Not to interrupt the pictures of brown boxes love fest...
AtAT has reversed its position and now expects G5s on Monday with immediate availability.
"No, what we meant to imply is that while it's all still just hearsay at this point, the say we're hearing hints strongly at a whiz-bang Power Mac G5 intro this Monday, with immediate availability right after the keynote. And while we're trying desperately not to get our hopes up until we see something at least vaguely resembling evidence, we have to admit, we're starting to get a little antsy. Must... control.... enthusiasm... Must... think... underwhelming... thoughts..."
Alright, listen up! If these are demo boxes then it doesn't matter, they've got to be opened sometime. No customer equals nobody to complain about an opened box. Save yourself work later and open one now.
1. Tear open that freakin' box already! WTF are you waiting for?
2. Unpack your shiny new camera and nail some photos of whatever lurks inside that box.
3. Touch up the photos to remove incriminating evidence and upload them to AI.
4. Put box back together, tape it up like it was before, and restack the boxes with incriminating box underneath.
Remember, you don't want to be a retail grunt your whole life. If they can you then it's actually the best thing that could happen.
Programmer said it support connections superior to 0,5 meter, but does it support a one meter connection (with a 0,5 meter cable you will have to put the external chassis very close to the tower.
The last generation of G4 has four PCI slots : it's sufficiant for most users, considering that the Mac, have built in audio, firewire, usb, airport connector in it.
Since the B&W G3, there is more and more space avalaible in the chassis : there is no reason that we see the reverse.
Personally if i have a wish for the case, it will be the avalaibility of a third 5 1/4 bay.
Well yes, you couldn't put the expansion chassis on the other side of the room; nor would you want to in all probability. Besides, it would certainly be more elegant if there were no visible cables snaking all over the place. Perhaps the expansion chassis could be designed to clip onto the tower in some way. Various people have already explored similar ideas in FH: Barto springs to mind here.
As for your wanting a 3rd bay, well, all this and more could be yours with the right expansion kit....
Its just the boxes but you can see the size I think..
They have foam that squeaks when I pressed the sides, so I know its not smaller boxes inside!
Send any untouched photos to me at brad@appleinsider.com and I will take care of things for you. I can host the image here at AppleInsider without any risk to you.
If you want anything censored out from the photos, I'll gladly (and preferably, to aid in proving the validity of the photos) take care of that myself. Just add any relevant details to the message of the e-mail. I will resend any retouched images to you before publishing to verify that they are satisfactory.
Alright, listen up! If these are demo boxes then it doesn't matter, they've got to be opened sometime. No customer equals nobody to complain about an opened box. Save yourself work later and open one now.
I want to know what's coming as much as the next guy, but we ought to be careful about egging someone on to disobey explicit instructions from Apple, his or her employer, or both.
The big boys with the NDAs and industry contacts can take care of themselves: they know where the line is and can skirt it, or even go slightly slightly across it, with ambiguous hints, etc. They know the risks and can act (and defend themselves) accordingly.
This guy strikes me as pretty low in the food chain (if it's not a stunt). Maybe an Apple Store employee. I'd hate to see someone get fired because they were trying to impress the crowd on a rumors BB.
There is such as thing as aiding and abetting appropriation of trade secrets, copyright violations, etc. I suspect that Apple is unlikely to spend the money to do more than send cease-and-desist letters, but, like RIAA, if they wanted to they could make an example of some poor college students who don't have the money to defend themselves.
All it takes is a lawsuit entitled "Apple v. John Does 1-10" and a few 3rd-party subpoenas to some ISP and hosting companies, to effectively and quickly find out who's doing what.
This is a low probability scenario, but "low probability" is still greater than zero.
Spoiling Steve's surprise is not worth getting someone fired, IMHO.
I want to know what's coming as much as the next guy, but we ought to be careful about egging someone on to disobey explicit instructions from Apple, his or her employer, or both.
Lighten up, man. As if the guy's gonna read my post and obediantly follow my suggestions. I can just see him printing it out and following each step.
Thanks for the compliment, however. Nobody ever told me before that my writing is so powerful and suggestive. I'm going to go write a letter to my bank manager telling her to "accidently" deposit a cool million into my savings account. My writing and it's powers of persuasion will completely rob her of freewill, she will obey me fully.
Does your camera have an "uncompressed" or "tiff" mode setting, If you can take a picture in that setting I can tell you how to convert it to "PNG" so that it can be posted artifact free.
(let me know the model of Digicam if you need help)
What would you do? This is a practical matter for me, not a theoretical one.
Sunday night my company was burglarized and eight G-4 Macs and one Intergraph workstation was taken. It appears to be a professional job.
Our entire prepress, scanning, and design department was decimated. Our large format digital printing production was stopped and 34 people had little to do.
Monday we bought four 1.4 dual processor units. My MIS guy wanted to get eight, but I suggested we beg and borrow the remaining four G-4s and hold out for the June 23 anouncement. Any G4 purchase made today would be end of life equipment and we would have eight of them.
In our team meeting on the subject there was a lot of disagreement. One savvy Mac head suggested we be careful in betting on a combination of new, untested hardware and software even if the G5 did ship at the Monday announcement.
Right now I am sticking with my four and four plan. Any opinions?
Right now I am sticking with my four and four plan. Any opinions?
I think your four and four plan is a good idea, as long as it does not result in signficant loss of revenue due to loss of productive work hours. If you can beg or borrow the second four machines and wait a week, then you can always decide and still buy four old or four new. But it does no good to have people not working.
I'm going to go write a letter to my bank manager telling her to "accidently" deposit a cool million into my savings account. My writing and it's powers of persuasion will completely rob her of freewill, she will obey me fully.
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AtAT has reversed its position and now expects G5s on Monday with immediate availability.
"No, what we meant to imply is that while it's all still just hearsay at this point, the say we're hearing hints strongly at a whiz-bang Power Mac G5 intro this Monday, with immediate availability right after the keynote. And while we're trying desperately not to get our hopes up until we see something at least vaguely resembling evidence, we have to admit, we're starting to get a little antsy. Must... control.... enthusiasm... Must... think... underwhelming... thoughts..."
Originally posted by stalkerdeapplenut
I got a pic, can someone host it?
Its just the boxes but you can see the size I think..
They have foam that squeaks when I pressed the sides, so I know its not smaller boxes inside!
email it to icom@pi.be, i will host it for you.
1. Tear open that freakin' box already! WTF are you waiting for?
2. Unpack your shiny new camera and nail some photos of whatever lurks inside that box.
3. Touch up the photos to remove incriminating evidence and upload them to AI.
4. Put box back together, tape it up like it was before, and restack the boxes with incriminating box underneath.
Remember, you don't want to be a retail grunt your whole life. If they can you then it's actually the best thing that could happen.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Programmer said it support connections superior to 0,5 meter, but does it support a one meter connection (with a 0,5 meter cable you will have to put the external chassis very close to the tower.
The last generation of G4 has four PCI slots : it's sufficiant for most users, considering that the Mac, have built in audio, firewire, usb, airport connector in it.
Since the B&W G3, there is more and more space avalaible in the chassis : there is no reason that we see the reverse.
Personally if i have a wish for the case, it will be the avalaibility of a third 5 1/4 bay.
Well yes, you couldn't put the expansion chassis on the other side of the room; nor would you want to in all probability. Besides, it would certainly be more elegant if there were no visible cables snaking all over the place. Perhaps the expansion chassis could be designed to clip onto the tower in some way. Various people have already explored similar ideas in FH: Barto springs to mind here.
As for your wanting a 3rd bay, well, all this and more could be yours with the right expansion kit....
Originally posted by stalkerdeapplenut
I got a pic, can someone host it?
Its just the boxes but you can see the size I think..
They have foam that squeaks when I pressed the sides, so I know its not smaller boxes inside!
Send any untouched photos to me at brad@appleinsider.com and I will take care of things for you. I can host the image here at AppleInsider without any risk to you.
If you want anything censored out from the photos, I'll gladly (and preferably, to aid in proving the validity of the photos) take care of that myself. Just add any relevant details to the message of the e-mail. I will resend any retouched images to you before publishing to verify that they are satisfactory.
I want to know what's coming as much as the next guy, but we ought to be careful about egging someone on to disobey explicit instructions from Apple, his or her employer, or both.
The big boys with the NDAs and industry contacts can take care of themselves: they know where the line is and can skirt it, or even go slightly slightly across it, with ambiguous hints, etc. They know the risks and can act (and defend themselves) accordingly.
This guy strikes me as pretty low in the food chain (if it's not a stunt). Maybe an Apple Store employee. I'd hate to see someone get fired because they were trying to impress the crowd on a rumors BB.
There is such as thing as aiding and abetting appropriation of trade secrets, copyright violations, etc. I suspect that Apple is unlikely to spend the money to do more than send cease-and-desist letters, but, like RIAA, if they wanted to they could make an example of some poor college students who don't have the money to defend themselves.
All it takes is a lawsuit entitled "Apple v. John Does 1-10" and a few 3rd-party subpoenas to some ISP and hosting companies, to effectively and quickly find out who's doing what.
This is a low probability scenario, but "low probability" is still greater than zero.
Spoiling Steve's surprise is not worth getting someone fired, IMHO.
(Yes, I'm a lawyer; No, I don't work for Apple).
Originally posted by mpls244
I want to know what's coming as much as the next guy, but we ought to be careful about egging someone on to disobey explicit instructions from Apple, his or her employer, or both.
Lighten up, man. As if the guy's gonna read my post and obediantly follow my suggestions. I can just see him printing it out and following each step.
Thanks for the compliment, however. Nobody ever told me before that my writing is so powerful and suggestive. I'm going to go write a letter to my bank manager telling her to "accidently" deposit a cool million into my savings account. My writing and it's powers of persuasion will completely rob her of freewill, she will obey me fully.
(let me know the model of Digicam if you need help)
Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg
Lighten up, man. As if the guy's gonna read my post and obediantly follow my suggestions. I can just see him printing it out and following each step.
Me, lighten up? I'm not the one suggesting someone crack open the boxes and take pictures just because I can't stand not knowing for six days.
Endlessly obsessing over moki's tea leaves is one thing. But suggesting someone rip open the boxes early is just plain uncool.
Sunday night my company was burglarized and eight G-4 Macs and one Intergraph workstation was taken. It appears to be a professional job.
Our entire prepress, scanning, and design department was decimated. Our large format digital printing production was stopped and 34 people had little to do.
Monday we bought four 1.4 dual processor units. My MIS guy wanted to get eight, but I suggested we beg and borrow the remaining four G-4s and hold out for the June 23 anouncement. Any G4 purchase made today would be end of life equipment and we would have eight of them.
In our team meeting on the subject there was a lot of disagreement. One savvy Mac head suggested we be careful in betting on a combination of new, untested hardware and software even if the G5 did ship at the Monday announcement.
Right now I am sticking with my four and four plan. Any opinions?
Originally posted by PB Pod
Right now I am sticking with my four and four plan. Any opinions?
I think your four and four plan is a good idea, as long as it does not result in signficant loss of revenue due to loss of productive work hours. If you can beg or borrow the second four machines and wait a week, then you can always decide and still buy four old or four new. But it does no good to have people not working.
Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg
I'm going to go write a letter to my bank manager telling her to "accidently" deposit a cool million into my savings account. My writing and it's powers of persuasion will completely rob her of freewill, she will obey me fully.
Would you mind talking to mine for 20%?
Originally posted by PB Pod
What would you do? This is a practical matter for me, not a theoretical one.
Depending on the rent costs, I would buy as few current PMs as possible, wait 5 days and make the decision.