Powerline - Apple has the ace

the mactivistthe mactivist
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Okay, I'm not as well-read on Macworld Expo history as others here, but I can't remember an Expo with NO power line updates at all.



So I have to wonder, if Apple is waiting to release Jaguar before it releases Powermacs, what kind of trick do they have up their sleeve?



FACT:



1) Apple has acquired several high-end 3d modeling and compositing companies and their technologies over the past few months and over the past three years.



2) Apple is positioning itself to make serious inroads into top-end editing, effects and the film industry with professional products like Final Cut and DVD Studio Pro. All that's really missing here is some SERIOUS hardware to run it on.



Is it possible Jaguar is more than just a point revision to OS X and offers the possibility of new processors on the mac line, not made by Motorola?



Is it possible Apple is finally going to produce some hefty workstations at the professional market and price them accordingly, leaving the power line to the prosumer crowd where it belongs?



Could it be that the power line revision is so big Apple wants to focus attention on the consumer products at MWNY and leave the giant news on the powerline for a private gathering, pre-Seybold, in order to make a huge splash the at the publising industry's big show?



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  • Reply 1 of 6
    jcgjcg Posts: 777member
    If Apple were to add a Higher end desktop, or a full blown workstation to their product matrix and move the PowerMac marketing to the ProSumer rather than the Pro, that would NOT keep them from refreshing the PowerMac line. A speed increase, even small, will invigerate some sales and allow Apple to increase iMac/eMac speeds while maintaing the current pricing structure. Apple could add a high end workstation to thier product matrix when all the hardware/software is ready to be released, just like they did with the Xserve,.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    Macworld SF 2002, no power line updates.



    Macworld SF 2000 (or 1999 not absolutely sure) no hardware at all, ALL OSX.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    naghanagha Posts: 71member
    MWSF 99 - B&W G3, colorpack iMac (revC)

    MWSF 00 - G4 back to 500, new iBooks, OSX



    [ 07-11-2002: Message edited by: nagha ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 6
    willy_mewilly_me Posts: 10member
    Apple already has workstation class hardware available. Look no further then the XServe. Granted, one XServe isn't that powerfull but a rack of them is..



    I'm sure that a rack of XServes working away in a closet being controlled by a power Mac would be just fine for most applications. It's just a matter of writing properly threaded applications that can opperate well on a cluster.



    Job's does also own run Pixar so he has a damn good idea of what the industry needs. With all the latest acquisitions it looks like he's going to get Apple to try to provide the "perfect" solution. Most of this will be software. As for hardware, the XServe provides a mightly impressive CPUpower/cm^3 ratio.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    [quote]Originally posted by nagha:

    <strong>MWSF 99 - B&W G3, colorpack iMac (revC)

    MWSF 00 - G4 back to 500, new iBooks, OSX



    [ 07-11-2002: Message edited by: nagha ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    G4's got bumped back up at Macworld Tokyo, not Macworld SF.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by nagha:

    <strong>MWSF 99 - B&W G3, colorpack iMac (revC)

    MWSF 00 - G4 back to 500, new iBooks, OSX



    [ 07-11-2002: Message edited by: nagha ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Bodhi already said that the G4 @ 500MHz was Tokyo, but he didn't say that Tokyo was also when the iBooks were released, not MWSF.
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