New PowerMac or G5 PowerBook @WWDC '05?

fallenfromthetreefallenfromthetree
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
One can't help but notice that people waiting for the G5 PowerBooks AND those waiting for the next generation PowerMacs

are BOTH predicting an announcement at WWDC '05.



Obviously Apple is not going to release both of these new goodies

at the same time, so what's it going to be @ WWDC '05?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    19841984 Posts: 955member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by FallenFromTheTree

    One can't help but notice that people waiting for the G5 PowerBooks AND those waiting for the next generation PowerMacs

    are BOTH predicting an announcement at WWDC '05.



    Obviously Apple is not going to release both of these new goodies

    at the same time, so what's it going to be @ WWDC '05?



    What makes you think that? With the release of Tiger it seems the perfect time to announce new 64-bit machines to go along with it.
  • Reply 2 of 11
    illustratordavidillustratordavid Posts: 14member
    I've noticed that the powermac only includes ilife 04 -- not the current version.



    Probably grasping at straws but this could be a possible update soon hint



    I wish !!



    David
  • Reply 3 of 11
    tom138tom138 Posts: 1member
    yesterday I asked a friend of mine who works at a apple store if there was any news on the powerbook update...he told me that normally he wasn't allowed to tell me anything, but as he was quitting his job the next day, he told me the following...his boss told him that in march there were powerbooks G5 to come in...



    So i don't know if apple tells store owners what the new products are going to be, but if that's the case...we'll probably see G5 powerbooks in about a month...
  • Reply 4 of 11
    fallenfromthetreefallenfromthetree Posts: 338member
    Of course I could be Waaay wrong, but the most recent PowerBook

    release was last April 2004.

    The last update to the G5 towers was in June 2004.



    Other releases were in fall or early winter and Mac mini

    took the stage for this January.



    While both are certainly due for some sort of update, I doubt

    that we would see a major revision to both at the same time.



    So, My guess is that we are more likely to see a PowerBook update much sooner than any major revision of the PowerMacs.

    This does not exclude a speed bump with a major revision of the other product.



    If either update coincides with the release of Tiger, then we'll have that

    "one more thing"



    I just don't think Apple would underplay the importance of a G5 PowerBook buy letting it share the spotlight with a Rev 3 PowerMac.



    Just my 2 cents
  • Reply 5 of 11
    bjnybjny Posts: 191member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by tom138

    So i don't know if apple tells store owners what the new products are going to be, but if that's the case...we'll probably see G5 powerbooks in about a month...



    store owners???? doesn't Apple own all its stores?
  • Reply 6 of 11
    allanallan Posts: 26member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BJNY

    store owners???? doesn't Apple own all its stores?



    Yes it does...
  • Reply 7 of 11
    ashon3611ashon3611 Posts: 5member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by allan

    Yes it does...



    NOT TRUE! I have my own Apple Store franchise... it only cost my first born son, and the copper crayon in my new 64 Crayola But it was worth it.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    allanallan Posts: 26member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ashon3611

    NOT TRUE! I have my own Apple Store franchise... it only cost my first born son, and the copper crayon in my new 64 Crayola But it was worth it.



    Only the copper crayon, you were lucky .
  • Reply 9 of 11
    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ashon3611

    I have my own Apple Store franchise



    You got me beat. I just have a stupid chocolate factory.



    --Willy Fu**ing Wonka.





  • Reply 10 of 11
    yoda_fouryoda_four Posts: 79member
    I think he meant the store managers.
  • Reply 11 of 11
    ashon3611ashon3611 Posts: 5member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bergz

    You got me beat. I just have a stupid chocolate factory.



    --Willy Fu**ing Wonka.









    funny u should mention than... Jobs emailed me 2 days ago about a new concept being worked on in R&D,



    The Oompa-Loompa iPod Special Edition w/ built in Gobstopper dispenser!



    i told him the public would eat it up...
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