New Powerbook G4's at Expos

[crocodile-man]

You know how at technology expos they show future hardware for companies sometimes 5- 10 years down the road... Just wondering if apple does this at all, and has demoed any pimped out machines such as a future Powerbook G4.

As a side note, why is apple so tight about their products. Why not get people interested in their product at least a month before it is going to be released, so people can hype it up and drool over it?

 

[shadowfax]

you can't hype your new stuff before it comes out! no one will buy your current line because they will wait for your new stuff. that's a horrible idea from a business standpoint.

 

[MacCoaster]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
you can't hype your new stuff before it comes out! no one will buy your current line because they will wait for your new stuff. that's a horrible idea from a business standpoint.

Interesting. It works for AMD.

 

[UnixMac]

yeah, I agree, that's BS.....not every one wants the latest and greatest thing. There are some (me) that do, but the majority will buy what they "need" at the present time.

 

[Source]

Originally posted by WanaPBnow
yeah, I agree, that's BS.....not every one wants the latest and greatest thing. There are some (me) that do, but the majority will buy what they "need" at the present time.

I don't think that really applies to Macs though.

With AMD, new chips are being released constantly. With Mac computers, a new revision of the Powerbook can happen anywhere from 6 months or longer. So people are more willing to wait for the new macs to be released, so that they can have the latest and greatest for those 6 months or longer.

I don't know why, but even though there's a lot of rumours about the next revision of the PBG4 being released within the next few weeks, i just don't think it's going to happen.

Don't get me wrong, i hope it does as i want one, but i've got a feeling that we won't be seeing a new mac for a while (Maybe January). None of these rumors seem to have any hard kind of facts to base their estimations of the release on.

 

[TheCharlie]

But I heard...

I heard that Apple was scheduled to release them a month back, but they got stuck somewhere overseas in outbound shipping or something. It's probably somewhere else on here that I heard it, but I forget where.