Hi Brad,
The PowerBook G4 line was *very* recently updated. The official line from Apple is that PBG5's are "still a long ways off." While I was very much hoping for PBG5's in 2004, that hope is looking slimmer and slimmer. Even December 2004 is looking optimistic at this point. I think Apple and IBM are *much* more concerned about meeting Jobs' "3.0 GHz G5 towers by Summer '04" promise right now. They will deal with the portable situation later -- the cooling situation there is just so much more complicated.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't expect some incredible bargain on the PBG4's even after the PBG5's are introduced. (Look at the incredible bargains currently available on G4 towers -- not.) The PBG4's are already *extremely* competitively priced. If that's what you want, you might as well get it now, because I doubt you will save more than $200 or so when the next gen is introduced, and meanwhile your new laptop is delayed until at least January 2005. Don't tell me you couldn't get $200 worth of utility out of a 1.5 GHz G4 laptop between now and then.
If you actually want a PBG5 (like me) then it makes sense to wait. If not, it really doesn't. You might as well buy now.
- Darcy
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On 22 May 2004, at 02:51 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
Philip Aker wrote:
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 19:00 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey wrote:
the richestI'm glad you're on a Mac, too. Somebody has to keep Steve Jobs employed! The rest of us are so busy keeping Bill Gatesslob in the world that we can't be bothered seeing toJobs's fortunes.:-)
Well, to tell you the truth, I really can't figure out why you all keep on doing that. Last I heard, Longhorn (MS ripoff of OS X) won't be out until 2007. Meantime, it's just a short time later, and we now have our security patch installed. Admittedly, Steve's a little cocky and somewhat brash, but he does deliver in 64 bits in a timely fashion whereas 8 bit Bill's still sitting at the starting gate.
I've been an M$ customer for as long as I can remember; the only non-Windows
computer I've ever used was the Apple //e I had in grade school. However...
I've worked at a company for over a year now (actually, at this point, a
year and two days as a full-time employee) that uses Macs primarily. I fell
in love (not literally; I don't think my wife would approve) with OSX, and
the next computer I buy will definitely be some type of a laptop Mac.
I'm thinking of waiting until the G5 PBs come out and then buying a G4 at
whatever they reduce the price to. In order to help me make that decision,
I asked an Apple store sales guy if he knew when the G5 PowerBooks were
coming out. They have *really* well-trained people there; his response was:
"I don't know what you're talking about."
-- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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