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Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-rumor-on dept.

lewsmind writes "The Register has a scoop on the new PowerBook G5. According to this article at the Apple website has hidden clues that suggest the coming of the PB G5 very soon. ."

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  1. Already gone... by nuclear305 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to TFA, Apple replaced the 'g5' with 'g4' in these so-called clues/hints.

    1. Re:Already gone... by MooseByte · · Score: 4, Insightful


      And as the article points out that it could have been a typo. Having two HTML items labeled "powerbook_g5" (and already changed now to "powerbook_g4" on the page in question), is a far cry from having a page with specs and/or prices accidentally uploaded for a few minutes.

      A Powerbook G5 is inevitable, but this doesn't quite seem like the "Mac Mini" leak....

  2. Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? by oscast · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "And yet they haven't posted an official statement to their website about the Mac Mini not voiding the warranty when you either A) break the clips holding the case together or B) open the case in the first place."

    Maybe because they never said that it voids your warranty in the first place.

    That was nothing but FUD that was been corrected by statements Apple has made to correct the misconceptions... statements which I know you've read yet you continue to repeat in an effort to spread FUD.

  3. Where's the Beef? by fname · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean, c'mon! A web bug was found on a page at Apple that has PowerBookG5 in the filename? Please explain to me, using small words so I can understand, how this points to the PowerBook G5 being released "very soon."

  4. Slashdot has always posted rumors by Infonaut · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I wasn't aware that this was a Mac rumors site. I thought it was Slashdot (News for Nerds/Stuff that Matters + iPods)?

    Rumors have always been fodder for Slashdot. Linux, Microsoft, Sun, Transmeta, Intel, AMD, XM/Sirius, and today it's Apple.

    There are a lot of articles that don't really interest me, but that doesn't mean that they don't matter to other readers.

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  5. Re:Oh sweet jebus by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the holy grail of computing

    I think you mean "this is the flaming grail-shaped beacon of computing". And by "flaming" I mean "this will bake your lap from a foor away".

    Apple would be nuts to go with a PB G5 before releasing one using the dual-core G4... which would be both cooler and clock-for-clock more powerful than a G5.

  6. Re:Apple is hiring thermal engineers. by sjf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not necessarily indicative of Powerbook G5. Indicative of a company that builds products that have components that give out heat: recall the G4 "windtunnel" Macs: some PCI cards overheated in this machine due to its poor thermal design.
    The Mac Mini would also have required a great deal of thermal design.

    Note, if Apple is indeed advertising for thermal engineers for a G5 Powerbook today, then there is no chance that we're going to see such a machine any time soon.

  7. Re:Dodgy rumours by illumin8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [Cue the sound of a million geeks with too much disposable income whipping out their credit cards all at once. Kaching!]

    So we should expect new PowerBook G5s to be released when, next Tuesday?

    [Fast forward to next Tuesday and cue the sound of a million geeks dissapointed as yet another Tuesday rolls by and no PowerBook G5s]

    I learned not to believe the PowerBook G5 rumors in May of 2002 when everyone was convinced that Apple would simultaneously release PowerMac G5s and PowerBook G5s at WWDC. I realized then that more than half of the time the mac rumors sites are simply blowing smoke up your ass to drive up traffic to their websites.

    Every time they resurrect that infamous "G5 PowerBooks next Tuesday" rumor hundreds of geeks start having wet dreams, just to get their hopes dashed when it never comes true.

    I bought a 1.25 ghz. G4 PowerBook over a year ago and haven't looked back since... It's still fast enough for me today, so I don't think I would buy a G5 PowerBook if it were released today.

    Moral of the story: Buy a G4 PowerBook now and forget about all the rumors.

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  8. Re:Since when is Slashdot an Apple Rumors site? by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some 1x1 gif inserted by an advertiser titled "powerbook_g5.gif" is quite a little thing to inspire such wild speculation.

    Indeed, a transparent 1x1 GIF gives another shade to the meaning of the term "thin evidence".

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  9. What is of interest by Infonaut · · Score: 4, Insightful
    t obviously, this article was of interest to you

    Actually I was curious about what reader reactions would be. I sometimes read stories in Slashdot primarily to read other people's opinions, rather than to absorb the information from the quoted story.

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