New PowerMacs & PowerBooks..!

[.Dan]

One detailed tipster claims that new PowerMacs will be announced at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters conference which takes place between April 16-21 in Las Vegas, NV.

The ambitious report claims that the new machines will include the rumored 970MP starting at 2GHz, alongside 2.5GHz and 3.0GHz models. The first Blu-ray drives (Apple adopts Blu-Ray) are expected to make their debut in the top-end model.

Under the hood support for Hypertransport 2.0, PCI-Express, and a new Audio IC is reported. Memory support will be boosted to 32GB of RAM in the high end models with availability of 4GB DDR modules.

While G5 PowerBooks are not expected, a higher resolution "PowerBook HD" is expected to be debuted at NAB as well. The new model is expected to simply boost the resolution of the current 17" PowerBook and offer the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800.

Steve Jobs has made comments at MacWorld SF that 2005 will be the year of High Definition.

Hell YEA!! I'm Waithing for this ALLONG time... :D:D:D:D

Dan

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[ph3412t3h13]

sick! thats crazy!

nice thanks :bounce: :bounce:

[saxondale.]

hopefully this will bring down the price of the other powerbooks

[macster]

Hope this comes truth. Made me check the Apple site when i saw the thread title :blush:

[.Dan]

hopefully this will bring down the price of the other powerbooks

585699377[/snapback]

That could be nice.. the only thing its that i allready have the new PowerBooks 12" 1.5 1 GB :'(..

And yes Apple could drop prices a little bit..

Dan

[saxondale.]

yer im planning to get a powerbook, but since tiger will be out soon, i find it safe to buy it after tiger comes out

[VGVL]

Made me check the Apple site when i saw the thread title  :blush:

585699385[/snapback]

Same. :laugh:

[jerry]

Dont raise your hopes too much:

Note: This is a Page 2 News Item

[Bling3k12]

Can you imagine... the cost... of a 4GB RAM module...

Blu-ray? I doubt this...

I don't doubt the processor upgrades, better audio IC, hypertransport 2, pci-express... but the 4GB RAM modules and the Blu-ray drives screw up the story...

[threetonesun]

Uh, April Fools? 32GBs of RAM? Blu-Ray? Riiiight.

[gogosama]

*sniff sniff* ahhh yes the faint wiff in my nostrisl of complete bull****

[radioboy]

blu-ray isn't even FINISHED yet, is it?

[asdflkjsdrhthfhrhr]

What's this? a powerbook with a resolution above 100ppi?! ROCK!

[Xeo]

32MB Ram I doubt this.... Do you imagine the price?

[Menge]

April 1st, guys :)

[robniep]

Yeah, why not say that the new Powermac line will have to run on jet fuel

[TruckWEB]

Even if some part where true.... Could you again imagine the cost of the PowerMac?

I just got my mini, enough power for me to play with OS X for the moment. But even if I fall in love with Mac and OS X, it's just too much money to get a PowerMac G5 (with decent amount of memory, good video card and LCD monitor).

Good quality, nice package, very nice OS.... but in the end, it's my wallet that takes the hit.... The mini is the begining, please, lower the cost of the other Mac product!

[Toastyone]

Like all other Mac related hardware news unless I see it in the Apple store......I don't believe it ;)

[jerry]

blu-ray isn't even FINISHED yet, is it?

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Blu-Ray is finished. They had a couple of burners & recorders on display some time back. The time to introduce it into the consumer market (costs) is not so early.

[gunky]

Uh, April Fools? 32GBs of RAM? Blu-Ray? Riiiight.

585700193[/snapback]

Um, what is it that is unbelievably about a maximum capacity of 32GBs of ram?

[Huy]

They've just updated the PowerBooks... I would be disappointed if they released new PB's, seeing as though I just spent all of my money on the new 2005 PB!

Something I can believe, however, and I'm not sure if it has been mentioned or not, but new iMacs, eMacs and iBooks...

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=973

[macman87]

hopefully this will bring down the price of the other powerbooks

585699377[/snapback]

I wouldn't be on it. They just changed the prices a couple of months ago.

[yayo]

Yeah, why not say that the new Powermac line will have to run on jet fuel

585700727[/snapback]

rofl, nice call.

[mpat1024]

32MB Ram I doubt this.... Do you imagine the price?

Yeah, dirt cheap, lol

[Xer34]

HD? Damn, Id love to see those on the 15" as well. I would be sold so quick.. :woot: