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New eMacs

expect the next PB update to barely bring it's specs over the emac.. fun, no?

a17inchFuture said:
1.25 Ghz processors in the emac's?????

Congratulations, powerbook owners, your computers are now as advanced as the cheapest line apple makes, and only twice to three times as expensive!!!!!!

This is literally a spit in the face of powerbook owners, and is an insult to anyone considering buying a powerbook(so in other words, 15 inch PB superdrive buyers are paying the 1-2 THOUSAND dollar difference for bluetooth, airport, and a thin screen).

Steve, you complete a**hole . . . You and everyone at apple deserve to go belly up for this.
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Appleinsider - EOL-ed

Here's an idea. Let's create a "Reader's Guide" similar to the Buyer's Guide. It would rate rumor sites. All sites would start with a neutral rating, say a numeric value of 0. Accurate predictions earn them +1, false rumors earn them -1. When they get above, say, +10 they earn the designation "Trust Implicitly - Recently Accurate". When they fall below -10 they achieve "Don't Trust - Reality Soon".

So how do you guys think Appleinsider would rate? (I'd guess it's on its way to being EOL-ed.)
 
a17inchFuture said:
1.25 Ghz processors in the emac's?????

Congratulations, powerbook owners, your computers are now as advanced as the cheapest line apple makes, and only twice to three times as expensive!!!!!!

This is literally a spit in the face of powerbook owners, and is an insult to anyone considering buying a powerbook(so in other words, 15 inch PB superdrive buyers are paying the 1-2 THOUSAND dollar difference for bluetooth, airport, and a thin screen).

Steve, you complete a**hole . . . You and everyone at apple deserve to go belly up for this.
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Oh shut it! We know powerbook updates will come soon. Be happy for the eMac and realize the bigger picture - that all of the product lines are being updated. The eMac just came first. Jeez - some people take personal offense when Apple UPDATES a product line.
 
bar italia said:
from Macintouch:

Friends of mine who are resellers said that Apple has contacted dealers, requesting that they destroy iPod posters and collateral with the bright colors and white silhouettes. They have asked resellers to actually deface or cut up some of the larger items, sending to Apple select pieces of these items, to ensure that they don't end up on eBay!
* Sure sounds like a new iPod ad campaign is on the way, doesn't it?
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The only thing that could save this would be if it is a shift in focus, like from intunes and imusic store, to G5 powerbooks . . . .
 
it's just going to be an empty box they send you now, and give them all your account numbers

Steve thinks this is a fantastic idea that all the apple nutcases will surely fork over for.

a17inchFuture said:
The online store has gone offline so the powerbook's features can be decreaased, and its price increased. Steve calls it the ultimate F-U to anyone who ever thought apple made good portables.
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a17inchFuture said:
1.25 Ghz processors in the emac's?????

Congratulations, powerbook owners, your computers are now as advanced as the cheapest line apple makes, and only twice to three times as expensive!!!!!!

This is literally a spit in the face of powerbook owners, and is an insult to anyone considering buying a powerbook(so in other words, 15 inch PB superdrive buyers are paying the 1-2 THOUSAND dollar difference for bluetooth, airport, and a thin screen).

Steve, you complete a**hole . . . You and everyone at apple deserve to go belly up for this.
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I bought a 15 inch Aluminum PowerBook days after it was debuted last year, and I'm insanely happy with my purchase! On the other hand, I would not even consider getting an eMac, even WITH these new kick ass specs. You see, I'm in college right now, and I'd imagine that lugging a 50+ lb eMac to classes every day would not be possible. However, for my parents and little brother, this machine would be a PERFECT replacement for their Quicksilver 733 tower and aging bargain monitor.

Perhaps you should consider different target consumers before you wildly bash Apple's product offerings.
 
we are due for another upfrade TODAY

On apple home page you see the g5 taking the large ad and emac only has little one ,,WHY ??? more updates today thats what i think iMac then iBook

tom
 
carletonmusic said:
Oh shut it! We know powerbook updates will come soon. Be happy for the eMac and realize the bigger picture - that all of the product lines are being updated. The eMac just came first. Jeez - some people take personal offense when Apple UPDATES a product line.
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Yeah, thats just the thing, the cheapest, lowest line should not be first!!!!!!!!!! And as someone who bought a powerbook a week ago, i DO take personal offense, because its insulting that the update is imminent, but held off so their profit margins are greater. Emacs can only go up, and thats why their being updated. PB's, on the other hand, are doing well, cause people want apple and portable, and dont care about the price/details. So Steve screws people like me and anyone who has recently put their PB's in 6th overall, and highest among comps.

So you shut it, i am right.
 
This makes for the best $1000 DVD Authoring station money can buy...if you throw in DVD Studio Pro and max out the RAM, you're still talking less than $2000 for professional grade DVD Authoring.

This should compliment my current 15" AlBook nicely :D
 
Out of the Blue!

I check MacRumors fairly often, but don't seem to recall this one coming.....(please correct me if I'm wrong) I guess Apple does a pretty good job of keeping a lid on their revisions!
 
Well, he's got a point.. the PB is the same as the lowest consumer model, cept you can carry it around.. I would exactly call that "power".

Even if Apple left the clock speeds the same on the Pbooks and increased features, that would make it a pro-buy... maybe we just have to wait a couple hours, but as of 11:22am EST, 17" is dead on.



stoid said:
I bought a 15 inch Aluminum PowerBook days after it was debuted last year, and I'm insanely happy with my purchase! On the other hand, I would not even consider getting an eMac, even WITH these new kick ass specs. You see, I'm in college right now, and I'd imagine that lugging a 50+ lb eMac to classes every day would not be possible. However, for my parents and little brother, this machine would be a PERFECT replacement for their Quicksilver 733 tower and aging bargain monitor.

Perhaps you should consider different target consumers before you wildly bash Apple's product offerings.
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a17inchFuture said:
Yeah, thats just the thing, the cheapest, lowest line should not be first!!!!!!!!!!

So you shut it, i am right.
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Since all the products were desperately in need of updates, I'd say that Apple should not hold back the eMac just because they can't get the new PowerMacs cooling system to work right or enough video cards or whatever. I think that you just need to calm down a little bit 17inch, I'm sure the system you have been patiently waiting for will be updated soon.
 
a17inchFuture said:
Yeah, thats just the thing, the cheapest, lowest line should not be first!!!!!!!!!!

So you shut it, i am right.
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Wait, what's it first in? Having an 8x DVD-R? That's it. So the parts became available in time for this. Otherwise, none of the features are new. It's still the lowest end of the line, just not below other parts of the line.

Rest assured, the other models will be updated as well, almost for sure quite soon.

Besides, they probably want to get the emacs out for school orders this fall. don't they start buying at this time of year?
 
Super Drive Faster...

I say if the superdrive is an 8x dvd burner on the eMac and the current PowerMac G5s is only 4x, then there's definately an upgrade coming extremely soon. I'm sure they upgraded the eMac first because it is an educational line machine and soon after like next teusday they will upgrade the iMac, Powerbook, and G5s maybe all at once :)
 
madrobby said:
Wow! Now that has a meaning. Maybe new Powerbooks next Tuesday. Wait *arrrrgh* Dont hit me! :D
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:mad: :rolleyes: :D


Now this is an aggressive move for market-share. Go Apple!.
 
Some_Big_Spoon said:
Well, he's got a point.. the PB is the same as the lowest consumer model, cept you can carry it around.. I would exactly call that "power".

Even if Apple left the clock speeds the same on the Pbooks and increased features, that would make it a pro-buy... maybe we just have to wait a couple hours, but as of 11:22am EST, 17" is dead on.
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I know that my laptop is not as powerful as a desktop, but it's still very fast. Besides, it kicks the living trash out of my friends HP laptop, and not bad overall for a laptop. As soon as I get a job again this summer and can afford to max out my RAM so I can run multiple graphics apps at once, I'm sure that I will become more satisfied with my purchase.
 
CrackedButter said:
UK store has not been updated yet it seems.

Btw, expect some of this:

But damn, i bought my emac 3 months ago, this is SO unfair and typical of Apple, how dare they release a brand new eMac without informing me in advance, this is out of order, the next machine i'm buying is a Hell!
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I bought three months ago also. Love the thing. Also, didn't they drop the price of the SuperDrive model by $100 USD? Plus they increased the ComboDrive model's RAM from 128 to 256MB. :cool:
 
I guess we can pretty safely say that all desktop models will now have an 8x superdrive with all new revisions. I wonder if Apple is going to sell 8x media and drop their 4 speed media in a move similar to the one they made a bit ago when they dropped their 2 speed media. By the way my two dual 1 GHz towers have 2 speed drives (DVR-104) and will only burn 4x media at 1x. So apple has left stuck me at burning at 1x because they only sell 4x media (burns at 1x) and they don't offer a firmware update so the drive can burn 4x media at 2x. The same drive on the PC side has that firmware so more and more manufacturers are just producing 4x instead of differentiating and producing 2x as well. Does anyone know a work around for this? Does anyone else think that in a little while their current G5's will be stuck in a similar situation?
 
CrackedButter said:
UK store has not been updated yet it seems.

Btw, expect some of this:

But damn, i bought my emac 3 months ago, this is SO unfair and typical of Apple, how dare they release a brand new eMac without informing me in advance, this is out of order, the next machine i'm buying is a Hell!
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I bought three months ago also. Love the thing. Also, didn't they drop the price of the SuperDrive model by $100 USD? Plus they increased the ComboDrive model's RAM from 128 to 256MB. :cool:
 
I guess we can pretty safely say that all desktop models will now have an 8x superdrive with all new revisions. I wonder if Apple is going to sell 8x media and drop their 4 speed media in a move similar to the one they made a bit ago when they dropped their 2 speed media. By the way my two dual 1 GHz towers have 2 speed drives (DVR-104) and will only burn 4x media at 1x. So apple has left stuck me at burning at 1x because they only sell 4x media (burns at 1x) and they don't offer a firmware update so the drive can burn 4x media at 2x. The same drive on the PC side has that firmware so more and more manufacturers are just producing 4x instead of differentiating and producing 2x as well. Does anyone know a work around for this? Does anyone else think that in a little while their current G5's will be stuck in a similar situation?
 
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