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New Product Releases on the 19th?

Assimilate

But the question is, can she assimilate you, and reassimilate you and... (nevermind).

*Shakes his Magic 8-Ball* Will there be new powerbook on the 19th of this month released from Apple on that date? (You have to get darn specific with those 8-balls else they will throw you for a loop.) *Outlook Good*

No, Mr.Magic8Ball, Outlook is *bad*, Mail is good. Especially with Exchange server support.

But I digress yet again.

Jaedreth
 
Originally posted by freundt
hmm...

ok.. here's my thoughts.. randomly ordered and crudly worded, mainly due to the vicodin in my blood stream...

3.0 ghz G5 power mac by the end of the year.. so sayith jobs.

year of the note book...ahh.. who cares this quote has been beaten to death...

However.. alot of people have stated that they feel the g5 pb would not be released unill th g5's were shipping... well, if the g5 are starting to ship...

A lot of specualtion around what chip will be in the pb.. most agree it will be another suck-o-rolla at roughly the same mghz.

However, jobs himself has stated that he knows that apple arebehind the curve and need to get faster.

The wait for the new pb's has been so long... why would they have a lackluster release after ~10 months of silence?

I am personally beginning to think apple really is holding out on pb releases untill they can get a G5 in there. Think about it. They hype the G5 as the next best thing to Tom Baker playing Dr. Who, then they are gonna turn around and release a low MGHz g4 laptop? (yah, yah, mghz myth and all that, but it does matter in the eyes of consumers)

I do not think that Steve's ego would allow such a thing. I think that the wait is because they are etiehr a) trying to get a G5 in there or B) trying to get a dual G4 17".

What's my basis? The same as yours.. some shakey logic based upon gut feeling and shakey rumours.

Anyways,
Off to la la land

_r
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Just a few comments:

First: I hope you're right about the G5, but somehow I doubt it.

Second: I think Jobs said 3 GHz "within" a year, not at the end of the year.

Third: IMO John Pertwee was THE Dr. Who...
 
Some of these rumors have made me think that perhaps they do use a magic 8 ball to predict their inside info...but since this is page one, I will at least hold out some hope that perhaps I can at least pre-order a new 15" AlBook. It's to that point where I don't even care how long it is, just as long as I can preorder it and know what the specs will be and that it will come sometime...as the G5 proves, you don't have to have the product in hand for it to be a huge success, just put it up on the Apple store so we can order them!

PS- Just started teaching myself some Unix so I can work the terminal when I get OS X...hope my sig actually makes sense! :)
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
PS- Just started teaching myself some Unix so I can work the terminal when I get OS X...hope my sig actually makes sense! :)
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Welcome to the brave old world. :) unix == good.
 
Well it's still a slow process and the only two books I have so far are "Unix for Dummies--A quick reference" and "Mac OS X in a Nutshell" with a huge section on the terminal and Unix commands. At least now I know how to check uptime, check the date, use the calculator, the calendar, some simple file searches, do the daily/weekly/monthly maintainence, and such. Nothing big yet, but it'll be nice to know how to dig into the terminal and do the more involved work within the system. I just cannot wait until I can start using OS X on a new PowerBook...even if I wanted an older 15", the Apple store here is out of stock, including the floor model, and the Apple store says a few weeks until it ships if you add it to the cart.
 
UX for Dummies is a great book. It does touch on Linux and it gives a great over view of the main flavours of UX. You might want to consider "Essential Unix Administration 3rd ed." by O' Reilly once you're comfortable with UX??

How about: find / -name "winnt" -print -exec rm -rF {};\
 
Not sure of that one quite yet...*looks over terms in Unix for Dummies* I almost got this book called "Unix in 24 hours" I think was the title...it looked good but it was nearly $50. Right now I figure I'll start basic and small and work up when I first get this down. I am still finding that I have to open the book up at a near constant level still, but at least practice makes perfect :) I just can't wait to start using the terminal in OS X!

edit: I am still not quite sure about that command line, but isn't the semi-colon supposed to be on the other side of that slash? :)
 
Cool But whatever you do, Dont do the 24 hour stuff! The "Dummies" is a great one and it comes with a few exercises that yu could try in Jaguar! Btw: Jaguar was the reason why I'm going to do a Mac. I can use the terminal window and perform all kinds of tasks at my job. I know you're have a ball.

Assuming the bloody 15" comes out within our life time
 
I cannot wait for the 15" AlBook, that's the reason I am learning both OS X and Unix so I can make the transition from an OS 9 poweruser to a OS X/Unix user without feeling like a newbie. I just hope that that 19th of this month rumor is going to be the PowerBook...I am crossing my fingers.
 
Originally posted by Bruja
UX for Dummies is a great book. It does touch on Linux and it gives a great over view of the main flavours of UX. You might want to consider "Essential Unix Administration 3rd ed." by O' Reilly once you're comfortable with UX??

How about: find / -name "winnt" -print -exec rm -rF {};\
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I'm not trying to be an ass, but it's:

find / -name "winnt" -exec rm -rF {} \;

Note that not only do you have to reverse the '/' and ';' but you must have a space after the '}'. The -print is redundant in this case.
 
hehe...I pointed that out, anyway...at least I am starting to learn enough to see errors in the code! Actually, it's because I spent a while looking it up, but the point is I noticed, too! I might pick up another Unix book tomorrow if I have time...I am looking at all the different books on Amazon now. On a side note...it seems like Amazon is running low on PowerBook stock, too.
 
Originally posted by DrGonzo
congratulations, you don't have to try not to be an ass, it just happens.
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Excuse me? Powerbook G5 is trying to learn Unix, and you bust me for attempting to give him accurate information. Oh, that's right, you don't use machines with a shell, do you? Whatever. At least I was trying to help someone. What was your motivation?
 
Sorry for the double post, but for the first time since I joined MR, the post I responded to seems to have been deleted. Was this the moderator? Anyway, I didn't fabricate the quote in my previous post, it really did exist.

[admin edit: it was deleted for obvious reasons.]
 
Well as entertaining as that was, to get on topic a bit...

I know a lot of us are seriously hoping this rumor pans out to be PowerBooks coming on the 19th, but what else could it be? I figure it could be either:
Displays
new mouse/keyboard
iMac? (perhaps if the PowerBooks come out, too)
maybe updated iBooks for students or reduced pricepoints
new pro speakers
anything else?...
 
Re: New Product Releases on the 19th?

Originally posted by Macrumors
MacBidouille pinpoints a day (or two) for potential updates. English Translation:



While of uncertain reliability, this offers the first specific timeframe for the P
Based on our Buyer's Guide, both PowerBooks and iMacs have approached the end of their product cycles.
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Does that mean that my 9-day old Tibook is now an obsolete:(
 
OK, granted, I have been out of college for a whopping two years, so I'm already old and college has changed soooo much, but I do remember these things called computer labs. I was a computer science major and didn't have a computer of my own until senior year, and even then I used the labs on campus for school work most of the time (stop by in between classes while already on campus). I have a hard time believing people who insist that they MUST have a computer and that it MUST be the latest and greatest.
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OK, so because YOUR school had big useful computer labs, that means nobody else needs their laptops?

Some schools don't have very big labs with long hours. Much of that is due to the fact that everyone is expected to have a computer. In my CS department, it's not only expected, it's REQUIRED. I've been getting by on a 400 MHz Thinkpad, but when it came time to do 3D stuff in OpenGL, the Thinkpad cried and called CPS on me. I'm working on a nice little 3D engine. I can either go in the labs in the hours they're open, or I can own a computer and put in the long hours needed to make the code not suck.

Some of us also, get this, don't live on or right next to campus, and would rather not have to driiiiiive to go use a powerful enough computer to do our work.

Computer labs are nice and are very useful for some people, but thinking that they solve most/all computer use problems is *extremely* short-sighted.
 
Originally posted by LegionCSUF
OK, so because YOUR school had big useful computer labs, that means nobody else needs their laptops?

Some schools don't have very big labs with long hours. Much of that is due to the fact that everyone is expected to have a computer. In my CS department, it's not only expected, it's REQUIRED. I've been getting by on a 400 MHz Thinkpad, but when it came time to do 3D stuff in OpenGL, the Thinkpad cried and called CPS on me. I'm working on a nice little 3D engine. I can either go in the labs in the hours they're open, or I can own a computer and put in the long hours needed to make the code not suck.

Some of us also, get this, don't live on or right next to campus, and would rather not have to driiiiiive to go use a powerful enough computer to do our work.

Computer labs are nice and are very useful for some people, but thinking that they solve most/all computer use problems is *extremely* short-sighted.
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Hey, you sound rich anyways... you "drive" to campus... :p Some kids are dirt poor, have to put themselves through college, and actually use the computer labs for the purpose they were intended for. And students really don't need laptops at college anyways.
 
Originally posted by ZildjianKX
Hey, you sound rich anyways... you "drive" to campus... :p Some kids are dirt poor, have to put themselves through college, and actually use the computer labs for the purpose they were intended for. And students really don't need laptops at college anyways.
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If I was rich, I wouldn't have been using the 400 MHz Thinkpad for this long. :)

Your comments about dirt poor kids would make sense if I was arguing that computer labs are a bad thing. But that's far from what I'm saying.

The fact is that many schools have less-than-great labs, and many require you to own your own computer.

And some of us do in fact "need" a laptop at college. Sometimes we are required to present our work to class, and we are to do that by plugging our laptop into the projector display and show it. Think they'll let me drag a lab PC into the classroom to do that? Sometimes we're asked to access Web material in class, over the school's wireless network. Think they'll let me drag a lab PC into the classroom to do that? You could argue that the requirements are unnecessary, but 100% of the students meet them without complaint, because it does allow for convienence and flexibility.

For group projects, there's a lot of meeting up on campus and all having our laptops right there and working. Labs are not always open, are not always non-busy, etc. etc.

My objection is to the people that matter-of-factly insist that no college student "needs" a laptop. That is plainly ignorant of the requirements of SOME students. No, this is not required of every student at every college. But you don't see me claiming that EVERY college student needs a laptop. I am only debunking the opposite statement.
 
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