DigiTimes Reports PowerBook G5 and iBook G5 Contracts

WoW too many threads on the same topic:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=104959 :)

Let the games begin...

I'm sure its been said before on one of the other threads, but for this one....

New Powerbooks Next Tuesday.... :)

There's no way they will move the ibook to a G5: they must be putting every effort into a PB G5, and would bemuch less concerned about the ibook. There is HUGE pent up demand for a much faster PB: when they get a G5 out of the door, the profits will soar again, and they know it.

There's no way they will move the ibook to a G5: they must be putting every effort into a PB G5, and would bemuch less concerned about the ibook. There is HUGE pent up demand for a much faster PB: when they get a G5 out of the door, the profits will soar again, and they know it.

Look at the current lines and both lines sell well. :)

iBook G5 will be released at 1.6Ghz and the PowerBooks at 2.0GHz+

There is a gap. :)

The PowerBook will be released at WWDC and the iBook at MacWorld in Aug/Sept. :) Full circle as the iMac G5 was released in Aug/Sept 2004 as will the iBook G5. :)

PowerMac G5 was released at WWDC 2003. so it makes sense that the PowerBook G5 be released also at WWDC 2005. :)

There's no way they will move the ibook to a G5: they must be putting every effort into a PB G5, and would bemuch less concerned about the ibook. There is HUGE pent up demand for a much faster PB: when they get a G5 out of the door, the profits will soar again, and they know it.

I would have thought we would be waiting at least a year from the PB going G5 before the iBook follows. The iBook only went G4 in late 2003 I think. (A long time after the PB.)

Hmmm, very weird that these charts are made public. And without the author saying ANYTHING about the G5 laptops on this chart..

When is the 2nd quarter of 2005, is that the fiscal quarter or april to june?

In the conference call, they said it was a huge technical challenge to put a G5 in a laptop, and I'm sure it will, but I bet they have been working on it for over a year, or even since the intro of the G5 chip.

And since they said at the last conference call, that they weren't gonna compete in the low-end pc market..well.. we all know how that turned out didn't we?

Hoping it's true (i'll be buying a *book when I leave home, to be mobile around the house and on vacation)

This sounds too weird to be true, probably just a typo. I can't find the availability date for the Freescale MPC7448, this is the pin-compatible drop-in replacement for the current G4 and is likely to be released soonish. I think that was supposed to be available early 2005. And given that Apple just released results for "fiscal 2005 first quarter ended December 25, 2004", I'm picking we may already be in Q2? This would indicate the speed-bump PowerBooks are due to be released soon and are likely to incorporate the MPC7448.

Also, given CFO Peter Oppenheimer' comments about when to expect a PowerBook G5 vis "right now, it would be the mother of all challenges", I don't think it's worth getting anyone's hopes up. Of course he could be deliberately being evasive, nothing hurts current sales as bad as announcing a new product early, as Adam Osborne discovered. And lets face it, the CFO is going to be the least likely person at Apple to make that kind of gaff. Plus he doesn't actually say it's not going to happen, he just suggests it would be very hard.

But it's great to get the PB rumours rolling again. My TiBook 667 is getting a mite long in the tooth and I'm determined to wait for a PB that doesn't have a garden hose for a FSB.

As I said in the other thread, I am not too sure if I would want a first gen. G5 PB, especially not with all the cooling problems they had.
If it is available this year though, it would make a really nice 2nd gen. in March or April 2006 when I would upgrade my rev. c :rolleyes:
The faster they get the first gen out the faster I get my 2nd gen. :D

i suspect its starting manufacture early so as to produce enough to meet initial demand...

would think the PBG5 would come out near the start of manufacture, cause delays in shipment because of the amout of demand, even more of a panic, then four or five months later, maybe september, october, as schools and universities start back, release the IBG5 and they get swallowed up as well.

cue huge profits matching the jump of this year's financial report!

:)