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Leaked: ****** Info!

Originally posted by JW Pepper
Please explain how Apple can force this site to remove detail Apple posted to it own PUBLIC web site.
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By threatening a lawsuit. Even if they won't win (or even go to court) Apple can send a form letter asking you to remove information. In this case, the info was public. Not under NDA. But they can still ask nicely.

Dunno. Arn, did you get a form letter?

Hope you can get some sleep this weekend.
 
Re: Re: G5 mockup pictures FAKE!

Originally posted by macmovieman
It shows the air holes from the G4! You can see it better when it's darkened.
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oh yeah - well spotted. You should work for the FBI in their X-Files dept 😉
 
Ha ha

AI has censored their article.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=117

Too funny. I wonder what the Power ********* ** is?

EDIT: that's weird about the "G5" search. That doesn't happen if you search from the home page. (It says "no matches" but offers a shortcut to the PMG4 page.) Maybe they are in the middle of updating their shortcuts to include the G5.
 
Originally posted by Plastic Chicken
I don't think it's real...

...either a hack or a joke. I prolly think this because apple.com wasn't working for me sometime yesterday. Also, they mentioned the processor being the "PowerPC G5", and we all thought they'd be using the 970, unless they're calling it the G5 for some odd reason.

For that, I gave this rumor a "negative".


Consider how hard it is to post something like that by accident, and not change all the rest of the picts!

It's an internal joke or a hack.
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You're right it is so much easier to hack the apple store.🙄
 
Originally posted by Black Badger
Strange, have a look at this..
Go to Apple.com and try to get a non-existant page www.apple.com/g8/, when it comes up with "Page not found" type "G5" (no quotes) into the search box

See what comes up.....
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Which is interesting because the string g5 does not occur on the page at all
 
"The fastest personal computer in the world"

this can't be a hack attack can it? if it was i'm surprised that the apple store is still online.

so surely there can be no doubt.

no more excuses.

no more "well what about the photoshop blur benchmark?"

no more "well you're paying for the user experience"

no more shame, no more humiiation, thank you steve!
 
I can't wait till Monday:

"Pft, that wasn't Steve, his mock turtleneck was charcoal, not black!"

"That wasn't really Panther he was showing, did you see the screen flicker that one time! Then the stream stopped! Obviously a hacker intercepted it and is fooling us!!!11!!oneone"
 
I cant take the wait! 3 days is 3 days too long.
We are in need of 2 new PowerMacs at the office, and dual 2gigs would fit the bill perfectly! Give us Photo8 and I am in heavin!🙂
 
1GHz bus might mean half-processor speed (2GHz/2), or just hype-speak for double-pumped 500MHz (HyperTransport). Either way, I'm not complaining! Bring 'em on!

(Someone at MacBidouille is smiling, too.)

[EDIT]
My mistake: just re-read the PPC970 info again on IBM's site. Sounds like it is indeed a true 1GHz 'elastic' bus! Please let this leak be true! Please be in a PowerBook soon!
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good and bad news

This is a sad day for us all. No longer can we specualte over apples new generation macs. For the past 2 years weve all had fun trying to guess the specs of this new machine. From Motorola to ibms g5 mac its call come too an end and it will be missed....Joke....Let's start speculating on the ppc 980 Specs. Come on guys what do you think? Quad Dual core 5ghz? 2.5 ghz fsb and 64 gigs os NRAM?

Joking aside, dual 2 ghz sounds very impressive but i've heard we wont see em till about 5 weeks after shipping. Don't ask me where I heard this as I have since forgotten which site claimed it. I think macwhispers talked about 1.6, 1.8 and 2 ghz chips shipping to apple a few weeks back, maybe we should believe the powerbook 970 claims.

By the way I came across the pic and it seems to be the closest incarnation what the new machine may look like (bar the ports on the front).
 
There is no way they are going to call the new machines the "PowerMac 970."

Apple has NEVER called a machine by the part number of the chip inside. That would be a foolhardy way to brand your product- using an arbitrary number that a third-party supplier came up with that has no relation to your product line.

The original PowerMacs went through the 601s, 603s, 603e, and 604s without a change in line name- then the G3s came and went without ever being referred to (by Apple) as "the 750s," and finally, just how many versions of the G4 have there been? 7400, 7450, 7447, I can't even keep track of which where real and which were fabricated only in the pages of the rumor press.

To take an about-face- and squander five years of "G" brand name equity- doesn't make any sense at this point (except maybe to a rumors board denizen that sleeps with the IBM specs under their pillow).

Those debunking the image on the basis of the name will have to come up with a more convincing argument, IMO.
 
Re: good and bad news

Originally posted by silvergunuk
By the way I came across the pic and it seems to be the closest incarnation what the new machine may look like (bar the ports on the front).
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While that is indeed a stunning rendering of a possible PowerMac G5, I doubt any of it's based in fact. We don't really have any hard evidence of what the PMG5 will look like... we only know what it will "look like" from the inside (which I must say, is mighty nice).

In any case... WOO!
 
Well this was surely an interesting morning read...

The Serial ATA thing surprises me. If true I guess it'll be good in the long run, but for now there are very few Serial ATA drives out there. They're more expensive than ATA/100/133, but not shockingly so.

Addonics makes a bridge board to use existing drives, which is nice. Only $32. I've never used it.

One thing pushed for Serial ATA is extrenal ports, but I didn't see one on the spec list. On one hand it would be strange for Apple to add a THIRD high-speed external interface (especially since they love FW). On the other, SerialATA is a native interface so the external hard drives would (at least in theory) be faster and less expensive than FW800.

Again, if the specs are true I'm pleased Apple isn't moving too fast on the FW800 by eliminating FW400 ports.

I think if this was a hack, we'll see an Apple PR about it today. If they're silent, it'll prove to be real.
 
The thing surprises me. If true I guess it'll be good in the long run, but for now there are very few Serial ATA drives out there. They're more expensive than ATA/100/133, but not shockingly so.
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What is a Serial ATA drive? What is he benefit/difference?
 
If true, (and that's a big if) then the combination of FW800 and an optical audio in/out would be compelling in the pro-audio field, connection to 5.1 surround monitoring via ADAT lightpipe becomes a single cable no PCI experience, all audio break-out could be done via FW to hardware D/A's well beyond the standard 8 in/8 out of the MOTU 828 etc.

24 analog in/out as standard from a single break-out box with 24-bit d/a converters over FW800? can you say hallelujah...

i thought you could.

Multi-channel sound for home theatre isn't all it capable of, with Apple's purchase of Emagic and the persistent rumours of a Logic controller, I could see an Emagic hardware box to cover all the audio and MIDI requirements of a pro system fronted by Logic or ProTools.

It's still a f*****g big if IMO.
 
This could prove to be a really good or really bad week, although it's feeling like a really good one already:

Monday: Find out the truth about the new machines and any other surprises

Tuesday: Find out my final year university results (essentially the same as the GPA you graduate with in the states)

Wednesday: Fly home to DC from Ireland for the last time after four years

Thursday: Get to ask for my graduation present!!

Can you guess what I'm asking for? I only hope pricing stays the same.
 
But I hope this G5 graphic is true because then Apple will be back in the saddle. **** MOTOROLLA!!!! Go back to Cell Phones. [/B]
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Actually, please don't go back to cell phones... they blow too!
 
Originally posted by iSegway
What is a Serial ATA drive? What is he benefit/difference?
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it is actually the next generation of HD connection. it is just better than the ATA. S-ATA allows a faster transfer, etc...
no seriously it is actually a really good thing that Apple is this new HD format because this is going to replace in a short term all ATA HD, just look at the release of S-ATA HD by Matrox, WB or IBM/Hitachi, they are all coming out now, not older that few weeks old, the specs of S-ATA drives are quite impressive.
The best , go on PC web site to see comparison and test
 
The specs are terrific, but what does this look like??? is it the all new looking sleek machine with a handles and cheesegrate on top or is it the flattened MDD looking thing?? I hope it isnt the flattened MDD because the MDD was not that impressive looking if you ask me. If it is i would be disappointed with the styling. An all new machine and all they can to is give us a slightly flattened MDD.
 
I say it was a controlled leak, to get more buzz going. Notice that no photo was realeased. Why the only specs... because to Apple, it's the looks more than the tech specs. that will set this thing apart. The tech specs are all mostly catch-up to the PC world.
 
Re: good and bad news

Originally posted by silvergunuk


By the way I came across the pic and it seems to be the closest incarnation what the new machine may look like (bar the ports on the front).
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well maybe, but I wonder where is the FW800 and the audio in/ou plug which were supposed to be on the front panel of the coming G5 (according to many rumor sites)
I think it looks more like a picture of one of the possible G5 design.
but maybe actually those plugs are being a little pice of plastic which is invisible on that picture.
actually this picture looks definitely more real than the first one which has been floating around on the web. at least here we can see that there is some designer work behind the enclosure
I can not wait to see it true, except that for us in Europe we will have to stay awake quite late, but for that I think nobody will care so much
 
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