MacinDoc said:WWDC 2005, that is...![]()
~Shard~ said: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.![]()
thatwendigo said:<PC troll>You mean you can get them right now, if you order from someone other than Apple?</PC troll>![]()
Squire said:They'll probably ship around the same time the 2-button mice with scroll wheels ship.
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thatwendigo said:<PC troll>You mean you can get them right now, if you order from someone other than Apple?</PC troll>![]()
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).![]()
CmdrLaForge said: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 .
Squire said:12" with 1.5 GHz G4 and a bigger hard drive? Ho-hum.
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Squire said: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
Zaty 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.
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:You really make me sad !
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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: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:You really make me sad !
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I hope that I do not have to wait until next year October and I don't think so really.
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: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: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.
Zaty 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: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.