Rumor Watch... So... What's Next?

Come on! Give us some hints about the mystery device!

Originally posted by pyrotoaster
Come on! Give us some hints about the mystery device!

There's been hints on this and other sites of a plastic enclosure about the same size as 2 stacked DVD boxes being used for some nefarious purpose at One Infinite Loop.

When I see it, I'll believe it.

What I want is a 15" Powerbook update. Where's the AE, bluetooth and keyboard?

Don't forget about the 15" PowerBook. That hasn't been updated in a while. The MR Buyer's Guide even thinks that we should hold off on a 15" PB purchase, as they may be updated soon.

[edit: okay, Hawthorne just beat me to the 15" PowerBook updates]

--Fred

Originally posted by Hawthorne
There's been hints on this and other sites of a plastic enclosure about the same size as 2 stacked DVD boxes being used for some nefarious purpose at One Infinite Loop.

I know of those rumors from such "reliable" sources as LoopRumors and MOSR (really reliable :rolleyes: ).

Macwhispers little 8-inch enclosure is interesting, but they're now expressing doubt in the source that brought them that info.

I'm also eager for some 15" PowerBook news, as my gf is eager for one. Should I tell her to stop waiting and just buy now? Any info you can share, Arn, would be appreciated.

RAILHead today said rumors are floating that it'll be out by the end of May, or June....not too helpful

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
I'm also eager for some 15" PowerBook news, as my gf is eager for one. Should I tell her to stop waiting and just buy now? Any info you can share, Arn, would be appreciated.

RAILHead today said rumors are floating that it'll be out by the end of May, or June....not too helpful

Remember Steve's marketing decision/delay on the death of OS 9 -- coming next month now.

This should mean an EOL for the legacy PowerMac, SDR iMac, TiBook is coming real soon.

The only decision is will he ship the things before WWDC, or wait to announce them at WWDC.

Though several people are hoping for a lot more than clearing house on the last OS 9 bootable machines.

Give us the new Powermacs, with the 1.8 Power 970's, and we'll all be in la-la land. That's when we can say that Apple has really "arrived".

I'm thinking 15"pb needs to be introduced soon. However, the longer it gets, the more i suspect there is something more than an oversupply of 15"Ti books keeping the new aluminums from hitting the stores. Not sure what it is, just one of those hunchs. Rumors were that the Ti would be updated soon after the new al books were rolled out, and it makes sense to even out the product line. 15" seems to be the sweet spot for laptops, more functional than the 12", more portable than the 17". This is an important spot in apples lineup, and should be top-o-the-line, which makes me think something else is causing the delay. Of course, I could be reading way to much in to the extended delay. I guess thats why rumors are so much fun! Just my $.02

A Quad 970 1.8 GHz beast running a 64-bit OS with a dial mouse, 30" HD flatscreen, and a new tablet-style universal remote for all your electronics and bluetooth equipped devices, including the new home stereos that will tie into your mac so all those iTunes playlists running off your secondary HD can be transmitted to recievers all over the house.

Plus Jobs is going to buy out the music radio channels off of DirecTV and do basically the same thing they do now, except that they will have iTunes visual interpolation on the channels instead of just the track info and an animation of raindrops. Each channel will be manned by two top-of-the-line 970 systems for unparalleled framerate and color depth to go along with the updates to the screen effects in iTunes that will come with Panther. It will play only songs available at iTMS, and the digital request system they will build in will go to the iTunes people to help them direct their music acquisition efforts. The Apple logo will stil pop up occasionally just to remind everyone who's boss, just like on your computer.

The remote tablet will give them a profitable front to R&D a new generation of draw tablets that have a built-in-display so you can see what you're drawing on like you were drawing on paper.

iTunes will soon offer stramed music videos, lyrics, and folios, plus catalogue numbers for advanced searchers and an easier way to reference specific tracks.

And then Jobs will hire me full time for an upper-mid five figure salary to test just how well video games work on each successive model of mac.

:D Yeah, we got it goin' on...

Originally posted by BaghdadBob


:D Yeah, we got it goin' on...

You nut! :D