Haddad Seems to have the iMac info...

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf2002013_4857.htm"; target="_blank">In this business week article</a>





Seems to be accurate enough.
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  • Reply 1 of 38
    ryanthegreatryanthegreat Posts: 359member
    [logic]

    assuming that the article is true... and the imac gets G3 at 1Ghz.... then we will see G4/G5's that are substantially faster than that.

    [/logic]
  • Reply 2 of 38
    marcukmarcuk Posts: 4,442member
    First of all this guy says no-one who has seen the new iMac is prepared to speak.



    Then he gives us 4 paragraphs of what they told him



    WTF <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 3 of 38
    nonsuchnonsuch Posts: 293member
    Shouldn't that have been a [hope] tag?
  • Reply 4 of 38
    applecelloapplecello Posts: 58member
    <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/03/apple.rumors.reut/index.html"; target="_blank">Here is an article from CNN</a>





    HAHA We GET MENTIONED



    [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: AppleCello ]</p>
  • Reply 5 of 38
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    I wonder how much it's sold for.
  • Reply 6 of 38
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    Well that sounds like the closest thing to the real thing.



    750MHz at MacMinute??? PLEASE!
  • Reply 7 of 38
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    ____________________________________________Apple can still make money on a basic desktop, like the iMac, that sells for under $1,000. And it must have such models to remain competitive in a soft consumer market that has been flooded with stripped-down PCs that sell for less than $900 from Dell, Compaq, and Gateway.



    Given Apple's goal of keeping the iMac in the $1,000 range, flat screens and 1-gig chips had been just too expensive. The company rightly decided it would be a bigger mistake to raise prices than to have the iMac just slightly outdated. In the past six months, however, component prices have plunged, and Apple engineers have been emboldened to try to gain a new advantage.

    ________________________________________________



    so maybe the price quoted at other sites as $1800 is very wrong....g
  • Reply 8 of 38
    msleemslee Posts: 143member
    the crt imac stays where it is...at the bottom of the apple product matrix. apple would be fools to axe the crt imac.
  • Reply 9 of 38
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    If the iMac were to get a 1 GHz G3, then Powermacs would probably run at 1 GHz on the low end models.



    I don't buy it. Sahara isn't ready, and the Powermacs won't clock a MHz beyond 1 GHz. This is Apple we're talking about here. Everything is incremental and mediocre with them.



    For example, the Titanium: it took Apple a year to update it's motherboard beyond the 100 MHz system bus that the Pismo had.



    It took Apple a year to update the iBook's miserable 66 MHz bus. 66 MHz?!?!??!? What is this, 1994?



    Apple will not suddently double the speed of every computer in their lineup. Think modest, think profit margins, think 100 MHz speedbumps. Think lame.
  • Reply 10 of 38
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    [quote]Originally posted by AppleCello:

    <strong><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf2002013_4857.htm"; target="_blank">In this business week article</a>Seems to be accurate enough.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    [quote]The company has also added a specially designed graphics accelerator, nVidia's next-generation GeForce2 MX, which will make this iMac a screamer on which to play games.<hr></blockquote>



    Anyone else find this laughable?



    I dont mind, i mean it is an improvemnt, but it is not a next gen chip, in fact it may be 2 generations (and the low cost version) behind if the GeFrce 4 comes out



    -Paul
  • Reply 11 of 38
    msleemslee Posts: 143member
    [quote]The company has also added a specially designed graphics accelerator, nVidia's next-generation GeForce2 MX, which will make this iMac a screamer on which to play games<hr></blockquote>



    This should be all the evidence you need as to the accuracy of Mr. Haddad's prognostications, as well as his involvement in the Macintosh platform, and computing in general.
  • Reply 12 of 38
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    I don't believe the article much at all.
  • Reply 13 of 38
    tcotco Posts: 87member
    [quote]quote:

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    The company has also added a specially designed graphics accelerator, nVidia's next-generation GeForce2 MX, which will make this iMac a screamer on which to play games.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------



    Anyone else find this laughable?



    I dont mind, i mean it is an improvemnt, but it is not a next gen chip, in fact it may be 2 generations (and the low cost version) behind if the GeFrce 4 comes out



    -Paul



    <hr></blockquote>



    Laughable, maybe. However it coincides with the appleinsider rumor, unlike all of the others that say a radeon is inside.
  • Reply 14 of 38
    glurxglurx Posts: 1,031member
    Any journalist who knows is under NDA and ain't saying anything - all else is speculation or lazy writers being duped.
  • Reply 15 of 38
    suckfuldotcomsuckfuldotcom Posts: 550member
    hey look! i can read old news at <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/0112/imac2002.phtml"; target="_blank">appleinsider</a>, too!



    SdC
  • Reply 16 of 38
    apple.otakuapple.otaku Posts: 590member
    You're right! He ripped off the old AI article almost word for word.
  • Reply 17 of 38
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by apple.otaku:

    <strong>You're right! He ripped off the old AI article almost word for word.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Wow, I didn't even realize that until now.
  • Reply 18 of 38
    mac the forkmac the fork Posts: 722member
    Crazy old Haddad -- he's always good for a laugh!
  • Reply 19 of 38
    suckfuldotcomsuckfuldotcom Posts: 550member
    MacNN has been informed, and are looking into it.



    SdC
  • Reply 20 of 38
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Haddad is obviously retarded.



    [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Macintosh ]</p>
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