lower G4 tower prices... hmmmm...
macfixit just posted a comment from someone who noticed that the prices have dropped across the entire G4 tower line. apple usually does this and special offers to move inventory before product announcements.
this coupled with the ulta-low-key debut of this new hardware line (i.e. it only got on-line news... no special event, trade show announcement, etc., even though they broke the 1 ghz barrier - perhaps new hardware was nearly ready?), well, it makes me wonder what we'll be seeing at wwdc.
please note that i just don't think they'll be ready by macworld tokyo, but if they do have new rigs (quad? ddram? geforce3 standard? etc. - they said no new chips, so maybe just more of 'em, or better surrounding hardware), i can't imagine them waiting until july to show them off. i know intel is at 4 GHz, but Apple could lay claim to a quad 1 GHz running under OS X (though i have heard that the kernel will need to be modified to recognize four processors).
plus, while wwdc is a software showcase typically, it's also the mecca of high-end mac geeks, which is a good audience for some monster machines.
anyway, just some thoughts.... comments?
[ 03-13-2002: Message edited by: rok ]</p>
this coupled with the ulta-low-key debut of this new hardware line (i.e. it only got on-line news... no special event, trade show announcement, etc., even though they broke the 1 ghz barrier - perhaps new hardware was nearly ready?), well, it makes me wonder what we'll be seeing at wwdc.
please note that i just don't think they'll be ready by macworld tokyo, but if they do have new rigs (quad? ddram? geforce3 standard? etc. - they said no new chips, so maybe just more of 'em, or better surrounding hardware), i can't imagine them waiting until july to show them off. i know intel is at 4 GHz, but Apple could lay claim to a quad 1 GHz running under OS X (though i have heard that the kernel will need to be modified to recognize four processors).
plus, while wwdc is a software showcase typically, it's also the mecca of high-end mac geeks, which is a good audience for some monster machines.
anyway, just some thoughts.... comments?
[ 03-13-2002: Message edited by: rok ]</p>
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I hope you are right though.
<a href="http://store.apple.com/"; target="_blank">http://store.apple.com/</a>; and you would have found no price drops. Apparantly this was too hard to do for the folks at macfixit. They don't do rumors, so you might find that MOSR is actually more reliable than macfixit.
if you're starved for the rumors the naked mole rat has reappeared on macedition.
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Speed(GHz) - .edu/MSRP($) - delta($)
733 - 1202/NA - N/A
800 - 1453/1599 - 146
933 - 2071/2299 - 228
DP 1 (Faster) - 2719/2999 - 280
DP 1 (Ultimate) - 3753/4099 - 346
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These price differences have certainly changed since I checked last week. I'm sorry for doubting you guys.
This indicative of two things that are not mutually exclusive:
(1) A change in the way Apple intends to price education.
(2) PowerMac updates.
If (2) is the case, we do not know when this update will occur, and is a rather uninformative piece of evidence, since updates are inevitable.
[ 03-13-2002: Message edited by: mslee ]</p>
all you guys are doing are setting yourselves up for a big let down. the same thing happens at EVERY trade show. everyone predicts something that they really WANT with little to no evidence that it actually exists. Everyone wants apple to do the impossible on an impossible time table.
Don't count on it.
That's why you might have noticed the 'ultimate' configuration is $4099 instead of $3899 now.
<strong>janitor, i cited my source, and posed a question. you can either reply or not, but refrain from being a dick about it. it's not like anything else is happening lately in rumor-land, so why not throw out some theory and see what people think?
no. why should we lower our standards of posting when their is less news?
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no. why should we lower our standards of posting when their is less news?</strong><hr></blockquote>
LOWER our standards?!? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[ 03-13-2002: Message edited by: rok ]</p>
<strong>Dont say I told you so come Tokyo when Apple unveils faster Powermacs...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Don't worry. I doubt we will.
If Steve Jobs ran throught the streets naked with "No new hardware at MWT" written accross his buttocks some people on this board would still question it.
J :cool:
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If Steve Jobs ran throught the streets naked with "No new hardware at MWT" written accross his buttocks some people on this board would still question it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't question it now, but if I saw Steve butt-nekkid on CNN I would. Coz then he's definately gaga.
ipod got announced second week of october (i know 'cause i was down in north carolina for a wedding, and saw the announcement while i was down there), so it's due for somethiong new pretty soon. and tokyo is gadget-CRAZY! (those who have visited know exactly what i am talking about). plus, how long has the powerbook g4 been sitting at the same speed, etc.?
ibook won't see anything until they can get faster g4's in the tibook to widen the performance gap (and if they don't update that 8mb rage 128 mobitlity in the ibook, they're nuts. heck, i'm still using it in my imac i bought nearly three years ago).
imac -- not until july for an update... or even later, if they can't fix this low shipping numbers problem.
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LOWER our standards?!? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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lol <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> good point
Why is that link to it in your sig?