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fhoubi · Jan 27, 2005, 11:45 AM

israces · Jan 27, 2005, 12:34 PM

...turning over every rock.

ricacu · Jan 27, 2005, 12:36 PM

OMG WOW , so? cmon guys whats the point of all this bull with the g5, wait for them, if they come out, GOOD, if they dont? f . it, whats the point of looking for clues and stuff like this, its annoying.

Lattimer · Jan 27, 2005, 01:28 PM

As we all know, this is standard practice....if no one cared, we wouldn't have all these rumor sites going strong.

macdaemon · Jan 27, 2005, 01:52 PM

Originally posted by fhoubi:
here.

Looks like somebody from Apple just fooling around.

RonnieoftheRose · Jan 27, 2005, 02:16 PM

Read the article. They are measuring interest by the number of hits. It doesn't mean the PowerBook G5 is imminent but that it will be out sooner than some think. They then compare the interest for the PBG4 compared to the PBG5 when released. Basic statistics survey that most companies have on their websites. Some pre-PBG5 site HTML code has leaked for the time being either to stir up interest (get people to put the money aside) or by accident.

efuseakay · Jan 27, 2005, 05:20 PM

TYPO... no G5 Powerbook until at least 2006.

anamexis · Jan 27, 2005, 06:56 PM

Originally posted by efuseakay:
TYPO... no G5 Powerbook until at least 2006.

The difference between this article and your comment: this article provides some sort of back-up, and insight.

Person Man · Jan 27, 2005, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by anamexis:
The difference between this article and your comment: this article provides some sort of back-up, and insight.

No, the article provides speculation and nothing more.

SEkker · Jan 27, 2005, 08:53 PM

Apple is notorious for red herrings. Remember the 'iPod radio' leak just a few weeks ago (right before macworld)?

And remember that there was a reference to a pb G5 in some text within the OS, which was then removed on subsequent OS revisions.

I think the biggest mistake is that concept that the PB G5 will be as big a leap in processing power as we experienced for the desktop machines. SATA notebook hard drives have not even been released; currently, any PB G5 is going to be handicapped by the hard drive, regardless of CPU speed. Even a 2 GHz G5 PB without a decent 7200 rpm HD is going to suffer compared to dual G5 machines.

At the same time, I'm saving my $$ for a rev B model!

Finrock · Jan 27, 2005, 09:40 PM

The 4 key is right next to the 5 key on my keyboard, and I know I've hit the wrong key by accident a few times. I'd be glad to be proved wrong, but I think the consensus is that we won't see one for a few months, at least.

Again, you never know with Apple, though!

-Finrock

Person Man · Jan 27, 2005, 09:47 PM

Originally posted by SEkker:
Apple is notorious for red herrings.

I don't think this is a red herring.

Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize that there won't be a G5 PowerBook anytime soon, so why would they release fake info about it?

I suspect that they are seeing a noticeable decline in PowerBook G4 sales because of people "holding out" for the G5 PowerBooks. It is taking Apple much longer than they would like to be able to introduce a G5 PowerBook, and so they are saying that there won't be one for a while.

Why would they intentionally fuel speculation which is already hurting their PowerBook G4 sales by planting a fake rumor such as this?

veauger · Jan 27, 2005, 10:50 PM

A 1x1 pixel at atdmt called apple_g5_powerbook they say? No thanks, I'll wait for the G6.

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g6_powerbook

anamexis · Jan 28, 2005, 12:17 AM

Why stop at the G6?
I'm going for the G18:
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g18_powerbook

For those of you not clicking, these are both valid links that lead to 1x1 images identical to that of the g5 link.

CharlesS · Jan 28, 2005, 01:06 AM

Originally posted by Person Man:
Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize that there won't be a G5 PowerBook anytime soon, so why would they release fake info about it?

Typo?

And I don't really consider a hidden URL that no one is supposed to even see in the source of the page as "releasing fake info."

Originally posted by veauger:
A 1x1 pixel at atdmt called apple_g5_powerbook they say? No thanks, I'll wait for the G6.

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g6_powerbook

Yep, and actually, anything you type in there works, and gets you a 1x1 image. For example:

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/fhqwhgads

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/charless_is_great

http://switch.atdmt.com/action/sorry...error_occurred

All get you a 1x1 image. So much for the Register's claim that the existence of the filename both on Apple's site and on Avenue A's site proves that this is real...

Sorry, folks - I want to believe, but this is most likely a typo.

Person Man · Jan 28, 2005, 01:25 AM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Typo?

Exactly. I was posting in response to the person who suggested that this was one of Apple's "red herring rumors"

hldan · 03:09 AM

Originally posted by fhoubi:
here.

Even if there is one on the way soon, I wouldn't want the first one on the block, I would rather have Rev B. All the initial bugs are generally out by then. You all should know this by now.