As others have pointed out, everyone salivating over the idea of consumer gadgets at WWDC might want to calm down. The G5 was justs released to the professional and home user market as the powerful topend that it's supposed to be, and Apple has gone on record as stating that the PowerBook and iMac are a ways off from getting a G5 under the hood. While true that the iMac is getting a little long in the tooth, it doesn't necessarily mean that there will be anything at WWDC, because it would be logistically stupid to introduce one machine when you're trying to get its succesor out as fast as possible.
I won't say it's impossible that either will show up at the conference, but I find it extremely unlikely without the webcast being done as it was lasst year. The displays, operating system, and software that will likely be shown are of more interest to developers - both hardware and software - than to the general mac user. They need to see this stuff now so that they can work towards the official release of Tiger.
Remember, the G4 showed up first in a PowerMac in October of 1999, clocking at 350mhz and costing $1,599 at the low end. The iMac was a 350mhz G3 at the time. Two and a half years later, in January of 2002, the flat-panel iMac marked the arrival of the G4 in the consumer model, at 700mhz. At the same time, the PowerMac was 800mhz at the low end and cost $100 more than the mid-level iMac - $1,599.
It was a shorter, but still lengthy, wait for the PowerBook G4 - January of 2001, which meant a year and a half instead of two and a half. At the time the towers were G4s, the PowerBook were 400mhz G3s.
So far, the G5 hasn't gotten anywhere close to the wait for the G4.
I won't say it's impossible that either will show up at the conference, but I find it extremely unlikely without the webcast being done as it was lasst year. The displays, operating system, and software that will likely be shown are of more interest to developers - both hardware and software - than to the general mac user. They need to see this stuff now so that they can work towards the official release of Tiger.
Remember, the G4 showed up first in a PowerMac in October of 1999, clocking at 350mhz and costing $1,599 at the low end. The iMac was a 350mhz G3 at the time. Two and a half years later, in January of 2002, the flat-panel iMac marked the arrival of the G4 in the consumer model, at 700mhz. At the same time, the PowerMac was 800mhz at the low end and cost $100 more than the mid-level iMac - $1,599.
It was a shorter, but still lengthy, wait for the PowerBook G4 - January of 2001, which meant a year and a half instead of two and a half. At the time the towers were G4s, the PowerBook were 400mhz G3s.
So far, the G5 hasn't gotten anywhere close to the wait for the G4.
