iBook Specs and Powerbook Superdrive

This is getting hilarious! =D

SuperDrive, no SuperDrive
Bluetooth, no Bluetooth
1GHz, no 1GHz


Just wait and see....

$200 price drop sounds pretty good to me.. sound make the ibook a lot more competitive with the pc competition.. not that it already is ;)

The magic number is there: $999. If they can do it without removing equipment, that's great. Finding another retail-priced laptop at that price will be difficult. That number should move a lot of people who've wanted a laptop computer for a long time but found the price prohibitive.

Still, you can go to Sam's Club and buy an HP Athlon XP-based laptop for a couple hundred more.

Well, for those who are specting to buy a new powerbook with super drive in it, my sugestion is to wait at list 4 to 5 months (really I would wait no less than 6) to get one. Just because there is a new technology to install in such small space something so complex as a super drive. Usually the first revision is very close to a beta testing, so you may get a device that is not fully tested yet.

I would wait for a second revision with all the problems corrected. It is very risky to get the first revision.

Those are my 2 cents.

wow...$200 price drop? i might be getting a new iBook sooner than I thought then....I really wish it was a G4 processor tho....

Superdrive in! Superdrive out! Superdrive in! Superdrive out!

Seems to me that if the conflicting reports are coming from 'knowledgable sources' then it's clear that superdriven TiBooks (superTiBooks) will be announced on wednesday, but that that particular BTO option won't ship for a month or two.

So many people are pooh poohing bluetooth, but putting bluetooth into the notebooks standard is the chicken, from whence the eggs will come, making bluetooth as cool in America as it is in Eurpoa.

Kevin Fox
Me, me, me! http://fury.com

this is getting way out of hand. i wonder, you people with rumor experience, does this wild flood of conflicting rumors a few days before the supposed fruition of the rumors make the Nov. 5 date more likely or less likely?

Originally posted by Shadowfax
this is getting way out of hand. i wonder, you people with rumor experience, does this wild flood of conflicting rumors a few days before the supposed fruition of the rumors make the Nov. 5 date more likely or less likely?

Completely circumstantial, but it's interesting to note the following:

Those fancy little iCal badges on Apple's home page, the ones that update every day to show the current date? Check this out:

http://www.apple.com/home/images/2002/11/112ical.gif: exists
http://www.apple.com/home/images/2002/11/113ical.gif: exists
http://www.apple.com/home/images/2002/11/114ical.gif: exists
http://www.apple.com/home/images/2002/11/115ical.gif: exists
http://www.apple.com/home/images/2002/11/116ical.gif: does not exist

Looks to me like there's enough new stuff coming on the 5th or 6th to knock iCal off the home page.

Kevin Fox

Me, me, me! http://fury.com

I sure hope that the iBook update include a better videocard, 32MB.:p :p

I just wanted to say nice call on the iCal dates... I think that points towards an upgrade...