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Intel Apple Laptop In January?
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BillyShears said:
Or how about iBook Lite and Powerbook Lite for the single-core versions, and iBook and Powerbook for the mighty dualies
Noiseboy said:
There is already a trickle of OS X apps released as Universal binaries. The first started appearing about a month ago. BBEdit 8.2.4 is one of them.
You can tell by doing a Get Info on the application. At the bottom is a new line; "Architecture Intel, PPC"
BillyShears said:
This will never happen. There needs to be a distinction. My bet is on a model number series (does not have to conform to the Intel model numbers...but may).
Anybody remember the PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, PowerBook 170, etc.?
Hickman
My money on naming depends on if you're pro- or anti-intel.
Pro: iBook and iMac, etc.
anti: iBoo and PowerBoo
Pro: iBook and iMac, etc.
anti: iBoo and PowerBoo
Actually, it has already happened: the iBook was just called the iBook at first, despite the different models and even a new casing. And there were a number of different iMacs just called iMacs. (And I think the PowerBook was briefly just called the PowerBook at some point--maybe in the late G3 days?) The name doesn't have to be fully specific to one model number. After all, there are many different PowerBook G4s. I wouldn't rule out simply "PowerBooks."Brian Hickman said:
But I'll toss in my speculation on future names:
* Mac Mini ("the all-new Mac Mini") or Mac Mini with letters (HT?) if it gains some totally new purpose
* iMac... or iMac S (for "single core") or iMac D (for "dual" core) or simply iMac Dual
* iBook or iBook S
* PowerBook or PowerBook Dual or PowerBook D
* PowerMac or PowerMac Dual or PowerMac D
* PowerMac Quad or PowerMac Q
* Xserve
Lacero said:
In other words you want one so you can fit in at your neighbors tea parties ?
My Neighbors demand this as well, they say White is soooo out.
Marketing
I think the most fascinating part of all this, aside from the Intel chips, will be how Apple markets these new machines. It's the ONE thing we're all in the dark about.
Powerbook G5?
PowerBook G5i
PowerBook G6
.... and the list goes on and on and on ...
I think the most fascinating part of all this, aside from the Intel chips, will be how Apple markets these new machines. It's the ONE thing we're all in the dark about.
Powerbook G5?
PowerBook G5i
PowerBook G6
.... and the list goes on and on and on ...
Brian Hickman said:
Apple is WAY too cool for model numbers. That went out with the millenium. I think they will keep a "generational" theme. It may not be the "G(n)" they use now ... but I still think it will be an over arching name scheme.
Wait, wait...
Here's the deal:
Apple will introduce their whole Intel line next Wednesday. Including the Powermac AND... the iPod. Yes, the iPod will use Merom technology.
The Mac mini will be a $299 set-top box with a magic technology that pipes free music/video content into you brain via a new, as-yet-unannounced technology (this technology will implemented on the iPod in MWSF 2006).
Apple will make billions and billions of dollars in profit, cripple Microsoft, and use the Apple Stores to promote Steve Jobs' candidacy for Presidency. Once elected, Steve will eliminate all consumer choice in every sector of the economy and introduce a series revolutionary new devices that will replace the "car," the "toaster," and the "research university."
Then we will all drink Koolaid and ascend to a new level of consciousness.
Here's the deal:
Apple will introduce their whole Intel line next Wednesday. Including the Powermac AND... the iPod. Yes, the iPod will use Merom technology.
The Mac mini will be a $299 set-top box with a magic technology that pipes free music/video content into you brain via a new, as-yet-unannounced technology (this technology will implemented on the iPod in MWSF 2006).
Apple will make billions and billions of dollars in profit, cripple Microsoft, and use the Apple Stores to promote Steve Jobs' candidacy for Presidency. Once elected, Steve will eliminate all consumer choice in every sector of the economy and introduce a series revolutionary new devices that will replace the "car," the "toaster," and the "research university."
Then we will all drink Koolaid and ascend to a new level of consciousness.
I suppose in theory they COULD choose to keep the G naming. Neither IBM nor Motorola owns the G series naming. It's an Apple thing. They've applied it to PowerPC generations, but they COULD do something else with it if they wished. An Intel PowerBook G5 would be confusing... but a Yonah PowerBook G6 isn't impossible. Followed by a Merom PowerBook G7... and PowerMacs could even stick it out and jump straight to G7 in late 2006.Frobozz said:
Doubtful, but since we're imagining names...
generik said:Perhaps they can do it they way they do with those anodized aluminium pots that I have in my kitchen
Yes - the T-FalBook! No stick, no stains. Would've been good for the G4 PB's - might've made some eggs with all that overheating.
As for names, the "i"phenomenon is onlikely to be scrapped in my opinion. I thing the iBook and iMac will keep their names. The PowerBook may be re-branded as something that says "sexy" and "powerful". They might throw a 5 in there for good measure. The "PowerBook 5000", perhaps? Then they can make us feel outdated with constant small revisions and name changes accordingly - "PowerBook 5000b" and "PowerBook 5050ac".
Christmas isn't just for December anymore!
I can't wait!
So far we'll see a Mac mini, and laptops, anything else?
I can't wait!
So far we'll see a Mac mini, and laptops, anything else?
EricNau said:Christmas isn't just for December anymore!
I can't wait!
So far we'll theoretically see a Mac mini, and laptops, anything else?
Fixed that for you!
And there is iLife and iWork '06 but at this point isn't that a given. Personally I'm thinking Aperture Express to go along with the new dual core PowerBooks and single core iBooks. All this sounds good about the naming. But what i really want to know is how big will the speed bost be with the intel laptops. Once they make the switch, how fast will a single core, and a dual core laptop be?
Tristan_X said:
Like what? The Apple Persephone. . .
If you don't get it you don't watch enough Simpsons.
speedemonV12 said:
My WAG* is that the first PowerBooks will come in at:
-PowerBook 12" -> 1.5Ghz dual core Yonah (Whatever is the lowest dual core they have.)
-PowerBook 15" -> 2.0Ghz dual core Yonah
-PowerBook 17" -> Whatever is TOP of the line for the Yonah (Prob 2.1-2.3Ghz.)
-iBook 14" Widescreen 2 GHz single core Dothan.
-iBook 12" Widescreen 1.5 GHz single core ULV Dothan with a form factor to boot that is less then .5 of an inch thick.
Before people start screeching that they would never put out a CPU that is below the speed of what is currently out keep in mind the selling point of have 2 cores. That could possibly offset the idea that its going to be slower then the G4 at 1.67Ghz which we know it won't be.
*Wild @** Guess
Though I do have mixed thoughts on this, I suspect that it will be a good system.; however, I am uncertain if they are developing a chipset JUST FOR APPLE or what. It doesn't matter much for me, because by the time I get a Mac with the new Intel processor, it will be old anyhow. I may end up with an upgraded G3 Pismo, and we all know those are few years behind the times.
So I am just waiting to see this, and perhaps it will be as nice as everyone believes.
So I am just waiting to see this, and perhaps it will be as nice as everyone believes.
SiliconAddict said:Fixed that for you!
Thanks, that's what I meant. Unless, I know something you don't...
I'm not sure I would buy one of these Rev. A. yes I'm not in the market right now, but I'd consider a new iBook if it was ~1000 CND and I could retire my lime clamshell. It seems like a good combo to have a G5 and an intel based portable. best of both worlds IMO