Apple cancels Apple Expo keynote address
Macworld is reporting from Apple that there will be no formal presentation at the Paris Mac Expo. The executives from Apple including Steve Jobs will be attending but there will be no Keynote presentation.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09...php?lsrc=mwrss
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09...php?lsrc=mwrss
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Originally posted by superted
Macworld is reporting from Apple that there will be no formal presentation at the Paris Mac Expo. The executives from Apple including Steve Jobs will be attending but there will be no Keynote presentation.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09...php?lsrc=mwrss
What we expected at Paris was a Powerbook update with the new 7448 cpu. This would be a substantial boost to keep the line alive until the switch starts.
Now it seems that this update was postponed. Or cancelled. Or Jobs does not want to face the public (non-developers) in view of the Intel transition. Whatever.
well, also, sep 11th, 4th year anniversary. yup, 4 years on.
anyway i have a friend from malaysistan going to visit his in-laws in the bay area for a whole month from this weekend. if apple comes up with anything good, and i beg my dad hard enough , he just might be flying back with a new ipod or powerbook dualcore 7448....
Originally posted by sunilraman
...he just might be flying back with a new ipod or powerbook dualcore 7448.... :???
Stop dreaming, there is no such thing like dual core 7448
Originally posted by PB
Stop dreaming, there is no such thing like dual core 7448
whatevs
maybe i should wish for a girlfriend for my birthday...!!
dual-core "g4"
up to 1.5ghz
up to 667mhz bus
2mb L2 cache (1mb each core)
DDR2 ram
up to 8x PCIexpress
90nm
simply not profitable for apple though at this stage. i suspect intel can give them similar pentium M goodies for half the price?
btw,
where are the "great powerPC products?"
steve lied. if there were really "great PowerPC products" in the pipeline he would get his ass on stage and be announcing them in a few weeks
Originally posted by sunilraman
maybe i should wish for a girlfriend for my birthday...!!
A far more realistic wish
Originally posted by sunilraman
8641D. nice.
dual-core "g4"
up to 1.5ghz
Why my eyes see at least 1.5 GHz per e600 core?
simply not profitable for apple though at this stage. i suspect intel can give them similar pentium M goodies for half the price?
I cannot see where you draw your question/conclusion from, but the problem is that the 8641D would require a complete motherboard overhaul, which has probability zero to happen in view of the transition.
btw,
where are the "great powerPC products?"
steve lied. if there were really "great PowerPC products" in the pipeline he would get his ass on stage and be announcing them in a few weeks
It seems that his ass got recently... something from Freescale
"The L2 cache is fully pipelined for two-cycle throughput in the MPC7448. It responds with an 11-cycle load latency for an L1 miss that hits in L2 with ECC disabled and 12 cycles when ECC is enabled. In the MPC7448, as many as six outstanding cache misses are allowed between the L1 data cache and L2 bus. In addition, the MPC7448 supports a second cacheable store miss. The processors also provide cache locking to the L1 caches so that key performance algorithms and code can be locked in the L1 cache."
Zoiks.. I thought I was geeky but that just blew my mind apart..
It uh.. it does sound cool though!
On the note of the Keynote though.. Dang it! I love watching those.. Especially when there's new products to announce!
Jimzip
Originally posted by sunilraman
btw,
where are the "great powerPC products?"
steve lied. if there were really "great PowerPC products" in the pipeline he would get his ass on stage and be announcing them in a few weeks
I don't know why more people are not pissed off over this. He lied to the point he can't get on stage and confront anyone because it was such a big fat lie.
"Why my eyes see at least 1.5 GHz per e600 core?"
ah because my mind automatically computed, freescale = crap so i subconsciously changed the at least to a at most
damn.... at least 1.5ghz per core. nice...!
"I cannot see where you draw your question/conclusion from...."
the word 'ass' has been used a lot in this thread already, so i shan't ramble on
I don't know why more people are not pissed off over this. He lied to the point he can't get on stage and confront anyone because it was such a big fat lie.
indeed, i am somewhat disturbed by this turn of events but i'm giving it the whole month to see what turns out and why he may have chosen to do so. the fact that people have paid good money to see the keynote (if i am not wrong), a bit tragic, really... i think someone fucked up a product release that he wanted to announce on the 20th and thought, better pull the keynote now rather than a few days before or worse, announce something
"un-shippable" on the 20th.
you know, given this quarter is perhaps apple's "riskiest" in the past few years, something must have fucked up big for steve to say, okay, let's "cut our losses" (just a figure of speech, not saying they are going to lose money this quarter) and 86 the keynote.
Originally posted by aplnub
I don't know why more people are not pissed off over this. He lied to the point he can't get on stage and confront anyone because it was such a big fat lie.
When did he say that they were supposed to be released three months later?
Originally posted by PB
A far more realistic wish
hmm...
almost 27, living in feudal nearbytsunamistan and having his dad to pay for his hightechtoys.
it's far more realistic to hope for a dualcore powerbook at parisexpo than someone of the opposite sex committing an act of passion to sunil in the same timeframe.
[edit] i googled a picture of sunilraman @myMUG... can't you ditch the grandprix of malaysia and get a girlfriend instead... [/edit]
Originally posted by PB
What we expected at Paris was a Powerbook update with the new 7448 cpu. This would be a substantial boost to keep the line alive until the switch starts.
Who is 'we?' Only if you've been living in a cave would you think Steve would speed-bump the Powerbooks at a keynote. He only introduces all new products. If that's all that's happening, it will come as a press release some Tuesday morning, not at a keynote. I even doubt that he'd introduce dual dual-core PowerMacs at a keynote.