Massive WWDC Rumor Roundup

An anonymous reader writes "MacRumors.com posted a massive rumor roundup of all the major rumors surrounding Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference which starts next week. There's been talk of 970 PowerMacs, PowerBooks and Panther... seems like the biggest uncertainty is whether or not 970 PowerMacs will ship or not."

Comments

Re:to be or not to be

[Alan Partridge]

they HAVE threatened legal action on quite a few rumour sites recently - Think Secret's still got 2 pulled stories on it's front page.

what Apple WON'T ship

[bbc22405]

There has been much made of the 15" powerbook, which is still Titanium, not Aluminum. Speculation has been that it will be updated dramatically, including outrageous predictions of the new 15" Aluminum powerbook getting a 970 processor. I guess people think it was held back from update so that it could get the 970 when it is finally updated.

People, pay attention. The 15" powerbook was held back because Jobs promised to support MacOS 9 until ... this summer. With that constraint off, it can get the new technologies that are not supported in MacOS 9 (bluetooth, airport extreme). That doesn't mean it's getting the 970.

Re:what Apple WON'T ship

[jellomizer]

Well although it doesn't mean it will be getting the 970 soon. But Normally with apples powerbook lines they normally add the same chip that is in the PowerMac. Their main selling point for the powerbooks is the fact that holds most of the functionallity of the PowerMac in Laptop size. Although the 970 PowerBooks probably wont be realeased with the first set of sales. But Late summer or even next January you will probable see the 970 PowerBooks and the iBooks will be upgraded to G4s I am not sure about the iMac though. I think Apple my keep it a G4 for a while like they kept of old iMacs G3s.

Re:Rumours...

[Alan Partridge]

"Dual rpocessors give a 70% speed increase at best."

Err... nope. Dual processors give a 100% speed increase at BEST.

Re:Mac OS X Panther still a mystery

[jellomizer]

"I've heard from others that this is also true of regular (non-VPN) NFS mounts as well."

Happens to me all the time. This is what I normally do.

On my powerbook.

Mount a NFS drive at work.

At the end of the day. I close the lid (Putting the laptop to sleep)

When I get home I open the lid (auto detects I am on a new network gives me a new IP adress)

Opps my NFS drive is still mounted but their is no routing to it.

Now when any application tries to read it you get the spinny sprial ball. And it will never end. If you are lucky you may get to the terminal and do a reboot but never try to unmount the drive or even go to you /Volume/NFS directory if you do then your terminal will hang (Thus wishing you can run the same application twice). Now it is time to admit defeat so you reboot the system. But all the applications close except for the finder. Thus it will not reboot. Last step it to hold down the powerbutton until forced power off. Wait 30 seconds power it back on and run FSCK and wait. That is my only Major Issue with OS X

Re:Mac OS X Panther still a mystery

[Jon Abbott]

I've had the same problem myself. One recommendation I can provide is to try mounting the NFS share using the "NFS Manager" program... When using this program, you can tinker with lots of parameters that are normally more difficult to experiment with at the command line. For example, you can adjust some of the timeout parameters that should give you a little more leeway in the event of getting the spinny beach ball of near-death. It's not a complete solution by any means, but it does seem to help some. All of us with this problem should write Apple to have them fix it.

About the only other advice I can provide is to remember that you have a mount active, and then unmount before leaving work (easier said than done, of course).

Nice name!

[Drakonian]

Greg Joswiak, Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing. Somehow that just seems apt that he is working at Apple.

I'd also point out that he is VP of Hardware Marketing, not Hardware. (i.e. Engineering)

Re:Mac OS X Panther still a mystery

[TheHornedOne]

Yes. This happens with AFP-mounted drives too. I file a bug report with every point release of the operating system and I get the same response "We know about it". It must be a serious issue or they woulda fixed it by now. It's a real black eye on an otherwise exceedingly stable and usable (in my hands at least) operating system.

I've managed to figure out that the system is trying to re-establish communication with the drive, but it just fails to ever throw in the towel. Interestingly, when this happens, all carbon-based applications seize up, but Cocoa-based apps and all CLI applications continue to be functional.

If I could only find out what process what responsible for the hang, maybe we could kill -9 it with extreme prejudice and not have to force a reboot, but I've had no luck with that.

Re:Mac OS X Panther still a mystery

[sebi]

About the only other advice I can provide is to remember that you have a mount active, and then unmount before leaving work (easier said than done, of course).

I learned that after a long time. But before that I usually just re-launched the finder (either from the command line or the command-option-escape menu. That would get rid of the missing network drives and not really disrupt the system too much.

Re:PowerMacs wont ship

[andrewski]

There isn't any difference between the desktop G4 and the mobile G4. At all. They are the same chip.

Try that with your Pentium 4. Oh wait, they did, and then called it 'SpeedStep.' In other words, the Pentium Steps your Speed DOWN when on battery, making it mHz to mHz slower than a G4 laptop.