[villalobos]

As first noted on www.hardmac.com. digitimes reports about shipment of PB G5 and iBook G5 for the 2005 2Q


Linkey : http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html

Mistake?

[Randman]

Have to bet it's a typo, unless Apple has some magic up there sleeves as it says iBook G5 as well.

[Alezone]

hope it's not a typo, it repeats 3 times there...

G5 iBook and G5 Powerbook

[McFarmer]

The one odd thing is the production quantity quoted in the article. '30k-50k/month' for the G5 PowerBooks. That's 90,000-150,000 for the quarter. Not a lot.

According to this week's financial report Apple shipped 152,000 PowerBooks last quarter, down 29% year over year. So even 152,000 was already a bit disappointing.

With even less 'G5' PowerBooks to be built, it seems that Apple is not very confident about this new product.
This either means it was a typo and we are still talking G4 PowerBooks where Apple (rightly) expects sales figures to further decline as everyone is waiting for the G5. Or, if it is indeed a new G5 PowerBook, this would indicate that it will be a 'disappointing' release and Apple is not expecting a rush of buyers.

Odd...

[Pierre B.]

Originally posted by villalobos:
As first noted on www.hardmac.com. digitimes reports about shipment of PB G5 and iBook G5 for the 2005 2Q


Linkey : http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html

Mistake?

The fact alone that there is reference to iBook G5, makes me believe that this is a typo. Nothing to see here.

[macdaemon]

Originally posted by villalobos:
As first noted on www.hardmac.com. digitimes reports about shipment of PB G5 and iBook G5 for the 2005 2Q


Linkey : http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html

Mistake?

iBook G5
iBook it's a consumer product, we won't see iBook G5 in another 2-3 years if ever.

[Pierre B.]

Originally posted by macdaemon:
iBook it's a consumer product, we won't see iBook G5 in another 2-3 years if ever.

The iMac too is a consumer product and it has already a G5. It is not there the problem. The problem is that the Powerbooks are still running G4s, while the Power Macs took G5s one year and a half ago. For this reason alone it is highly unlikely that the "leak" has any truth in it.

[d.fine]

Originally posted by Randman:
unless Apple has some magic up there sleeves

Oh, I bet they do have something up there !

[iomatic]

Seems plausible.


I think these are accurate. Why these companies have no contractual obligations to keep these trade secrets, I have no idea. Perhaps Taiwanese law doesn't allow Apple a legal presence for recourse. I'd be pissed, if I were upper management at Apple.

Well, that means version 2 (please don't say rev. b-- just think about it for a second...) of the PowerBook G5 will be oh, around Q4, ready for the school season. That's when I'll upgrade-- maybe version 3, Q2 2006. Holy crap. 2006.

[wuzup101]

mmmm G5 powerbook... or G5 iBook... that would be awesome too. I can see them launching both at around the same time, especially if they dropped the 12" powerbook or made it a 13" wide screan... one can only hope!

[tkmd]

When they refer to the G5 perhaps Apple has just called the faster freescale G4 (with the faster FSB) a 'G5'. I could see that happening.

Besides those newer freescale chips are pretty good (at least on paper) and are far cooler and can be put in the enclosure of the PB.

[CharlesS]

Not to rain on everyone's parade here, but this rumor came from Digitimes. Their accuracy seems to be slightly less than MOSR. I say slightly less because at least MOSR managed to get the Cube right, five years ago.

Example of a whole bunch of BS rumors from Digitimes:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/...17033706.shtml

That was in September 2003. Since then, here are some more rumors DigiTimes has put out:

iBox - AirPort-enabled TV tuner and video recorder:

15.4-inch PowerBook

Metallic iMac, and Apple-branded Tablet PC

And a new one - Is the Apple brand being discarded?, with the evidence being that the Apple logo appears face down if you stand the Mac mini on its side instead of laying it flat on the desk as intended (WTF?)

The combination of their rumors being very unreliable in the past with the fact that this rumor mentions an iBook G5 makes me very, very skeptical.

[skyslushy]

I have been waiting to buy a powerbook for over a month and a half. Since MWSF was coming up, I decided to wait. I have been reading about new programs and products that mac came out with, but I haven't seen any revisions to the powerbooks. Has there been an update and I'm blind in not seeing it or am I correct in my assertion that mac hasn't yet updated the powerbook line?

[Pierre B.]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Not to rain on everyone's parade here, but this rumor came from Digitimes. Their accuracy seems to be slightly less than MOSR.

Right. And I would like to add the following. We have here a site and some contractors revealing sensitive information concerning "forthcoming" Apple products. And Apple does not take any action against this, it seems they don't even bother at all. I hope this does tells something.