New PowerBooks tomorrow.

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  • Reply 81 of 873
    ensign pulverensign pulver Posts: 1,193member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by dstranathan

    Wait until MWNY (or whatever its called now). You will get a new PowerBook and a new keyboard/mouse too.



    I hate these kind of posts. Is it prediction/speculation or claimed insider information?



    In other words, dstranathan, do you think this is going to happen, or do you know this is going to happen? And if so, how?
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  • Reply 82 of 873
    dhagan4755dhagan4755 Posts: 2,152member
    I feel exasperated waiting for this new 15-inch. I know I need to get a life, but I have been waiting for this thing since February - Everyday checking these forums looking for the slightest hope of this model being released.



    I caved and ended up buying an 867 Ti in March.



    I soon realized why I disliked the Ti, having had several previous models, but I'm suffering through it until the new models are announced.



    I might even take that pscates widescreen 15.4-inch iBook if it were to ever rear it's head, even if it had a G3 at 1 GHz (post the pic again, it was great). But I mostly want a G4 15-inch notebook, and I'm so friggin frustrated with the hold-up.
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  • Reply 83 of 873
    ensign pulverensign pulver Posts: 1,193member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by DHagan4755

    I might even take that pscates widescreen 15.4-inch iBook if it were to ever rear it's head, even if it had a G3 at 1 GHz (post the pic again, it was great).



    It would be even better with this chip



    IBM says it will begin sampling its new IBM PowerPC 750GX microprocessor next month, the next generation of the "G3" processor. Based on the PowerPC 750FX processor, the new chip uses IBM?s advanced 0.13-micron copper process with Silicon-on-Insulator technology and will be offered at frequencies up to 1.1GHz. The 750GX includes 1MB of internal L2 cache, 4-way set-associative, additional L1 and L2 cache buffers for pipelining of up to four data cache miss operations, and support for up to 200MHz operation of the 60x system bus interface with additional bus pipelining. IBM's PowerPC 750FX is used in currently shipping iBooks at speeds up to 900MHz.
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  • Reply 84 of 873
    kabeyunkabeyun Posts: 81member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by courtland80

    36 new replies seems to be a lot of talk over absolutely no real information



    Exactly. There is no new Powerbook coming tomorrow. We haven't heard from our friend in Costa Rica since "Just wait."



    The real reason for the post is to bait desperately hopeful would-be consumers into a paroxysm of comments from snide retorts to humorous jabs to savvy punctuation analysis aimed at determining the veracity of the inciting remark ("he did use a '.' after his statement so it seems he is making a statement and not just pulling this out of thin air"). Soulcrusher can now kick back and grin.



    Of course, I count myself among the baited desperate!





    OK. Now back to the frenzy.



    -K
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  • Reply 85 of 873
    malokatamalokata Posts: 197member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ensign Pulver

    I hate these kind of posts. Is it prediction/speculation or claimed insider information?



    In other words, dstranathan, do you think this is going to happen, or do you know this is going to happen? And if so, how?




    Well, his post count is 970...
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  • Reply 86 of 873
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    From that IBM article:



    Quote:

    Sampling for this new processor is planned for July 2003 with production targeted for December 2003.



    Does that mean no new iBooks this autumn? Or just no new iBooks with this particular chip? Could do a standard 100MHz bump to 1GHz, I suppose...



    And DHagan, here you go.



    It's 14", BTW.



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  • Reply 87 of 873
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    re: the New PowerBook Dance.



    i vote for this version...







    jump back!
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  • Reply 88 of 873
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pscates

    here you go.



    Copywriting skills as fine as the illustration. Beautiful work, if I haven't said so before.
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  • Reply 89 of 873
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    although this stick figure illustration of the Dance Steps to "Chemical Symbols"



    includes such potential winners as

    "Metals and Nonmetals", "Avogadro's Number" and "Emmission Spectrum Groove"



    perhaps more appropriate moves for a potential shift from Ti to Al



    but we don't want to get it too wrong



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  • Reply 90 of 873
    eat@meeat@me Posts: 321member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ensign Pulver

    I hate these kind of posts. Is it prediction/speculation or claimed insider information?



    In other words, dstranathan, do you think this is going to happen, or do you know this is going to happen? And if so, how?




    New Apple PowerBook Product Line Refresh happens July 16th at 9:30-10:30am EST. Apple VP of Hardware and Portables, Greg Joswiak speaks at Creative Pro (formerly MWNY) at Javitz. The next tradeshows do not happen until Sept (Amsterdam and Paris Expo). So, this is the time to update Powerbook following their product matrix launch schedule.



    See below:

    http://www.macworldexpo.com/macworld...x.cvn?ID=10254



    Runs like clockwork. I'd bet lots of money new 15" Al G4 gets launched here and updated 12" and 17".



    Powerbook G5 will not be announced until MWSF 2004 in Jan at earliest with shipment in March 2004.



    Do you feel lucky?
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  • Reply 91 of 873
    etharethar Posts: 111member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by eat@me

    New Apple PowerBook Product Line Refresh happens July 16th at 9:30-10:30am EST. Apple VP of Hardware and Portables, Greg Joswiak speaks at Creative Pro (formerly MWNY) at Javitz. The next tradeshows do not happen until Sept (Amsterdam and Paris Expo). So, this is the time to update Powerbook following their product matrix launch schedule.



    If that happens, I'd be ecstatic. The AL 15" will be my first Apple computer ever...I'm just waiting for them to release it already.
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  • Reply 92 of 873
    ensign pulverensign pulver Posts: 1,193member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pscates

    And DHagan, here you go.



    "Widely Rumored". Brilliant, f*ckin brilliant.
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  • Reply 93 of 873
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Dude, where ya been? That's over two months old.

    But thanks anyway!
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  • Reply 94 of 873
    nemesisnemesis Posts: 138member
    How many of guys honestly think there will be a Al 15.4" powerbook at MWNY? Ok this is no joke. I talked to the owner of a local Macstore and he thinks that there will be no new updates at all untill early 2004. And I told him that I thought that ther would probably be at least some kind of little update to keep the whole line current. He said that was the reason for the price drop. So instead of updating it they jus dropped the price. All this could have merit OR he could just be trying to sell me a 17in instead. I dont know. I Sure hope hes wrong!\
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  • Reply 95 of 873
    bihbih Posts: 44member
    So it's the day after tomorrow, and still no new powerbooks. I guess they won't come out until I drop 2 grand for one of the current ones.
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  • Reply 96 of 873
    krassykrassy Posts: 595member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by NEMESIS

    I Sure hope hes wrong!\



    he's wrong.
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  • Reply 97 of 873
    bigcbigc Posts: 1,224member
    ...you can always trust someone trying to sell you something
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  • Reply 98 of 873
    jcgjcg Posts: 777member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by NEMESIS

    How many of guys honestly think there will be a Al 15.4" powerbook at MWNY? Ok this is no joke. I talked to the owner of a local Macstore and he thinks that there will be no new updates at all untill early 2004. And I told him that I thought that ther would probably be at least some kind of little update to keep the whole line current. He said that was the reason for the price drop. So instead of updating it they jus dropped the price. All this could have merit OR he could just be trying to sell me a 17in instead. I dont know. I Sure hope hes wrong!\



    No more updates till 2004, now that is a depressing thought, and would further depress both Mac sales as well as Apple's stock prices, no matter how "wonderfull" panther is. I would count on more updates by the end of the summer.
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  • Reply 99 of 873
    marloemarloe Posts: 26member
    well, it's tuesday....hmmm. tick tick tick tick...
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  • Reply 100 of 873
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    After 1:00 PM it is not comming out. so there is an hour left
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