10/14/2005, 7:50pm, EDT

Friday, October 14th

Apple schedules special event for Oct. 19

Apple is scheduled to hold a special press conference on October 19th in New York City. Scheduled one-day before the PhotoPlus Expo, also being held in New York City, the event is Apple's third event in two months, following the high-profile introductions of the iPod nano, iTunes 5, video iPod, new iMac G5, and iTunes 6. MacNN sources have confirmed that the event will be used to introduce the last PowerPC-based PowerBook G4 lineup with new high resolution displays and other improvements. Other reports also suggest the event will bring a photography-related announcement as well as updated Power Mac G5 systems using IBM's dual-core PowerPC chips, although the (unconfirmed) details are scarce.

Filed under: Apple

, 19

19 comments

Reader Reactions (Please use <i></i> for italic text)

subscribe to comments
for this article

Expand All

Global Settings

porieux

can i get a

10/14, 8:09pm, EDT

w00t!

Baninated

Joined Mar 2001

User is offline

himself

get ready...

10/14, 8:19pm, EDT

iTunes 7 & 8 will be announced.

Mac Elite

Joined Jan 2002

User is offline

kaisdaddy

MacNN is a rumor site!

10/14, 8:32pm, EDT

Who knew?

Fresh-Faced Recruit

Joined Apr 2005

User is offline

Haywire

Where the heck is 10.4.3?

10/14, 9:03pm, EDT

I'm getting tired of that damn spinning beachball.

Fresh-Faced Recruit

Joined Nov 2001

User is offline

testudo

10.4.3

10/14, 10:12pm, EDT

It will be released any second now. Appleinsider and the other sites say so. Of course, it seems like they've been saying this for the past 3 months, but that's not the point.

Oh, and its not going to get rid of the spinning beach ball. Its unrealistic to think Apple will spend time to do anything like fix all the problems with their OS. They've got new useless features to be passing along.

That ball will be with us for life.

Fresh-Faced Recruit

Joined Aug 2001

User is offline

JeffHarris

10.4.3 & New Iron

10/14, 11:52pm, EDT

From what I've been reading in the rumor mills, 10.4.3 has code added specifically for new hardware. I'd guess that it's released along with new PowerBooks, PowerMacs and XServes. Supposedly there will be a massive number of bug fixes and performance improvements included w/10.4.3.

I'll just be happy to get a new PowerBook!

Fresh-Faced Recruit

Joined Oct 1999

User is offline

zzarg

Busy !

10/15, 2:17am, EDT

Wow, Apple certainly are busy. Hopefully this will be to announce the merger with ElGato adn the release of a Mac Mini with multiple digital tuner cards and FrontRow for TV. Or just another release of iTunes to support hires photos. They're not going to hold a press release for a point.point release (or are they... stock always seems to go up after a release !)

Forum Regular

Joined Sep 2004

User is offline

csimon2

Time?

10/15, 10:10am, EDT

I haven't seen anywhere the time for when the scheduled event is supposed to begin.

Junior Member

Joined Aug 2000

User is offline

Feathers

Oooh and I want...

10/15, 12:21pm, EDT

...the next Powerbook to include a rubber chicken, a caesium time standard and a trampoline!!! When will people grok that a computer is still a computer and a Mac is a Mac and if you want it do EVERYTHING, it will become the Micro$oft Word of hardware, feature rich where nothing works properly!!!!!

Forum Regular

Joined Oct 1999

User is offline

drdocument

Spell and grammar check

10/15, 12:48pm, EDT

"conferenece" should be "conference" "one-day" should be "one day"

Fresh-Faced Recruit

Joined Jul 2001

User is offline

additional comments:..1..2..Next

Your Comments

Not a member of the MacNN forums? Register now for free.

Default Comment View
External Page Links
Comment Threading View