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OH **** !!!!
I was just talking on the phone with the Apple store, and bla blah blah, and then out of the blue, casually, I asked what time tomorrow I could order the new macs, and she said around 2 PM EST, then I heard her say, OH **** under her breath, and I was promptly hung up upon.
sounds good to me !!!
I was just talking on the phone with the Apple store, and bla blah blah, and then out of the blue, casually, I asked what time tomorrow I could order the new macs, and she said around 2 PM EST, then I heard her say, OH **** under her breath, and I was promptly hung up upon.
sounds good to me !!!
Re: OH **** !!!!
If that's true, that's the funniest slip-up I've ever heard of an Apple employee making in a while.
If that's true, that's the funniest slip-up I've ever heard of an Apple employee making in a while.
Re: Re: OH **** !!!!
Quite true, took some work there, I knew if I just out and asked she'd have picked up on it, but I'd figured they'd been breifed on it. I was asking her about iMacs and such, and power needs, then was like, oh yea, I need one of those new powermacs, what time tomorrow can I order one ?
I hope it wasnt one of those recorded calls, for her sake. ehehehe
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
If that's true, that's the funniest slip-up I've ever heard of an Apple employee making in a while.
Quite true, took some work there, I knew if I just out and asked she'd have picked up on it, but I'd figured they'd been breifed on it. I was asking her about iMacs and such, and power needs, then was like, oh yea, I need one of those new powermacs, what time tomorrow can I order one ?
I hope it wasnt one of those recorded calls, for her sake. ehehehe
looks like the prices are right.
was just on the apple web site, and in the search box typed in powermcs and at the top of the sreen had a pic of a powermac with a price of 1,699$. And like a poster early said, the same thing worked with the power books, 2,199$ for the 667.
was just on the apple web site, and in the search box typed in powermcs and at the top of the sreen had a pic of a powermac with a price of 1,699$. And like a poster early said, the same thing worked with the power books, 2,199$ for the 667.
Re: looks like the prices are right.
I just checked it out also-- Wouldn't the "From $2199" mean starting at $2199, and thus the 667 would be $2199 while the 800 would be more like $2999? That is unless a new model were introduced and 800 became the base
Bill
I just checked it out also-- Wouldn't the "From $2199" mean starting at $2199, and thus the 667 would be $2199 while the 800 would be more like $2999? That is unless a new model were introduced and 800 became the base
Bill
Re: OH **** !!!!
Man, yer sh*ttin... I wish I could believe that! Nothing personal, cyberfunk, but I think yer full of it. That story is simply too good to be true!
Man, yer sh*ttin...
I wish I could believe that! Nothing personal, cyberfunk, but I think yer full of it. That story is simply too good to be true!Judging a machine based on how Maya runs currently on OS X is very unfair considering that Maya 3.5.1 for OS X is only using 1 processor. When Maya 4.5 comes out in September it will run so much better on a dual processor PowerMac because Alias/Wavefront has finally made it full multiprocessor aware. What will really hurt Maya 4.5 on the Mac is not the processor but the lack of a workstation graphics card (i.e. Quadro4 or Fire GL).
The whole PowerMac line has never been dual from low end to high end before.
The closest it ever came was in 2000 when the gigabit ethernet G4s were anounced (400MHz, dual 450MHz, dual 500MHz).
It would be nice to have a dual 1.6GHz G4 that could hand any P4 its a$$ (including the up coming 3GHz P4).
But I for one would love a dual 1.25GHz and OS X 10.2 that can trounce current shipping Athlons and P4s.
Eventhough Athlon mobo's support DDR333 and DDR400, the system bus on the current XPs is 133x2.
Just 3 words for those of you expecting HUGE updates
get over it
Re: OH **** !!!!
C'mon man, are you for real? Tell us the truth, and if it didn't really happen, we'll understand (we get carried away sometimes too!)
C'mon man, are you for real? Tell us the truth, and if it didn't really happen, we'll understand (we get carried away sometimes too!)
Uh...1.2Ghz to 1.25Ghz???
Is anybody else wondering about the spec separation here? Last time I checked, 1.4Ghz was looking like a likely candidate for a reliable processor. ThinkSecret lists dual-1Ghz and dual 1.2 -- nothing about 1.25. What if Apple has decided that a cheaper solution for the high-end would be four chips at a lower clockspeed? I just don't buy the 1.2 / 1.25 difference. I think the folks at the rumor mills are just protecting their sources and saving the surprise for tomorrow. Macosrumors reported a week or so ago on the likelihood of quad-processors for the PowerMac. But I don't know about the pricing scheme. $3299 for quad 1.2's would be mighty inexpensive don't you think?
Is anybody else wondering about the spec separation here? Last time I checked, 1.4Ghz was looking like a likely candidate for a reliable processor. ThinkSecret lists dual-1Ghz and dual 1.2 -- nothing about 1.25. What if Apple has decided that a cheaper solution for the high-end would be four chips at a lower clockspeed? I just don't buy the 1.2 / 1.25 difference. I think the folks at the rumor mills are just protecting their sources and saving the surprise for tomorrow. Macosrumors reported a week or so ago on the likelihood of quad-processors for the PowerMac. But I don't know about the pricing scheme. $3299 for quad 1.2's would be mighty inexpensive don't you think?
Is this a 24hour Apple Store phone line???? I didn't think they were open all night! (I am calling you out)
but if they are open all night and you are telling the truth..
YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID.. "yes I'll take the dual 1.4" and see what she said.. so we could have had a better idea of what was coming!
but if they are open all night and you are telling the truth..
YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID.. "yes I'll take the dual 1.4" and see what she said.. so we could have had a better idea of what was coming!
You're missing the boat dude. Trust me on this. Even on my pc that I own I can run run a frontside bus speed of 133 with a memory bus speed of 166 that with ddr makes it 333. Apples and oranges like I said before. You can't just take the speed of ddr ram and halve it to get your frontside bus speed.
Something like this might be coming down the pipe from Apple but I seriously doubt Apple is going to lead the industry on a 166Mhz frontside bus as standard spec. It's very un-Applelike although I'm sure many will disagree.
That's not the bottom line if you go back to what sparked my response.
Many here are thinking that DDR 333 means that the frontside bus runs at 166 and that's totally false. The memory bus and frontside bus can be set independently if Apple wants to. That's the bottom line.
Don't get me wrong I'd love to see 166Mhz fsb on Macs but I seriously doubt anyone is going to see that on this line.
Re: Re: looks like the prices are right.
Perhaps reduced prices for the tibooks? $2199 and $2999 vs the current $2499 and $3199... we'll see! I wonder how long that shortcut has been there.
Originally posted by billiam0878
I just checked it out also-- Wouldn't the "From $2199" mean starting at $2199, and thus the 667 would be $2199 while the 800 would be more like $2999? That is unless a new model were introduced and 800 became the base
Bill
Perhaps reduced prices for the tibooks? $2199 and $2999 vs the current $2499 and $3199... we'll see! I wonder how long that shortcut has been there.