and Apple hate it when one product encroaches on anothers target market. No 'PDA' as we know it cos that would encroach on the iPod. The iBook is killing Powerbook sales. I think theres going to be a more well defined gap between each product.
'i' products will be for consumers, 'power' products may be sped up considerably to make them truely professional and a midrange product line could be introduced (maaaaybe)
All the iProducts are getting so good that they are going to have to make the PowerBook and mac massively faster (that doesnt mean chip speed does it)
'i' = G3 (G4s too expensive and wasted in an iMac... Ithink)
Let's face it. No matter what Apple does or doesn't do in regards to new product, there will be a lot of sad little boys crying for the "horsey" they didn't get for Christmas. It's a no win situation.
Apple must use on chip in there whole line. thats much cheaper. The PPC department they just have to concentrate on on processor the G4 and another team can work on its successor the G5. If the do so, they will have more frequent speed boosts. The producing of the chips will be cheaper so has the the whole line of macs.
Apple must use on chip in there whole line. thats much cheaper. The PPC department they just have to concentrate on on processor the G4 and another team can work on its successor the G5. If the do so, they will have more frequent speed boosts. The producing of the chips will be cheaper so has the the whole line of macs.
What steve will have to show, if they dont give us the Ghz, is a massively more optimised architecture os and mb, i/o wise. I hate refering to SGI all the time as they are massively expensive and proprietry, but they got something right by giving professionals the chance to make amazing stuff out of 120 mhz mips chips...
I predict silly speed G3s for consumers and perhaps a massive hardware optimisation for Power machines. (Flash movies are still shit when played on the fastest mac compared to a lower specced pc for example)
Kudos to the many lucid messages posted in the last day or so; everyone's bringing up great ideas. I'm going to remain optimistic that there will be a terrifically stunning MW that we can ALL be very happy about. Apple must deliver. And on the subject of the latest tagline, that language indicates hardware, not OS X. OS X is already installed by default, so while boot by default can be considered an important milestone, it's definitely not the announcement to fulfill the hype Apple created.
On another, off topic subject, people were debating a few pages back what the true acronym of the PowerPC is. The true acronym of PowerPC = Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Performance Computing
Actually it's all economics. If does this, the consumer will do that. And so on. Apple will try to satisfy our needs in the best way they can. It takes money to do so. As they posed there financial report, they said the would earn less more then the year before. If they succeed on bringing a product for every consumer ( Gamers , pro''s ,developppers,?) . And that needs to be funded.
[quote]I'm pretty sure Maya for OS X isn't dual processor aware, let alone quad processor.<hr></blockquote>
are you 12 years old or what? do you know what maya version 4 is? no? ok i'll tell you. altivec and mp aware. think. maya 3.5 was just a teaser. the big guys are still waiting. so cool down. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Steve Jobs will anounce the new iMac LCD blah blah blah. Its expected and no one will be surprised, yadda yadda yadda... more consumer stuff, digi hub blub which I love... Then... one more thing, left real late. just as everyone is about to get up, he hits them with the pro stuff. And we are talking serious pro pimping sexy demonstrations, no PowerPoo.
Apple can design a consumer device in 10 months (iPod). I dont know how many people it took but as they bought all the components from third party it was quick and cheap and low man power. Expect another iPeriferal but it can only complement the ipod it wont be able to do anything the ipod can so no 5gig hard drive pda *natch*
Intel is releasing the P4 "Northwood" on monday at 2.0 and 2.2GHz. It's a 130nm P4 with 512KB L2 cache. maybe Apple is reffering to that... their processors will be faster than 2.2? Doubtful but something to consider amidst all the hype.
Come on. Avie is software. Most amazing programmer Apple has. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Most visible programmer Apple has, big difference. I doubt he has actually written code in some time -- at least I hope he isn't wasting his time writing code!
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'i' products will be for consumers, 'power' products may be sped up considerably to make them truely professional and a midrange product line could be introduced (maaaaybe)
All the iProducts are getting so good that they are going to have to make the PowerBook and mac massively faster (that doesnt mean chip speed does it)
'i' = G3 (G4s too expensive and wasted in an iMac... Ithink)
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no. but four of them at slightly lower clockspeed should be sufficient until the g5 smokes.
where no pc has gone before=first consumer quad machine. light speed ahead=yes, there you go with maya...
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I'm pretty sure Maya for OS X isn't dual processor aware, let alone quad processor.
So a quad processor would do zilch for Maya. In that case I'd rather have a pro graphics card (an nope, the Geforce3 isn't a pro graphics card
I predict silly speed G3s for consumers and perhaps a massive hardware optimisation for Power machines. (Flash movies are still shit when played on the fastest mac compared to a lower specced pc for example)
On another, off topic subject, people were debating a few pages back what the true acronym of the PowerPC is. The true acronym of PowerPC = Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Performance Computing
All about economics
G5 to the top
are you 12 years old or what? do you know what maya version 4 is? no? ok i'll tell you. altivec and mp aware. think. maya 3.5 was just a teaser. the big guys are still waiting. so cool down. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Apple can design a consumer device in 10 months (iPod). I dont know how many people it took but as they bought all the components from third party it was quick and cheap and low man power. Expect another iPeriferal but it can only complement the ipod it wont be able to do anything the ipod can so no 5gig hard drive pda *natch*
Now Pixar would want one of those!!
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I know Sony have got a laptop like that but its silly, ugly and over priced.
It wouldnt have to be good (just like an internal mic) but it would allow that to become a standard.
I guess theyd want to release it as iCamera thingy so they could make money on it
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GASP! Avie= hardware!?
Come on. Avie is software. Most amazing programmer Apple has.
Most visible programmer Apple has, big difference. I doubt he has actually written code in some time -- at least I hope he isn't wasting his time writing code!
Why won't some decent rumors crop up!
I'm annoyed! Argh! <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Check back in the thread. Tons of good rumors. Just not any good new rumors in the past day, that's all.