970 Is Shipping

[Charles Martin]

> From: Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
>
>  From PowerJack at SpyMac.com today
> Publisher of MacWhispers today Posted on: 05-13-2003 04:09 PM
>
> I've already published what I actually can say on this one.
> Unfortunately, I am tangled up in a situation where the actual
> manufacturer is also building two products for me later in the year,

Yeah right. Suuure they are.

>   - The PPC 970 is real, is ahead of schedule, and is slated for both 1
> and 2 processor Power Macs... very, very soon.
>
I don't recall anyone contradicting this rumour.

>   - The 15.4-inch PowerBook is also real, has been nearly completely
> redesigned since January, will be released with a PPC 970 chip,

I believe the part about a new 15-ish Powerbook. But I say the 
prediction that it will have a 970 in it is pure hogwash. If you'd care 
to lay some money down on this ...

I guess we'll see who's right ... me, or the guy who claimed Apple was 
about to release the "iWalk."

>   - The Power Mac will move to a new enclosure, one with an anodized
> aluminum front panel, mathcing the new PowerBooks.
>
This is hardly "inside info." More like "easy guess."

Just about anybody could have "predicted" that the Power Mac will move 
to a new enclosure. Fred Anderson said as much several MONTHS ago when 
he said that the Power Mac will be "totally redesigned" and will appear 
"later in the year" (this was in Feb when he said this).

_Chas_

Two studies in "Innovation":
28-Apr-03: Apple introduces revolutionary legal music service (300,000 
downloads @ .99/ea on the first day), releases iTunes4 (by far the best 
jukebox software in the world), updates Quicktime to encode AAC audio 
(superior to MP3).

30-Apr-03: Microsoft's MSN division introduces the iLoo, a portable 
toilet with internet access. A week later, they deny the iLoo as "an 
April Fools joke." A day later, MS admits the iLoo was a real proposal 
but has now been killed. All this from the company behind "Trustworthy 
Computing."