5G iPods Soon?

He's referring to the graphic. The graphic belongs to the start up animation of a toshiba pocket pc
 
I was thinking about the curtain and 'One more thing' announcement...

Yea, I know nothing, I just like analogies...

I looked at it right from the beginning as a 'last of the PowerMac' updates...assuming that after Intel gets inside they wont be 'Power' Macs anymore...the curtain used as in a curtain call...last song kind of thing.

Just me being bored at work...if they rev the powerbook, I'm on it...need one, would rather not buy the first Intel-Book and QA test for apple...I'll wait til 2nd rev happy with a perfectly performing Powerbook swan song.
 
if i was a reporter and recieved one of the invitations... and then went along on the day... and then steve jobs comes on stage and drops the 'one more thing' line... and then proceeds to tell me that macs are getting speed bumps for the last time under the current chips... and thats all he's got to say...

i'd walk out. the general public dont care about incremental speed bumps. i'm writing for the general public - and my editor will fire me if i write an article enthusing about 'front side bus' speeds or Ghz...

a 'special event' to bore the bejesus out of me? and then try to find 'an angle'?! thanks a lot apple - why didnt you just send out a bloody good press release - and do a high level website announcement.

the best thing to come out of my attendence would be that i got out of the office for the day... now how about that nano!...

there'll be something more at the event (more than just making the current ipod thinner!) - there might be speed bumps etc - but they won't be the be all and end all of the event. i'm hoping for a new AE / dock / ipod combo that brings video content from my mac - onto my tv - and makes it protable via the ipod.
 
I hope it is SOMETHING the mainstream news does not predict like eWeek, New York Times, BBC, Wallstreet Journal on the intel switch. That really killed the excitement for me. The iPod Shuffle hit the press with a upper cut and the Nano kicked them while they were down. Seriously, the rumor sites make these annoucements fun instead of the typical "Dell came out with the Xeon X591011 that can do everything the previous model did but better" we are used to with the media. I remember people demanding Apple get rid of the surprises in favor of what other companies do. Shame on them. :mad:

And oh yeah someone called Fryke a purple monkey dishwasher...
 
Vard said:
I looked at it right from the beginning as a 'last of the PowerMac' updates...assuming that after Intel gets inside they wont be 'Power' Macs anymore...the curtain used as in a curtain call...last song kind of thing.
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We will be seeing at least one more update for the PowerPC chips, the Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest processors won't be around till mid-2006, same time as Steve Jobs promised us the "Mactels".

FYI the Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest Proccessors are all of Intels New Processors coming out in 2006, all Dual-Core 65-Nanometer 64-bit proccesors for Mobile (Merom), Desktop (Conroe) and Server (Woodcrest)

Check out the New Macworld on the Stands for details on it, they haven't updated the site with this information.
 
I was thinking about the curtain in terms of movies. Then again, movie theaters and curtains aren't as synonymous these days I suppose. Anyway. If they come out with an iPod that's anywhere from 40 to 80GB in capacity but is the same size or smaller than today's 20GB, I'm gonna have to sell my nano and go back to play with the big boys once again. Arrrrr, but I love apple for keeping things interesting, oh yes.
 
i just got my 40GB b+w 4G back from repair (the click wheel decided to just click, and not wheel). except they gave me a brand new one. nice! completely scratch free!

but filling it, i realised that i couldn't even use a big fat (and it is fat) 60GB. i have too much music for it! i want a skinny 80/100gb ipod.
 
According to _any_ rumours, ElDiablo, the PPC 970MP (dual core) will initially not go higher than 2.7 GHz. Besides: It would really be a _first_ for Apple to have an invitation-only event like this to be about 'new PowerMacs'. I mean: Yeah, why not. They might introduce new PowerMacs and new PowerBooks, but believe me: There's going to be "one more thing" after those two announcements.
 
Ah, thanks for the clarification. It would be nice if the G5s could hit the promised 3.0GHz before they get replaced with Intel machines, though...

I'm also thinking that a video iPod will not debut. I know that everyone's going wild with speculation, but I just don't think it's gonna happen -- maybe something video-related with iTunes, but I'm gonna put my mark down for "no video iPods."
 
Has anyone covered the rumour that this is a home-theatre kind of product?

That would be more sensible than over-shadowing the Nano so soon, and would also explain the curtains, and be appealing to the general populous.

Like a specialised Mac running something akin to the CenterStage Project.
 
The "iTunes and iPod Video" from South Africa is a video about iTunes and the iPod. Nothing there. :)

The BBC hickup: Who knows... But I don't think that they "accidentally" put something in they weren't supposed to. Rather, I think, it was a simple mistake that's now been corrected. Two days. Not much more to wait, and we'll see.
 
Two days indeed. I personally don't think that video iPods will be announced, especially so soon after the Nano, but hey, someone surprise me :)
 
i think it is inevitable now that the video ipods will be released, but that video was the same video shown nearly two years ago at wwdc 2004. it is a video about itunes and ipod, an itunes and ipod video, not a video about ipod video and itunes.
 
ThinkSecret has amended their earlier reports about PMac & PBook updates to say they may not be announced at the event as earlier thought, but quietly happen in the background. Then again they could still happen at the event. At least one PMac level will utilize the dual-core (PPC970MP) chip and the PBooks are expected to have screen resolution enhancements as well as a switch to slightly faster 7448 chips. Both systems will supposedly use DDR2 memory.

They also go on to say they're expecting new iPods, but not video ones. Supposedly an increase to 40GB and 80GB respectively as well as the possibility of a Silver model to match the pro line of computers or more likely a Black model to match the Nanos. The pricing will stay the same at $299 and $399.

There's also that darn pink Nano rumor in there...a Madonna edition supposedly. Let's hope that doesn't happen...<G>.

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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0510oct12b.html
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0510oct12c.html
 
Well: You don't _have_ to buy the Madonna iPod nano, mdnky. You make it sound as if you'd be forced to buy one and wear it on a lanyard all the time. ;) ... And I'm sure there are a _lot_ of people (well, girls...) who'd want their iPod nano to be pink.
 
If it's a pink nano, it'll sell well as long as there's not some huge picture of Madonna on it or the "Do Not Disconnect" icon isn't an image of her... it seemed that the pink mini was a big hit with the females.
 
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