jocknerd said:
Impossible. THe Apple Developer site says "2006" is the first one. Which means Macworld since he also said macintels would ship "by WWDC 06", and he'll certainly announce it at a big event. Probably the Mac mini or eMac.
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Dual-Core PowerMacs, New G4 PowerBook, and G5 Mini?
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Impossible. THe Apple Developer site says "2006" is the first one. Which means Macworld since he also said macintels would ship "by WWDC 06", and he'll certainly announce it at a big event. Probably the Mac mini or eMac.
Sniff Sniff.... Smells like Widescreen iBook
I'm holding out to purchase the last PPC PowerMac before the Intel switch and I would be tickled pink if they went Dual Core Dual G5 PowerMac in September, BUT.... Like I said in the Title, this sounds way too much like the rumors of the widescreen iBook. I got sucked in by the hype because it sounded very plausible to go 13.1" widescreen and I was all set to sell my current iBook and buy a new widescreen iBook. What a let down that was. It just seems that Apple has done a knock out job clipping all the inside info from leaking out since the beginning of the year.
I'm holding out to purchase the last PPC PowerMac before the Intel switch and I would be tickled pink if they went Dual Core Dual G5 PowerMac in September, BUT.... Like I said in the Title, this sounds way too much like the rumors of the widescreen iBook. I got sucked in by the hype because it sounded very plausible to go 13.1" widescreen and I was all set to sell my current iBook and buy a new widescreen iBook. What a let down that was. It just seems that Apple has done a knock out job clipping all the inside info from leaking out since the beginning of the year.
SiliconAddict said:
Right...this time next year does not equal January. It means by WWDC '06, there will be shipping x86 Macs. About the major event, sure, I agree. But it is silly to think that since Apple will only announce big things at keynote events, they must do so at MWSF '06 since it will be too late at the next logical event, WWDC '06.
Steve doesn't grace the stage all that often, but it is wrong to think Apple's calendar for a year goes MWSF/WWDC/Paris done. If that were true, Apple would only have 3 opportunities to announce revolutionary products.
So what about when Steve announced the iTMS? Or iTunes for Windows? Or the iPod? Or The European iTMS? Or the iPod photo? All of those things are arguably less important than a switch to Intel and all of those things happened at special events. So who is to say that Apple won't have a special media event in between MWSF '06 and WWDC '06.
All Steve said was by this time next year. You cannot extrapolate that into Intel Macs at MWSF '06.
SiliconAddict said:The eMac is a dying breed. Or at least the CRT eMac is. If they put a G5 in an eMac they may as well go LCD and make their entire line they same type of display tech but then you have the iMac.
Hmmm.
Make it look like a iMac G4 BUT WITH A G5 chip in it, with the lowest ghz they can get on a G5 ( no lower then 1.42) , and it would have a LCD
I think that the new powerbooks are the most likely as well as the dual dual g5. If I didnt care so much about portability, I would go for that as opposed to the g5. Anyway, I think that the G5 mini is the least likely to be true, as it has been posted that the mini would be more powerful than the powerbook (in some areas).
Dr. Dastardly said:
According to many benchmark tests, the Mini is already more powerful than every laptop except the 17".
zap2 said:
That would be sweet. I was set on purchasing a 20" g4 iMac but then they released that nasty looking g5 iMac...no offence to anyone who owns one, but I MUCH prefered the g4 style.
x86
An x86 mini would be the sweetest thing, even if it has a cheap ass intel P4 chip in it. That way OS X can be hacked decently and spread faster to increase awareness of its beauty. Hackers will get their hands on it, and will definitely brag about it to their non hacker (non apple) friends, which in turn will love the mac, and when a chance arises will buy a beautiful proper mac. Does anyone have a better idea than this to advertise the mac platform?
This will be hell cool. I would love that to happen. This is my ultimate sexual fantasy. Mac OS X needs to be out there and kicking like a shark not a little fish before longhorn (vista) comes out.
An x86 mini would be the sweetest thing, even if it has a cheap ass intel P4 chip in it. That way OS X can be hacked decently and spread faster to increase awareness of its beauty. Hackers will get their hands on it, and will definitely brag about it to their non hacker (non apple) friends, which in turn will love the mac, and when a chance arises will buy a beautiful proper mac. Does anyone have a better idea than this to advertise the mac platform?
This will be hell cool. I would love that to happen. This is my ultimate sexual fantasy. Mac OS X needs to be out there and kicking like a shark not a little fish before longhorn (vista) comes out.
dornoforpyros said:
We have similar tastes - I prefer my G4 iMac's design to the new G5 iMac as well.
if all those updates come and the pb update is actually decent, then whats the point in switching to intel
NEENAHBOY said:
i really dont think we have to worry about a g5 mini to many cool ing and space issues, and theres no way they would come out with a g5 mini when there isn't g5 laptops
So, this may be a little far-fetched, but bare with me.
A few months ago, Apple drops the 1.8GHz single G5. This new (speculative) PB update is to have about 1.7GHz. What if apple took left over 1.8 G5's, tweaked them to keep from overheating thus yielding only 1.7GHz, and slapped 'em into a powerbook. This would fulfill Steve's promise of exciting PPC upgrades in the pipeline.
I'd go for that.
A few months ago, Apple drops the 1.8GHz single G5. This new (speculative) PB update is to have about 1.7GHz. What if apple took left over 1.8 G5's, tweaked them to keep from overheating thus yielding only 1.7GHz, and slapped 'em into a powerbook. This would fulfill Steve's promise of exciting PPC upgrades in the pipeline.
I'd go for that.
narco said:
If they can fit a G5 in a Mini in this short of time... then we should've gotten a G5 PB a year ago.
jiv3turkey748 said:
Don't know if the mini is going G5, but as someone pointed out before, the same thing was said about iMacs before they went G5.
mrhoratio said:
Mactel Macs? Now there's something I hadn't heard. At least it has "Mac" two times in it. I hope people don't call them MacTels or Macintels once they are released. As I had said in other posts, they were never called MotoMacs or IBMacs or any other weird name before the Intel announcement. I don't think people should combine the words Intel and Mac. I think a better way to differentiate Macs would be to call them x86 PowerMac, x86 PowerBook, etc. Don't you think?