Ha! take my 800mhz imac, then you will feel obsolete. (and while you do that, ill take that rotten old 2.5 off your handsiriejedi said:That is just great! Now my 2.5 is obsolete.
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New PowerMac G5s and PowerBook HD at NAB?
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decash said:
Hey that's neat, they will probably let you have the computer for one dollar if you fill it with ram for 24,000 dollars.
Brian
ClimbingTheLog said:
Yes, Longhorn has it, but I believe 10.4 will have something of resolution independence. I'm sure I've seen this in a developer webcast of the conference last year. It seems like 10.4 is pulling together an awful lot of things for video:
Resolution independence (even if it's not fully independent) for "HD" TFTs
Core Image
Core Video
OpenGL/Quartz Extreme improvements
64bit compliance for back-end processes
Quicktime 7
there must be others too. All seems very "HD" in nature, addressing the music industry and the video industries.
I think Apple are being very clever. MS said years ago is was all about the developers "developers, developers, developers" said Steve Ballmer. Apple perhaps are realising it's all about the backend developers, whether it's programmers, or whether it is content providers. If the content providers are using Mac for video and audio it seems sensible to output everything with Quicktime compliant codecs. Didn't I read a little while ago that Sprint are using xServes? The whole Japanese industry is already AAC+ and MPEG 4 (H- whatever) so are Apple sowing up the market as MS have done in the past. If they aren't, they are certainly trading on resistance to the MS "way" from content providers.
It's all good.
Macrumors said:
That's great, except that this chipset won't fit in a 1" Powerbook case.
In the words of Ron Burgundy, FAN-TASTIC.
Mmmmm... Extra salt.
I was under the impression that the Blu Ray association themselves don't expect the drives to drop to anywhere near consumer prices for many months. I find BD drives more believable in 2006 sometime.
I higher-res screen option on a PB is a little more believable. There's a niche that needs all those pixels... and another niche that likes the sound of it But I hope the highest GPU option is also available WITHOUT the HD screen--since tiny, hard-to-read pixels are actually a NEGATIVE for many users.
But the BD thing makes me doubt the whole source too much.
SOME kind of new PowerMac is likely soon though.
I was under the impression that the Blu Ray association themselves don't expect the drives to drop to anywhere near consumer prices for many months. I find BD drives more believable in 2006 sometime.
I higher-res screen option on a PB is a little more believable. There's a niche that needs all those pixels... and another niche that likes the sound of it
But I hope the highest GPU option is also available WITHOUT the HD screen--since tiny, hard-to-read pixels are actually a NEGATIVE for many users.But the BD thing makes me doubt the whole source too much.
SOME kind of new PowerMac is likely soon though.
This must be true...
... since I just got a new 17" PowerBook and would have taken one with a higher resolution if it had been available
... since I just got a new 17" PowerBook and would have taken one with a higher resolution if it had been available
32GB of RAM !?!?!?! Thats almost the size of my hard drive!
If this is true the Blue-Ray drive would be BTO and it still would only come with 256MB of RAM, 512 if your lucky.
If this is true the Blue-Ray drive would be BTO and it still would only come with 256MB of RAM, 512 if your lucky.
It's a rumor that's why. None of these rumors are true, I guarantee it.
32 gigs? Impossible. No operating system to this day can use 32 megs. Tiger is only 64 bits with a max 8 gigs.
Pipe Dreams!!!!
God I hope I'm wrong!!!
32 gigs? Impossible. No operating system to this day can use 32 megs. Tiger is only 64 bits with a max 8 gigs.
Pipe Dreams!!!!
God I hope I'm wrong!!!
I bet this isn't true. However, when Apple jumped the whole market it seemed like with the first built in DVD burner I was shocked that it was as soon as it was. Hope this is true. The problem is - you burn a Blu-Ray disc and then play it on what?
Hmmm, yes you're wrong! The number of bits doubled from 32 to 64, but that does not mean that the maximum addressable memory also doubles from 4GB to 8GB (you just need a 33rd bit to achieve that). A 32-bit processor is limited to 4GB of addressable physical memory, but a 64-bit processor is limited to 17,179,869,184 GB (that's 17 billion gigabytes) if my math holds up.leandroc76 said:
No increase in DIMM slots, a likely switch to DDR2 in the new chipset and Apple including 4GB DDR2 DIMMs.leandroc76 said:
Infineon announce they were sampling 4GB DDR2 Modules in February 2005, wouldn't be too out of bounds.
All Apple needs to do to change to PCI-Express and DDR 2 is install a new Memory Controller, and the HT PCI-X Tunnel is also a chip so it can go PCI-X 2.0 or a combo of PCI-Express/PCI-X 2.0 -- the K2 I/O doesn't need to be changed since it can be updated with normal PCI-to-Blank modules for a while.
swissmann said:
Who cares? I can actually put an hour of DV somewhere temporarily until I'm ready to use it!
And backup my 300GB HD to something archival.
The SuperDrive was a $800 BTO option when it first came out, IIRC - seems like a fair price for a first-gen BluRay. 'Consumer prices' aren't relevant for a professionals' machine.
Ok listen. Apple's gonna release updated PM with 512MB RAM. However, the PM itself will be able to support up to 32GB of memory, in other words, support for 4GB RAM modules. When they do, the horde of Apple zealots will cry out why Apple didn't include 2GB RAM standard.
I call BS
I highly doubt that Apple (or anyone, for that matter) is ready to ship a Blu-Ray burner. That part of the rumor makes me skeptical of the whole thing, as much as I'm dying to get my hands on a new PowerMac G5.
I highly doubt that Apple (or anyone, for that matter) is ready to ship a Blu-Ray burner. That part of the rumor makes me skeptical of the whole thing, as much as I'm dying to get my hands on a new PowerMac G5.
Thank god
Thank you for the clarification!!
But even if they are announced in at NAB it would be 'outdated' until October or November when they ship!
I got my June ordered G5 in October and even that was not the machine I ordered! I bought one in a retail Apple store and cancelled the Apple online order!
Bear said:
Thank you for the clarification!!
But even if they are announced in at NAB it would be 'outdated' until October or November when they ship!
I got my June ordered G5 in October and even that was not the machine I ordered! I bought one in a retail Apple store and cancelled the Apple online order!
Ohh I think this could be true
we will see this PowerMacs with the new 970MP but not quad simply dual core + PCI express its industry standard now ... Apple cant wait !
BlueRay will be the same thing as the Superdrive introduction was ! Apple will be the first with this technology for End-Users.
And the Powerbook HD will not be a upgrade for the current models, it will be a addition ! look there is a 2,999 Price tag free
You see ! its easy
we will see this PowerMacs with the new 970MP but not quad simply dual core + PCI express its industry standard now ... Apple cant wait !
BlueRay will be the same thing as the Superdrive introduction was ! Apple will be the first with this technology for End-Users.
And the Powerbook HD will not be a upgrade for the current models, it will be a addition ! look there is a 2,999 Price tag free
You see ! its easy
leenoble said:
Tiger will have a resolution-independent GUI. We had a thread about this some time ago and Apple said so at some conference available as a stream on their site.
Oh joy. Only higher res screens. *Yawns* And the PC world continues to make the PowerBooks look like ****.
I belivet when I see it.
This is just unbelivebel, there is just to many things that is beening uppdated. Maybe a HD 17", but no powermacs before WWDC. A 3Ghz PPC970MP is also a litle incane, that thing would burn Watts so fast it would sound like a steamtrain.
This is just unbelivebel, there is just to many things that is beening uppdated. Maybe a HD 17", but no powermacs before WWDC. A 3Ghz PPC970MP is also a litle incane, that thing would burn Watts so fast it would sound like a steamtrain.