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PowerBooks Updates?

And unconfirmed/anonymous submission claims that the Powerbook line will see speed bumps on June 24th @ 9am at North Beach (@ WWDC).



That timeslot is available and scheduled as 'To Be Announced", but would be an unusual time for such an event... as Jobs' keynote is the day before at 10am.

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113 months ago
I don't think that it can be anything major given the timeslot. Probably just bringing the 12" up to speed with the other two. I doubt we will see a 15" alBook before a major upgrade of the line. Just my crazy opinion.:rolleyes: yeah right! I'm hoping for a revamped 15":D
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113 months ago
This sounds unlikely unless what Jobs has to announce is so phenomenal that it will make these bumps seem like nothing. (let's hope!)
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113 months ago
Well, it doesn't look like they'll be announcing a 970 PB in that time, anyway. Some people have thought that was possible...We can hope, but if they do, it won't be what that timeslot is
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113 months ago
i believe the going rumor is speed bumps plus 15 inch albook. that's what was in the original submission. definitely not gonna see 970s in powerbooks at wwdc.
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113 months ago
powerbook rumor #8632... I'll file it in the pile with the rest of them. :)
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113 months ago
this one seems more like a "duh" rumor to me than anything else. i mean, they really have to update those powerbooks. why not just do it with everything else--Panther, presumably 970 PMacs... it all fits.
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113 months ago
if we are getting the updates during WWDC, they'll be part of jobs' warm up. you know the routine, blah blah OS X has so many new users, blah blah safari blah blah 15" powerbook, and oh yeah...new dual 1.8 Ghz powermacs!...(mob rushes the stage) What?
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113 months ago

Originally posted by trebblekicked
if we are getting the updates during WWDC, they'll be part of jobs' warm up. you know the routine, blah blah OS X has so many new users, blah blah safari blah blah 15" powerbook, and oh yeah...new dual 1.8 Ghz powermacs!...(mob rushes the stage) What?

i hope we don't get excited about that. or is that what you mean, that they will mob him in violent anger?

how long is steve's keynote? will he really have time to show us everything?
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113 months ago

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i hope we don't get excited about that. or is that what you mean, that they will mob him in violent anger?

how long is steve's keynote? will he really have time to show us everything?


We should get excited it he announced dual/1.8GHz Powermacs. Those would be the top of the line 970s.

In any case I have said it once and I'll say it again. It goes against everything ever set down by Apple to announce Powerbooks at a developer conference. If they do announce them it will be before or after not at the conference. He may go over them again at the conference but as a side note as a bunch of developers could care less for a minor update to the Powerbooks. If they were to announce hardware at the WWDC it would be PowerMacs and I don't see that happening for a couple months yet.
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113 months ago

Originally posted by MacBandit
We should get excited it he announced dual/1.8GHz Powermacs. Those would be the top of the line 970s.

*slaps forehead* sorry, i was thinking he meant a G4 speedbump, as he didn't say 970 at all, but i guess 1.8 is the clockrate they will be at. it's too bad it couldn't be more. i can't help but wonder how even dualies will benchmark with non-64 bit software at 1.8 GHz. we'll have to see what apple does!
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