A reminder, Apple has invited the media to a special event, the third to be held in about a month’s time, to be held in New York City tomorrow.
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
Of course: iTunes 7
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My nipples explode with delight!
good old trusty TI powerbook don’t fail me now.. one more season and the new batch will be here!
Yeah. Apple innovates by finally catching up with EVERY MAJOR PC MAKER IN THE WORLD by offering dual core. Way to keep innovating, Apple.
The Powerbooks and G5 Powermacs are getting a really getting long in the tooth. Two years ago I bought a 17 in Powerbook with the CPU at 1.33 GHz. Since then the PB has been updated to 1.7 GHz and only the drive, ram and bluetooth have changed. The Powermacs have also seen minor improvements with the CPU speed but not much else.
The higher resolution screen in the PB will be a help. It will be interesting what Apple do in the imaging space.
What time will the event take place?
If they don’t release dual core PM’s tomorrow they might as well not bother. I need a new mac badly and with the Intels around the corner I don’t think they can afford to wait any longer for “the exciting PowerPC updates”.
So where are all the rumors? Is the rumor grapevine all dried up? What if the announcement isn’t about hardware at all, but about software. Some pro software that nobody has heard of? Apple AI (iAI?), Apple CAD (iCAD/CAM)…
Where are the rumors? Where’s my magic word? Oh now it shows it’self.
MW:”love” yuck!
Would a faster PowerBook with a higher-res screen be an innovation? Naw, it better be something new, something I’ll say is cool, but will never buy myself.
MW: wish. that is my wish.
Anon – the dual core processors here are IBM’s innovation, not Apple’s. I’m sure they would gladly have offered them long ago had IBM actually provided them. The dual core chips that EVERY MAJOR PC MAKER IN THE WORLD are using are from Intel and AMD. They are not the result of the PC makers’ innovation. Perhaps this is the main reason Apple is switching to Intel.
Anon – surely you jest. Apple put dual processors on our desktops years ago. Dual processor puts both cores on one die, but Apple has hardly been laggard in multiprocessor computing. Besides, dual core PPCs were released slightly later than offerings by AMD and Intel. The difference is that Apple’s initial dual core computers are destined for desktops, not just servers. I doubt that consumers will purchase many dual-Xeon computers in the next few months. Upcoming Intel & AMD releases, of course, will expand to the general desktop and laptop market and that coincides with Apple’s plans to go Intel.
Apple is going to introduce its version of Adobe Photoshop aimed at pro photographers.
Well, the cool rumor would be an early release of the Intel-based powerbook or powermac. I know, I know we won’t see it, but I did read an article a couple weeks back that said Intel was ahead of schedule with their dual-core chips, and maybe they could sneak it into one of the machines now. Thought that might be what was gonna happen at the last event – totally wrong. Anyway – fun to speculate!
I predict that Apple will release octo-core PowerMac G6’s that no longer require the use of a keyboard or mouse; they’ll be controlled telepathically.
Remember, Terminator 2’s “Skynet” foreshadowed Apple.
“Holy Vingle, Batman!”
I can’t seem to find what TIME this event will take place.
74 more days left in this Year of HD…
Oh, and it’ll be AT LEAST another week before Apple releases iTunes 7. COME ON, DAMMIT, REAL ARTISTS SHIP!!!!
I’m one that believes Apple will release the dual core PMs and that they will kick a**. I don’t have as much faith in Freescale delivering the dual core G4s – even though they said deliveries would start about now. (And, yes, Anon, if Freescale could deliver now dual cores would be in the PB.)
Of secondary interest would be any new apps that are photo related. I’m not thinking a Photoshop replacement, but something that photographers would like – probably in basic management or an enhancement for iPhoto.
‘Please tell me its true’ says:
“If they don’t release dual core PM’s tomorrow they might as well not bother. I need a new mac badly and with the Intels around the corner I don’t think they can afford to wait any longer for “the exciting PowerPC updates”.”
I feel the same way, but don’t bet on the release of dual core G4s. The resulting performance increase would make direct comparisons with the eventual, inevitable, dual core Pentiums too close. Since Apple wants the world to believe the Macintel transition is for performance reasons, having a lowly dual core G4 PB giving the ‘next gen’ technology a run for it’s money won’t be allowed. I’ll gladly eat crow if I’m wrong, but …
I’m sure the single core CPU will be bumped a little, and I think there will be a memory speed increase – maybe using DDR2 (it’s more energy efficient than DDR memory). Obviously there will be the obligatory video card upgrade (cheap and easy way to show ‘improvement’). After that, it’s probably all going to be about screen resolution.
MDN magic word: “age”
As in, the PB will continue showing it’s age, but not because Apple couldn’t put better PPC hardware in it – marketing and the Macintel disinformation campaign will keep it artifically behind the times.
New laptops support Smell!
and there will be “preview wafts” in iTunes, prior to downloading “Cafe Ambience”, “Wet Dog”, “Freshly Mown Lawn”, and “New Jersey Landfill”.
Just think, the new G4 widescreen latop will have an iSight, and iWhiff built-in, side by side!
COME ON, DAMMIT, REAL ARTISTS SHIP!!!!
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LMAO!!
Steve screaming that as his employees…
I guess that’s how Apple employees psych each other up lmfao
One sore point in Apple’s apps is iPhoto. Go beyond point and shoots (aRGB etc) and it breaks down. iMovie is to FinalCut what iPhoto is to…
Anon:
“Yeah. Apple innovates by finally catching up with EVERY MAJOR PC MAKER IN THE WORLD by offering dual core. Way to keep innovating, Apple.”
It’s the PC makers who are just now catching up, thanks to dual-core chips, because they couldn’t put a decent dual-processor system together. Apple’s had dual-processor systems for, what, at least 7 years now? What was the first commercially successful mainstream dual-processor PC? Dual Xeons? Ooooo, those were a big hit, now, weren’t they? Correct me if I’m wrong.
Hank is right (see his post above) – new pro software like Photoshop.
Also see:
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508adobe.html
Plus a couple new Apple computer updates to yawn about.
Where´s the Mactels????
I’d NEVER buy a Rev. A MacTel, no matter WHAT features were jammed into it.
First steer clear of ANY Rev.A. PERIOD.
Second, it’s an entirely NEW and DIFFERENT processor and underlying processor architecture. Yikes!
Third, there will be tons of software compatibility problems for months after MacTels appear.
It took a good 6 months for software to catch up with the hardware after the first PPC 604 machines shipped. It was HELL and I and my powerMac 8500/120 were stuck in the middle of it.
NEVER again! No matter WHAT Apple promises and what hype about smooth and seamless transitions they spew. I won’t fall for it again.
Remember all those smooth transitions we were promised?
System 6 to System 7.
68000 to 68030 Macs.
68xxx Macs to PowerPC
Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X
You’d be a fool to bet your business on an untried architecture right out of the gate!
Secret Word: larger… as in the problems during the MacTel transition will be larger than promised or expected.
“Additionally, AppleInsider has now been told that Apple plans to hang around the PhotoPlus Expo for the three days that will follow (as an exhibitor). In fact, documents show the company to have registered booth number 338 — the largest exhibition space on the show floor.”
full article on AppleInsider:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1331
Apple’s photo/pro event starts at noon:
“According to sources, the Mac maker will utilize a small conference room inside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to unveil its latest professional Macintosh products. The event is slated to begin at 12:00pm eastern time.”
“The invitation is jet black and sports a large camera lens as a teaser. Earlier reports had hinted that a significant photography-related announcement would accompany the introduction of new PowerBooks and dual-core Power Macs at the event.”
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1330