer said:
The powerbooks really need an upgrade. Would be also nice if they had a body make over.
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Ick, not brown! God that's horrible... :eek: I would pick a lot of paint jobs over that one myself...
 
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