I wonder if the next rev of the 15-in will keep the Titanium design but acquire all the new features the aluminum has (i.e.: airport extreme, firewire 800, etc.)?
I'd buy one before the online store finished loading.
I wonder if the next rev of the 15-in will keep the Titanium design but acquire all the new features the aluminum has (i.e.: airport extreme, firewire 800, etc.)?
Ugh, I sure hope not! The aluminum models are, IMO, SO much nicer...rounded, smoother curves/edges. And that aluminum body just looks really snazzy.
But yes, I hope that the new 15" model is basically a shrunken 17" PowerBook (with all the specs/features/goodies that entails). It'll sell like CRAZY!!!
The wait is frustrating. I had considered other options but finally settled on getting a 15" PB. Now I just have to wait for Apple to cooperate and produce the darn thing.
Same here! But, if the new 15" ends up getting the 970 I'm having an all night party to celebrate. We can all get drunk and have a great time!!!!!! And while we're drunk we can all order top of the line Powermacs with 23" LCDs to go with them. lol Now what kind of beer do you guys want? Or maybe we should go with champagne? lol yea!!!
My dad was was in local Apple Mobile Office Days happening today. I asked about PowerBooks. 12" and 17" models were there. He didn't say anything about 15" models. Maybe we will see 15" PB update during the summer.
You know what'll be even worse is when they are introduced and we all buy one online. Then we have to watch the mail every day hoping that we'll get a box from Apple. That would really be frustrating.8) But I agree with you. I think one thing we can all say for certain is that Steve Jobs doesn't want to be on stage unless he has cool stuff to show people. With the 2 hour Keynote he's doing I imagine he'll do some intros. It would be even cooler if they were secretly stockpiling Power Books and Power Macs in warehouses in mass quantities so Steve could say that we'd get ours within a week. That would be intense.
Has anyone else scoped out Mac Mall recently? They have discounts on Power Macs and Power Books until 25 May. It may be nothing, but then again, it just may be something.
2 soon for apple to put in a 970. if they did that they would have to upgrade the 17 as i doubt that they will have the middle machine be more powerful. besides you will all by it anyway. it is only good business practice to leave room to improve. the public expects upgrade at regular intervals. I would guess that all of the powerbooks will be upgraded to 970s in december
2 soon for apple to put in a 970. if they did that they would have to upgrade the 17 as i doubt that they will have the middle machine be more powerful. besides you will all by it anyway. it is only good business practice to leave room to improve. the public expects upgrade at regular intervals. I would guess that all of the powerbooks will be upgraded to 970s in december
so i guess apple should keep cranking out G4s until they hit 3Ghz or so. how they'll do it , i don't know, but keep incrementing, baby. mistakenly i guess, i believed that markets were driven by competition, demonstrated, for example, by nash equilibrium. i dunno, i just never learned about "room for improvement" in economics. i only ran into it on report cards, where it was a bad thing.
all over-the-top sarcasm aside (and i apologize), if the 970 is available, apple will implement it. i suppose jc could be correct, given apple's economically unorthodox track record. but i just can't see them holding off on the 970. to sit on a technology like that would be suicide. although apple doesn't work with x86, they still compete in the same market as wintel, and their loss of marketshare, strongly correlating with cpu performance, proves this. apple needs, for the sake of its vitality, to implement the 970. much unlike moto, ibm is capable and ready to support this departure. after so many years of moto-driven underachievement, it's hard to recognize what apple will be able to accomplish with big blue. but we'll see within 6 weeks.
Maybe the new 15-inch PowerBook will come Tuesday, May 6th? The last revision was Wednesday, November 6, 2002, and this coming Tuesday would make the current 15-inch PowerBook exactly six months old.
Things are moving so fast...& here I am still using my Lc-475
2 soon for apple to put in a 970. if they did that they would have to upgrade the 17 as i doubt that they will have the middle machine be more powerful.\\
just because you JUST bought a 17"er after buying a 15" GHz doesn't mean Apple will have pity for you
they have done it before and probably will again...
JC, I have to say I agree with brokenradio11 on this. We're not talking about an upgrade here. An upgrade is simply an improvement upon an established platform, thus the G4 power bumps we've seen. This is a platform change from the G4 to the 970, so prior power bump cycles do not apply in this situation. With the 970 technology in Apple's hands (and high quantities if IBM has anything to say about it - and they do) there will be a rapid migration. It does suck for those people who just bought new Power Macs and Power Books. But as in life, nothing is fair in the computer world. The PM and PB 15.4 will see the 970 first. The 15" is the Power Book. The other two are just getting started and have grand plans for the future, but the first change to the 970 won't be the 17, it'll be the 15. Apple knows that's where the sweet spot is and that's what'll get it first. The Power Mac will get them for the pro users who desperately need power to get their projects done quickly.
aquafire, so you're still using the Lc-475? How's it running these days? Plan on buying a 970 machine? Just curious.
Maybe the new 15-inch PowerBook will come Tuesday, May 6th? The last revision was Wednesday, November 6, 2002, and this coming Tuesday would make the current 15-inch PowerBook exactly six months old.
How are they going to upgrade the new model? Apple is stuck at 1GHZ for portables until either the 970 qualifies as cool enough, or the 7457 is released by Moto. The 970 will probably see daylight before the 7457.
Current G4 chips in PowerMac (the 1.25 and 1.42) are running at a higher core voltage and therefore too hot to put into portables.
cowerd, you're right. The new PB's won't have the G4 in them. They run too hot.8) As for der Kopf's comment, may I ask just how much sex is going on in the champagn room?
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Originally posted by DHagan4755
I wonder if the next rev of the 15-in will keep the Titanium design but acquire all the new features the aluminum has (i.e.: airport extreme, firewire 800, etc.)?
I'd buy one before the online store finished loading.
at least 15"
16by10 display ratio
airport extreme
one firewire800 ...but
2 firewire400 ports would be cool enough
scratch resistant..like aluminum would be cool
at least 1ghz g4
backlight keyboard
cheaper
newer better keyboard
2 usb ports
line in (24bit PLZ!!! >_<)
line out (24bit PLZ!!! >_<)
dvi port
2xdvd burning would be the greatest
now available
instant buy (actually ...instanterrrr..more instant...immeadietly)
steve...u can send me a bug which ****s up my current imac...but just let me buy a new 15" powerbook!!!
Originally posted by DHagan4755
I wonder if the next rev of the 15-in will keep the Titanium design but acquire all the new features the aluminum has (i.e.: airport extreme, firewire 800, etc.)?
Ugh, I sure hope not! The aluminum models are, IMO, SO much nicer...rounded, smoother curves/edges. And that aluminum body just looks really snazzy.
But yes, I hope that the new 15" model is basically a shrunken 17" PowerBook (with all the specs/features/goodies that entails). It'll sell like CRAZY!!!
The wait and drooling is just part of the game.
Soon I hope.
Originally posted by neutrino23
The wait is frustrating.
I whole-hearted second that one!
--hengx
Originally posted by JC
2 soon for apple to put in a 970. if they did that they would have to upgrade the 17 as i doubt that they will have the middle machine be more powerful. besides you will all by it anyway. it is only good business practice to leave room to improve. the public expects upgrade at regular intervals. I would guess that all of the powerbooks will be upgraded to 970s in december
so i guess apple should keep cranking out G4s until they hit 3Ghz or so. how they'll do it , i don't know, but keep incrementing, baby. mistakenly i guess, i believed that markets were driven by competition, demonstrated, for example, by nash equilibrium. i dunno, i just never learned about "room for improvement" in economics. i only ran into it on report cards, where it was a bad thing.
all over-the-top sarcasm aside (and i apologize), if the 970 is available, apple will implement it. i suppose jc could be correct, given apple's economically unorthodox track record. but i just can't see them holding off on the 970. to sit on a technology like that would be suicide. although apple doesn't work with x86, they still compete in the same market as wintel, and their loss of marketshare, strongly correlating with cpu performance, proves this. apple needs, for the sake of its vitality, to implement the 970. much unlike moto, ibm is capable and ready to support this departure. after so many years of moto-driven underachievement, it's hard to recognize what apple will be able to accomplish with big blue. but we'll see within 6 weeks.
Originally posted by DHagan4755
Maybe the new 15-inch PowerBook will come Tuesday, May 6th? The last revision was Wednesday, November 6, 2002, and this coming Tuesday would make the current 15-inch PowerBook exactly six months old.
Things are moving so fast...& here I am still using my Lc-475
Originally posted by JC
2 soon for apple to put in a 970. if they did that they would have to upgrade the 17 as i doubt that they will have the middle machine be more powerful.\\
just because you JUST bought a 17"er after buying a 15" GHz doesn't mean Apple will have pity for you
they have done it before and probably will again...
aquafire, so you're still using the Lc-475? How's it running these days? Plan on buying a 970 machine? Just curious.
Maybe the new 15-inch PowerBook will come Tuesday, May 6th? The last revision was Wednesday, November 6, 2002, and this coming Tuesday would make the current 15-inch PowerBook exactly six months old.
How are they going to upgrade the new model? Apple is stuck at 1GHZ for portables until either the 970 qualifies as cool enough, or the 7457 is released by Moto. The 970 will probably see daylight before the 7457.
Current G4 chips in PowerMac (the 1.25 and 1.42) are running at a higher core voltage and therefore too hot to put into portables.
There will be no upgrades until a new chip shows.