Beyond the rumor sites? What could they mean?
I'm going to start this thread to analyze just what Apple could be thinking with the words on their website today.
Way beyond the rumor sites seems like something unheard of, however it has to stay with the same hardware matrix, right? I mean we have to have new towers and iMacs, so what exactly is Apple trying to see? Do they mean beyond the speculation that goes on in AI, or do they beyond the stuff posted on The Register etc? I doubt they could go beyond anything spec-wise, so does this give a clue that we are talking about something COMPLETELY different in terms of hardware?
Something way beyond could perhaps mean insane G4 clock speeds, but that's already been talked about and mentioned, and I really don't think it's likely.
Is Apple going completely out of the loop? Does this "way beyond" refer to the hardware already there?
Way beyond the rumor sites seems like something unheard of, however it has to stay with the same hardware matrix, right? I mean we have to have new towers and iMacs, so what exactly is Apple trying to see? Do they mean beyond the speculation that goes on in AI, or do they beyond the stuff posted on The Register etc? I doubt they could go beyond anything spec-wise, so does this give a clue that we are talking about something COMPLETELY different in terms of hardware?
Something way beyond could perhaps mean insane G4 clock speeds, but that's already been talked about and mentioned, and I really don't think it's likely.
Is Apple going completely out of the loop? Does this "way beyond" refer to the hardware already there?
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Way beyond the specs that 'the reg' posted for the G5. That seems unlikely
Way beyond Apollo>1GHZ, well we might see Apollo at something like 2GHZ, but I dont bite
Way beyond LCD imacs, well what is it then?
Way beyong to me means
G5 (quad-core) speeds > 2.5 GHZ
Apollo >=2GHZ
LCD imacs 2GHZ Apollo, LCD1280*1024
But it probably means
*completely unthought-of product*
I hope the next phrase is even more worthy of goosebumps than the last.
Isn't this already being specifically discussed <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=000368" target="_blank">here</a> and more generally <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000401" target="_blank">here</a>?
Why do we need another topic about it?
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But it probably means
*completely unthought-of product*</strong><hr></blockquote>
That is what I think they are referring to as well.
1. Completely new unthoughtof product is released
2. Entire mac line gets a 100MHZ speed bump?
There are a lot of rumors out there, and most of them are pretty wild. I really doubt Apple can surpass them all.
That is "beyond the rumor sites!"
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It's not a matter of the new announcement being incrementally better in terms of speed/capacity than what the rumor sites are saying. Obviously they've got something different -- a new product, or a whole new product line, or some kind of corporate change (bought out by RJ Reynolds!) or the like.