[DM-MUG] Anybody out there?

[Darcy Baston]

On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 09:33AM, Bailey Ford <bailey@mac.com> wrote:
>A few places are really starting to believe we'll see Tiger in April, 

I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until May. But an April 1st launch, where the ad campaign can make fun of Longhorn, "OS X Longhorn now available", would be nice!

>I, personally, am praying for something interesting on the PowerMac 
>front. 

Me too! I want to be a G5 owner before year's end. This will be my first Apple tower, so something high in "core count" would suit my "use it for 3-5 years" goal rather well.

>What do you guys think of these? Gunna happen? Worth buying? The 
>"Right" direction for apple?

Tiger : ASAP please. Will become the "spotlight" of the whole IT media industry. Right direction.

iPod Photo thingy: *yawn* Will probably make them some money but...

Asteroid: I've already got a MobilePRE USB, so I don't need one, but others would love an Apple branded device I'm sure. Right direction. Let Gibson sell a cherry burst/mac mini (color matched)/asteroid/garaband combo and call it "Gibson. Where's YOUR impact crater?".

G5 dual cores: This could blow away the MHz myth for good. It really won't matter then. Then again, when the 68000 chips came out, and their main selling point was "more operations per clock tick" which gave it its fantastic processing power at similar MHz, the MHz race *still* took root in that soil. 

Maybe they'll have to market CPUs as "2GHz per core. This is a 4Ghz chip, and with two G5 DCs in a dual CPU machine, you're getting the world's first consumer 8GHz personal computer. At full 64-bits each, which can be programmed to emulate 128 bit math operations, you've got world class distributed processing, in your own home." LOL! Right direction.

Darcy