“Apple will be releasing new PowerBook G4s this week. All have faster processors, and the top models also have the new video chip option with up to 128MB VRAM (could it be the Mobility Radeon 9700?). Hard drives will be faster and larger. The Aluminum form factor will remain the same,” Jason D. O’Grady reports for O’Grady’s PowerPage.
O’Grady reports, “There will be one more update to the Aluminum PowerBook G4 after this one before the PowerBook G5 is announced. There will be no dual processor PowerBook G4s as originally speculated in these pages.”
Full article here.
No G5 PowerBooks until the end of the calendar year. 🙁
The real action this year will be servers and desktops.
Another G4 update?… 🙁
Please… just… give it up…
Give us the G5s
Well, this would seem to defuse the other rumor. 🙁
This is more in line with what I myself realistically anticipated tho.
Guess they felt they had to use the upgraded G4 chips from Motorola. Probably a good business decision and better to have the line continually improve.
Apple has repeatedly said no G5 portable until the end of year… (their quote at MWSF was “later rather then sooner”.) So why the disappointment? Duh!
>”There will be one more update to the Aluminum PowerBook >G4 after this one before the PowerBook G5 is announced. >There will be no dual processor PowerBook G4s as >originally speculated in these pages.”
Thanks, Apple, for clearing up what I’m doing with the tax refund check I just got. Looks like its remodelling the bathroom after all….
I’m glad iPods are selling, because the last piece of hardware Apple has announced that wasn’t a disappointing piece of shit was the G5 towers. And no, I don’t consider an unexpandable G4 iMac with a crap graphics card inspiring just becaue the monitor is big.
Sam:
G5 Xserves are no “disappointing piece of shit”–actually, they’re OUTSTANDING (and upcoming sales will shock).
It’s been really quiet on the hardware front, except the MINI. I hope at the WWDC, they unleash numerous hardware upgrades all at once and make it a summer to remember. A PBook G5, rumored multimedia appliance, upgraded cinema displays, new iPods……I can’t wait.
Just counting down to WWDC…tick tick tick.
no G5, buy the pink iPud instead..
by end of year we’ll have 2Ghz centrino that weighs 2lbs,
too bad dumazz steve wont put the os x on it
Mac User — okay, Mac User, you *so* got me. I stand corrected.
However, I just checked and my name doesn’t start with “University of” or end with “Inc.” and I have had no success being declared a state or federal agency, so I’m sticking with the disappointing piece of shit line, thanks.
All Macs will be G5s or better by mid ’05. This will make the transition to a 64-bit OS easier for Apple as they will not need to make 2 versions of the OS, 64-bit, and non 64-bit. I think Apple will state the min sys req to G5 for 10.5, and G4, G3 users will be S.O.L.
This WILL make people mad I am sure, but it will help Apple sell more Macs after people see the difference a 64-bit OS should (I say should because I have not seen it yet) make.
-The Dude…. quite possibly the laziest man world-wide.
Okay, one rumor says PBG5 in like three months and a rumor that has updated G4s this week. Why buy this week when one can wait a few months and get a far superior (in theory) machine?
Geez! Some of you folks are in serious need of a reality check. Considering all the marvelous things one can do with just about any Mac these days, your attitude, my dear Sam, is truly ridiculous. Peace.
“I’m glad iPods are selling, because the last piece of hardware Apple has announced that wasn’t a disappointing piece of shit was the G5 towers. And no, I don’t consider an unexpandable G4 iMac with a crap graphics card inspiring just becaue the monitor is big.”
what a stupid release.. come here MOTO. kiss my ass.. thanks for lagging the entire company for the last 5 years.. no seriously.. come here.. *drops pants.. GIVE IT A KISS MOTO!!!
Sam – what is your disappointment with the G5 towers? What is it about them that warrants vulgar and vague profanity?
Mike:
Right on in blaming MOTO (the losers)! Since PowerBook G5s are at least several months away, though, Apple had no choice on this upgrade.
I think Sam was angry at G5 Xserves – which along with the iPod mini didn’t do much for Apple home buyers.
As nice as the current mac’s really are – they are lagging pretty hard on the heels of PC portable makers.
I don’t want much – just to see a PowerBook that can keep up with my son’s Thinkpad T41p
durjaya: ….”I don’t want much – just to see a PowerBook that can keep up with my son’s Thinkpad T41p” …
Try this: http://www.apple.com/powerbook/
hmm, will this be a bad move from Apple to release what’s already available?
It’s a RUMOR from Jason O’Grady. Use that old grain of salt. Jason just admitted his last RUMOR was wrong. He may just be 0 for 2. Actually he is 0 for 2004.
Geez, the G5 desktop hasn’t been around that long. It’d be a bit of time before it comes out in the Powerbook. Just hold your pants and get back to work. And you guys hollering about how much faster your Thinkpad or other is… it’s not all about speed, it’s what the Mac can do for us. You whiners can just pick up your Windopes toys and go on home.
please breathing fire – the 1.7 GHZ Pentium M in that T41p – and the 128 meg video card it packs makes short work of *anything* in Apples PowerBook line.
We’re a multi-computer household and our Apples have been lagging behind the PC’s for a while now.
Heh… 0 for 2004 … that’s pretty good.
I know exactly what my mac can do for me – but as a consumer I’d like to see a faster Mac as our PC’s seem to get the same thing done in better time.
You dopes that seem to believe that it’s okay for Apple to both demand a premium price for warmed over hardware *and* beat up on users that try to push them to perform can go suck eggs.
I will agree that it’s *not* all about speed. My iBook has amazing uptime compared to any PC in the house. But at some point – you start to lose ground. All I want is a system that isn’t using the same sorry ass 1GHZ and a sneeze processor that has been around for almost 2 years.
DOH! iBook? And probably a G3 at that! Yah, great, another KMart guy who wants speed on the cheap. Get back to work!
hee hee hah hah hee hee! i got no new products but the rumor mill is going faster than a g6 running OSX 11!!!!
Stevie Jay said it here first, folks. Next Tuesday a G6 running OSX 11!!!!
In a pink PowerBook the size of an iPod!!!! For $100!!!!
� MacOSRumors.com
The more you guys have the more you want!
Its been a sublime year for Apple products and for the majority of normal folk this extra 10% extra speed issue is not so important. Quality of life with Apple computing would be worth staying with even if it were half the speed!
Hey this guy durjaya is making some sense.
I wonder how the supplies of g4’s is doing. I wonder if Moto has a pile of them that Apple is obligated to use. That is one possible explanation for this interminable wait for G5’g all around. If apple needs help designing the g5 into a laptop, maybe it is time to ask an expert, like IBM, or toshiba, or ……..ACER.
jt: “…Apple computing would be worth staying with even if it were half the speed!”
So are you selling your new G5 and getting a used G3 or are you trying to justify why you can�t afford a new G5 to upgrade from your currently owned G3?
if you pc weenies love your toshiba, panasonic (ha!), and dell (c’mon, the dude is gone) why are you reading MDN and posting aggressively worded anti-apple whines? unless, of course, it is that you feel deeply inferior to Mac users and envious of their equipment… Mac users generally enjoy their computing experience, why do you have such a problem with that? I do have to say, it is amusing to read the pc weenie comments. steve balmer has too much time on his hands. give it up monkeyboy!
http://www.ntk.net/media/dancemonkeyboy.mpg
There isnt really any intelligent posts in here. Every single article on MDN just turns into WMA versus AAC, or MacOSX versus Windows – It is so rediculous. Can’t anyone interject something to say regarding the actual article instead of regurgitating the same monotonous garble that is on these boards every day? Apple is a great company doing great things. And greatness takes time. No one here should be critisizing apple, or dell, or microsoft, or napster. These are all corporations trying to make it and playing the game. I view all the posts in here as rediculously uneducated and not very well thought out…
Swingline: Were grammar & spelling part of your education?
Governor, because we feel deeply SUPERIOR after reading the kneejerk Steve-loving attempts at justification here. Get used to it. You may love your computing experience, and even have an X-rated site devoted to it, but I know you still are bummed about paying a “premium price for warmed over hardware”. Who wouldn’t be, unless a cult member, no?
kk:
Not really – I always failed english and writing courses in highschool…
I already bought a G4/867 with a damn analog video output.
I want to see the new G5’s!!
Only a man who is not at ease with himself would share the insults with his material pocessions, and only a man that is not at ease with himself insult another man material pocessions. Macs are not infereore, nor superior, they are only another valid choice for those that are just better than window dorkbots. You stupid jerks.
Only a boy who cannot spell can please himself. Only a boy who knows not proper punctuation would call himself “The Saint”.
lmao
Or he could have a learning disability and still have an IQ of 160. Dork.
Sorry but I must leave you now so that I can receive my 34 birthday present from my fine 23 year old Albania girl friend. Stuff you will only get to see in your junk mail. See you player haters later.
PS My computer is bigger than yours. Oh, and she now uses a mac too… you can never go back baby.
The Saint, aka The Forgiver,
Cheating on an online IQ test is not a valid estimate of your IQ. Virtual desktop dancers are not real girls. ps- My dick is bigger than yours. Oh, and you now are a jackass, once you start to whackoff, you can never go back biatch.