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Scotttheking · Jun 23, 2003, 01:17 AM

This thread is for those of you lucky enough to have net access and be in front of the live keynote to post news as it goes on. This is semi redundant, but I figure you all will be faster then main news postings, assuming they are working. Also, people posting here can give more detail then live news threads.

Scotttheking · Jun 23, 2003, 11:32 AM

Ok people, let's have some news.
Please keep posts short yet descriptive. You are my (and many others, but do they really count?) source for what's going on.

kido · Jun 23, 2003, 11:39 AM

i'm at the woodfield mall apple store. earlier, we were told to stick around after the keynote for some "big annoucements". it seems they may be specific to the store, but we are all looking forward to today's events.

kido

silverlode · Jun 23, 2003, 11:50 AM

Apple Store offline.

Alright, now.

slow moe · Jun 23, 2003, 11:59 AM

We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour.

clarkgoble · Jun 23, 2003, 01:11 PM

It's back up but no info.

BTW - is the keynote available as a streaming feed? If so posting the link here would be useful.

Update: Ars has a summary here:

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/3q02/wwdc-622.html

osiris · Jun 23, 2003, 01:18 PM

Up to 2ghz....!!!!!!!

chrisutley · Jun 23, 2003, 01:23 PM

I guess they stuck with the G* naming convention. Can I order now please??????????

Dyeus · Jun 23, 2003, 01:34 PM

Could someone donate me one???

gumby5647 · Jun 23, 2003, 01:40 PM

shipping in August

clarkgoble · Jun 23, 2003, 01:49 PM

That shipping in August could be bad. I think a lot of people figured at least one model would be available in early July.

TC · Jun 23, 2003, 01:52 PM

One ugly mofo:

http://homepage.mac.com/owlboy/wwdc56.jpg

clarkgoble · Jun 23, 2003, 01:54 PM

I think some of the "mockup" cases we've discussed the past few weeks looked better than that case!

SciFrog · Jun 23, 2003, 01:55 PM

This means they will not sell any powermacs for the next 2 months? The stock is going down... -0.45c already...

Jordan · Jun 23, 2003, 01:55 PM

Originally posted by TC:
One ugly mofo:

http://homepage.mac.com/owlboy/wwdc56.jpg

Where is the Apple logo??? Guess on the side panel that is taken off.

wulf · Jun 23, 2003, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by SciFrog:
This means they will not sell any powermacs for the next 2 months? The stock is going down... -0.45c already...

Depends when in August. It's actually less than 6 weeks to August. That's not so long to rack up pre-orders.

They've done far worse before

exsilio · Jun 23, 2003, 02:40 PM

I guess I don't understand the timing of things.

Why not wait for MW next month and then people only have to wait a few weeks at most for new Macs...but 6-8 weeks is not a good business tactic.

coolmacdude · Jun 23, 2003, 05:01 PM

Originally posted by clarkgoble:
is the keynote available as a streaming feed? If so posting the link here would be useful.

Here it is.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/j...100_56_ref.mov

chrisutley · Jun 23, 2003, 05:23 PM

They needed to make this annoucement as early as possible. Had the WWDC gone by without an annoucement the bleeding would have continued, and Microsoft would have sold a few thousand more XP licenses.

Nobody likes to wait, but now there is a real product you can order and wait for not rumorware.

Originally posted by exsilio:
I guess I don't understand the timing of things.

Why not wait for MW next month and then people only have to wait a few weeks at most for new Macs...but 6-8 weeks is not a good business tactic.

Macint_sh · Jun 23, 2003, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by coolmacdude:
Here it is.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/j...100_56_ref.mov

Try again? That was not it?