Apple Hints at Product Refreshes?

I'll believe it when I see it. Even still, i'm sure we'll see people saying, "The Dual 3GHz came out two weeks ago - should I buy or wait for the next revision??" Apple has customers with an insatiable appetite to be on the cutting edge, which I like. It makes this forum pretty amusing sometimes.

WWDC is sooooooo late. At least to me.

well, i guess we can stop with "are we gonna get PB update this week?" threads until June. ;)

June seems like an awfully long time before a refresh.

ofcourse they are going to update the G5s at WWDC - Steve said they would..


but i think its crazy that since the last WWDC there hasnt been any speed bumps.. that doesnt make sense. there should be a 25% bump every 6 months.. minimum

You just have to wonder how Apple expects to maintain good sales of their professional product lines doing updates only once a year... especially when others are doing it anywhere from 2 to 6 times that often.
One of the problems here is that they do not distinguish between professional and consumer lines when it comes to planning out their updates. I think they should prioritize their "professional" lines to keep their technology at the forefront and to drive demand up from the consumer lines to the professional ones. Once a year just doesn't cut it for the "outside-of-Apple" world and certainly makes it difficult to bring in Windoze would-be-Apple-converts. Hope they do better next year.

June seems like an awfully long time before a refresh.

not really. PB went without a refresh from jan. last year to sept. (with one price drop in between) that's just as long.

i imagine a price drop with the one year anniversary of iTMS launch and refresh at WWDC, at least for PB...

Apple needs to refresh something...and soon.

I'm so over the iMac, it doesn't nearly have the lasting appeal of the first one. Nice gimmick, but time to move on.

Also, what's up with the eMac...Apple's poor ugly stepchild.

The iBook is nice still...but maybe they could do something with it to make it a little extra special.

Get rid of those ugly red lights on the white iPods...lets get some nice blue in there, or better yet, white.

Pro 3D Card? Hello? What is Pixar using in their G5s?

I love Apple, but I think they are stuck in iPod land right now (with good rea$$on) and need to turn their heads back to the rest of the product line. Everyone is calling for a G5 refresh...but that actually seems new compared to the others.

Innovate goddammit!

Joe

well, i guess we can stop with "are we gonna get PB update this week?" threads until June. ;)

PBs update before WWDC:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67127

Edit: Further to my statement in the other thread, they just said updates to MANY (not all) of its products. I think they will in fact release new PMs, new iMacs plus if they don't drop them at all, new eMacs at WWDC. Perhaps they round it up by announcing updated iBooks as well but I guess they will release new iBooks sometime in May.

ofcourse they are going to update the G5s at WWDC - Steve said they would..


but i think its crazy that since the last WWDC there hasnt been any speed bumps.. that doesnt make sense. there should be a 25% bump every 6 months.. minimum

there was, not a full bump, but dual 1.8 came out...

i guess because Mac is more of a niche compuer market, it's not like you have a choice... so speed bump is not as critical as PC vendors, perhaps?

rumoring continues... :D