Powerbook G5 Hints?

[MacRumors]

The Register posts a story about a small html reference on Apple's Powerbook site.

According to the news site, the following url reference appeared on Apple's Powerbook pages:

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_powerbook

The reference was in an IMG tag, speculated to be a counter for Apple's various individual web pages. The reference was changed to apple_g4_powerbook shortly after the publishing of the story.

Rumors have placed a G4 Powerbook upgrade in the coming days/weeks.

 

[sjpetry]

I can only hope this is true. I need a PB.

Link does not work for me.

 

[Calvinatir]

SCORE! Finally!!!! If so, MAN did i sell my PB at the right time! (yesterday)

 

[Wonder Boy]

meh. just a typo.

 

[lalcan]

Powerbook G5 next tuesday!!!

Someone had to say it

 

[gwuMACaddict]

*yawn*

he come there 'powerbook next tuesday!!!!!11' people...

 

[jared_kipe]

One day apple will finally have out the G5 powerbook, if they want to. I don't think the G5 offers benefits that a much less wattage freescale G4 couldn't produce.

 

[AirUncleP]

That sound you are hearing is Steve Jobs tearing someone a new one.

Good news for all of us though.

 

[gotohamish]

meh. just a typo.

I dobut it, for all we know it could be a template for the site. Thus it's used for G5 and G4 images. Not necessarily the laptops only.

I hope I'm wrong though like the rest of us!

 

[johnbro23]

meh. just a typo.

There's been a lot of "typos" lately. This is the second "typo" about the PB G5. They're getting more and more beleivable each time.

 

[visor]

i'll buy it

if it is twice as fast as my 1.2ghz ibook at a comparable price. so... i'd say in 2006.

 

[afields]

I would love for this to be true, but I doubt it. It would be nice for ThinkSecret to be wrong for once (in recent history).

 

[Stella]

TheRegister has an update :

"Within an hour of posting the story, and the screenshot we took as evidence, Apple altered the HTML to replace g5 with g4. Don't hang around, do they?"


I really think something is going to happen, a G5 PB is fairly imminent - by at most July WDDC, the G5 PB will have been released.

I WANT TO BELIEVE!

 

[afields]

TheRegister has an update :

"Within an hour of posting the story, and the screenshot we took as evidence, Apple altered the HTML to replace g5 with g4.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Let the frenzy begin.

 

[joepunk]

I think it is a typo as well. Although here is to hopeful and wishful thinking for a G5 PB but more than likely we will see a speed bump IMO.

 

[mkwilson68]

Fingers crossed

I'll buy whatever they release, but boy would it be nice if it was a sparkly new G5 PB. Mmm mmmmm.

 

[goof_ball]

I second that its either a typo, or a copy/paste error. It probably started out to be apple_g5_powermac, and they didn't switch it correctly.

Maybe I'm wrong though!

 

[virividox]

add more fuel to the fire

 

[coumerelli]

Two words...

"Premature Specification"

 

[Damek]

Sheesh

...grasping at straws, people...

Damek laughs at you all!

 

[russed]

what happens when they do eventually bring out the g5 powerbook? what do we wait for then?

 

[Macaddicttt]

*yawn*

he come there 'powerbook next tuesday!!!!!11' people...

Despite everyone's constant reference to them, I don't think I've ever seen a "powerbook next tuesday!!!!11" person...

 

[hartsft]

hope this is true!

time for lotsa people getting worked up over freescale and g5 and a bunch of million times hashed over stuff.. lets just hope that something really good and new shows up!

 

[isgoed]

crossthread (starts from post 21)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/107215/

 

[narco]

I wonder if Apple does these things on purpose to create hype. Though it wouldn't make much business sense, it would still be pretty funny.

Fishes,
narco.