Apple has invited the media to a special event, the third to be held in a month’s time, to be held in New York City on October 19th.
In the email invitation, Apple requests that invited members of the media join them as “we unveil Apple’s latest pro innovations.”
Apple Insider has more info here.
“MacNN sources have confirmed that the event will be used to introduce the last PowerPC-based PowerBook G4 lineup with new high resolution displays and other improvements. Other reports also suggest the event will bring a photography-related announcement as well as updated Power Mac G5 systems using IBM’s dual-core PowerPC chips, although the (unconfirmed) details are scarce,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
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RUMOR: Apple to debut new PowerBooks, Power Macs this month – October 14, 2005
Apple is doomed. Their sales are going to plummet during the last calendar year. Rob Enderle said so, so it must be true.
MW: often. How often is it that we get to pick on Rob Enderle? Oh wait, it’s every day! LOL
bring me a professional photo organization software package – and i will come unglued with joy.
iPhoto is fine – but i’m blowing past it’s capabilities here fast. and i don’t want to have to buy something too over the top.
On the software side, Apple will introduce Photo Pro, a workflow app for the pro photographer.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508adobe.html
More PCI slots and G10 PowerMac
With brilliant timing, this announcement comes a couple of days before Apple has a whole load of trade shows that it’s actually attending.
Firstly, there’s Music Player Live (Crowne Plaza, NYC – 21-23/10) where Apple has an entire pavilion, then there’s the last major dedicated Mac event of the year, namely Mac Expo which occurs at Olympia in London between 27/10 and 29/10 which will give many Europeans (where we still tend to prefer having financial years that run January – December) the opportunity to lobby for budgets in 2006.
And then the Pro roadshow can move back to NYC and NAB Post – where Apple have 600 square foot – between 15-17 November.
On another point, whilst this will be the last major architectural upgrade to the PPC Power Macintosh family – with the introduction of the 970MP alongside DDR2 – it is unlikely to be the final release of pro PPC product. Apple’s timetable for the move to Intel doesn’t finish until some point in 2007 – presumably so that Pro desktop product can move to a mainstream Intel processor (i.e. non-Xeon) [B]without[/B] losing any performance (for instance, we have always been told that Altivec is significantly better than SSE – for anyone to make the swap to the Intel-based professional line, that argument has to be negated).
Given that such a timetable probably means 18 months to two years before the Pro desktop range moves – I would think 18-20 months for Pro desktops, with Xserve being the last thing to go sometime around Fall 2007 – we can still expect several minor bumps in the intervening period, including clock speed bumps, improvements in storage options – as perpendicular technology takes off, and, last (but not least) the inclusion of Blu-ray technology.
On the subject of speed bumps, whilst the “official” (i.e. published) IBM roadmap no longer makes any mention of 970MP improving beyond 2.5GHz, a roadmap published as recently as August 2004 mentions an improved MP running at up to 4.0Ghz and with 2MB of L2 cache per core, with an intervening 970MX which improves clock-speed although with only a single shared 2MB L2 cache.
When was the last time MS announced anything?
Adobe bought Macromedia. Apple needs to buy Adobe.
MW designed. How apt.
@ Kenny>
Or, for significantly less money, Avid, Akamai and EMI Group plc.
Avid (along with Digidesign and M-Audio) would be Apple’s for around $1.75 billion and would give them a total lock on professional video production; taking control of Akamai would probably cost around $2.75 billion and give them an enormous content distribution network for their content operations. Finally, EMI Group plc (the owners of EMI, Capitol, Virgin, Charisma, Chrysalis and a whole load more) would cost around $3.5 billion and give Apple a seat at the music industry table as well as a lot of content – it would also give musicians a clear choice of the “old” music industry against a label that would/should become a model label for the way the music business could operate in the 21st century.
The bill for all my stuff costs around $8 billion and doesn’t require a lot of (expensive) restructuring – although the board of EMI Group could expect a visit from the Grim Reaper and some Avid product would bite the big one. The bill for your stuff would probably come to around $20 billion.
My next acquisition would include Harman Industries (Harman-Kardon, JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson, etc.) – currently $6.5 billion, Harman have a knowledge of working with Apple and a great portfolio of brands for both audio pros and consumers – they would also gain control of Harman’s most recent purchase which was QNX, purveyors of the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system which is used in telematics, process control and a whole load of other stuff. So now iPod’s could be connected into an Apple-designed automotive control syste (QNX) and output through an Apple-owned audio brand (Harman-Kardon, JBL, Levinson).
And I’d round it all off by purchasing Sybase – currently $2 billion – to ensure that the Xserve customers always had a grid-optimised corporate-grade DBMS system to use.
So now, I’ve spent $17 billion and put Apple into a wide range of marketplaces with a wide range of income streams.
my predictions:
– G5 with dual core (mighty mouse & new pro keyboard incl.)
– Powerbook G4 with build in iSight and HD resolution
– new displays with build in iSight and cheaper
– ProPhoto application
– Asteroid break out box
@ Sam >
Does anyone honestly care?
More seriously, we did have the “big” announcement that Stillborn Lite would be called Vista – other than that, nothing other than the surely ironic announcement of Microsoft Client Protection (seriously, I’d lose a rib if it wasn’t for this corset).
Oh, and the fact that they had to Rob “I never met a carbohydrate I didn’t like” Glaser’s Real Networks over $700 million to settle yet another case of monopolistic abuse.
So, the name of a product you won’t be able to buy for another 12-18 months.
The launch of a product you’d have to mad to buy.
And the payment of greenmail to a bunch of people whom MSFT would prefer to see thrown into the Pacific.
iTunes 7.0 😀
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I really hope that Apple makes some new inroads in Pro-software in addition to new hardware (bring on the damn powerbooks you retards!)
Apple should buy Freehand. Just to annoy Adobe. It’s way ahead of Illustrator anyway…minus the bugs. And they should hire someone to fix fontbook. Suitcase still sucks and even tho that new organizer from Linotype looks promising it’s too damn incomplete and buggy. Oh and finally – update Keynote gawd dammit.
A preview of Logic 8 would be nice at this event…
Peter said
“I think you’ll see the whole line go to dual 970MPs in June of next year because of the constraint. In early 2007, you’ll either see the first of the Intel PowerMacs or, potentially, a speed bump to 3GHz at the high-end with the Intel PowerMacs in mid-late 2007.”
While what you said it possible I think that Moore’s law is still in effect. if we are still at 3GHz in 2007 something is very wrong. I would expect at least 5-7Ghz chip by then.
“The slobs over in Redmond must really be getting weary from the nonstop barrage from Apple.”
Didn’t another evil empire lose the Cold War in similar fashion? Right now Apple is running a very professional business, while MS is clearly spinning their wheels.
“When was the last time MS announced anything?”
Besides delays (“rescheduling”) and feature cuts? Hmmm….
Speaking of announcements, with a pace like this WTF does Apple have in store for MW in January?!?
“Probably gonna be some messed up Apple home brew RSS scheme. Watch out. It’ll make you go blind.”
twat
Apple will introduce a video digital camera with a built in hard drive that docks with its new portable computer which will have an iPod sized screen on top of the box, for viewing without using the built-in LCD projector, and with beefed up audio components.
This device will combine devices to reduce complexity and enable portability and wipe out markets for countless competitors who lack imagination.
I predict the new dual-core chips will be called “G6.”
3 in 3 months is a bit much, the media will get bored.
I think Apple needs to put a bit more detail into their roadmap with the new Intel chips –
Such as will only laptop IntelMacs be coming out in January 06 and then desktop intelmacs a year, two years later?
If one would know when the IntelMacs would come out it would help lots of people make purchases now.
If the desktop IntelMacs won´t come out for another year or two, then buying the new PowerPC macs would make sense, but if they are coming out in January….I can wait.
My prediction:
The powermacs will be enhanced with the new processors and better stuff all around.
The Powerbooks will be beefed up with slightly better graphics chips/processors. The entire bezzle will be redone with new enhanced resolution screens and they will build in an iSight into the bezzle as well.
The Cinema Displays will be enhanced with built in iSights as well. What Apple does to the consumer line of anything, they will most certainly do to the Pro line as well.
I predict that more people will make more predictions and that more of them will be wrong.
Hey PR, This is my prediction, Apple’s shipping on the PowerMac G5 and the Powerbooks is 3-5 business days on STOCK. There will be new ones next week.
iam in waiting for the NEW POWERMAC G5 since 6 months ago!! PLEASE MR JOBS OCTOBER 19 MY DAY! i want pass christmass with my pro mac! and go to trash my fuking PC!
i cross my fingers!!!
People talk and worry too much on how I do business. I will run it the way I want. Apple see the profits, not the consumers. Period!