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Many people here and around the web are talking about the release of new PowerMacs and the rumor that they won't be released for MW, next week.
I think that you shouldn't count MacRumors or CNET (news.com) as sources of this rumor, they only repeat or sum-up what other sites say. The most of time, they don't have their own sources. This is what I could notice by visiting them regularly.
Thinksecret, macosrumors (or mine
) are sites that actually have their own sources, so the rumor of Thinksecret seems accurate but it more looks like an opinion than a real rumor. Thinksecret sources have only been told that Apple has still much PowerMacs on inventory to sell before releasing new products. They haven't clearly be told that Apple decided to delay new PowerMac's announcement.
Apple may have found other solutions to this issue:
- keeping the 800Mhz Power Mac as low end with lower price tag, that solution could canibalize iMac sales though,
- giving them to education market only for really cool prices,
- releasing new PowerMacs with higher prices than the current line,
- another solution that I cannot find since I'm not Steve Jobs.
If Apple doesn't release these PoweMacs next week, it's not a catastroph though, they can:
- release them on a special event some time in mid-August, coinciding with Jaguar final release,
- release them for Seybold or AppleExpo with immediate availability for all models,
- not release them, aaaaaaaah!!!!!
What about specs?
- DDR for sure,
- g4@1400: probably, maybe dual for both mid & high end
- 60/80Gb/2x80 or 120Mb Hard disks,
- FireWire 2 almost sure,
- GeForce 4 MX on lowest end and GeForce Ti on the two others,
- Airport 2, almost sure
- new enclosure,
- DVDR on all! Steve himself said it last year, that "next year we want all the line to include DVDR".
Well, although I'm a rumor site author, I don't learn you much things on the last lines because I don't know more than others. Don't take it as "reliable rumors", It's just my opinion. If I had rumors, I would post them on my site.
I think that you shouldn't count MacRumors or CNET (news.com) as sources of this rumor, they only repeat or sum-up what other sites say. The most of time, they don't have their own sources. This is what I could notice by visiting them regularly.
Thinksecret, macosrumors (or mine
) are sites that actually have their own sources, so the rumor of Thinksecret seems accurate but it more looks like an opinion than a real rumor. Thinksecret sources have only been told that Apple has still much PowerMacs on inventory to sell before releasing new products. They haven't clearly be told that Apple decided to delay new PowerMac's announcement.Apple may have found other solutions to this issue:
- keeping the 800Mhz Power Mac as low end with lower price tag, that solution could canibalize iMac sales though,
- giving them to education market only for really cool prices,
- releasing new PowerMacs with higher prices than the current line,
- another solution that I cannot find since I'm not Steve Jobs.
If Apple doesn't release these PoweMacs next week, it's not a catastroph though, they can:
- release them on a special event some time in mid-August, coinciding with Jaguar final release,
- release them for Seybold or AppleExpo with immediate availability for all models,
- not release them, aaaaaaaah!!!!!
What about specs?
- DDR for sure,
- g4@1400: probably, maybe dual for both mid & high end
- 60/80Gb/2x80 or 120Mb Hard disks,
- FireWire 2 almost sure,
- GeForce 4 MX on lowest end and GeForce Ti on the two others,
- Airport 2, almost sure
- new enclosure,
- DVDR on all! Steve himself said it last year, that "next year we want all the line to include DVDR".
Well, although I'm a rumor site author, I don't learn you much things on the last lines because I don't know more than others. Don't take it as "reliable rumors", It's just my opinion. If I had rumors, I would post them on my site
.
