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Re: Re: Re: Re: Same Boat

Originally posted by Snowy_River


I'm afraid that I'm not going to give you much sympathy, here. Up until about eight months ago, my computer was a five year old PowerBook 3400/200. I found it quite sufficient to do an enormous amount of work, ranging from 3D CAD design work to some numeric analysis. By comparison, a 333 G3 would have been a dream. But, now I'm on a newer system. (Alas, not as high powered as I might have liked, but money demands....)
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Well, my poor beige was doing internet routing, and for games, the thing is torture, a Rage Pro ? uuuuuuuugh.
 
Just read the tea leaves over at MacOSrumors, and he's saying new PMs not until August 24th.

I do hope he's completely off the mark, like a lot of people, I'm in DESPERATE need of a new PM, I'm running MS Word X, what a dog. But, its OS X native, and I think two years was a long enough wait for the next version of WordPerfect (which was, sadly, perfect for my needs on OS 9).

My budget is about $2500 also, I do hope that gets me a dual 1.2ghz with 3mb L3 cache and 512k DDR. Whooo hoooo, Word might be as fast as on my old SE/30 with OS 7.

Really though, its the shipping date I'm worried about!

Come on, Apple, come on, release them already!
 
TS

You know, I'm suprised thinksecret hasnt weighed in on any of this... I'd be a lot more likely to trust stuff they said.. tho that Nick guy seems a little flaky..
 
My prediction (not that I have sources or any metaphysical abilities):

- 10:30 AM (maybe 9 AM) PST launch on the 13th
- speeds of up to 1.26 GHz
- DDR266 memory and system buses
- faster Superdrives
- the inclusion of the Radeon 9000 Pro and/or Radeon 9700 Pro as options
- up to 120 GB per hard drive
- OSX 10.2 pre-installed, no OS9 boot option
- slightly new case design (go figure)

Seems quite plausible to me. 🙂
 
sound

what kind of sound do power macs have? I glanced on apple's hardware page, but didn't see much.

Currently my nForce board offers up dolby 5.1 which makes my DVDs sound great.
 
Re: TS

Originally posted by cyberfunk
You know, I'm suprised thinksecret hasnt weighed in on any of this... I'd be a lot more likely to trust stuff they said.. tho that Nick guy seems a little flaky..
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They did weigh in on this, but it was a month ago. Here's the ThinkSecret article .

Of all the prognosticators out there, I think ThinkSecret has the best track record, especially recently. So if they say August 13th, and they haven't retracted themselves, I'm going with the 13th.

Of course, they made the prediction a month ago and it may very well be that Apple is changing course. BUT Powermac inventory is very low so there's no reason for Apple to be waiting, unless they're having major manufacturing issues.

To tie all the rumors together, I say announcement on Tuesday and shipping on August 24th.
 
If announced on the 13th (which I really, really hope), and shipping on the 24th, anyone know which vendor, Apple or otherwise, would be the best in terms of getting the new PM into my hot little hands soonest?

Darn, this is going to be the next two slowest days, I gotta keep busy with work or something and quit obsessing!😎
 
Slowest two days

I agree..... It's going to be a veeery slow two days.... I'm going nuts... I have nothing else to do, but get this new computer... literally nothing but eat/sleep and buy powermac... I need one.. now.
 
college looms

ever since MWNY, the days have been dragging on. Then the 3rd passed, and now we might not even see an announcement on the 13th. I need a mid-range computer and im not going to settle w/ a 933 for graphics work, with the lure of faster bus and RAM, not to mention 10.2. I really hope they are at the very least announced with a late august shipping date.
 
Re: Re: TS

Originally posted by dongmin
To tie all the rumors together, I say announcement on Tuesday and shipping on August 24th.
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I say announcement on Tueday, Aug 13, shipping immediately (or within a few days). Why? Look at Apple's track record. They announced the dual 1GHz on Jan 31 and shipped immediately. It shipped sooner than most iMac G4 orders that were placed weeks earlier (like the new PowerMacs will ship before the 17" iMac G4).

Also, Think Secret is reporting "10.2 Jaguar shipping to resellers." If Jaguar is already shipping, then 10.2 can easily be ready for new PowerMacs as well.

Finally, last week new PowerMacs at the Apple store said "5-7 days" for the shipping time. Which would put shipment of new PowerMacs this week.

I suppose I am biased, as I am ordering a new PowerMac as soon as it is announced, and I WANT the new PowerMacs to ship this week. But, I think the new PowerMacs are already sitting in some warehouse waiting to be shipped. There has been speculation that Apple didn't introduce the new PowerMacs at MWNY to sell the Quicksilvers that were still in plenty of supply. Now that that supply is gone... WOOOO-HOOOO!)
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Same Boat

Originally posted by cyberfunk



Well, my poor beige was doing internet routing, and for games, the thing is torture, a Rage Pro ? uuuuuuuugh.
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well at least it will run games, I'm on a 5 year old beige g3 233 rev. a with a rage II !!!!!!! This was ordered as soon as they announced the new G3's but it was almost obsolete as a gaming machine 6 months later when apple announced support for open gl and my card didn't run it!!!! I know exactly how those ppl with recent TiBook's feel about not being supported by Quartz Extreme!!!

sorry a bit off topic there, but that is why I'm getting a new PM tomorrow, definatly, need it for college too!!!
 
Torture?

Hey, join the torture boat! (It's getting pretty big...) I, too, bought this first-generation G3 right when they were introduced... My machine is a 233 beige minitower (clocked to 300), and I've gutted this thing like 10x over... besides the rage II+ (with a whopping 2 MB of VRAM!), this thing is still running strong and I love it! Although I will be getting a new PM when they come out, I don't want to leave this computer 🙁 .. Oh well.. (how can ANYBODY call using a mac "torture"?!?) I run a software company and can do pretty much everything else on this Mac (except maybe Deus Ex 🙄 )
 
re Torture

DOn't get me wrong I do love my old G3 and it works fine for everything except games. I can run Deus Ex but not in OS X only OS 9!! I think that may be something to do with my g4 400 upgrade zif tho, so it can do software rendering!! with jaguar this will be a pretty snappy web browsing machine and with a radeon 7000 pci it will be still very useful
 
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