Apple to introduce new PowerBooks, iBooks next week

It's always good to hear of updates, though if these Powerbooks do indeed feature G4's, I think we can rest assured the very earliest we'd see G5's is at MWSF. Mind you, I'm kind of doubtful we'll even see G5 Powerbook by then, but I just hope this ends all the silly speculation about G5 PB's anytime soon.

This does, however, open WWDC for a significant G5 update.

Whoa... macNN sure is confident about this rumor. I hope this comes to fruition... for your sake. ;^)

Damn! :( >:p

..not more turd polishing from Apple

As a software company Apple is in a league of its own but I'm sorry, as an hardware company they suck and big time. They seem to have a great knack of jumping into bed with the wrong partners, I hoped that we were well shot of Motorola but it seems not and now IBM are making a mess of everything as well.

Sorry boys, you should have gone with AMD

A move to AMD would have been disatrous for the company. Developers would have bailed left and right due to having to write every program.

... will the iMac be updated. I'm seriously considering an eMac now because of it's upgrade, but like the slightly larger 17" flat screen of the iMac.

$1299 versus $2429 (Canadian). It's impossible to justify $1128 dollars for a flat screen and a less powerful graphic chip!!!

And it's a bed of roses with IBM and Motorola is it.

It's good job Apple has the iPod because people might see the rest of the shambles that's going on otherwise..

..an eMac it's the only value for money in the range at the moment, the rest of it is overpriced and out-dated.

Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. There are huge issues with going to an x86 architecture, which you obviously don't understand, if you had you would not have made the statement.

As soon as you start make a mac with x86, it's not a mac anymore, it's a windows machine. Uhm, no way!

Apple's software/hardware hybrid is the best thing to ever happen to all us mac users. Let the ignorant windows/linux users suffer, let the Mac haters hate and let the analysts speculate the demise of Apple. Let them all do this while we, the Mac users sit and relish in our forsight knowing we have done the right thing and that everyone else will never know what it's like to own a real computer.

365 year ago I hated Apple. 364 days ago, my Dell blew up and I used an old G3 with 10.2 on it because it was the only thing my company had lying around. 363 days ago I told Dell to keep my Inspiron and I called Apple and ordered my 17" Powerbook. I have never looked back since.

Thanks Steve! You've free'd me! =D