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WWDC PowerBook G5 2.2GHz?
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MacinDoc said:WWDC 2005, that is...
And remember, that's just when they will be announced. As for when they will actually ship... hmm, MWSF 2006?
Squire said:They'll probably ship around the same time the 2-button mice with scroll wheels ship.
<PC troll>You mean you can get them right now, if you order from someone other than Apple?</PC troll>
thatwendigo said:<PC troll>You mean you can get them right now, if you order from someone other than Apple?</PC troll>
You must have changed your writing habits. That's the shortest post I've seen with your name attached.
LOL Just kidding, man. I expected to see you pop up here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/83647/
Squire
Squire said:They'll probably ship around the same time the 2-button mice with scroll wheels ship.
Squire
Hopefully not. I am really waiting for the G5 powerbook. They currently have real problems with shipping most of their hardware products. iPods, Powermacs, Emacs, iBooks and no iMac.
Is this a pattern ? I really hope I can get the G5 powerbook next year in April .
thatwendigo said:<PC troll>You mean you can get them right now, if you order from someone other than Apple?</PC troll>
Yikes, I don't know if I want to buy a Dell G5 PowerBook, thanks...
Good to see you back on the forums, thatwendigo, I haven't seen you around in a while. In fact I even recently made mention of you here in post #119.
Yes, but only in very limited numbers (12 Powerbooks will ship to customers selected completely at random; the only sure thing about your estimated shipping date will be that you will NOT receive your Powerbook on that date).~Shard~ said:And remember, that's just when they will be announced. As for when they will actually ship... hmm, MWSF 2006?
MacinDoc said:Yes, but only in very limited numbers (12 Powerbooks will ship to customers selected completely at random; the only sure thing about your estimated shipping date will be that you will NOT receive your Powerbook on that date).
Well at least there's some certainty in this world!
Kay, I've had my fill of sarcasm for the morning...
CmdrLaForge said:
You would have to be extremely lucky to get your PB G5 in April of 2005. Even if they were announced early next year, they wouldn't ship until summer, anyway. My guess is we'll see another G4 revision sometime in autumn. Rev. A G5s we'll probably be announced at WWDC 05, shipping in September. So don't expect them to arrive in Europe before late October.
Any guess about what the next rev. of Powerbooks will be? I ordered a 12" PB the other day then ended up canceling the order (shipping delay). I decided to wait for the next bunch which should be arriving in early-October if the Buyer's Guide is any indication.
12" with 1.5 GHz G4 and a bigger hard drive? Ho-hum.
Squire
12" with 1.5 GHz G4 and a bigger hard drive? Ho-hum.
Squire
Squire said:
My guess is 12" 1.5 GHz/ 256 MB RAM//60 GB HD/64 MB nVidia GeForce Go 5600/ AE/BT/Combo or Superdrive for $100 less
A bigger HD (80 GB) is possible if the 15" and the 17" get a 100 GB HD (which is possible, but Toshiba has just begun production). But the 12" won't get FW 800 and backlit keyboard
Squire said:
If they did get a bigger HD, AFAIK, the drive would have a slower spindle speed. The 100 GB laptop drives only have a 4200 RPM spindle speed. I see better graphics, a processor (1.5 GHz) upgrade, and (wishful thinking, here) a backlit keyboard option.
Zaty said:
You really make me sad ! I hope that I do not have to wait until next year October and I don't think so really. The iMac G5 is just around the corner. Why should it take another year to get the G5 into the powerbook ?
Not to be too simplistic - the iMac is a desktop. Cooling is the G5's biggest problem - getting that into a Powerbook is a serious challenge.CmdrLaForge said:
I hope that I do not have to wait until next year October and I don't think so really. The iMac G5 is just around the corner. Why should it take another year to get the G5 into the powerbook ?
carletonmusic said:
Exactly - the iMac is a desktop, the PowerBook is a laptop. It's not an easy task to shoehorn a server-class chip into a laptop - that's why you don't see many Itanium2 laptops around.
CmdrLaForge said:
I hope that I do not have to wait until next year October and I don't think so really.
Wanna put money on that?
I also see that you'll be waiting until 2006 for your G5 PowerBook since you want a Rev B model. Hope you're patient!
I hear you man and I too feel the pain. I have been wrong many times in my life but not with quite the monotonous regularity that I've been wrong about the G5 PB. I am still refusing to upgrade until there's at least a PB with a decent FSB and a better screen but waiting for the G5 to be shoehorned into a PB enclosure looks like a long wait. I've got cash in the bank but I'm not buying another G4 (yet).~Shard~ said:Wanna put money on that?
I also see that you'll be waiting until 2006 for your G5 PowerBook since you want a Rev B model. Hope you're patient!
carletonmusic said:
Lets wait and see how the G5 iMac really looks like ! Is it only a pizza box with no fans or a huge base with lots of fans ? You don't no - me neither.
If the new iMac is in a small enclosure with no or little fans - then the G5 powerbook can't be that far away. If the iMac has many fans and lots of cooling. - things are different. So lets wait and see.
I still believe we see the G5 powerbook in January 05 - and maybe I drop my wish for a second rev.
CmdrLaForge said:
I agree with you but there are other reasons that might Apple make delay the PB G5. It seems that IBM still has problems with their yields. So if Apple only gets a limited quantity of G5s, it wouldn't be sensible to introduce yet another G5 product (after PM, Xserve and iMac). This would only cause more delays for other G5 products which means Apple couldn't sell anything anymore (except for iBooks and eMacs). So you see, even if the PB G5 was ready, Apple could sill be holding back. Now, I can already hear people say, why would they launch the G5 iMac before the PB G5? The answer to that question is quite simple: the G4 iMac didn't sell well, but the PBs do. As long as they can sell the AlBook, they're in no hurry to introduce the PB G5 just for the sake of it.
Zaty said:
This is a very good point one has to factor in chip yields when discussing these G5 machines. I think for the next while Apple will have their hands full with supplying the G5 PMs, xServes and iMacs, and even if the G5 PB was engineered and good to go, they may have to hold back. Either that, or risk another, Announced today, shipping in 6 months, plus 2 months delay on top of that! scenario as weve seen before in varying degrees.
The iMac sales are hurting, so Apple needs to address that product first with the G5 as you say, the PBs still sell well, so the urgency for a G5 is not as great.
Also, it would be stupid to wait for the G5 PowerBooks to be ready before releasing the G5 iMacs. Although some people might complain that a consumer-level machine is getting new technology before a pro-level machine, it wouldnt make any sense at all to develop a new G5 iMac and then purposely keep it in the wings until the PBs were ready if Apple has an amazing new product developed, they should release it as quickly as they can regardless!
My bet is still with an anouncement MAYBE at MWSF '05 at the earliest, but no G5 PowerBooks until a year from now by the time they get into the customer's hands...
Hope all of you who are wanting a G5 PowerBook are saving up a lot of moolah - after all, this PowerBook is selling for quite a bit - and it's only a G4!
Zaty said:
You have some valid point here. But on the other hand, supplys with 1.5GHz G4s is not really good as well and things are changing until January. We will see. I don't buy a new Mac before September or October next year - and then I just get whats available. Then will be the time I need a new machine and I will simply get one without waiting.
If Apple are Having Problems doing a G5 in the PowerBook why dont they consider Putting Dual G4's in --
Dual G4 1.5 GHz
512 MB DDR 2700 (max 2 GB)
80 GB 5400 HDD (80 GB 7k BTO)
8 X DVD-RW
BT
APX
2 X Firewire 800
2 X USB 2
for the sake of a slightly bigger case on 15" and 17" and removing of the PC Card slot i am sure that this config would work ! arrr but we can only but dream lol tell you what i'd settle for a G5 Single come on Apple must be able to do that a least.
Tom ( Very bored at work thinking up sh** like this all day)
Dual G4 1.5 GHz
512 MB DDR 2700 (max 2 GB)
80 GB 5400 HDD (80 GB 7k BTO)
8 X DVD-RW
BT
APX
2 X Firewire 800
2 X USB 2
for the sake of a slightly bigger case on 15" and 17" and removing of the PC Card slot i am sure that this config would work ! arrr but we can only but dream lol tell you what i'd settle for a G5 Single come on Apple must be able to do that a least.
Tom ( Very bored at work thinking up sh** like this all day)