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Intel iBooks, iLife '06, New Remote?

iSee said:
No, the iBook and PowerBook lines *will* merge--really, they almost have already.

BUT, that's not the end of the story... Apple is just making room in the product line for something else. I predict that the iBook and Powerbook lines merge starting in January ((Solo, Dual) X (13", 15", 17")), and by mid-year Apple releases something mindblowingly cool in the the portable market.

It will really be the new consumer line, but a high-end, premium one. Sort of the iPod of the notebook world, although I expect a radical new design. From Apple's persepctive, the problem with the iBook line is that it has become a low end line. The pressure is on to keep lowering it's price--not really Apple's business. They want to be selling consumers $2000 really cool premium, feature-laden laptops, not $1000 mid-to-low-level laptops.

BTW, I kind of like MacBook--it's got a sort of retro-cool.
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Ohh yea, you heard it straight from Steve.
 
that makes me a sad panda :(

Only piece of hardware I actually want is something smallish like a mini but with better media center connectivity. As the current mini still sucks in that regard I currently have a tower hooked to my lcd tv and it's an arrangement I would gladly get rid off.
 
.Mac webmail is down with appropriate messages

Hopefully we are going to get a good webmail client. The existing one is too limited - you can't even set email to read without reading it.

edit: most of .mac appears to be down.
 
.Mac Down

Stella said:
.Mac webmail is down with appropriate messages

Hopefully we are going to get a good webmail client. The existing one is too limited - you can't even set email to read without reading it.
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I agree.... I keep forgetting about the potential changes to .Mac... should be fun - maybe I will get something out of my $99.
 
peterburk said:
Surely he means a MacTel iBook, not an Intel MacBook!
Can't wait until tonight... only another 2 hours until the keynote. This MacWorld's gonna be good.
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Aint dislexia a bi***
 
kainjow said:
Sadly, I agree. But I'm hoping for that "one more thing" ...
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Who actually thought there was going to be plasmas? I never bought that since the second I saw it on here. I am surprised there is no mac mini. How about an airport express update with a more advanced remote then the front row remote? I think he is missing the "one more thing" in his predictions, I think the public expects a intel based 'book to be announced, so steve wont use that as the one more thing. K Rose wasn't balls on accurate last time, he got the ipod storage wrong and missed a product or two I believe. The FM receiver sounds interesting, there has to be more to it then just listening to radio on the ipod.
 
Porchland said:
Depends. Did you have a little surprise when you woke up?
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lol... NO. Not THAT far gone towards the loony bin. But definitely dreamed about possible mac products. Exciting (in a platonic sense) and weird at the same time.
 
mtrctyjoe said:
I agree.... I keep forgetting about the potential changes to .Mac... should be fun - maybe I will get something out of my $99.
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It wasn't too long ago I filled out a questionnaire regarding the .Mac service, hopefully it will improve now.
 
Consolidated portable lines

Consolidating the portable lines makes a lot of sense. The overlap at the 14"/15" ends has always been a problem, with the upper end iBook being artificially, in a sense, held by so as not to tread on the toes of the PowerBook range (think screen resolutions, for example). It would also leave room for a kick-ass small (12" or more likely 13" widescreen, and with the rumoured 25% reduction in thickness) laptop, that'll compete as an ultraportable.

As for plasma screens, the size makes sense when you consider the emergence of HD and the very-high-end Final Cut that's been floated. LCDs would be too pricey and plasmas suffer (I think??) from screen burn. On the other hand, if the high-end Final Cut is priced at $10k then what's the price of a 42" plasma screen between friends?
 
Hmm... MacBook, you say? I could get used to that name. But I do have to say that I like having two separate notebook lines, the iBook and the PowerBook. Who knows though, this is just one person saying this, but then again wasn't he dead on last time with the new iPod? I don't know who to believe! Only an hour and a half to go. :)
 
15" MacBook? Hmm, I checked stock levels with all branches of John lewis this morning and the 12" iBook was okay, 14" iBook was a little harder to get, 12" PowerBook, fine, 15" PowerBook was nearly non-existant and 17" PowerBook was hard to find too.

Since I am after a 15" x86 PowerBook, this blog and the stock levels all make me feel very warm inside. Either that or that I've just finished lunch. One and a half hours and counting.
 
iJaz said:
It wasn't too long ago I filled out a questionnaire regarding the .Mac service, hopefully it will improve now.
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I would like it to improve and maybe even reduce in price a little, (£69 in the UK currently, so an improvement for between £49 and £69 would be ideal). If so, I may give it a whirl for at least 12 months.
 
The Man said:
Or Apple can do the lines like this:

iPod
iPod nano
iPod shuffle
iPod whatever

iMac
Mac mini
Mac pro
Mac whatever (HDTV, etc)

MacBook
MacBook mini
MacBook pro

iMac would be the exception (instead of simply Mac) because when we talk about Mac, we also talk about the Mac platform.
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Or we designate the current i models as Express, (as in Final Cut Express/Pro etc). Then the iMac would become the Mac Express and the iBook, MacBook Express. Also would suggest to customers speed and ease of use. Very good marketing tools. iMac stood for information when the internet was taking off, now peopel want speed and easy to use computers. Express would fit this new model very well.
 
A 15" MacBook .... ?

I think, after reading all this ... it will be a 3rd addition to the Laptop line ...

But out of all this posting ...I think the best idea was:

Bring out a G5 PowerBook and say "We've done it folks ... but you can't have it ..."

Maybe it will have inkwell ... maybe it will just be a book about Steve Jobs ...
 
johnk said:
Ok I’ve finally have to say something, why does everyone think its going to be the laptops (ibook, or pb) or even the mini. Why replace a 32bit chip with another 32bit chip? Ok it’s faster. Why not wait until summer for Intels 64bit Merom chips for laptops after all isn’t the G5 a 64bit chip, and doesn’t his fit remarkably well with what Apple say about the first Intel Macs some time in the summer.

Ok I've said it now; I’ll go back in my box.
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Because 64-bit doesn't infer than it is any faster. It simply means it can address more memory. 32-bit can handle (someone correct me if I am wrong) 4gbs. Does a laptop need more than that? If someone THINKS it does, is it possible they are using the wrong tool for the job?

What a laptop needs is a high level of performance per watt of power used. Period. It looks like Yonah can deliver that.
 
Yvan256 said:
That could be the difference right there. Single/dual core, GPU/VRAM and max RAM could easily make the difference between iBook/PowerBook while still keeping everything else the same. They could even share the same shell: just continue to make the iBook white and make the PowerBooks black. Keeps the ease of manufacturing both lines of computers as the same, you just swap some parts/colors when building it.
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I like your thinking...
 
Accurate

I'm pretty sure that this will be accurate. Kevin Rose was the *only* person to call the iPod Nano not only correctly, but by name. Plus, he's an industry insider and generally privvy to things like this.

If you haven't, you MUST listen to the digg.com podcasts (you can get them on iTunes.) Kevin just bought a PowerBook after having an IBM thinkpad.
 
MacBook is pretty weak ...

Also .. i doubt they will keep the same shell ....

People want THIN!! laptops ... PB currently are nice and thin ... but even Dell has a thinner one now .... so Apple has to step up ...
 
worldwearyeyes said:
And anyone else having a hard time SAYING "macBook?" Doesn't flow...
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I don't like it much either. Yesterday or the day before when there was some talk about combining the lines in another thread, I though that 'Book would be a great name. Maybe this will be the Mac 'Book, not MacBook.

Either way, I hope they do combine them and offer 3 base models; a 13", 15", and 17" widscreen. Then let people customize the hell out of them. Choose your CPU speed, your case color/material, RAM, GPU, VRAM, HDD size/speed, EVERYTHING.

"Introducing the Mac 'Book: portable power, your way."
 
Quicktime post of keynote

Will it really take 6 to 8 hours after the keynote to post a quicktime stream?
I was kind of hoping to go AWOL from the computer and come back 2 hours after the keynote and watch it with out any info.
 
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