September 18, 2002: MacRumors.com PowerBook Rumor Summary
April 29, 2002 brought us a top end Powerbook at 800MHz, pushing down the previous top-end configuration of 667 to become the low-end model. Before April, the previous two Powerbooks updates occured at 9 and 6 months intervals, respectively.
Following previous patterns, Powerbooks can be expected to be updated between October and January... which, conveniently corresponds to rumors circulating in the community.
PowerPage originally reported that new Powerbooks were not to be expected until MacWorld SF in January... with speed bumps and the addition of Bluetooth as a standard feature.
Astute readers, however, noted educational discounts for the Powerbooks that end on September 25th. This coupled with repeated reports of low supplies of reseller Powerbooks have added fuel to the fire.
MacOS Rumors and Spymac.com supply hints that Powerbooks will be coming prior to MWSF, but are unable to provide concrete dates. These hints are correlated by our own sources.
Kodawarisan provides the most definitive date, reporting that the 3rd week of October will bring us 800MHz/1GHz Powerbooks with an external Superdrive option.
The PowerBook is most certainly the next line from Apple to get an update. Based on the information available, pay attention to the coming weeks.
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At MW or a little afterward, I see for the 'Books a complete overhaul, new casing, new frills, new chips ('please'), bluetooth, superdrive, the works. This just might be the first piece of hardware being OS 9 non-compliant, but then I think that that will only come with the possible new chips, if we are so lucky.
Originally posted by pretentious
At MW or a little afterward, I see for the 'Books a complete overhaul, new casing, new frills, new chips ('please'), bluetooth, superdrive, the works. This just might be the first piece of hardware being OS 9 non-compliant, but then I think that that will only come with the possible new chips, if we are so lucky.
If we see a tibook upgrade in OCT/NOV then i think MWNY, not MWSF, will be more likely venue for the next upgrade.
I think the first machine to go "OS X ONLY" will be the iMac. Here's my reasoning:
1)imac has not been "speed bumped" or upgraded(except for the screen) since its unveiling at MWSF 2002.
2)Apple will make the consumer level products "OS X ONLY" first, giving pro users some time to get there os X apps upgraded(not all companies have made the jump to OS X as you know). Once the consumer machines go "X ONLY" the pros know theirs are next.
However there is the slight chance we might see an iMac upgrade before the holiday buying frenzy, in which case this all goes out the window.;) :D
i am sure it's possible and if it takes until mwsf, that will be ok
also a 64 MB graphics card will certainly be a must
a built in superdrive would be a real plus
Originally posted by jefhatfield
a built in superdrive would be a real plus
Hee. So your optical drive can burn itself out on the road too.:D
Originally posted by jefhatfield
why not low end tibook at 1 ghz, and higher end 1ghz+ ?
i am sure it's possible and if it takes until mwsf, that will be ok
also a 64 MB graphics card will certainly be a must
a built in superdrive would be a real plus
DOnt aim your guns too high..... I think we would all like a 1 GHZ + PowerBook, but I dont think apple will give that to us. It would be to hot for a laptop, and until we have a cooler processor/better cooling system we wont find speeds over 1 GHz. I could be wrong but I would be suprised to see speeds exceeding 1 GHz. As for a 64 MB graphics card. THat would be nice, but the powerbooks aren't meant to play games so I wouldnt mind if there was a 32 MB one - but I am still expecting a 64.
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