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Every time Apple makes a promise about a product before units are in production they seem to get burned pretty bad.  Think G4 stuck at 500 MHz, or 3GHz G5 in a year.  Even with the promising future from the Intel partnership I doubt Apple will risk the same mistake the third time.

so... slower than the current g5s then... unless apple is going to do dual- dual-core proccessors....

I highly doubt we'll see a Mactel in early 2k6. I couldn't see OS X being "mature" enough on x86 by then, and I don't see there being too many apps for OS X86 by then.

mo' ron wrote:

I highly doubt we'll see a Mactel in early 2k6.

I think it's generally futile to predict what computers will be like 600 years from now, although it is probably safe to say that Intel Macs will have shipped by then.

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I can see apple switching the iBooks or even Pbooks over as soon as possible - 'course i am biased because I will be buying the first intel powerbook when it comes out.

pirloui wrote:

Chances are iBook won't come before PowerBook, as apple would probably not have a consumer line more powerfull than the pro line..

Not necessarily true...is a consumer line more powerful if 3/4 of the apps are running under emulation?  I would think the pro lines are coming later.  I have always felt they were going to release a dual core powerbook and a switch to an intel in the iBook and a dual core powerbook still gives the powerbook an advantage....until a majority of the apps are universal binaries.

They might wait for Merom to ship later in 2006.

mactels will come sooner than later im sure of it, i think they will come sooner than most people think

pcguy wrote:

most Mac user know what is coming

I bet less than half of Mac users know, and I bet much, much less than half of Apple's target market for switchers knows.

I have a feeling though that once the Intel Mac ship, the resale value of PPC Macs will plummet.

Last edited by mo' ron (2005-09-13 1:36 am)