i want to believe there will be somekind of update or new hardware at Apple Expo Paris (its not a MacWorld fyi)
Indeed the best place to announce a rebranded Sony/Ericsson PDA thingy would be Paris/Europe... but to be totally honest, the technology just isnt there yet to have a kickass expereince. I would say at LEAST a year until it becomes widespread enough and mature enough. Unless Apple has been doing R&D for some time to be able to do it. Otherwise, the next most logical place would be MacWorld Tokyo seeing that they seem to be device-crazy people there. They would buy a dozen each before the next sunrise.
What the other guys have said about a bumbed TiBook now for a bumped iBook later makes sense.
It would be nice to see at least a 133Mhz bus iBook with 733/866MHz G3s (to be realistic). But most likely it will just be a software tuneup to 700/800Mhz (which is already possible with Dev Tools (CHUD)). How lame to be predicatble.
ANYWAY... as always I'm the pessimist so if nothing is announced aside from a bump or two, I wont be too let down. Anything more than that and I'm a happy camper.
<strong>It wouldnt surprice me if all he will be talking about is the jaguar system with the iCal and the other stuff not already released with the osx 10.2. Just alot of boring stuff that really isnt even worth mentioning.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You do realize that something like +50,000 people turned out after 10:30PM across the US to get a copy of "alot (sic) of boring stuff that really isnt (sic) even worth mentioning". If there are some small upgrades to hardware around that time they will probably be announced via silent upgrades (as was the recent PM upgrade). It may not seem exciting to you but it is very important for Apple to have the CEO (aka Steve) stand up in public and make positive assertions about OS X Jaguar.
i was talking with an apple person and they said that apple is not going to introduce hardware at macworld's because of all the let downs and the drop off in sales a couple of weeks before the shows.
It's also Seybold Seminars San Francisco, Phil Schiller the same morning. I predict iSynch and iCal shipping plus PowerBook refresh to 1GHz/800 MHz 2100 DDR memory bus.
<strong>Apple doesnt announce hardware outside the US. At least not groundbraking hardware. As if apple were to release any groundbraking hardware within the next 12 to 18 month. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
He released the Special Edition Graphite iBook in Japan in 2000, then later that year the Key Lime, Indigo and Graphite iBooks (with Firewire!) were unveiled in Paris.
Granted, the Japan thing was a minor deal. But Firewire-equipped iBooks I would consider pretty major and cool.
<strong>I hope they re-vamp AppleWorks. It needs it pretty bad, to say the least....... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Its really shite! If they could make it like word I would no longer have to use Micro$oft stuff
Yes there has been a lot of silence around AW for a long time. My guess is that either have Apple given up (Office is in every way the standart) or they are preparing a kick ass package with full Office compability.
This IMHO is the real test of where Apple and MS stands with eachother.
But this speculation doesn´t need to have anything to do with Paris.
No new hardware until November-January.....that's when the new chips from Motorola *might* be ready.....after all, the 1.25's aren't even due in Powermacs until then.....
A Paris surprise would be nice, but it's not gonna happen. The new chips from Motorola aren't ready for the TiBook, and the iMac just got a boost.....
The only uncovered scenario is an iBook surprise.....the original iBook was the first with Airport, so maybe el Stevo would make it the first with Bluetooth, too.
Maybe a 800 G3/Bluetooth/colors surprise?
I doubt it, but it's the only rational possibility.
Or some weird-ass iDevice that I don't care about.....
The only uncovered scenario is an iBook surprise.....the original iBook was the first with Airport, so maybe el Stevo would make it the first with Bluetooth, too.
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not to rain on the parade, but lets give credit where its due. Sony has had builtin Bluetooth in certain Vaios for about a year, maybe even 2 since Bluetooth was finalized. You can file transfer, IM, synch with your Clie and GSM, etc etc with it. Slow as a maimed llama but it works
<strong>Yes there has been a lot of silence around AW for a long time. My guess is that either have Apple given up (Office is in every way the standart) or they are preparing a kick ass package with full Office compability.
This IMHO is the real test of where Apple and MS stands with eachother.
But this speculation doesn´t need to have anything to do with Paris.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This would be more of a smack in the face to Microsoft than anything. At the moment they tolerate the Mac platform because even though they do not get revenues for OS licenses they do get them for productivity software such as office. Imagine if Apple took that away from them? Don't get me wrong; Apple can make an Office program that would make MS Office look like a simple Smith Corona typewriter by comparison. But it would put MS is a defensive position that Apple should avoid at the moment. But if they do go ahead with it, I'll bite.
I think rather than that, it would show more initiative for now if they produce a kick ass web compliant browser and an Apple branded Exchange conduit that would serve Mac users with a special version of Mail on an Exchange backbone.
I'm trying to work my honeymoon around Apple Expo and the Paris auto show, as we will be in France anyway. It's usually pretty easy to convince by girlfriend to go to Paris-- it's just that little pesky "not enough vacation time" thing.
[quote]Originally posted by GardenOfEarthlyDelights:
<strong>XRaid
I'm trying to work my honeymoon around Apple Expo and the Paris auto show, as we will be in France anyway. It's usually pretty easy to convince by girlfriend to go to Paris-- it's just that little pesky "not enough vacation time" thing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
When your soon-to-be-wife finds out about your ulterior motive, she may cut your honeymoon short.
If you are going to correct someone (even though I make the same correction rather frequently) you should at least be correct about it.
Also, I'd like to point out that if the 'XRaid' is released it will be called the Xserve RAID, and not XServe RAID, xServe RAID, Xserver RAID, or any other variation of the Xserve name. Jobs himself has named it as the Xserve RAID. And he is, of course, God (of Apple Hardware Naming Schemes. )
I really can't stand it when people use MacWorld or say the event in Paris is a Macworld/MacWorld. Nor when people incorrectly name machines. Just one of my pet peeves.
not to rain on the parade, but lets give credit where its due. Sony has had builtin Bluetooth in certain Vaios for about a year, maybe even 2 since Bluetooth was finalized. You can file transfer, IM, synch with your Clie and GSM, etc etc with it. Slow as a maimed llama but it works</strong><hr></blockquote>
I meant the first Mac. Sorry about not being clear. People have a tendency to think new features in Apple-land trickle downward, but sometimes they trickle up, too.
(I don't care if all he has to show is an xserve upgrade, a raid and the finalized ical and isync, Seeing Steve Jobs Live and eating a superb meal in a fine french resturant later in the evening will be just swell ... And if he has just "one more thing" up his sleve... I'll be superhappy... )
[quote]If he announced "hundred dollars" off everything there would be about 5 min's of silence as everyone calculates the amount in Euros it is in Paris after all.<hr></blockquote>
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Indeed the best place to announce a rebranded Sony/Ericsson PDA thingy would be Paris/Europe... but to be totally honest, the technology just isnt there yet to have a kickass expereince. I would say at LEAST a year until it becomes widespread enough and mature enough. Unless Apple has been doing R&D for some time to be able to do it. Otherwise, the next most logical place would be MacWorld Tokyo seeing that they seem to be device-crazy people there. They would buy a dozen each before the next sunrise.
What the other guys have said about a bumbed TiBook now for a bumped iBook later makes sense.
It would be nice to see at least a 133Mhz bus iBook with 733/866MHz G3s (to be realistic). But most likely it will just be a software tuneup to 700/800Mhz (which is already possible with Dev Tools (CHUD)). How lame to be predicatble.
ANYWAY... as always I'm the pessimist so if nothing is announced aside from a bump or two, I wont be too let down. Anything more than that and I'm a happy camper.
<strong>It wouldnt surprice me if all he will be talking about is the jaguar system with the iCal and the other stuff not already released with the osx 10.2. Just alot of boring stuff that really isnt even worth mentioning.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You do realize that something like +50,000 people turned out after 10:30PM across the US to get a copy of "alot (sic) of boring stuff that really isnt (sic) even worth mentioning". If there are some small upgrades to hardware around that time they will probably be announced via silent upgrades (as was the recent PM upgrade). It may not seem exciting to you but it is very important for Apple to have the CEO (aka Steve) stand up in public and make positive assertions about OS X Jaguar.
<strong>Apple doesnt announce hardware outside the US. At least not groundbraking hardware. As if apple were to release any groundbraking hardware within the next 12 to 18 month. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
He released the Special Edition Graphite iBook in Japan in 2000, then later that year the Key Lime, Indigo and Graphite iBooks (with Firewire!) were unveiled in Paris.
Granted, the Japan thing was a minor deal. But Firewire-equipped iBooks I would consider pretty major and cool.
<strong>I hope they re-vamp AppleWorks. It needs it pretty bad, to say the least....... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Its really shite! If they could make it like word I would no longer have to use Micro$oft stuff
This IMHO is the real test of where Apple and MS stands with eachother.
But this speculation doesn´t need to have anything to do with Paris.
A Paris surprise would be nice, but it's not gonna happen. The new chips from Motorola aren't ready for the TiBook, and the iMac just got a boost.....
The only uncovered scenario is an iBook surprise.....the original iBook was the first with Airport, so maybe el Stevo would make it the first with Bluetooth, too.
Maybe a 800 G3/Bluetooth/colors surprise?
I doubt it, but it's the only rational possibility.
Or some weird-ass iDevice that I don't care about.....
Jet
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The only uncovered scenario is an iBook surprise.....the original iBook was the first with Airport, so maybe el Stevo would make it the first with Bluetooth, too.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
not to rain on the parade, but lets give credit where its due. Sony has had builtin Bluetooth in certain Vaios for about a year, maybe even 2 since Bluetooth was finalized. You can file transfer, IM, synch with your Clie and GSM, etc etc with it. Slow as a maimed llama but it works
<strong>Yes there has been a lot of silence around AW for a long time. My guess is that either have Apple given up (Office is in every way the standart) or they are preparing a kick ass package with full Office compability.
This IMHO is the real test of where Apple and MS stands with eachother.
But this speculation doesn´t need to have anything to do with Paris.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This would be more of a smack in the face to Microsoft than anything. At the moment they tolerate the Mac platform because even though they do not get revenues for OS licenses they do get them for productivity software such as office. Imagine if Apple took that away from them? Don't get me wrong; Apple can make an Office program that would make MS Office look like a simple Smith Corona typewriter by comparison. But it would put MS is a defensive position that Apple should avoid at the moment. But if they do go ahead with it, I'll bite.
I think rather than that, it would show more initiative for now if they produce a kick ass web compliant browser and an Apple branded Exchange conduit that would serve Mac users with a special version of Mail on an Exchange backbone.
I'm trying to work my honeymoon around Apple Expo and the Paris auto show, as we will be in France anyway. It's usually pretty easy to convince by girlfriend to go to Paris-- it's just that little pesky "not enough vacation time" thing.
<strong>XRaid
I'm trying to work my honeymoon around Apple Expo and the Paris auto show, as we will be in France anyway. It's usually pretty easy to convince by girlfriend to go to Paris-- it's just that little pesky "not enough vacation time" thing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
When your soon-to-be-wife finds out about your ulterior motive, she may cut your honeymoon short.
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When your soon-to-be-wife finds out about your ulterior motive, she may cut your honeymoon short.
That might not be the only thing she cuts short...
133Mhz FSB Bus
266Mhz BSB (a la Xserve)
Bluetooth
Combo drives
64MB Video card
*(7455's. .13nm still not ready. 1Ghz would suck to much juice)
<strong>i want to believe there will be somekind of update or new hardware at Apple Expo Paris (its not a MacWorld fyi)</strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.apple-expo.com"; target="_blank">Indeed</a>.
Also note it is Macworld, not MacWorld.
If you are going to correct someone (even though I make the same correction rather frequently) you should at least be correct about it.
Also, I'd like to point out that if the 'XRaid' is released it will be called the Xserve RAID, and not XServe RAID, xServe RAID, Xserver RAID, or any other variation of the Xserve name. Jobs himself has named it as the Xserve RAID. And he is, of course, God (of Apple Hardware Naming Schemes.
I really can't stand it when people use MacWorld or say the event in Paris is a Macworld/MacWorld. Nor when people incorrectly name machines. Just one of my pet peeves.
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not to rain on the parade, but lets give credit where its due. Sony has had builtin Bluetooth in certain Vaios for about a year, maybe even 2 since Bluetooth was finalized. You can file transfer, IM, synch with your Clie and GSM, etc etc with it. Slow as a maimed llama but it works</strong><hr></blockquote>
I meant the first Mac. Sorry about not being clear. People have a tendency to think new features in Apple-land trickle downward, but sometimes they trickle up, too.
YEAH! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
(I don't care if all he has to show is an xserve upgrade, a raid and the finalized ical and isync, Seeing Steve Jobs Live and eating a superb meal in a fine french resturant later in the evening will be just swell
$100 ~= €100 (approx), except for computer pricing: witness <a href="http://store.apple.com"; target="_blank">Apple Store USA</a> vs <a href="http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/francestore"; target="_blank">Apple Store France</a> front pages.
Jeeves alledges an exchange rate of
$1.00 = €1.01630. What accounts for the large differences? VAT? Shipping?
I've heard good things about the Radeon 9000 Mobility.