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It better be before August. If not, I'm screwed.

Yup, I'm looking forward to it. tibook 400 could use some relief.

AppleInsider thinks April/May 2006 for the 15" Intel PB with built in camera and late 2006 for the 17" IntelPB with camera. 12" PB will finally be phased out in favor of 13" widescreen iBooks. There's a chance Apple will use the dual core Yonah chips in the new PB's while the iBooks remain on standard single core chips. That's what they said.

Pro apps that currently require AltiVec probably won't go Intel for a few years yet.

oatmeal wrote:

Thrica wrote:

It better be before August. If not, I'm screwed.

That's an odd statement.  Why, what's up?

I'd imagine it's a school thang.

Why is it anticipated that Apple will release a 15 Intel PowerBook alone and then the 17 later? Is it some development thing, or just because, or what?

I'm pretty sure they won't just upgrade the 15 to Intel and leave the 17 with a G4 until the Intel 17 comes out. That would be crazy.

So I guess they are just going to have a 15 PowerBook for a while since the 17 comes later and the 12 will supposedly be dropped.

But I think I'm still deffinetly getting a 17 PowerBook within the next few weeks. That'll last me the next 5 years at most, so within that time maybe I'll get an Intel version. This G3 iMac is 5 years old and works perfectly with 10.3.9, so I except about the same for the PowerBook.

Last edited by RoboCop001 (2005-11-06 9:38 pm)

January is too soon.

Apple will not upgrade any of the PowerBooks alone. Everything is done in uniform at Apple now. I do suspect that the 15 incher will get the most prominent upgrades, just as it and the 17 inch one got most recently.

Built-in camera may be a longer way off than that. Apple likes to keep the laptop screens very thin. Will show up eventually, but not too soon. I think it may show up in the iBooks first.

MB38 wrote:

I miss the rumormill.

It hasn't really gone away, it's just been absorbed by the Circuit Board. 

::gets misty-eyed::

ukimalefu wrote:

If I could afford it now, I would buy a Powerbook now. But MWSF is very close so it's ok to wait until january.

So are we thinking MWSF is likely?

I think the Intel based PowerBooks will be announced 6 to 12 months after the release of the Intel based Mac desktops are being sold. So start counting down to the intel PBs then.

Corelogik wrote:

My $.02,

Powerbooks, iBooks, Mini, iMac, Power Macs,.... in that order. Starting in Q1 2006 and finsihing Q3-4 2007.

Did you forget that there already exist Mactel Powermacs?  And you think they'll take an extra year to release them?

I think it's much more simple.  Pro-machines, then consumer-machines.

Zander wrote:

lord funk wrote:

Corelogik wrote:

My $.02,

Powerbooks, iBooks, Mini, iMac, Power Macs,.... in that order. Starting in Q1 2006 and finsihing Q3-4 2007.

Did you forget that there already exist Mactel Powermacs?  And you think they'll take an extra year to release them?

I think it's much more simple.  Pro-machines, then consumer-machines.

I thought those were still IBM chips?

I think he's talking about the developer's Mactels

Apple has said they will do consumer models first.

The mini and the iBook have the same basic guts now, and not only Apple will want to keep those cost/volume savings, they need laptop components to make the mini work from a thermal standpoiny, so they will probably get refreshed at the same time.

With a G5 in it, the iMac has become more "prosumer." Which means the mini/ibook are probably first in line.

But the Powerbooks have to be redone before or concurrently with the iBooks... can't have the iBooks running performance loops around the pro machines, after all.

I would guess performance previews and possibly a paper release of the intel 'books and mini in January, with shipments coming a few months later, possible with altered configurations based on feedback from customer surveys and people with NDAs (like they did with the iMac, announcing it in June and shipping it in august with a faster modem than they originally said they would.) Regardless of when they're anounced, they'll definitely be shipping by June - Apple has to produce something one year from the original announcement, and there's no technical hurdle to them doing so. The reason we got the 1 year lead time was to give developers the lead time they need, and to give Apple time to work out the kinks in the bits of its software that prevent OS X from running on a Dell. (and knowing that some of your developers will violate the NDA and every BSD or Linux geek with an extra x86 machine is going to try and get it running on their hardware is a great way to identify and eliminate 99% of the possible methods.)