Mini iPods, iLife Updates, No New CPUs at MacWorld Expo?

[narco]

I know this is Apple, but to be consistent with the other iPod prices I don't see how they'll price the new "mini-Pod" at $250 when the 10gb is only $50 more. $199 seems more like it, and it stays within the $100 difference between the different sizes.

 

[~Shard~]

Originally posted by spook
The G5 is where the consumer machines should be and the Pro should be a G6

I agree, but you have to realize that these things take time. We are only just now getting out of the hole Motorola dug for us, (i.e. slow progression/advancement), and are slowly getting into the IBM world. Updates will be more frequent and more impressive now, but you need to have some patience. The G5 iMac will come out, but probably not for a few more months, closer to the release of the G5 PowerBook in summer 2004. And G6 PMs, well, I don't know when this will happen - there is a lot of room to grow in the current G5s, especially with 90nm, etc., so I don't think Apple will brand a G6 anytime soon.

So have patience. You seem to be the type of person who will always be wanting the next best thing as soon as possible, when that is simply not realistic, as there are many other factors that have to be considered. You no doubt made comments like this when the G4s came out - "why doesn't the consumer line move from G3s to the G4s?!", you are making the same comment now, and will no doubt make the same comment when the G6s are released - "the iMac is crippled with a slow 3 GHz G5, come on Apple, move to the G6 already!" Patience is a virtue.

 

[spook]

You, me and the people on here maybe Patient, but everyone else is going to be going for the best speed/technology for the price, non Mac people arnt going to wait months for the G5 to go into a Imac, and I don't think its good enough for the Macs to be as fast as any PC, they have to be a lot faster to be bought by non Mac people, with the best graphics cards and games ported over, the last is never going to happen, but then Macs will never be more a niche product for the same reason.

There is no reason why the imacs where they are except that they are purposefully crippled to keep a balance between consumer and pro lines, except the problem is bargain PC consumer lines are a match all except the top of the line mac pro machines

 

[NeatGekko]

People...

I see now that I am going to get no respect for the information I have, if I don't at least hint on how I get it. I will admit now, to being a lowly apple store employ. I hope nobody expects me to reveal which one...for crying out loud! However, I will say it happens to be close to MR. Jobs heart. Cheers

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

well lets just hope Apple doesnt hear about you or the next thing you will know is you will be selling Pc's and i wouldnt wish that on anyone.

 

[~Shard~]

Originally posted by spook
You, me and the people on here maybe Patient, but everyone else is going to be going for the best speed/technology for the price, non Mac people arnt going to wait months for the G5 to go into a Imac, and I don't think its good enough for the Macs to be as fast as any PC, they have to be a lot faster to be bought by non Mac people, with the best graphics cards and games ported over, the last is never going to happen, but then Macs will never be more a niche product for the same reason.

There is no reason why the imacs where they are except that they are purposefully crippled to keep a balance between consumer and pro lines, except the problem is bargain PC consumer lines are a match all except the top of the line mac pro machines

Just wanted to clarify, I wasn't disagreeing with you at all, just making a point.

 

[NeatGekko]

Not to worry

Thank you for your concern, but I am fairly confident(with all factors being wieghed in) that my job is not in jeopardy. If I was worried about that I wouldn't have posted, would I have? A lot of the information I have given isn't of a grossly specific nature either.(as stated by several forum goers ) Maybe if I had posted pictures and a photocopy of the price sheet I would be in a position to be worried. Also, this information was not specifically given to or "oeverheard" by any one employee. Doubt they will fire the whole staff because of this post. Hopefully this gives credit to the information I have posted, albeit not being that specific. Cheers

 

[SeaFox]

Re: People...

Originally posted by NeatGekko
I see now that I am going to get no respect for the information I have, if I don't at least hint on how I get it.

Yeah, that's called accountability. On the net you can't just spout off a bunch of stuff as facts without sources to back you up (unless said statements are common knowledge or easily verifyable by readers). This is how serious forums work, as opposed to the news-article ones on Yahoo where everything is the conservatives or liberals fault (even natural disasters).

I admit now, to being a lowly apple store employ. I hope nobody expects me to reveal which one...for crying out loud! However, I will say it happens to be close to MR. Jobs heart. Cheers

It is pretty comon knowledge that "lowly Apple store employees" are not given information about upcoming product releases. Note that whenever a major product is announced, lots of times the only place to get it is Apple.com.

Also, note that rumors are posted as news articles here, not as posts in forums about articles. So the real informants are submitting their stuff to Arn directly. Not revealing their "identity" (if you could call a username that) to the entire readership.

If you're really about becoming a serious source here you need to send stuff in and build up a reliability reputation with MacRumors, not post it in forums. All that shows is lack of true concern for your anonymity (since IPs are logged on posts) and a desire for personal glory.



/soapbox

 

[Invizzible]

I'll be very happy if they finally fix the problem in iDVD that causes the audio to get a fraction of a second ahead of the video when you make a DVD that's more than approx. 30-40 minutes long. If that fix is the ONLY thing they announce, I'll be happy. I use iDVD mostly to make DVD's of my band's gigs, and there's nothing more annoying than having the audio off from the video for a musical performance. It's also not helping me convert people to Mac. When PC friends watch the DVD's, they're impressed up until the point where the audio slips, and then they think it's pretty lame.