After the last event, I feel odd saying this, but why are they expecting updates on Wednesday? Is Apple going to observe Boss's or Alaska Day or something?
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Powerbook and PowerMac Updates - October 19th?
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Who writes destructive viruses for PCs and other systems? People who enjoy what they do and loves the reactions or results they get from such things. Some people just love the way we Mac enthusiasts jump all over this type of thing.Stridder44 said:
Actually, I thought about that just as I posted my reply!chubad said:Your avatar says Powerbooks Next Tuesday. Not NEW Powerbooks Next Tuesday!. Got 'ya on a technicality. No royalties for you!
There goes my big check!
Perhaps this will help a bit ...Whyren said:
NEW Powerbooks tomorrow ... Friday ... why not?!?!
I was really waiting for a respone on another thread before it got closed, I will try again. Tomorrow is the last day I can return my new PB. (After restocking fee). What would most of you do based on the thought that the update will come next week or soon after? Not knowing what the price for the updated PB's is what is holding me up.
To me the possible update, if the thinksecret stuff is right, may not be worth the restocking fee alone.
To me the possible update, if the thinksecret stuff is right, may not be worth the restocking fee alone.
What's with you guys and Dual-Core G5s?
Why do you guys want a Dual-Core PowerMac SO BADLY?? You think that Dual 2.7GHz isn't fast enough? I have a 2.7 G5 and it is SO FREAKING FAST that I am starting to think that Mac OS X isn't fully optimized to handle it's 100% speed! Sure, Quicktime uses the processors at 100% when exporting, but some things just don't change in terms of speed when I use my G5 and my PowerBook (meaning it's Mac OS X's fault). I could never ask for any more speed than this. It does EVERYTHING, and only gets better as you add more and more RAM (I'll have 4.5GB by next week).
I do agree with people on the PowerBook updates though, but let's just wait another 3 months and we'll have the big stuff (possibly?).
Here's my little simulation of 1920x1200 running on a 17" screen at its current density. What I did was take a screenshot of my 23" and simply made it 1440x900.
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Why do you guys want a Dual-Core PowerMac SO BADLY?? You think that Dual 2.7GHz isn't fast enough? I have a 2.7 G5 and it is SO FREAKING FAST that I am starting to think that Mac OS X isn't fully optimized to handle it's 100% speed! Sure, Quicktime uses the processors at 100% when exporting, but some things just don't change in terms of speed when I use my G5 and my PowerBook (meaning it's Mac OS X's fault). I could never ask for any more speed than this. It does EVERYTHING, and only gets better as you add more and more RAM (I'll have 4.5GB by next week
). I do agree with people on the PowerBook updates though, but let's just wait another 3 months and we'll have the big stuff (possibly?).
Here's my little simulation of 1920x1200 running on a 17" screen at its current density. What I did was take a screenshot of my 23" and simply made it 1440x900.
Stick with the Powerbook you have Mike. Any upgrade will likely not be significant enough to justify the 10% restocking fee for minimal feature gain. Your present purchase will likely be very nice until the Macintels start shipping in late 2006 or early 2007. JMOmikev said:
While I tend to agree, I think you may be oversimplifying it. Didn't they need to move to a new chipset to support DDR2 and PCIe on the new iMac? (not being an electrical engineer, I have no idea how easy/hard that transition would have been)Analog Kid said:
Plus, I'd be surprised if they haven't made some kind of cooling changes to reduce the overheating risks the 1st generation iMac G5 encountered.
Someone found it and posted it in another thread yesterday and now the link is dead. The link yesterday indicated it used an X800 Graphics card, but the image next to it showed the 9700 logo amongst other minor errors. It was believeable for those who wanted to believe (including me).Shattering Fast said:
Not to go to far off topic, but FWIW, using 100% of your processors just indicates the processes you are running are making full use of the CPUs. If you ever see just one of your CPU meters at 100% and the other not (for more than a second or two) then you can be pretty sure that the application you are running is not well written as the OS wasn't able to spread it across them (unless, of course, you "told" it not to)D3LM3L said:Why do you guys want a Dual-Core PowerMac SO BADLY?? You think that Dual 2.7GHz isn't fast enough? I have a 2.7 G5 and it is SO FREAKING FAST that I am starting to think that Mac OS X isn't fully optimized to handle it's 100% speed! Sure, Quicktime uses the processors at 100% when exporting, but some things just don't change in terms of speed when I use my G5 and my PowerBook (meaning it's Mac OS X's fault). I could never ask for any more speed than this. It does EVERYTHING, and only gets better as you add more and more RAM (I'll have 4.5GB by next week
Mr Maui said:
Thanks for the feedback, I was thinking the same thing. Plus for what I use my 15" PB for it is more than fast enough.
Although I do look forward to Macintels....
Mr Maui said:Someone found it and posted it in another thread yesterday and now the link is dead. The link yesterday indicated it used an X800 Graphics card, but the image next to it showed the 9700 logo amongst other minor errors. It was believeable for those who wanted to believe (including me).
Yeah, it got me pretty excited. But now I'm sad. And I'm sad because I just went to the Art Deparment toilets only to find a "glue-like" substance on the floor. Now I feel sick, what the hell is wrong with the world.
eric_n_dfw said:
I just meant that opening some folders and basic tasks like that, which should be significantly faster on the G5 (EVERY element is faster here), are not.
Mac_Freak said:
The theme is called iT5 and it's for Shapeshifter. It's on InterfaceLIFT.
It's the first theme I've ever used (besides the Tiger mockup I made for Panther) that actually looks like Apple made it! It makes a unified OS.
Don't lose any sleep over it ... the new books are coming ... see my Avatar for confirmation.Shattering Fast said:Yeah, it got me pretty excited. But now I'm sad. And I'm sad because I just went to the Art Deparment toilets only to find a "glue-like" substance on the floor. Now I feel sick, what the hell is wrong with the world.
D3LM3L said:Why do you guys want a Dual-Core PowerMac SO BADLY?? You think that Dual 2.7GHz isn't fast enough? I have a 2.7 G5 and it is SO FREAKING FAST that I am starting to think that Mac OS X isn't fully optimized to handle it's 100% speed! Sure, Quicktime uses the processors at 100% when exporting, but some things just don't change in terms of speed when I use my G5 and my PowerBook (meaning it's Mac OS X's fault). I could never ask for any more speed than this. It does EVERYTHING, and only gets better as you add more and more RAM (I'll have 4.5GB by next week
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Yes but it means the Price will drop for the older Dual Single's
I will probably get one of these older machines and Max the Ram
Mr Maui said:Don't lose any sleep over it ... the new books are coming ... see my Avatar for confirmation.
I think the Intel ones will rock for performance so Apple are patching what they can to keep sales turning over...
Mr Maui said:Don't lose any sleep over it ... the new books are coming ... see my Avatar for confirmation.
Yeah exactly... who needs near perfect hoax webpages when you have avatars like that.
One strike against that webpage is that I would have thought they would put iSight in the top of the monitor like with iMac. Hmmm.. maybe not.
Whyren said:
I don't think Apple would do this right away. They seem to be emphasizing the iMac as the "home theater" machine with respect to Front Row, and trying to make it stand out for that reason. Whether it's a good strategy or not, I don't see Front Row being available for the other systems just yet. The PowerMac would be a good candidate for it too, however the "home theater" aspect of Front Row seems to lend itself more to the home user, not the pro user, so again, rightly or wrongly, I don't know if Front Row will be available on other systems for quite some time.