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Countdown to Macworld San Francisco (MWSF) 2006

sehix said:
That would explain why it took from 1991 until 1995 (PowerBook 100) before the first PowerBook that ran on a PowerPC proccessor (PowerBook 5300) hit the market.
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Yeah, I doubt they'll change the names, PowerBook and PowerMac are so heavily associated with Apple and the Macintosh line.

There were PowerBooks before the PowerPC and there will be PowerBooks after the PowerPC. It's just too strong a product/brand association to start changing the names now. Most people would think "PowerBook? That's Apple right?" not "PowerBook? Is that because it runs on a PowerPC processor rather than the more common Intel processor? Wonder who makes them?"
 
metfuel said:
if this hasnt been posted yet all of those who got thier hopes up about the tvs look here at the upper left hand corner.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051216/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc
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Good find. Looks like pretty much everyone already assumed the one posted here was a fake, this confirms it for anyone who had a doubt.

It must be really boring to have nothing else to do other than doctoring up photos before keynotes and passing them off as real.
 
Also too much is made of the FSB, the G4 167mhz bus utilizes a large cache and is full speed. The Yonah 667 mhz FSB is a quad pumped 167 which means the fastest speed is only 167 mhz if the data chunk is smaller than maximum cache. i.e. there is not much of a performance hit for most pro applications on the G4.
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But the FSB is really only used for refreshing cache lines, so the main question is whether you are ensuring good locality and broad linearity of repeated memory accesses. Which is something that everyone has been focussing on for at least a decade.
One of the possibilities for new hardware this year could be that Apple has had enough of the leaks and is implementing new security procedures. As an example we don't even have a rough description of a theoretical iBook. Its possible that Apple took extraordinary measures with the iBook, PowerBook, and Mac Mini this year to insure that secrecy is maintained. AS such I wouldn't be at all surprised by the lack of convention center information. We are in blackout conditions people. Apple will shoot to kill anyone entering an elevator.
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Surely another is that Apple are so sick of the leaks that they've been feeding everyone with false information for a very long time. Tomorrow nothing much will be announced and a very significant nail will have been driven into the coffin of these pre-Keynote rumour fests.

That said...
All these rumors bring a few questions to my mind...this is my first MacWorld since I switched last April and I'm very excited
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I switched last February although I vaguely tracked developments last year as an intending switcher to see if anything significant happened. The Powerbook remained G4 so I went to eBay in the end. I'm doubly glad of that decision now that the Intel processors are coming - even if possibly not for at least six months.

If anything does go Intel tomorrow, I'm hoping for a Mac Mini with a built in dock. Firstly I simply couldn't justify buying anything more expensive for quite a while and secondly I don't have any sort of dock at all for my Christmas gifted iPod. I'd prefer something with pixel shaders for the built in chipset but I'm not that bothered.

On the general topic of the transition to Intel and the various technologies in OS X, does anybody know what will happen to Quickdraw? It's marked as deprecated since 10.4 and it strikes me that if Classic isn't making the leap then Quickdraw quite probably won't.
 
monkeyandy said:
TiVo Uncharacteristically Quiet at CES

Look at this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901288_2.html

I think TIVO are quiet because they have struck a deal with Apple.

"It's always been my opinion that DVR is sort of a stepping-stone technology, more of a feature than an actual product," he said. "Really, the future is Internet delivered content _ not recording it and watching it later."

A feature as part of a Mac Mini with FrontRow 2. They mention selling movies over the net for $3.99. Apple will do this. They will also release a Airport Extreme TV card that plugs into your TV so u can contol your Mac with a remote which could be located in a different room. Mac Mini ViiV with FrontRow 2.0 will be DVR, Movies, Music, Photos, etc in your frontroom. the whole media experience and also function as your family MAC!

Thats my thoughts! What do u think? U rekon Mac & Tivo could be conhorts. This could mean if your have iMac G5, all you do is buy iLife'06 and Airport Express TV thing. You have DVR, etc accessible in your Living Room. Even if the Mac is in a different room! Could usse this new WI-MAX standard for delivery!

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Being able to have tivo record my shows, and watch it later on my (then be purchesed) Powerbook M1 would be really cool. I could record the latest episode of 24, buy it off of iTunes (hopefully) and record it on tivo for my laptop. Also for yankee games (you should have figured out that im a yankee fan) and patriot games (i have family in NE who convinced me). Also any other tv show. I WANT MY 24, YANKEE GAMES AND PATRIOT GAMES ON MY POWERBOOK NOW!!!
 
gnasher729 said:
2.8 GHz Celeron processor = $79. That is about the chip you could expect in a $499 Mac Mini. The Core Solo, which is not even available yet, costs $204. There is no way Apple could put a $204 chip into a computer that retails for $499.
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Is that retail pricing? Cause Apple would be buying these by the thousands and therefore getting quite the discount.

What are your sources?
 
iZoom P5 said:
2) From my understanding, the Yonahs are mobile chips. Does this justify them going in the Mini?
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But given the small size of the mini, a mobil processor would allow it to have a greater speed than what the G$ or G5's would. And speed sells to the consumer market.
 
Chundles said:
We've just got a Panasonic 42" Viera and the images on it are rich, good blacks and colours and movement looks totally natural.
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A lot of the bias against plasma is based after experiences with early models. I too own a Panasonic plasma (last years EDTV industrial model) and it produces a sharp image that is easily viewable in most lighting conditions and all angles. To my eye it produces an image very close to a tube set but without the weight. RPTV's look crappy to me now except those rare CRT set's that are properly calibrated. DLP? I see rainbows. LCD like looks grainy with low resolution video.

It's reasonable that Apple could introduce a plasma model that had a computer imbeded. It wouldn't be a Mac perse but a media hub that would work with your Mac via wireless networking. FrontRow would be the only App and run off a small processor. Maybe Apple would even develop a way to rip DVD's to your computer and then stream them to your plasma. A lot of people desire the complete flatscreen experience and that involves no wires.
 
autrefois said:
Good find. Looks like pretty much everyone already assumed the one posted here was a fake, this confirms it for anyone who had a doubt.

It must be really boring to have nothing else to do other than doctoring up photos before keynotes and passing them off as real.
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Doctoring crappy photos before a keynote. Suimsuit pics? Hideous looking stand? An Apple product? Hmmph. Apple, my ass.
 
amateurmacfreak said:
Doctoring crappy photos before a keynote. Simsuit pics? Hideous looking stand? An Apple product? Hmmph. Apple, my ass.
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Will be interesting to see how how is able to give their "look" to something that people take for granted overall.....
 
Randall said:
Mac Mini will get the intel VIIV or whatever the multimedia one is.
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According to Digitimes, Viiv computers are expected to cost between $1500 and $1800, probably with some form of Windows installed. Mac Mini starts at $499. Somewhere in between there is a gap of $1001 to $1301. Somehow I don't think so.
Randall said:
iBooks get Pentium M (Dothan) and then get Core Solo this spring.
Powerbooks get Core Duo and I am a happy camper.
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Here, I don't disagree one bit. I'm just not sure about Core Solo, I can't see what advantage it would have compared to a Dothan, but maybe Intel will stop building Dothans once Core Solo is ready. But Core Duo (dual core Yonah) is definitely the chip to go into a Powerbook.
 
Found it! :D
 

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gnasher729 said:
According to Digitimes, Viiv computers are expected to cost between $1500 and $1800, probably with some form of Windows installed. Mac Mini starts at $499. Somewhere in between there is a gap of $1001 to $1301. Somehow I don't think so.
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Can't really talk about Viiv, but given that Plexor and EyeTV have stand alone units for the $200-300 price point; even $899 for a top end Mac mini with some sort of Tivo would do well IMO.
 
On the theme of trying to guess what Apple are doing according to their competitors and the rumours of a new "content delivery system" and iDisk changes, has anyone noticed that Google Video suddenly has (iPod compatible) downloads for all its content?
 
Thomas Harte said:
On the theme of trying to guess what Apple are doing according to their competitors and the rumours of a new "content delivery system" and iDisk changes, has anyone noticed that Google Video suddenly has (iPod compatible) downloads for all its content?
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I think it's just the free content. Paid content only works on a Windows PC, however, with Google DRM.
 
http://applexnet.com/images/macworld06/behind-the-scenes/behindscenes - 15.jpg

I'm finding this picture VERY interesting... an Mac mini Pro?

An Intel PowerMac?

The new Mini Mac?

OR....

...........is it just photoshopped?

EDIT:
Enlightenment has shone... its just a hard disc enclosure.
(thanks to everyone for pointing this out.)

heinsight (spelling) do you really think Apple would leave this poster of future products on the show floor before the keynote? :)
 
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