I'm a student on a limited budget. I'm waiting for speed boosted eMacs to tide me over until college (late 2004/early 2005). At that point in time, I may purchase a 970 based tower, but right now I simply do not have the financial resources to pay for the first rev. of any hypothetical 970 based Mac towers. A 1Ghz eMac with DDR SDRAM and a 133Mhz bus retailing at $999 would do nicely though.
I'm a student on a limited budget. I'm waiting for speed boosted eMacs to tide me over until college (late 2004/early 2005). At that point in time, I may purchase a 970 based tower, but right now I simply do not have the financial resources to pay for the first rev. of any hypothetical 970 based Mac towers. A 1Ghz eMac with DDR SDRAM and a 133Mhz bus retailing at $999 would do nicely though.
lol. You're not a student, you're a kid.
I'm a student. Saying you're a student... the word has certain connotations.
If at all possible I'd buy a 970 based tower. At the moment I have $75 and need to make rent on the 1st, we'll see if my situation is at all improved.
After the disaster of the rev A Blue and White I swore I will never buy a Rev A machine
Disaster? Mine is running fine, serving up the files stripped of its plastics, naked as the day it was born. Overclocked and currently stuffed with an useless zip drive. Sure... I can't add a second drive because of that whole data corruption mishap, but an ide card would solve that...
well, i am not a student, but also have a not unlimited budget. i will buy a rev. A, because i don't believe that nonsense about rev. A, rev B. etc. (like bigc, i have a rev.a pismo also, it's a great machine) and i need a new mac soon. (albeit the sweetness of my powerbook, it get's a little slow for real work) what powermac i will buy depends on the offering and the time of release... i would love to have a 15" powerbook 970, so i think i have to wait about 9 months for that one.
Umm... gar, the Pismo was not a Rev. A product. It was not a new design. When people say "Rev. A" or "Rev. B" or whatever, they're talking about different revisions of a particular design, not of a specific model of computer. The Blue G3 had two revisions, the first released in January and the second released mid-year. The Rev. B had a number of bugs involving the IDE controller, making the use of multiple hard drives very difficult. Previous PowerMac G3s, the beige ones, had a number of problems with the Rev. A ones because they wouldn't support slave drives. Revs B and C worked fine, however.
Your Pismo is actually a Rev. D product. Yep. It's the most refined PowerBook G3 Series Apple made. They made the Wallstreet, Wallstreet II, Lombard, and THEN the Pismo, ironing out design issues as they went. The Pismo is one of Apple's best computers and that has a lot to do with how much development went into it, both in designing the Pismo and also in designing all the ones that came before it.
Now, I'm not saying that Rev. A products are BAD... but there tend to be issues with them that get mostly fixed the second time around. Another thing is that waiting a little bit to buy helps you gauge people's opinion of the machine, and see what problems they're having. If anyone has problems... you may want to just wait for the next revision and buy that.
I'm looking at getting a laptop when I've socked away enough money, and that'll happen when it happens, whether or not Apple has released a notebook with a 970.
Umm... gar, the Pismo was not a Rev. A product. It was not a new design. When people say "Rev. A" or "Rev. B" or whatever, they're talking about different revisions of a particular design, not of a specific model of computer. The Blue G3 had two revisions, the first released in January and the second released mid-year. The Rev. B had a number of bugs involving the IDE controller, making the use of multiple hard drives very difficult. Previous PowerMac G3s, the beige ones, had a number of problems with the Rev. A ones because they wouldn't support slave drives. Revs B and C worked fine, however.
Your Pismo is actually a Rev. D product. Yep. It's the most refined PowerBook G3 Series Apple made. They made the Wallstreet, Wallstreet II, Lombard, and THEN the Pismo, ironing out design issues as they went. The Pismo is one of Apple's best computers and that has a lot to do with how much development went into it, both in designing the Pismo and also in designing all the ones that came before it.
So what you mean is that if the outside looks the same or almost the same and the inside changes, it's a revision?... difficult to swallow... so the last revision G4 is actually still a G3 rev. J ? because the case is the same.
Or a G4 rev.H. But because apple introduced the Yikes and Sawtooth in the same time it's probally one revision. so G4 rev.G?
difficult... so the kanga (original powerbook G3) is actually a rev.B hooper (powerbook 3400)? cool...
how did they do that with the centrisses and quadra's the powermac 8100, powermac 8200 and powermac 8500?
difficult... i always thought i have a rev.A powerbook (firewire) codename "pismo" ... because of it's mobo.
I'm worried that Apple is not being more positive when talking about the processor problem and the outlook for it..... something isn't right... they aren't even doing their typical "the pipeline is strong" bit.....
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I'm a student on a limited budget. I'm waiting for speed boosted eMacs to tide me over until college (late 2004/early 2005). At that point in time, I may purchase a 970 based tower, but right now I simply do not have the financial resources to pay for the first rev. of any hypothetical 970 based Mac towers. A 1Ghz eMac with DDR SDRAM and a 133Mhz bus retailing at $999 would do nicely though.
After the disaster of the rev A Blue and White I swore I will never buy a Rev A machine
(edit: I have the first PB 500, still works good- except no CD burner)
So if a single chip 970 powerbook comes out I will get that...
Originally posted by job
Not me.
I'm a student on a limited budget. I'm waiting for speed boosted eMacs to tide me over until college (late 2004/early 2005). At that point in time, I may purchase a 970 based tower, but right now I simply do not have the financial resources to pay for the first rev. of any hypothetical 970 based Mac towers. A 1Ghz eMac with DDR SDRAM and a 133Mhz bus retailing at $999 would do nicely though.
lol. You're not a student, you're a kid.
I'm a student. Saying you're a student... the word has certain connotations.
If at all possible I'd buy a 970 based tower. At the moment I have $75 and need to make rent on the 1st, we'll see if my situation is at all improved.
Originally posted by Leonis
I will wait for rev B.
After the disaster of the rev A Blue and White I swore I will never buy a Rev A machine
Disaster? Mine is running fine, serving up the files stripped of its plastics, naked as the day it was born. Overclocked and currently stuffed with an useless zip drive. Sure... I can't add a second drive because of that whole data corruption mishap, but an ide card would solve that...
Your Pismo is actually a Rev. D product. Yep. It's the most refined PowerBook G3 Series Apple made. They made the Wallstreet, Wallstreet II, Lombard, and THEN the Pismo, ironing out design issues as they went. The Pismo is one of Apple's best computers and that has a lot to do with how much development went into it, both in designing the Pismo and also in designing all the ones that came before it.
Now, I'm not saying that Rev. A products are BAD... but there tend to be issues with them that get mostly fixed the second time around. Another thing is that waiting a little bit to buy helps you gauge people's opinion of the machine, and see what problems they're having. If anyone has problems... you may want to just wait for the next revision and buy that.
I will most likely be getting the dual, and a 23" screen. The wife has already okayed the process, now, it is just a waiting game.
I have no plans to get a 970 desktop.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Umm... gar, the Pismo was not a Rev. A product. It was not a new design. When people say "Rev. A" or "Rev. B" or whatever, they're talking about different revisions of a particular design, not of a specific model of computer. The Blue G3 had two revisions, the first released in January and the second released mid-year. The Rev. B had a number of bugs involving the IDE controller, making the use of multiple hard drives very difficult. Previous PowerMac G3s, the beige ones, had a number of problems with the Rev. A ones because they wouldn't support slave drives. Revs B and C worked fine, however.
Your Pismo is actually a Rev. D product. Yep. It's the most refined PowerBook G3 Series Apple made. They made the Wallstreet, Wallstreet II, Lombard, and THEN the Pismo, ironing out design issues as they went. The Pismo is one of Apple's best computers and that has a lot to do with how much development went into it, both in designing the Pismo and also in designing all the ones that came before it.
So what you mean is that if the outside looks the same or almost the same and the inside changes, it's a revision?... difficult to swallow... so the last revision G4 is actually still a G3 rev. J
Or a G4 rev.H. But because apple introduced the Yikes and Sawtooth in the same time it's probally one revision. so G4 rev.G?
difficult... so the kanga (original powerbook G3) is actually a rev.B hooper (powerbook 3400)? cool...
how did they do that with the centrisses and quadra's the powermac 8100, powermac 8200 and powermac 8500?
difficult... i always thought i have a rev.A powerbook (firewire) codename "pismo" ... because of it's mobo.
i really really really thought it was a rev.A
stupid me.
but anyway: rev A. 15" Al powerbook ppc970 or rev B. 15" Al powerbook with a ppc970 processor is on my buying list.
with a revision what so ever 20" cinema display.
they betsa be goin for the 970 :-\\