I love it when MOSR is just WAY off!
[quote]This is from last Thursday:
The big news we have to share is this: as far as anyone we have been able to contact for comment at Apple is aware, there are new Powerbooks in the pipeline, but the low stocks of Powerbooks are due to a mild general drop in demand. According to these sources, minor revisions Apple is making to the way it manufactures and sources components for the Titanium Powerbook are primarily responsible for this stock selldown.
They cannot rule out a new Powerbook, but they strongly argue against any new hardware announcements at the upcoming World Wide Developer's Conference, or "WWDC," next month. Predictions for such hardware announcements seem to come virtually every year, and virtually every year, they do not come. This is due to a very straightforward Apple policy: WWDC is a software and developer's event, and hardware is handled elsewhere. Major new device or product category announcements that directly effect software developers might be appropriate for the event, but it is highly unlikely that such a relatively mild Powerbook G4 update would be.
The specifications named above are quite likely accurate for the next generation of PBG4s. As to the graphics acceleration issue, it all depends on how soon Apple puts this update out the door. If we do see it in 4-6 weeks or less as some have been predicting, we would be skeptical of anything more than a mild jump, such as a move to the 32MB RADEON Mobility 7500. If instead the update occurs in a time frame that we would consider more likely, for example 4-6 weeks before or after Macworld New York (the big event itself seems fated to focus more on the consumer models and other consumer/educational announcements)....then we would expect to see something more dramatic, like the powerful GeForce 4 Go 64MB accelerator.<hr></blockquote>
The big news we have to share is this: as far as anyone we have been able to contact for comment at Apple is aware, there are new Powerbooks in the pipeline, but the low stocks of Powerbooks are due to a mild general drop in demand. According to these sources, minor revisions Apple is making to the way it manufactures and sources components for the Titanium Powerbook are primarily responsible for this stock selldown.
They cannot rule out a new Powerbook, but they strongly argue against any new hardware announcements at the upcoming World Wide Developer's Conference, or "WWDC," next month. Predictions for such hardware announcements seem to come virtually every year, and virtually every year, they do not come. This is due to a very straightforward Apple policy: WWDC is a software and developer's event, and hardware is handled elsewhere. Major new device or product category announcements that directly effect software developers might be appropriate for the event, but it is highly unlikely that such a relatively mild Powerbook G4 update would be.
The specifications named above are quite likely accurate for the next generation of PBG4s. As to the graphics acceleration issue, it all depends on how soon Apple puts this update out the door. If we do see it in 4-6 weeks or less as some have been predicting, we would be skeptical of anything more than a mild jump, such as a move to the 32MB RADEON Mobility 7500. If instead the update occurs in a time frame that we would consider more likely, for example 4-6 weeks before or after Macworld New York (the big event itself seems fated to focus more on the consumer models and other consumer/educational announcements)....then we would expect to see something more dramatic, like the powerful GeForce 4 Go 64MB accelerator.<hr></blockquote>
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Thursday April 25, 2002....
"More news tomorrow."
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note: I dont read MOSR regularly anymore, so im just going on the quote that you supplied...
Actually, many sources have said that we'll get a PowerBook update. Did you just totally miss the reports from the various retail channels on how Apple has stopped supplying PowerBooks? Serveral weeks ago O'Grady's PowerPage "confirmed" 667 and 800 MHz PowerBook G4s with unrekarkable HD and RAM boosts. O'Grady was also the one a say Apple may bring out the GeForce4GO.
*plink* *plink*
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[quote]If instead the update occurs in a time frame that we would consider more likely, for example 4-6 weeks before or after Macworld New York (the big event itself seems fated to focus more on the consumer models and other consumer/educational announcements)....then we would expect to see something more dramatic, like the powerful GeForce 4 Go 64MB accelerator.
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They take a whole different approach like June or even August for a Powerbook update. They have no sources, they are just making it up hoping that their guesses come true.
The PowerBooks are already out.
I couldn't make up rumors for shit.
<strong>Hint: this is why there's no more front page.
I couldn't make up rumors for shit.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nice!
They really should just stick with the good-old MOSR of outlandishly optimistic predictions.