[MathiasDK]

Hi,
right now I have a G3 800 iBook, and "i'l lovin' it".
I'm goint to Greenland for a year with the Danish Navy, and I'm planing to upgrade to a new iBook when i get home. (spring 2005).

At this time the iBook must be updated, but how big do you think it will be at this time?

Merry christmas,

Mathias from Denmark

[SupahCoolX]

It's really pointless to try to guess what computers will be like about 2 years from now. Things change so fast, it's impossible to say.
My best guess is cheaper, faster, and smaller. Beyond that, who knows?

[CaNdeSiGn]

It's never pointless to imagine about the future.

Sure... no one knows, but I would imagine, the upgrades will be about 4 times better than what has taken place over the past 2 years of iBook evolution. Even the duration between the iBook 466 SE to the last G3 model... it took just over 2 years to grow 434mhz, go through several case revisions, chips, boards, etc...

Now we have a new iBook class with the G4... which I imagine could still be the standard for the iBook in just under 2 years, but at least a 2.2Ghz chip, insanely large harddrive (which may not be neccessary as compression gets better) 2GIG Ram... superdrives will be the standard across the apple line... basically... a current powerbook on steroids.

[anaphora68]

I don't think you're going to see a superdrive in an ibook anytime soon. Apple won't do that because it will cut into their profit margins too much.

You're more likely to see a faster G4. I would fathom that the iBooks will get an upgrade when the powerbooks get a major revision.