It has become a regular pattern of Apple's to not introduce their winter PowerMac updates at the January MacWorld. There is usually just a speed bump around Jan 21st, or later. Rumours aside, I think its a bit unrealistic to expect more than a speed bump this time out. I'd hold out for Steve fullfilling his 3GHz promise mid-year with a splash.
That's only because it wasn't MacWordable news. A dual G4 going from 1.3 to 1.4 GHz would have gotten boos.
No if it is just speed bumps he won't make an announcement. The Apple store will go down when he stands up and when he sits down the Apple store will come up. I expect we will see some faster PowerMacs for sale.
Might follow in a week or so, but I doubt it.
Sure he'll announce speed bumps, it is just what the Mac community needs to hear, the Motorola days are over. Why wouldn't he announce it? The biggest question in everyones mind is will the G5 stagnate? Will Apple lose its lead again? He'll announce, count on it.
Apple's typically kept their music announcements separate from their computer announcements, at least in the last year. While new iPods will be great, faster G5's, xServe G5's, a new eMac/iMac type line on G5's, Powerbooks G5s are what the MacWorld crowd is interested in, IMO. It is a Macworld, not an iPodworld after all. I think new iPods will come out with iTunes 5 later in January, Steve may not want to dilute the other announcements.
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Originally posted by Programmer
It has become a regular pattern of Apple's to not introduce their winter PowerMac updates at the January MacWorld. There is usually just a speed bump around Jan 21st, or later. Rumours aside, I think its a bit unrealistic to expect more than a speed bump this time out. I'd hold out for Steve fullfilling his 3GHz promise mid-year with a splash.
That's only because it wasn't MacWordable news. A dual G4 going from 1.3 to 1.4 GHz would have gotten boos.
Originally posted by Addison
No if it is just speed bumps he won't make an announcement. The Apple store will go down when he stands up and when he sits down the Apple store will come up. I expect we will see some faster PowerMacs for sale.
Might follow in a week or so, but I doubt it.
Sure he'll announce speed bumps, it is just what the Mac community needs to hear, the Motorola days are over. Why wouldn't he announce it? The biggest question in everyones mind is will the G5 stagnate? Will Apple lose its lead again? He'll announce, count on it.
Though a 4GB HD iCamera would be really cool.