No PowerBook Updates Before 2005

My guess is Nov 16/23, right before the mad rush of the holiday shopping season. can Apple really afford to miss out on another peak shopping period like they did with the iMac's in sept? They missed out on back-to-school purchases, then ....

At least, bump up the current line high ends:

15" PB/1.8GHZ/8 X SD/256 VRAM/9800 Mobility

This is not the best news I've heard all day. (sigh) :(

Well, the trusty Prismo lives to fly another day. Not sure how many days she has left in her, since I've got it pretty much maxed out, but she's gonna have to hang in there.

I have a feeling this means they're waiting to update the PB's until they can get those dual-core freescale chips in there, although I'd admittedly rather see them pack in a G5 somehow.

-Joe

hmmm..Can someone rekindle the MWSF 2005 Powerbook G5 speculation. I for one think it's going to happen. Ohh one more thing... those suckers won't ship until March.

Tyler

Could this mean a PB G5 for MWSF?

Well, there you have it folks. Please, no more "PowerBook G5 next Tuesday" posts. I'm beggin' ya!

Seriously, Apple must be in a real pickle trying to make the PowerBook faster, be it with a G5, dual-core G4, whatever. They managed the iMac G5 down to 2" thick, but that's twice the size of a PB. Eek!

My guess is Nov 16/23, right before the mad rush of the holiday shopping season. can Apple really afford to miss out on another peak shopping period like they did with the iMac's in sept? They missed out on back-to-school purchases, then ....

At least, bump up the current line high ends:

15" PB/1.8GHZ/8 X SD/256 VRAM/9800 Mobility

My guess is that you are wrong. Apple isn't going to lie about this.

Mac World San Francisco Jan. '05! Keynote....new powerbooks released...crowd cheers...next on the line-up iLife '05....60GB photo iPods...crowd cheers again...everyone in attendence receives a free ipod! :D

hopefully this does mean they'll intro the dual-core freescale chip, but i doubt it. Most likely, freescale is maxed out at 1.5 right now until they can get the 1.8 out the door at the beginning of the year, and apple just has no choice other than staying at 1.5 with the powerbooks. Dual core isn't on the timeline until well into 2005 correct?

My guess is that you are wrong. Apple isn't going to lie about this.

You mean kinda like how Apple told the truth about never venturing into "Color Ipod/Vpod" territory for the life of them? Well I guess their veracity will be put to the test next Tues....either that, or Jobs just wants to chill with Bono ....

Apple has to CYA. Of course, they wouldn't announce "speedbumps" for Dec if they're still working like mad to make it happen. This way, if it does happen, then "yea! .. we're ahead of schedule. Merry xmas."

Well, the trusty Prismo lives to fly another day. Not sure how many days she has left in her, since I've got it pretty much maxed out, but she's gonna have to hang in there.

Your are kidding yourself right? The notebooks out now are (speedwise) 6-10 times faster than what you are using, less if you just go by mhz. You're the user that will wait forever for the next best thing, while everyone else enjoys the current best thing.

At least they are saying flat out "THIS IS EVERYTHING WE HAVE" So buy now, or wait till next time. At least you don't have to second guess a purchase.