“Apple Computer will make at least one hardware-related product announcement during this week’s Apple Expo, despite the company’s decision to cancel its opening keynote presentation at the Paris show, AppleInsider has learned. Based on previous reports, the company appears ripe to update either its PowerBook G4 laptop line, its Power Mac G5 line, or both product lines,” AppleInsider reports.
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In addition, the “Mac Treasure Tracing Club” have posted photos from Apple’s booth under construction at Apple expo 2005 here.
New hardware? It’s inevitable!
First post?
MW = job (not Jobs)
I guess the nano stole the thunder and kept the rumor mill quiet for a while.
Yeah, sure. They could stand to introduce the ROKR2.
Yes and the new hardware will be dual core G5 PowerMac’s using 970MP’s that we have known for AGES was in the works.
They are not going to really bring a whole lot of more performance, because dual core is just about the same as a dual processor, although I suspect the single frontside bus will cripple it compared to the dual frontside bus of present DP PM’s.
However it should be a bit faster than present PM boxes, but I suspect not a whole lot of work will be done on the OS level for performance because the PPC chips are on their way out.
It could be Apple may continue to use the IBM chips in their bigger boxes where adequate cooling is available.
Now another thing is if the Blue RAY’s will make a appearance or not, Sony hasn’t been cooperating with Apple over the music lately, which is causing some problems. It must be a pain working with a company your in competition with.
Well gee whiz MDN what else would they be doing. Bigger HD based iPod maybe. Fingers crossed.
not likely
they were probably about to release something but decided for whatever reason not to and so cancelled the keynote.
do you seriously think that apple would release new hardware / software / etc with no keynote or special event?
at best we’ll see speed bumps / better specs. it wont be anything to get overly excited about.
get perspective – and get real – all these mac rumour sites seem to be getting stupider by the day. a bit of logic would tell you that apple history tells us all that a keynote usually brings us something new…
not a stand at an expo! what a joke!
I have the ROKR. All I want is a computer that I can edit movies quickly on! I use Final Cut Pro.
a 4 button mouse…
A mac mini with spdif out so that it can be used to view movies and still get 5.1 sound.
Why doesn’t anyone fix one of those external harddrives for the mini with a cheap 5.1 card built in, it’s hooked up using usb/firewire anyway.
My prediction: single dual-core similar (not dual dual) at similar speeds to current, BIG price drops.
Don’t hold your breath. Nothing is being announced.
How about the asteroid? We haven’t seen that yet. Man, either they held off on that cuz it was leaked, or that thing was leaked SERIOUSLY early and no wonder Apple was pissed.
A 3 month subscription to paingate, product updates, better iMac’s
PMG5 line goes all dual-core. Price stays the same.
PBG4 gets mild enhancements. As much as the world wants the PBG5, we know Steve would intro it in person.
Mac mini, eMac, and iMac carry over to MWSF in January. Then anything goes…
This guy sounds like the weather man. It might rain tomorrow or even possibly the next day, maybe both days. We’ll see. Back to you Billy!
I hate predictions!
Bobb… I seem to recall Apple already released a 4-button mouse. Didn’t it have some name vaguely reminiscent of an old cartoon character or something? Hmmm… just can’t remember.
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And, BTW… no keynote = no new products IMO.
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IBM’s time is ending. The PowerPC’s time is ending. There are no new product announcements left for you here.
“There is still hope.”
i heard from a reliable source that they will introduce the ipod video and the bluetooth mighty mouse
What could be announced is a dual-dual core PowerMac G5 with refrigerated cooling system for $6999.
A real QuadMac, it’s bound to come around eventually because Intel is making dual core standard across all it’s chip offerings, something has to be better right?
Since processors really can’t be made to go any faster (Moores Law is dead) they have to double up.
This leaves the Apple creating the first consumer quad processor personal computer. (and I’ll be the first to buy one 😀 )
Heck they may even make a Quad X-Server and sell tons of hardware again for supercomputers.
PPC or x86 doesn’t matter, all those kind of people care about is price for performance + low operating costs.
Your all nuts!
small speed bumps for powerbooks Thats it!
The next new computers worth buying from Apple are coming in 2006—-late 2006, about this time next year when the new Mactels come out. And those will only be Powerbooks. To get a Mactel desktop will be around 2007!!!
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That is if there are no delays. Delays at Apple? Never!
Anything that is announced at Apple Paris show is more likely to repair some hardware problem in the current line-up under the disguise of a minor, minor speed bump.
Heres hoping for speakers…
So I can hear what i do in GarageBand, iTunes, iMovie etc
Wireless Mighty Mouse
Looks like .Mac updates is all that’s coming this week. Besides, Steve wouldn’t have cancelled the keynote if anything of substance had been on the agenda anyway.