steve_hill4 said:
Could mean HD on PowerBooks though and the video out on the aiport express.
gleepskip said:
I don't understand the curtains metaphor on the invitation if the event is to announce new PowerPC products.
A video-capable iPod, iTunes Video Store, or a home media box seems more likely to me.
Sorry, I'm a n00b.
BUT, any sane business strategy talks against Apple launching another G5 powermac with DDC technology. People are gonna get confused and only the hardcore maccer will stay sane in that evolution.
Apple won't launch DDC with powermacs. I hardly believe they will upgrade it at all. Maybe some bogus features down the road. Like Aiport Extreme 2 or something. But I believe Jobs is pulling the company FORWARD! where the others have yet to accomplish what he has accomplished today.
I believe video ipod and itunes video will be essential in the next steps for Apple. The Intel move killed some of the iPod halo Apple had on the stockmarket. And investors are shaking 'cus they don't know how the common user will handle the "intel inside" badge in 06.
The PowerBook might see a freescale upgrade with G4 DualCore processors around 1.7ghz as other sites have mentioned.
But putting money and development into products that will have a dead architecture in 6-12 months is just plain insane.
The Nano was a step jobs took to really kill the Mp3 player marked. Creative and Sony are so far behind now that I don't really believe they can do anything with it. people don't talk about MP3 players, it has simply just become, an iPOD. the term is a trained and tought word on the street. And the Video iPOD (vPOD), will be the next dinosaur on Apple's roadmap to conqer the home entertainment marked.
Not only will the video department save the stock value. It will also smoothen the rough until the Mactel computers arrive.
Another thing is that eMAC won't have any future. The CRT production has almost come to a halt, and the LCD technology has become so cheap that launching a eMAC based on LCD will send it straight into competition with it's older brother, iMAC.
In future when x86 is in place a crippled eMAC with LCD is possible. 17", with iMACs on a standard 20" up to 23".
For now Apple don't have any processors to fit into any new eMAC.
And one thing I'm really worried about is that the entry level mac, the Mac Mini is way too slow to really give new users a smooth switch ride. I personally got the mac mini as my first mac. It was HORRIBLE, I sold it and faced the fact that I needed more power. Not until I got to G5 dual I got the same ride that I had with my AMD powered 3700+ Athlon64.
Anyway...
I just believe that Apple should stay focused on wrapping up the entertainment package. Giving us consumers products that makes it easier to watch movies from a computer/ipod on a TV. or listening to music on a big stereo system.
the PC has a huge problem with standars and identity, no PC based company can standardize a technology that will get the whole industry to follow.
The PC market is saturated by low-cost brands that suck the whole platform into a black hole where development is nearly impossible. The focus stays on graphic cards and cpu upgrades ALONE. No new invention or ideas are likely to survive. And the cost for HP alone to market a new gadget on their computers is a waste 'cus then the other makers will just slightly change it, rename it and play the same idea over. And then you have 100 brands with the same gadget that does the same, but does not work together.
Again, this is Apple's big move. They can set a standard for home entertainment and enable "stupid" people who don't know how to download codecs, VNC, divx hacks and cheats to get to watch a frickn downloaded movie on their TV.
Admit it, trying to watch a downloaded movie on a PC is a nightmare!
With QuickTime users won't have the problem.
With iTunes the interface is already done, and it's an industry STANDARD.
Airport Extreme 2, HD technology, iPOD, media center (mac mini) are names of the future. And NOT DualDualCore G5.
just my 2 cents.....
