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PowerBooks in the Pipeline?
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Thanks much...I shall definitely need the luck 
I wound up getting a superdrive pb 12" that's maxed out. I think it should suit me fine for what I need. And w/the education discount and the rebate they have here in the U.S., it wasn't too hard a decision. According to fedex, it arrives tom. by 10:30
I wound up getting a superdrive pb 12" that's maxed out. I think it should suit me fine for what I need. And w/the education discount and the rebate they have here in the U.S., it wasn't too hard a decision. According to fedex, it arrives tom. by 10:30
Originally posted by Lori
Thanks much...I shall definitely need the luck
I wound up getting a superdrive pb 12" that's maxed out. I think it should suit me fine for what I need. And w/the education discount and the rebate they have here in the U.S., it wasn't too hard a decision. According to fedex, it arrives tom. by 10:30
You will love that laptop. I just got the 17" and I am in love with this thing. Bit big but I wanted the most power in the laptop so just said "whatever" and went for the 17". Either way you will love it. I leave for Vet school in 7 days and this will be my tool.
Good luck in school if that is where you are headed.
I've just rang Apple up right this moment and the woman i spoke to says she hasn't any news on powerbooks today or soon infact...looks like its very unlikely its going to happen!!!
I couldn't be bothered waiting so i just simply rang them...it is afterall halfway through the business day over here.
I couldn't be bothered waiting so i just simply rang them...it is afterall halfway through the business day over here.
Watch as they wait until 23:59 this evening to make the announcement...
I'm very glad to hear that! I'm pretty sure right now I'll love it, but with my best friend being so anti-pb and pro-ibook, I sometimes start to wonder...
Good luck in school to you too! Your pb should make it great fun.
I'm very glad to hear that!
I'm pretty sure right now I'll love it, but with my best friend being so anti-pb and pro-ibook, I sometimes start to wonder...Good luck in school to you too! Your pb should make it great fun.
Originally posted by Don
Noooo!
but i thought think secret had a 100% track record?
Noone is 100%, the decision can be changed after think secret publish the story. And they said this week, more than half left.
That said, I do want a new 12", my iBook is getting old.
One thing that might annoy me however, is if they DO release them this week. Why does Apple have to lie and keep secret about a product which a customer has an interest in? What would of happened if i had decided to not bother the wait and instead buy from someone else simply because they don't inform their staff.
I agree, Apple has some very odd customer communication ideas in there head. I had gotten fed up and bought a sony laptop but then realized I wasnt happy so returned it and got my powerbook. Either way they still win but it def. does get annoying when they refuse to let you know any details. I also spoke to someone at apple yesterday and he was very strong in his feeling that no new powerbooks are going to be released this week but who knows if he was being honest or simply unaware? Only our day will go to show. I'm off to the gym so when I return I hope there is interesting info awaiting me.
Hehe, their marketing strategy in product releases just sucks.
As for store openings...that's a different story...hehe. The one in Chicago opened with at least 5,000 people there, I'd say. It wrapped around the building somewhere around three times and it took hours for people to get in. Some people even camped out.
I'd say that this is evidence of why they've not changed those marketing strategies yet. Mac people are so loyal. And as Nitrous250 proved, when the Mac ppl start getting fed up and disloyal they're still herded back into the Mac world
Omg, I want it now!! Thanks to the miracle of tracking I know that my powerbook is somewhere in my town at this moment! And yet it still says that the 20th by 10:30 am is the delivery date. Do you think I could like storm the FedEx facility and demand shipment of my package??
And my iPod...it just got put in a truck headed to my door at 08:02. Ideally it will be here in 3 hours...now if only there was a mac to attach it to...
And my iPod...it just got put in a truck headed to my door at 08:02. Ideally it will be here in 3 hours...now if only there was a mac to attach it to...
Oooh, looks like I won't have to storm the FedEx facility, I refreshed the page and it has now boarded a delivery truck...guess I'll be storming that instead
I'm sorry about the pb's refresh not happening today... Apple must've been in a mean mood and decided to spoil the rumor mill...lol.
And wow, I'm proud, I've suddenly become a Macrumors Member instead of a Macrumors Newbie...whoo-hoo! I love this site
I'm sorry about the pb's refresh not happening today...
Apple must've been in a mean mood and decided to spoil the rumor mill...lol.And wow, I'm proud, I've suddenly become a Macrumors Member instead of a Macrumors Newbie...whoo-hoo! I love this site
Generally, doesn't apple release based on West-coast time? If it does, that would suggest that we ought to wait until noon (East-coast time) until we give up on an August 19th PB release.
I would really like to see a PB update today... I'm still using a 500mhz iBook 12", which would be fine I suppose, you know, if the USB ports weren't broken. But c'est la vie. Hopefully new PBs will be released before school starts.
Sorry for rambling. Have a nice day
You would think they'd be pretty happy about something like that...you know? The whole less work for them to do thing...lol.
Hey no need to apologise...if that's rambling, I hate to think what I'm doing is considered...hehe.
I was thinking that whole pacific time thing earlier, but then I got side-tracked by not knowing if it's 4 hours back or 3 hours back from eastern time...so, I said oh well and scrapped that idea...
I'm sorry to hear about the USB ports being broken on your iBook. How did they ports wind up breaking? It was a hardware issue and not a software issue, right?
Exactly. The G4 has been a disappointment. It is time to move on to the G5. Now.
167...old news. Very old news. If a Trabant were given a new 1.8L Honda engine, would that be enough to make it a nice car? 200 would be nicer, but there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is actually happening. In fact, I have seen reports to the contrary, right here at macrumors--reports that Moto couldn't up the bus on the 7457 higher than even the existing paltry 167.
LOL. No way. That is highly optimistic. The system bus will almost certainly remain at 167, and the boost you will see is between 0 and 25% (i.e. between 0% bus and 25% CPU). In fact, it will likely remain closer to 0% most of the time. Most of the computer's time is spent in a non-CPU-bound state, especially when multitasking. CPUs spend ~70% of their time moving data back and forth to memory.
As far as the GPU upgrade, my guess is that OSX (specifically, QE) does not make extremely heavy use of OpenGL. This guess is based on the fact that OSX needs to be able to run smoothly on machines with much lesser graphics hardware. If OSX had game-like OpenGL usage (the kind of usage that would benefit from a faster GPU), the GUI would absolutely crawl on iMacs etc.
It will be somewhat faster in games, if the GPU is even updated (there seems to be some doubt of even that happening). But games also make very heavy usage of the memory bus, so the gains in game frame rates will not be as much as the theoretical GPU upgrade alone might imply.
I would not trust a comment from Apple tech support on such an issue. Now if it was an Apple hardware engineer, of course that would be another matter.
According to the PPC 970 documents released by IBM, the G5 seems to be a reasonably low power consumer at low clock frequencies (1.2 or so).
The G4e at 1 GHz is 30W, while the G5 at 1.2 GHz is only 19W.