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New iBooks 'Any Day Now'
teewurstmann writes "Thinksecret reports that 'sources have confirmed that Apple's consumer laptop will receive a long overdue refresh very soon, possibly as early as this week.' They speculate that the new iBooks might have a widescreen display.
I sure hope they are right! I've been waiting to buy one of those suckers for half a year now!"
Consumer laptop? Who's their other line made for?
Oh, no! I just bought an iBook ten months ago! Now it's obsolete. Apple obviously doesn't care about customer loyalty.
Details of the updated iBook are unknown, as is a firm release date, given the fickle nature of hardware updates.
The only thing we get out of this is that they are planning on revising the iBook, but we don't know how or when.
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Yes, Think Secret has blown it in the past. I remember when several years ago, they predicted that Apple would come out with orange notebook computers that were modeled after a toilet seat. Sheesh, what idiots.
Mabey they will introduce a tablet version?
I find that hard to swallow.
I would buy an iBook if Apple could charge my Dell account (which has a zero balance). Didn't Dell say they wanted to sell Apple hardware? :)
In August, they'll be announcing the new range of PowerBooks. These will be powered by 2.5GHz ARM CPUs. And in September, the new Xserve 65816s will be launched, running the latest generation 6502s. SPARC based iMacs will follow in November.
Finally, in January, you'll see the first Intel based Mac. While some will consider a 4.77MHz 8088* a little slow in today's computing environment, there's little doubt that the power savings alone will make the switchover worthwhile.
* Note, selected models will feature the NEC V20, depending on availability and demand.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
i'm waiting for the g5 ibook.
i hear there's a g6 powermac in the works, too. this coming from my friend who is an apple rep in cupertino.
since when do widescreen notebooks mean they are more expensive? There was a Compaq 14.1" widescreen being sold for 399$ last week. I walked into best buy last month and of the 15 or so models in the store, 12 of them were widescreen.
ibook != powerbook. why would they release a new version and not a speed update?
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Note: occasionally rings up a Mac mini at Best Buy != "Apple Rep."
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Buy a 5 lb. laptop and lose 4 lbs. of weight.
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I built a UNIWILL 258KA0 laptop (Athlon 64 3700+,Suse Linux 9.3-64 bit version). I has an EXTREMELY BRIGHT 15.4 widescreen, but uses a lot of power, 160W, the power brick weighs 2.3 pounds (the laptop 7.7 pounds).
It was very cheap too, the bare laptop was only $690 (from coboc.com, a subsidiary of abspc.com). I had all other components ready (a spare CPU, a laptop dvd writer-I only needed to buy a UNIWILL bezel for $3, I also had a couple of 100GB Seagate Momentum laptop drives around). I did not have unused RAM, but by moving memory around from other laptops in our lab, I managed to 'extract' 1GB of 200 pin PC2700 333MHZ DDR. A bit slow, the bare laptop also takes 400MHZ RAM, but I did not have any, the 333MHZ RAM was free. I also 'extracted' a mini-pci abg wireless card. The great thing was, I did not have to pay for the Microsoft tax.
I hope in a year or two we will manage to build our own mac laptops, too.
12" ... $1499 - $999 = $500 ... $1999 - $1499 = $500
15"
The Mac Mini actually comes in at around 2.9lbs, so it would meet your demands. Of course, you have no screen - but that works for the Shuffle so I think you'll be okay.
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The day Apple releases widescreen iBooks is the day OS X will run on Intel! Mwahahaha!
Oh. Wait.
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