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DigiTimes Reports PowerBook G5 and iBook G5 Contracts

sjpetry said:
From what I have heard 10.4 will require a lot more performance than 10.3. Do remember it is a major release. ;)

P.S. Tiger is the first OS to be optimized for the G5 chip which is much faster than a G3 chip.
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So how about a Mac mini G4 1.42Ghz with 512MB ram :confused:
 
aesth3tic said:
I was thinking the same thing about the Mac Mini being G4....

But, if you think about it, it could be a good thing that it is G4. Once Apple moves the PowerBook, iBook and eMac to G5 within the next year and half (or more...) they will need to continue to offer a G4 to use up the remaining supply, plus that will allow for them to do a couple revs without moving it to a G5. The Mac mini is going to stay G4 for a long time anyways, there has to be a reason for it.

And as far as tiger and 64 bit processors....um thats just crap. All Macs are going to see improvements with Tiger, whether or not they are G4 or G5 or even G3...
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i know there was already a posting beginning with "from what i heard" and this is goin to be another and i apologize. From what i hear, Tiger is not going to work with computers that have less than 64 mb of vram. This would be apple shooting itself int the foot bigtime because of the 32 meg of vram in the mac mini which hopefully is goin to be a big seller. I think that apple is going to be sure that tiger will work back to at least 32 mb vram because if it didnt, alot of the old TIbooks would not be able to run in Tiger as well. Can anyone reaffirm anthing said here?
 
what warranted this getting moved from page two to page one? I don't know a thing about digitimes, but I can't believe ibook g5's are that close. Given all the trouble apple has gone through to say that PB g5's are nowhere near to coming, to expect an ibook g5 that soon? I'll believe it when i see it. Also, are the powerbook numbers really that low? And for that matter, if the mini is to be 100,000 per month... that's, what, one in ten ipods? Or are there multiple makers of the mini? Or are we not expecting that many ipods post-christmas?
 
nagromme said:
I give PowerBook G5s a 75% chance of happening this year. 50% by mid-year. 100% chance of SOME significant upgrade, even if it's still G4.
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I'm 100% sure Apple will come out with a PowerBook update with a G4 by April. Then G5 at least by the Fall or Q1 2006.
 
TheMasin9 said:
i know there was already a posting beginning with "from what i heard" and this is goin to be another and i apologize. From what i hear, Tiger is not going to work with computers that have less than 64 mb of vram. This would be apple shooting itself int the foot bigtime because of the 32 meg of vram in the mac mini which hopefully is goin to be a big seller. I think that apple is going to be sure that tiger will work back to at least 32 mb vram because if it didnt, alot of the old TIbooks would not be able to run in Tiger as well. Can anyone reaffirm anthing said here?
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I doubt it. theres no way Apple would release a new computer that wont be compatible with a new version of the OS in a few months.
 
tiger will have just about the same specs as Panther...I know they changed one little thing...could be memory..but I am an ADC Select member and have run every version of Tiger so far and they work it even works on an old iMac DV soooo....

also, why would they design a computer that hasn't even shipped yet to be outdated when Tiger comes out...

Hopefully Apple will have Tiger scale better than Panther does because w/o a Quartz compatible machine you really notice the difference

So far thats not really the case..but its alpha right :)
 
IDANNY said:
I hope !!!!!!!!!
If this happens I would defiantly buy one. If they stayed around the same price. :)
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How can buying one be considered defiant?

The good news is white iBook G3s will go for less than $300 if this is true. :) Resale value on iBook G4s will be similarly crushed. This is a good thing. The price of progress is high for early adopters and cheap for those who lag behind.
 
mkjellman said:
tiger will have just about the same specs as Panther...I know they changed one little thing...could be memory..but I am an ADC Select member and have run every version of Tiger so far and they work it even works on an old iMac DV soooo....

also, why would they design a computer that hasn't even shipped yet to be outdated when Tiger comes out...

Hopefully Apple will have Tiger scale better than Panther does because w/o a Quartz compatible machine you really notice the difference

So far thats not really the case..but its alpha right :)
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Thank you

Now i know that iam safe to buy a Mac mini and be able to run Tiger and maby even 10.5 name...... :D
 
iBook G5 eh? Baloney. PowerBook G5 first in 2005, then MAYBE an iBook G5 in 2006 at the earliest! There needs to be more of a gap between the iBook and the PowerBook, like the days of iBook G3's and PowerBook G4's. The iBook was the last to sport a G3, and it would make sense to be the last to sport G4's, too.
 
I think they should drop the PowerBook and iBook lines and consolidate them into a MacBook line, with 4-5 models, the last two of which would be cheap enough to cater to the low-end laptop market. It would save on manufacturing costs, and simplify the entire Apple line-up, which in recent years, has become more and more confusing.
 
not a chance

Um, given Apple's recent tirade of lawsuits against Think Secret and others don't you think macworld and digitimes would've been forced to pull this article already if it were true?

Steve is laughing his ass off at this one. Sorry folks, no PB G5 is coming soon, we'd be lucky if he even mentioned it at WWDC.
 
Hemingray said:
iBook G5 eh? Baloney. PowerBook G5 first in 2005, then MAYBE an iBook G5 in 2006 at the earliest! There needs to be more of a gap between the iBook and the PowerBook, like the days of iBook G3's and PowerBook G4's. The iBook was the last to sport a G3, and it would make sense to be the last to sport G4's, too.
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When was the last G3 produced :confused:
 
We will probably see one or two more revisions of the PowerBook G4 before we see the the PowerBook G5. And when the PowerBook G4 moves up in a revision so will the iBook G4, sporting approximately the same G4 processor that was in the previous revision PowerBook G4. I think that this is a much safer and smarter approach by Apple, I can remember when the PowerBooks would get newer and newer G4's and the iBooks would still have the same old G3's. Nowadays, the iBook G4 is just the previous PowerBook G4 revision in a new package.

Remember optimism is just lying about the future. And since the future hasn't really happened yet, then it's not really lying.
 
What the... ? How'd THIS make it to front page?!?!?!!? I'd at least have expected pigs flying or monkeys flying out of my butt before something this erroneous and fabricated to make it as front page... I mean, this is MacRUMORS, and clearly this type of BS, total and utterly exquisite BS, is the purist of BS, and any SANE person would realize as completely false as anything uttered here. Rumors... rumors, rumors... reality, sorry kids, no G5 laptop anything. You're wasthing your time reading this thread, it is not happening, not now, not soon, possible not ever, move along. Thanks.
 
Ridiculous. I hope we DON'T get PowerBook G5's.

I'm hoping for those new dual core G4's. I'd rather have the 25w dual core 1.5 GHz G4 than a 2 GHz G5.
 
GFLPraxis said:
Ridiculous. I hope we DON'T get PowerBook G5's.

I'm hoping for those new dual core G4's. I'd rather have the 25w dual core 1.5 GHz G4 than a 2 GHz G5.
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That's true. Unless the PowerBook has enough RAM slots to upgrade past 4GB, I see using a G5 as overkill. A dual-core G4 makes a whole lot more sense, that you can turn one off depending on the power mode and energy-saving setting.
 
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