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More on PowerMacs at NAB?

ziwi said:
Would they announce new PM's right after they have redesigned their home page to promote Tiger release on the 29th? I have a feeling no. It looks like June - or at least my gut is telling me that.
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No one said PowerMacs have to replace Tiger as the main ad. The little iPod and Mac mini ads could stand to be replaced.
 
GFLPraxis said:
Okay lemme get this straight...
Tiger and PowerMacs BOTH this month?
What is Steve saving for June?
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You make an excellent point. I think most rumors are pointing to an HD capable home media center. Whatever it ends up being, it's going to be important for developers. Obviously Tiger is crucial, but I don't think that means it's the only gig in town for WWDC.
 
In one word : finally.

These rumors had better be true : I've only been waiting for an upgrade for 6 months.
 
ts1973 said:
In one word : finally.

These rumors had better be true : I've only been waiting for an upgrade for 6 months.
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I've got you beat. I've been waiting since before the disappointing 2.5ghz announcement.
 
WWDC, iPod

I keep a spreadsheet of Apple announcements like any decent Apple geek should. According to my spreadsheet:

We are due for a new iPod. The number of months between generations from the 1G to 2G was 9 months; 2G to 3G was 8 months; 3G to 4G was 15 months. (The delay between 3G and 4G is due, in part, to the iPod mini.) As the 4G iPod was announced July '04, we are now 9 months without a 5G.

Apple has announced the number of iTMS songs sold at 1M, 2M, 5M, 10M, 25M, 50M, 70M, 100M, 150M, 200M, 250M and 300M. The last three announcements were December 16, January 24 and March 2. At the rate at which iTMS has been growing, it's probably already over 350M and on pace to hit 500M in June.

iTunes 5 is overdue.

Apple has featured iTMS/iPod at WWDC before.

All of that COULD add up to the 5G iPod at WWDC or three months later at Macworld Paris. I think we'll see color standardized, models at 20GB/40GB/60GB with some kind of BT or WiFi feature. Wireless headset?

Airport Express is one year old this month. Maybe an update here? Seems to go along with a BT/WiFi iPod.

iMac and Mac Mini updates are probably set for Macworld Paris at the earliest.
 
yep.

Porchland said:
Apple has announced the number of iTMS songs sold at 1M, 2M, 5M, 10M, 25M, 50M, 70M, 100M, 150M, 200M, 250M and 300M. The last three announcements were December 16, January 24 and March 2. At the rate at which iTMS has been growing, it's probably already over 350M and on pace to hit 500M in June.

iTunes 5 is overdue.

Apple has featured iTMS/iPod at WWDC before.

All of that COULD add up to the 5G iPod at WWDC or three months later at Macworld Paris. I think we'll see color standardized, models at 20GB/40GB/60GB with some kind of BT or WiFi feature. Wireless headset?
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It seems like they may use tech from AirTunes express to integrate into iPod since it already has integration with iTunes. instead of finding AirTunes stations, it'll find iPods.
 
Quicktime 7 and new Safari!

Even though I have no plans to upgrade until 10.4.7, I'm still very excited by the idea of having Quicktime 7 and the new Safari for Jaguar. It's also nice to know, for certain, that by--say--January I will be able to upgrade to Tiger. I think I'll celebrate and buy a new Power Mac for the occasion!
 
CmdrLaForge said:
Unfortunatly the report says no G5 PB this year. Can it be that the update late Jan will be the only PB update this year ? That we have to wait for new PBs until Jan 06 ? I don't hope so. But lately it looks like the update cycles are getting longer and longer and waiting about a year for new models is nothing special.
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I don't think so. I would expect a new AlBook revision in August/September. While it would theoretically be a short cycle (for Rev. Es), keep in mind that even if PB Gs are announced at MWSF 06, they won't ship until February.
 
Zaty said:
I don't think so. I would expect a new AlBook revision in August/September. While it would theoretically be a short cycle (for Rev. Es), keep in mind that even if PB Gs are announced at MWSF 06, they won't ship until February.
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Why would there be a new Al PB revision? :confused: Rev D just came out (though there are reported problems with the scrolling pad on the 15" PBs - revised maybe?). Or maybe special 15/17" PBs with blu ray drives.

Other than that, the next PB should (BETTER BE:mad: ) a G5.
 
scu said:
So far the folks in the rumor business have been coming up dry with good solid specs and dates.

I would not be surprised to see these PM updates next week since they have been a long time coming. Now that Tiger news is officially out which none of the sites had the courage to report prior to the official announcement, they have build up a little courage and announced the updates for next week.

All I want to see is a 3 ghz system with faster RAM and a kick ass graphics card. This is the only way I can justify Tiger.
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How do you figure? TS claimed Tiger was on the first or the 15th... yet it was announced the 12th for a 29th launch. I think TS is no longer a valuable source of info. They've been rooted out and their "source" is now compromised.
 
Chaszmyr said:
I've got you beat. I've been waiting since before the disappointing 2.5ghz announcement.
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I have been waiting for a Power Mac G5 since before the original announcement. Each one has had problems, so I hope that this will be the gold master of the Power Mac G5.
 
drewyboy said:
If you notice it has nothing to do with hardware since the tab highlighted is software.... which makes things very interesting as to new video editing?? **palms sweating in anticipation**
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Rumor has it that IBM and Apple will be announcing something on the 15th. So the hardware announcement could be the day before NAB starts. That way Apple can have the latest hardware at NAB to demo while pushing the new and/or updated video related software.
 
G.Kirby said:
Faster CPU?
Better graphics card?
More base RAM?
Blu-Ray?

Gimmi-gimmi-gimmi!

I was right to wait and see what was coming out at NAB, I'm so exited I could puke! :D

On order: 1X life. :rolleyes:
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I think the big question will be the blu-ray. I think it will be included given Apple's recent joining to the group. I would love to see Apple jump the market on this one. Along with it of course would have to be FCP 5 with features dependant on Tiger. The problem remains with delivering a Blu-Ray disk to whom to watch on what? - Other PowerMac owners. HD is coming though soon.
 
Porchland said:
Production Suite HD? Wouldn't that mean DVD Studio Pro HD? And wouldn't that mean Blu-Ray?
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Not necessarily. As far as I know, the specs for both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are not finalized, and therefore any authoring applications cannot exist yet. First you need the spec(s), and then you can create authoring software that conforms to the spec(s). As it stands today, however, standard DVDs made from HD material look stunning, and video quality wise there's no difference between DVDSP 1.5 and 3. The real difference is made in MPEG2 transcoding.

Porchland said:
Is there anywhere left for Apple to go in video production short of HD DVDs?
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Apple has a long way to go in video production. For example, FCP lacks features that would be great to have, such as the easy color correction between shots that Avid has, built-in multi-camera support, real-time alpha-channel compositing (with drop shadows, etc) and concatenating filters and effects (as in what Shake has).

drewyboy said:
If you notice it has nothing to do with hardware since the tab highlighted is software.... which makes things very interesting as to new video editing?? **palms sweating in anticipation**
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Yup, but hopefully Apple will roll out more powerful hardware to better handle everything. I'm creating 6+ hours of HD material right now and the final renders and encodes are taking a LONG time. :)
 
aethier said:
has anyone seen the reviews on the Pentium D, and Pentium Extreme Edition (both dual core)

i must say they are quite impressive
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That's nice. Do they run OS X? ;)
 
Porchland said:
iMac and Mac Mini updates are probably set for Macworld Paris at the earliest.
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With the iMac about 30 days beyond it's average redo, what makes you say the iMac is that far off for an update? I do not doubt your history on updates but please don't say things like that...it does not help my anxiety level any.

Waiting anxiously for a Rev B 20" iMac.... :(
 
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