Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5 387
lewsmind writes "The Register has a scoop on the new PowerBook G5.
According to this article at the Apple website has hidden clues that suggest the coming of the PB G5 very soon.
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Already gone... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Already gone... (Score:5, Insightful)
And as the article points out that it could have been a typo. Having two HTML items labeled "powerbook_g5" (and already changed now to "powerbook_g4" on the page in question), is a far cry from having a page with specs and/or prices accidentally uploaded for a few minutes.
A Powerbook G5 is inevitable, but this doesn't quite seem like the "Mac Mini" leak....
Re:Already gone... (Score:3, Interesting)
Here's what I was trying to say:
In Google's cache [216.239.57.104] of the page, it's there, but it's a 1x1 image. And the image is still there [atdmt.com]. That's at the very least interesting...
Re:Already gone... (Score:5, Informative)
the g6 powerbook [atdmt.com]
and
Duke nukem forever [atdmt.com]
Worked it out yet? This is a non-story.
Re:Already gone... (Score:5, Funny)
But does it come with optical out?
Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:5, Funny)
A burning Mac user? Is that what you native English speaking people are referring to when you say "flaming homosexual"?
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:3, Insightful)
if they're just HIRING them then they're friggin year away. maybe they ran out of ideas.
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:5, Insightful)
The Mac Mini would also have required a great deal of thermal design.
Note, if Apple is indeed advertising for thermal engineers for a G5 Powerbook today, then there is no chance that we're going to see such a machine any time soon.
Servers (Score:2)
Rack mounted equipment, such as servers and storage, can also be troublesome to keep within temperature spec.
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:5, Funny)
jobs.apple.com? That Steve is such an ego maniac.
You don't pay Microsoft at bill.microsoft.com.
And you don't get into the place through gates.micosoft.com
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. (Score:5, Funny)
Dodgy rumours (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dodgy rumours (Score:5, Insightful)
So we should expect new PowerBook G5s to be released when, next Tuesday?
[Fast forward to next Tuesday and cue the sound of a million geeks dissapointed as yet another Tuesday rolls by and no PowerBook G5s]
I learned not to believe the PowerBook G5 rumors in May of 2002 when everyone was convinced that Apple would simultaneously release PowerMac G5s and PowerBook G5s at WWDC. I realized then that more than half of the time the mac rumors sites are simply blowing smoke up your ass to drive up traffic to their websites.
Every time they resurrect that infamous "G5 PowerBooks next Tuesday" rumor hundreds of geeks start having wet dreams, just to get their hopes dashed when it never comes true.
I bought a 1.25 ghz. G4 PowerBook over a year ago and haven't looked back since... It's still fast enough for me today, so I don't think I would buy a G5 PowerBook if it were released today.
Moral of the story: Buy a G4 PowerBook now and forget about all the rumors.
Re:Dodgy rumours (Score:5, Funny)
Go ahead, but from what I hear, you'll regret it next Tuesday.
Re:Dodgy rumours (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm on the fence.
On the one side, using the new Freescale chips would require a lot of design work that will go out the window when G5s become low power enough to go in laptops. That mi
Pretty conceited... (Score:4, Insightful)
Considering this has been on every tech and gadget site all morning, I think it's pretty conceited of them to think their story is what prompted Apple to make the "correction".
Re:Pretty conceited... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Pretty conceited... (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the Beef? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Where's the Beef? (Score:5, Informative)
On that subject, I'm confused what the article author means by: "As we've said, it could be an error, but with two separate files both using containing the sub-string _g5_, one on Apple's site, the other on Avenue A's, this seems unlikely."
I'm guessing what he means is that the file "apple_g5_powerbook" appears to exist on the target server.
Well, "http://switch.atdmt.com/action/i bet any damn string will work here and the register is just freaking stupid [atdmt.com]" works, and "http://switch.atdmt.com/action/tony smith is a wanker [atdmt.com]" seems OK too. Obviously they were already prepared for this story!
Or, of course, the bug accepts any input string and just dumps a 1x1 transparent GIF.
Wait and see (Score:2)
Re:Wait and see (Score:3, Informative)
Remember, the Think Secret case is primarilly about compelling Think Secret to reveal the source of their information so that Apple can enforce their NDA with that person.
Re:Wait and see (Score:3, Insightful)
Second, its not an issue that somebody spilled their coffee, its that McDonalds sold a product that could not be consumed and was in fact dangerous in its sold form.
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Free Advertising, All Around! (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be looking for the Slashdot links on Apple's website... you know, to complete the circle.
correct link form article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:correct link form article (Score:4, Funny)
Also noticed... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Also noticed... (Score:2)
The heatsink for a G5 laptop could power your XBox and double as a grill. Rather than resting your hands below the keyboard you can grill up steak and eggs.
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An Indicator (Score:2)
Re:An Indicator (Score:3, Insightful)
Of Course (Score:5, Funny)
How do I know? Well, I just bought a Powerbook.
They're basing this on a 1x1 image... (Score:5, Informative)
Once, about three years ago, I noticed one of these images on my ISP's web page with a file name something like XXXLESBIANPORNROMGAYWAREZMP3NAPSTERDOWNLOADZ.gif. I didn't assume that SBC was going to get into the internet porn or fileswapping business, I assumed that an ad agency used a few key words for one reason or another.
Re:They're basing this on a 1x1 image... (Score:2)
Actually, I believe Apple named it, but it was probably a typo. Avenue A's site is set up to send out a 1x1 GIF image to any request. Unless you believe the Apple G6 Powerbook [atdmt.com] is coming out soon also...
Think about it. They announced a lot of other products two weeks ago. They traditionally announce products at that time. Would it make sense for
Media magnet (Score:2, Interesting)
People are sick and tired of Windoze methinks.
Re:Media magnet (Score:5, Interesting)
Apple have embraced Open Source software throughout their product - every mac comes with apache installed for instance, UNIX, 64 bit computing
While everyone loves to bash Apple, especially considering their past, most people realise that the products they are putting out are pretty damn good.
I waited til 10.1 came out before I bought my first PB 15", and havn't looked back since. I can do pretty much anything I could do with a intel box running linux, plus much more - and it has a GUI that is well thought out and works well. You really need to try it.
A mate here at work was pleasantly surprised when I showed him how ANY application that makes use of the Aqua text entry boxes gets spell checking as you type as a standard feature. I think he realised there is a nice side to having an OS that is designed relatively cleaning from the bottom up.
Most of the geeks I know who never owned a mac before, are now considering a Mac Mini, because its cheap and can be used in a lot of ways - plus its like, not windows. I would hazard a guess that this is Apples evil plan, and before long all those geeks will be queuing up for iBooks and PowerBooks.
And in turn, the masses will follow. Because in the land of computing, the masses always follow the geeks.
it MUST be true! (Score:5, Funny)
It's on a web page, so you know it's true.
Stevenote (Score:2)
I am bitter because 4 days ago I bought a nice new shiny Powerbook. G4. Gah.
Re:Stevenote (Score:2)
Re:Stevenote (Score:3, Funny)
Where's the dual-core G4 powerbook? (Score:3, Interesting)
How is this a shock? (Score:5, Funny)
A G5 Mac Mini, or a Powerbook shuffle, now that would be news. Or a Newton OS Mac PDA phone iPod Airport Express thingy with no broadcast flag and dual processors. But aren't exactly banner headlines.
oops (Score:2)
Damn slashdot lameness-adding-filter.
POWER5 (aka "G6" or perhaps "G7") anyone? (Score:3)
Editors....READ ENGADGET FOR ONCE! (Score:2)
I dont get it... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I dont get it... (Score:3, Funny)
My G4 has been doing an admirable job of keeping me warm, but I am always looking for something hotter - preferably something I could make iCocoa with while burning my legs.
Mmmm. Second degree burns and marshmallows.....
Hoax (Score:3, Interesting)
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g4_powerbo
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_powerb
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_37337_po
All render a image.
I call shenigans
This is unlikely to mean anything (Score:3, Insightful)
2). The correct title for this should be http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g4_powerbook
3). It has been now changed to be g4, which is appropriate for the content of the page.
If apple had a g5 in the works, why would they put this link in a g4 page? It doesn't help them track anything about g5s. This register article is speculative and probably wrong.
-Dan
Re:This is unlikely to mean anything (Score:2)
This just means Apple's thinking ahead, as usual. I'm sure Steve is well aware of how close his researchers are to portable cold fusion power. Now hold on a minute, while I answer this subpoena...
Lucky, was just going to go out and buy a G4. (Score:2)
I have a 1st gen 17" and its a bit whiney.
G5 Teleportation Device!! (Score:5, Funny)
But will it imperil male fertility? (Score:2)
What I want to know is, in these days when a CPU chip puts out more heat than a vacuum tube used to... how are they going to prevent it from toasting ones' manhood, in the case of male customers?
Is there a way to make an extremely thin, flat, rectangular Dewar flask?
Will the thing be packed full of chemical gel that is an insulator with a big latent heat of fusion, and you'll pop in in the f
iMac G5 upgrade in the future (Score:2)
WIth talk of Mac mini's, iPod Shuffles, and G5 PowerBooks, I cannot get any pulse on Imac G5 upgrades.
My laptop went out on me last week and I want to replace it with an iMac G5 (yeah, I know it isn't a laptop) but don't want to be one of those people who buys the computer and then two weeks later news of significant improvements emerge.
Any buying advice on iMac G5 timing? While you're at it, thoughts on t
Re:iMac G5 upgrade in the future (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course they are adorable, and I'd love to have one of either screen size.
Re:iMac G5 upgrade in the future (Score:3, Interesting)
Excellent point!
I am troubled with this too, but I also find myself askinging, if this iMac G5 will be relevant and useful 5, 6, 8 years from now, would I really be happy investing in a monitor that will last me that long, plus the life span of another computer? In other words, if conservatively, a Mac is relevant for five years, and I want to get two lifespans out of a monitor, I will be selecting a monitor for the next ten years. And in that t
Re:iMac G5 upgrade in the future (Score:3, Insightful)
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you don't like the idea of not being able to reuse the monitor then you shouldn't buy an iMac. Once you're on the path of buying an iMac, you should get the monitor that will make you happy. Why save $400 and put up with a dinky monitor for several years?
Re:iMac G5 upgrade in the future (Score:3, Interesting)
I do see your general point, as the original poste
PPC 970FX (Score:3, Interesting)
When IBM delivers a new PPC 970 version I'd start getting excited about a PowerBook G5.
In other news, GM coming out with 2006 models (Score:5, Funny)
How much power is this going to buy? (Score:3, Insightful)
Once back in the office we have several dual 1.25 Ghz G4 towers and a couple dual 2Ghz powermac g5's for final rendering. These machines were each between 6k and 12k.
One the road, battery life means more than horsepower and the powerbook strikes a reasonable balance over the G3 iBooks that were available when we purchased the PB's. From what I've read, the G5 chip (unless apple will pull the classic: different chip, same name game) sucks down juice like mad.
I saw the words "G5 Powerbook" (Score:5, Funny)
Surely this is a sign.
A more accurate way to predict G5 laptop arrivals. (Score:4, Insightful)
Please indulge me in my pompous professerism for a moment:
Conditional probability of two events is written as P(A|B).
This is spoke as "The probability of A given B." B is what you know, A is something you're interested in.
So define A as "a new powerbook introduced in the next 30 days".
In this case, B is what we know - if we define B as this web-bug gif, well, that that doesn't tell us much about P(A), though it might allow you to update your beliefs about the quality of journalism at the Register.
So what sort of B would tell us something about P(A)?
Look to past events that occured before previous Apple product introductions:
- scant supply of current models in the supply chain
- 'end of life' designation in retailers' stocking computers
- ThinkSecret or other site posting pics, or 'reliable' rumors
- Press conference scheduled
- I'm sure that there are many other pieces of relevant info, a web-bug not being very high on the ranking list.
So here I am - waiting for a dual core G4 PB. I will not buy one of the current models, as they are somewhat long in the tooth, getting only speed bumps for over a year.
I see no indication of scant supply.
I see no indication that current models are EOL'd on retailers' stocking systems.
I see no 'reliable' rumors, and I would expect some if there was a plant in Asia making new PB's to build up inventory before introduction.
Given the above evidence, I conclude that it is highly unlikely that a PB will be introduced during the next 30 days.
Dammit. I do hope my conclusion is wrong.
And I fear that P(A|B) = 1 if we define the event B: "I buy a current PowerBook".
Re:A more accurate way to predict G5 laptop arriva (Score:4, Interesting)
I see no indication that current models are EOL'd on retailers' stocking systems.
Like this from mac rumors [macrumors.com]
PowerBook shortages are being reported by resellers worldwide, with Apple's own online store putting shipping dates now at 7 - 10 days out. Delays like these usually signify a product change is about to occur, and the G4 PowerBook is expected to have a minor speed bump revision according to Think Secret. G5 PowerBooks have been in the rumor news recently, but aren't expected to show for some time to come.
Or perhaps this [macrumors.com]
Macbidouille posts that FNAC (largest multimedia shop in France) has declared the Powerbooks "End of Life". FNAC is also present in other European countries such as Spain.
There will be no new shipments of the old revisions once the stock is sold.
It's a typo (Score:3, Informative)
Other powerbook G5 typos from apple (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe because they never said that it voids your warranty in the first place.
That was nothing but FUD that was been corrected by statements Apple has made to correct the misconceptions... statements which I know you've read yet you continue to repeat in an effort to spread FUD.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:2, Informative)
Where are the statements? I have asked for them multiple times and no one has shown me anything other than statements from third party sites that are quotes from supposed conversations with Apple representatives.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Informative)
"contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty "unless you break something when you open it.")
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:3, Interesting)
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Funny)
did he speak out against god or something?
OOOOOOH, you meant HEARSAY
ok, now I got ya
think I'm just being annoying and difficult there? Guess what, you are too.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means ;) Just to clarify, did you mean heresy, or hearsay?
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought he said Hershey.
Now I really am hungry.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.
And people accuse mac fans of being the religiously fanatical ones.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Informative)
Seems pretty clear to me. You're free to upgrade the memory, but you're doing so at your own risk.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Funny)
So contrary to rumors on the Internet, rumors on the Internet state that the rumors on the Internet are not true?
Slashdot has always posted rumors (Score:5, Insightful)
Rumors have always been fodder for Slashdot. Linux, Microsoft, Sun, Transmeta, Intel, AMD, XM/Sirius, and today it's Apple.
There are a lot of articles that don't really interest me, but that doesn't mean that they don't matter to other readers.
Re:Slashdot has always posted rumors (Score:3, Funny)
since you're new here are the de-facto rules:
1. Never talk bad about Apple.
2. Microsoft is bad (expound exponentially on this point)
3. ????
4. profit.(from old Korean hot grit Natalie Portman soviet russia, welcoming our new (#3) overlords, all you base, and I am sure that I'll be reminded of what I missed.)
What is of interest (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually I was curious about what reader reactions would be. I sometimes read stories in Slashdot primarily to read other people's opinions, rather than to absorb the information from the quoted story.
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:4, Informative)
apple.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] has been active for quite awhile now.
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Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:2)
This is the lamest rumor I've ever seen on the web. And I used to read macosrumors.com daily. (I'm not hyperlinking them because their website isn't worth your ten second speed read. macrumors.com [macrumors.com] is a little better.)
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:2)
I am a Mac user, and I look around at Mac rumor sites sometimes, so what I'm about to say shouldn't be taken as holding anti-Mac sentiments.
I agree that I'm bothered by this degree of Mac-rumor-mongering on the /. front page. I don't mind that it's a Mac rumor, but that it's a silly and unsubstantiated Mac rumor. Every indication is that a G5 Powerbook is a ways off still. Some 1x
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed, a transparent 1x1 GIF gives another shade to the meaning of the term "thin evidence".
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:2)
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:3, Informative)
Also when you open the mac mini you don't actually break the clips, it's just lik
Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? (Score:3)
(d) to damage caused by service (including upgrades and expansions) performed by anyone who is not a representative of Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider;
This is for ALL their products under the 1 year warranty as ahacop listed in his link above.
link spelled out is:
http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/hardware . html
If you notice, it's not a special warranty for the Mac Mini...it's their normal 1 year warranty.
So why am
Re:Oh sweet jebus (Score:5, Insightful)
I think you mean "this is the flaming grail-shaped beacon of computing". And by "flaming" I mean "this will bake your lap from a foor away".
Apple would be nuts to go with a PB G5 before releasing one using the dual-core G4... which would be both cooler and clock-for-clock more powerful than a G5.
Re:Oh sweet jebus (Score:2)
And more expensive. And would eat more precious space in the chassis.
Jeez man (Score:5, Funny)
Re:careful! (Score:2)
Register looked at publicly accessable source.
Supidity != Ego-stroking (Score:2)
I don't think the Register was actively involved in nudging a web site designer to put this typo or slip-up on Apple's web site. In addition, if it's indeed a precursor to the product, someone did it through negligence, not through conscious choice. Kind of like if someone had accidentally mailed me a mini the week before th
Re:careful! (Score:2)
Re:Microsoft Releasing Office 200e! (Score:2)
-Dan
RTFA (Score:2)
it's possibly a double typo, or an act of sillyness.... but who knows. it was written that way in two places. i don't think a G5 powerbook is coming anytime soon, and who knows if Avenue A would even have access to such information if it was. obviously somebody that does the Apple site saw it and let it go...
maybe i
Parent post is more pertinant response in thread (Score:2, Redundant)
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g6_powerbook [atdmt.com]
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g7_powerbook [atdmt.com]
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_hotsex_powerb ook [atdmt.com]
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_newton [atdmt.com]
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/microsoft_windows_f or_macintosh [atdmt.com]
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_cheesegrater [atdmt.com]
Nothing to see here.
-S
Re:Talk to the photographers and models.... (Score:3, Funny)
In California kids learn how to say "NDA" before they learn how to say "momma". Seriously, when powerbook 12" and 17" were shown for the first time, Apple already has had prepared a TV ad starring two celebrities - Yao Ming of NBA fame and Verne Troyer, "Mini Me" from the Austin Powers series (that's how 12" got