binaryDigit
Registered
Article on theregister.com about potential new PowerBooks:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31454.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31454.html
Now that WWDC is over, let the new rumours begin!
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Well, there's no info but a few version numbers (hardware).
So let's think instead of just repeating what TheRegister thinks, shall we?
There's the 12, the 15 and the 17 inch model.
We all have thought that the 15" would move to alu before the others would be updated, too. My thought is: Apple wants to replace the whole setup and end up with:
12" Alu PowerBook, 1 GHz PowerPC 7457
15.4" Alu PowerBook, 1.2 GHz PowerPC 7457
17" Alu PowerBook, 1.3 GHz PowerPC 7457
And when? Before Panther is released, which will be between September and December 2003. (Steve Jobs said, Panther would arrive before the end of 2003 in the WWDC keynote.)
Now... The last PowerBook release was in January. If we take that, '5-7 months' from then would be September. Fits AppleExpo Paris, I'd say. Year of the PowerBook thing. New iBooks could then follow in October or be announced the same day.
So let's think instead of just repeating what TheRegister thinks, shall we?
There's the 12, the 15 and the 17 inch model.
We all have thought that the 15" would move to alu before the others would be updated, too. My thought is: Apple wants to replace the whole setup and end up with:
12" Alu PowerBook, 1 GHz PowerPC 7457
15.4" Alu PowerBook, 1.2 GHz PowerPC 7457
17" Alu PowerBook, 1.3 GHz PowerPC 7457
And when? Before Panther is released, which will be between September and December 2003. (Steve Jobs said, Panther would arrive before the end of 2003 in the WWDC keynote.)
Now... The last PowerBook release was in January. If we take that, '5-7 months' from then would be September. Fits AppleExpo Paris, I'd say. Year of the PowerBook thing. New iBooks could then follow in October or be announced the same day.
Too much hype around WWDC, not many people noticed that Trolltech released an updated Qt library for OSX, bringing it up to version 3.1.2 on par with the other OSes. What does this mean? For me at least, it means I finally have a decent development environment in OSX, one that I'm already familiar with.
symphonix
Scratch & Sniff Committee
If, like me, you don't know what Qt is:
http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000131.html
It's apparently a C++ compiler - a programming tool - that is used for creating applications that run across platforms.
As for me, I'm pretty impressed that Adobe promised a G5-optimised core update for PhotoShop 7 will be freely available by the time the new G5s hit the streets. Well done Adobe.
http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000131.html
It's apparently a C++ compiler - a programming tool - that is used for creating applications that run across platforms.
As for me, I'm pretty impressed that Adobe promised a G5-optimised core update for PhotoShop 7 will be freely available by the time the new G5s hit the streets. Well done Adobe.
Ripcord
Senior Lurker
Not a C++ compiler, but a set of libraries (they call it a "toolkit") to build GUI apps in X11. It's most often used to develop apps for Linux, but *is* pretty cross-platform, and is easy to make apps that are ultra-easy to port between Windows, Linux, MacOSX, BSD, etc.
Similar to GNOME's GTK, much of QT originally grew out of the original effort to build KDE, and is still the toolkit used for KDE.
This is a good thing for OS X =)
Similar to GNOME's GTK, much of QT originally grew out of the original effort to build KDE, and is still the toolkit used for KDE.
This is a good thing for OS X =)
Some consumers were confused between the 867 MHz G4 PowerBook (12") and the 900 MHz G3 iBook (12"). Apple undoubtedly wants to make the processor difference clear and would not like to see consumers "buying down." In turn, having both iBooks and PowerBooks with G4 processors could hurt some sales.