An iBook G4 at MacWorld SanFran?
I know, I know...we've discussed the possibility of an iBook G4 for quite some time. Now seems like a good time for such a venture, and given that Apple surprised us with a 14-inch screen last year, could it be we'll get a G4 iBook?
If such an iBook G4 were to surface, what do you suppose would be the feature set?
I think it will be in a 14-inch model, with an overall similar set of features, except a 133 MHz bus and a 733 MHz G4 processor.
Now, your thoughts......
If such an iBook G4 were to surface, what do you suppose would be the feature set?
I think it will be in a 14-inch model, with an overall similar set of features, except a 133 MHz bus and a 733 MHz G4 processor.
Now, your thoughts......
Comments
"Not gonna happen...", "no way...", "not a chance...".
KA-POW!
Actually, could there be a slim possibility of some sort of a "special edition" (read: extra expensive and priced out of the range of the very people who would dig it the most) G4 iBook? Just to tide everyone over and Apple at least state that "we ship OS X-friendly G4 processors in all our models now"?
Don't know...just asking.
Still keep the $999-$1599 G3-based iBooks, of course.
But in the way that the G4 LCD iMac co-exists with the $799 snow G3 iMac, could the same happen with the iBook line?
Would be cool, because I've said it before 25 times: the minute Apple comes out with a G4-based iBook, this flat screen iMac in front of me is history!
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I just ordered my iBook 800.
They sure as hell better not release one in January or cut off Steve's hairy gumdrops myself.
But I agree that such a major update would not be probable. Some time in the middle of next year, sure!
Barto
I'd rather have a faster G3 (Sahara can have 200mhz bus if Apple would stop stupidly crippling the iBook.)
<strong>But doesn't OS X itself scoot along a little better on a G4? That's what I've always heard, anyway. I'm not thinking "G4 iBook" for the Photoshop/graphics crowd...I'm thinking simply for OS X, iTunes encoding and (I'm sure) better iMovie/iDVD performance, etc.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah but a faster G3 would be better than a slower G4 for the most part.
<strong>I'd rather have a faster G3 than AltiVec! What would an iBook user need faster Gaussian blur for?
I'd rather have a faster G3 (Sahara can have 200mhz bus if Apple would stop stupidly crippling the iBook.)</strong><hr></blockquote>
A good example off the top of my head is ripping mp3's. Encoding at 160, I'll get 6 - 6.5x on my 700 ibook with 512 L2 and 384 of ram. My mothers imac 700 with 256 L2 and 256 of ram gets 10-11x.
At any rate, the trend seems to be updating portables in the spring and fall, and I would guess the next ibook revision in april or may will have a G4.
The 750 fx which is made upon a SOI 0,13 Micron process, and which count less transistors, have a much smaller consumption than a 7544 based upon SOI 0,18. And i can bet also that the 750 fx will have a less watt consumption than the 7457.
Expect only nothing more than an another speed bump (the 750 fx is supposed to top a 1 ghz).
The altivec will be incorporated in the i book, when IBM will release the Sahara 2. And i don't think that it will release such a chip before end 2003 or early 2004.
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Yeah but a faster G3 would be better than a slower G4 for the most part.</strong><hr></blockquote>
are you saying a faster processor would be better than a slower processor (duh).
Or are you saying a higher mhz G3 would be better than a lower Mhz G4?
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are you saying a faster processor would be better than a slower processor (duh).
Or are you saying a higher mhz G3 would be better than a lower Mhz G4?</strong><hr></blockquote>
A higher MHz G3 would be faster than a lower MHz G4.