Fake PowerBook G5 Press Release

[maxigalaxy]

How can a company like Apple afford to release something (read G5) for desktop and not be prepared to do the same on a laptop in 2 years time????
That is really bad management!!! I am sure that they must have something ready...or almost!

 

[ITASOR]

It's been said over and over again. It's not needed yet in a laptop and wouldn't be practical. They should work on a special G4 first.

 

[Squire]

It's not needed yet in a laptop and wouldn't be practical. They should work on a special G4 first.

I bet Apple wishes everybody shared your opinion. While a 1.67 GHz G4 might suffice for you, or me, I'm sure the users doing video editing or (insert other heavy duty task here) would disagree.

Squire

 

[maxigalaxy]

It's been said over and over again. It's not needed yet in a laptop and wouldn't be practical. They should work on a special G4 first.

who says that it is not needed? sorry that sounds a bit too personal....

 

[StarbucksSam]

Dude. The least you could have done was double the price. No way is a first gen G5 PowerBook going to intro for anything under 2 grand initially. If you are going to put something out at least get the price point right. You can bet that Apple is going to soak as much bling out of their customers as possible for the first 6 months. My bet? 12" PowerBook $2000, 15" PowerBook $2600, 17" a cool $3200. With the iBooks getting the total pre-G5 PowerBook makeover.

TOTALLY TOTALLY DISAGREE. These things come down in price - even as they get newer. Nobody wants to spend 500 dollars more because Apple can't get their acts together - that would be a great one:

NEW PROCESSORS. PRICE RAISED 30%. STARBUCKSSAM'S APPLE STOCK DECLINES.

 

[kevin4mph]

It seems to track back to a .mac account - link as follows..



http://homepage.mac.com/dzweben/pr/jun/pbg5.html

Someone faked a news release and can't spell Availability.

 

[Squire]

Someone faked a news release and can't spell Availability.

...or "anticipated" or "authorized" or "standard"

Squire

 

[ericssonboi]

...or "anticipated" or "authorized" or "standard"

Squire

I guess spell checks are useless these days.. huh..
Good job oon the fakers part.. The person who made it must be in grade 2

 

[Squire]

The person who made it must be in grade 2

That's the sad part. He's 17! (At least if the owner of the homepage.mac.com site is the culprit.)

There's just no excuse on OSX. I mean, I spelchek everthing.

Squire

 

[chuckzee]

Guess it don't matter anymore

So much for any fake or real G5 PowerBooks

 

[LethalWolfe]

How can a company like Apple afford to release something (read G5) for desktop and not be prepared to do the same on a laptop in 2 years time????
That is really bad management!!! I am sure that they must have something ready...or almost!

What part of "Apple does not make the chips" do you not understand? IBM, to date, has yet to produce a G5 that will work effectively in a laptop. Just like they have yet to produce a 3.0ghz G5. This is Apple's fault how?


Squire,
A pro relying heavy on a laptop for proc intensive video editing is a really niche thing. Of course more power is always better, but when you consider that a typical edit bay is going to have audio monitors, a video monitor, an audio mixer, decks, and a large HDD array the need for an "uber-laptop" really isn't there in today's video world.


Lethal

 

[Stella]

There will never be G5 PowerBook...

.. No G5 Tuesday...

Never.

The G5 PowerBook never arrived.

Intel Inside.

 

[Squire]

Lethal,

Thanks for pointing that out. (I've had only a handful of experiences with video editing.) Actually, I posted that ignorantly; I was just making a guess that video editing might be processor intensive. What I meant was, "...or whatever."

I guess when they finally do release a successor to the Powerbook, it'll be plenty snappy. My 1.6 GHz Pentium M is fine. Which brings me to the next question: When are they going to update the G4 portables? Or do you think they will at all? I'm in the market and was sort of hoping for a refreshed 12" PB.

Squire

 

[Maxiseller]

Squire,
A pro relying heavy on a laptop for proc intensive video editing is a really niche thing. Of course more power is always better, but when you consider that a typical edit bay is going to have audio monitors, a video monitor, an audio mixer, decks, and a large HDD array the need for an "uber-laptop" really isn't there in today's video world.


Lethal

It's not a niche thing at all; I know plenty of people who have brought macs for things like iMovie (Including myself) iPhoto and lets face it, running itunes, instant messangers, a DVD maybe, and some other things does take processing power. As the OS gets more and more lines of code and more complex GUI, processing power becomes a premium. Plus, things like making music (logic in particular) demands a very, very high processor ability, lots of ram etc.

I think you're being to personal about YOUR processing needs. Don't forget the Powerbook is a "Pro" line. People willing to pay $2000 for a laptop don't want a ridiculous 1.6GHz. I can't even run 10 plugins on that. Poor.

Hence the move to intel of course. I'm all for it.

 

[Dr. Dastardly]

There will never be G5 PowerBook...

.. No G5 Tuesday...

Never.

The G5 PowerBook never arrived.

Intel Inside.

Almost sounds like a Haiku...

No G5 Tuesday
Powerbook G5 no arrived
Intel Inside

 

[LethalWolfe]

It's not a niche thing at all; I know plenty of people who have brought macs for things like iMovie (Including myself) iPhoto and lets face it, running itunes, instant messangers, a DVD maybe, and some other things does take processing power. As the OS gets more and more lines of code and more complex GUI, processing power becomes a premium. Plus, things like making music (logic in particular) demands a very, very high processor ability, lots of ram etc.

I think you're being to personal about YOUR processing needs. Don't forget the Powerbook is a "Pro" line. People willing to pay $2000 for a laptop don't want a ridiculous 1.6GHz. I can't even run 10 plugins on that. Poor.

Hence the move to intel of course. I'm all for it.

I think you need to reread my post and the post I was responding to. I wasn't being personal to MY needs I was responding to a specific example mentioned by a previous poster in regards to an entire industry.

To paraphrase my previous post:
1. more power is always better
2. pro editors really don't look for "editing laptops" because you still need to connected to equipment in an editing bay (some of which may not even be able to connected to a laptop).

That is why I said, "A pro relying heavy on a laptop for proc intensive video editing is a really niche thing."


Lethal