Lacero said:Yeah. This time, Steve Jobs under-promised and over-delivered on the date, unlike his famous 3 Ghz promise.
Lacero said:Yeah. This time, Steve Jobs under-promised and over-delivered on the date, unlike his famous 3 Ghz promise.
animefan_1 said:They also said the iPod mini was supposed to cost ~$99.
We all know how right they were with regards to that.
JoeG4 said:Lower prices? How do they plan to do that without sacrificing quality?
Oh I get it now..
INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW 1.8GHz Apple iBook!
Powered by the blistering fast Intel® Celeron-M processor with Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics!!!
I don't think Apple taking FireWire out of the iPod means they're not going to push it anymore. Call me when they take it out of their computers (which they won't).It's gonna stink like rat poo... But that's Apple now, not Apple a year ago -- the "We don't think video matters", firewire-pushing,
Do you have proof of this statement besides the stupid EMI exec blathering about his wet dream.RIAA-fingering company has turned into a "budget solution" company that "believes in variable pricing for songs"
because...you know...Apple isn't allowed to change their mind and/or not tell anyone what they're working on (read: NOT giving competitors a clue for their plans).and "sees a place for video in the market"...
This one's easy - no, that's just not true. If Steve Ballmer/Bill Gates took over Apple, then you'd have a point (and I'd have to get my pitchfork ).It's like the borg has taken over.
Brian Hickman said:But there might be a new bare-bones iBook coming to help Apple eat into Dell's market share. Honestly, I don't care because I want a top of the line 17" Intel PowerBook.
generik said:What do you mean by "... due to internal design..."? Even if Apple puts in the current Pentium Ms into the iBook, at say 1.5Ghz (pretty much the slowest PM these days) it will be very compariable to the G4 1.67.
JoeG4 said:Lower prices? How do they plan to do that without sacrificing quality?
Oh I get it now..
INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW 1.8GHz Apple iBook!
Powered by the blistering fast Intel® Celeron-M processor with Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics!!!
It's gonna stink like rat poo... But that's Apple now, not Apple a year ago -- the "We don't think video matters", firewire-pushing, RIAA-fingering company has turned into a "budget solution" company that "believes in variable pricing for songs" and "sees a place for video in the market"...
It's like the borg has taken over.
JoeG4 said:INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW 1.8GHz Apple iBook!
Powered by the blistering fast Intel® Celeron-M™ processor with Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics!!!
It's gonna stink like rat poo... But that's Apple now, not Apple a year ago -- the "We don't think video matters", firewire-pushing, RIAA-fingering company has turned into a "budget solution" company that "believes in variable pricing for songs" and "sees a place for video in the market"...
QCassidy352 said:I'm calling BS.
First, if the ibooks go intel first, they'll probably mop the floor with the powerbooks in pure speed. Would apple really allow that?
JRM PowerPod said:-If they update the PB's they may as well upate the iBooks because the intel chip will make it cheaper
Lacero said:Yeah. This time, Steve Jobs under-promised and over-delivered on the date, unlike his famous 3 Ghz promise.
animefan_1 said:I doubt Apple will do a bare-bones system. They compare decently to Dell now, so if they can add a few features and lower the price a little, they'd have a winning combo.
DCBass said:It seems to me that there are two possibilities if we assume intel ibooks at mwsf at a discount of $200 or so
mdavey said:There are at least two more possibilities:
3. Apple announces both the replacement iBook and the replacement PowerBook ranges as I and others have previously suggested. Remember there is a difference between announcing and shipping. Apple has a habbit of announcing many products at once, but giving them different shipping dates.
I'd expect the replacement Mac mini to ship the day it is announced, but for Steve Jobs to announce at MWSF that the laptop ranges will ship a few weeks after MWSF.
4. Just as the iMac is a completely different form-factor to the PowerMac, perhaps the designers have switched the iBook range to the tablet form factor, perhaps with an optional laptop-size bluetooth keyboard.
That would help differentiate the two lines (iBook and PowerBook) from each other and also from the existing G4 products which as others have pointed out, Apple may choose to keep available for a few months.
You'd be the first one, then. Congrats.Photorun said:What? A thread on macrumors and not one arsehat chimes in with "Powerbook G5! I know it!!!" I simply can't believe it.
Good point. Apple puts out some honey trying to catch some bees. Perfect plan. Only problem is, ThinkSecret is a rumor site and the tipster is anonymous. But a wrong rumor affects TS's credibility, however shot it might be.Finally it occurs to me that, though ThinkSecret's word was close to golden, an impressive close to 90% or better rumor to reality rate, the times they are a changin' what with Apple suing them. What's to say Apple somehow didn't plant this info to try to 1. just fool the heck out of TS or 2. catch someone?
DCBass said:Just to be sure, I believe I did mention in my 2nd point that ibooks and pbs could be announced at the same event.