<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Aug 23, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Hector Luna wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I'm in the market to get a new powerbook and was wondering if there was an impending speed bump within the next month or so.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Nobody knows. <A href="http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/09/powerlogix/index.php?lsrc=mwrss">2.0 Ghz G4's</A> have been available for awhile now. Almost immediately after Apple officially announced they had fallen victim to <A href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/titanium/2005-June/017050.html">Intel's roadmap of broken promises</A> IBM announced the availability of <A href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dual+core+powerpc970&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">mobile low power dual core G5 chips</A>. In the old days those dual core G5's would be in the beloved PowerBook already, but as Apple makes the transition from a computer company to a digital media company, unfortunately, the Mac will start to take a back seat as it becomes more and more a commodity appliance used to deliver digital media solutions. Apple is conveniently ignoring that those dual core G5's even exist. </DIV><DIV> If the truth would suddenly be revealed that Apple abandoned a superior architecture in order to morph into a digital media content provider, the Mac faithful might become alarmed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wouldn't expect anything too dramatic. Those days are gone.</DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV></BODY></HTML>