“Woke up this morning and what’d I see? A mobile landing pad for Leopard in plenty of time for Macworld Expo,” Tom Yager blogs for InfoWorld.
Yager writes, “Apple is now shipping its new Core 2 Duo-equipped 15-inch Core Duo MacBook Pro, with the 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook going out in about a week. These 64-bit notebooks offer a few, yet important advantages over their Core Duo predecessors:”
• First 64-bit Mac notebooks
• First Apple notebooks based on Intel’s 64-bit Core microarchitecture; Core Duo was dual core, 32-bit Pentium-M
• Apple claims performance improvements of 39 percent over Core Duo MacBook Pros
• Dual-layer SuperDrive DVD burner in all models (6X on 15-inch, 8X in 17-inch model)
• 400 and 800 Mbps FireWire ports throughout lineup
• Expandable up to 3 GB of memory (see below)
• Hard drive capacity of up to 200 GB
• Build-to-order options now include MagSafe airline power adapter (see below)
Yager reports, “Apple’s approach to expanding MacBook Pro’s RAM is to factor in availability of 2 GB DDR2 SODIMM memory. These are still 2-socket systems. To get to 3 GB, you put a 2 GB DIMM in one slot and a 1 GB DIMM in the other.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Is Steve Jobs planning a “January Surprise?” We can hear the keynote now, “One more thing… We’re releasing Leopard today.” Or maybe not. What do you think?
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yes!!!
gotta say No on that one MDN. Of course I wouldn’t be that surprised if they pulled it out…just that they already said Spring of 07. Last time they said Spring it came in April…I’d go with what they said on this.
I woke up this morning and what did I see?
The ground outside was as white as could be.
The pine trees weren’t green, but a mystical white,
Painted in darkness, all through the night.
Sweet Poem by margaret. I found it on google
I think January will be a sweet month and 2007 will be an exciting year for Apple. Leopard will be released in January as well as video iPod.
I doubt it too. He may announce that Leopard will be shipping as early as the end of January, but it won’t be released on the day of the keynote.
What is the point of 64-bit addressing in a computer with a maximum of 3GB of RAM? And is it physically impossible to fit two 2GB DIMMs into this puppy?
We know that Apple is going to release iTV. Oppenheimer let that one out of the bag during the last conference call. I would expect that Apple will also announce more partners for movie downloads, with a whole lot more titles. That would mean the release of a true video iPod for the mobile viewer.
Then there is speculation about an iPhone (two models?) and its support system.
Announcing Leopard would add another 30 minutes to Jobs historical 1.5 hour keynote. Cewrtainly possible, but after 1.5 hours, any additional messages start to dilute previous messages.
If Apple does release Leopard, we won’t see an iPhone (if one exists).
Any word on who the HDD manufacturer is for the 200gb option?
I’ve come not to trust toshiba drives.
Spark,
A 64 bit computer can address more memory. That doesn’t mean that everything has to be in the RAM. You can always use virtual memory. More RAM will simply improve performance as more data can be held in the RAM (if there’s no thrashing).
Steve said Spring 2007. In the Northen hemisphere, Spring starts in March, but in the southern etmisphere in September. Either way, we’ll have to wait at least half a year. Sorry.
If Leopard isn’t announced or at least shown off in January– what are they going to spend their time on? Updates? iTV? iTunes movies? Apple timeshares?
They could talk about the problem I had once.
They’re going to show off more Leopard, I’m sure. But I highly doubt a release in January – it just doesn’t seem to make sense with everything they’ve said and done so far this year, or with the market conditions. I don’t see why they would need to rush it out, and it’s doubtful that they’d be able to get it finished in that timeframe. Look at all they’ve had to accomplish in the last two years, with the transition in processors! And that’s just one factor…
I think Leopard will be fully demostrated at MacWorld in January, and Apple will offer anyone who purchases a new Mac or Tiger (in a box) a free (or $9.95 fee) upgrade to Leopard during the time between MacWorld and the actual release date.
Steve Jobs won’t expose us to a not ready Leopard, that’s for sure.
“And is it physically impossible to fit two 2GB DIMMs into this puppy?”
Yes it is possible but the processor can only use 3.2 gigs of it.
Leopard looks great but I think it may have that “trusted computing” built into it. If it does, I’m not sure I want it.
No doubt Leopard will:
(1) Not have development closed down for 12 months to work out security holes in 10.4;
(2) Not go through a three-year reduction of features to end up, when it goes gold, to being nothing more than 10.4.9;
(3) Not have the CEO proclaiming all of the great fdeatures that are really no more than XP/Vista ripoffs, and then performing the monkey dance;
(4) Will ABSOLUTELY not be compatible with brown iPods.
I think MacWorld is too early for Leopard. What we will see is an extensive preview that will finally shows off some of the Top Secret revolutionary feature that will put down Vista like a gun to a lame horse.
Jobs probably has Apple engineers working overtime already, but my money’s on March 2007 for Leopard’s release.
Not. January is not Spring 2007. They’re gonna wait till Vista ships, let M$ have a brief flash in the pan, then release Leopard and steal their thunder. It will then be Hasta la Vista, Baby!
Leopard will ship on March 24, 2007, the six year anniversary of MacOS X.
Leopard, iPhone, iTV, 100 Gb full screen video iPod all in January. And if you buy thany three of them you get the fourth item free!
Improved living experiences through modern chemistry!
Between now and January, a lot of development work will have gone into Leopard causing us to salivate even more during Uncle Job’s keynote at MacWorld. Although I’d love to cuddle up to Leopard as soon as possible, I’m more hopefull that Apple will take the time and resources necessary to produce a rock-solid 10.5.0.
“Rush to Market: Be Damned The Consequences” is a Microsoft trait, not Apple’s.
Spark, The 64-bit capability is going to run across the entire line at some point – even on systems that ship with a mere half a GB of memory. 64-bit offers other benefits in addition to larger address space, but most of it – even the potentially huge address space – is more about bragging rights rather than functioning feature.
Will S.J. announce/show off Leopard at MW? Of course he will! The question is when will it ship? It seems closer to “done” than Vista right now, so it may have more to do with when and how Apple decides to counter Vista’s shipping date than any other factor. Be cute to see crowds lined up around the building to buy 10.5 and Business As Usual at the MS counters.
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What will S.J. do with his show if he can’t say “now shipping …”? Well, someone is going to have to stand up there and tell one and all about the really neat toys in iLife’07 … I expect that will be huge. Maybe Apple will drop the other Web Design shoe. The Pro version of iWeb – what Logic is to GarageBand and Final Cut is to iMovie and Aperture is to iPhoto, will iWeb be left standing alone for another year?
Leopard, iLife and iWork ’07 are definite for MacWorld, most likely with the iApps shipping the same day. Leopard will probably be shipping a few months later (I’m feeling mid to late March or early April).
But isn’t there any possibility that Steve might announce some new products altogether? Maybe a new machine or cool app? Doing that alone could take a significant chunk out of Keynote time.
It seems that alot of things we’re looking forward to have been happening either by Special Event or just a simple press release. Some examples are Core 2 Duo, 2G nano and shuffle, Aperture 1.5, etc. It’s quite possible that some other things will be released before Macworld. I think a new iPod or the iPhone (if it’s real) before the holidays, and maybe an update to the AirPort base stations and more than likely some speed bumps on most of the machines.
So as hard as it is for me to say, I think we need to just wait and see what happens. I don’t know Apple to underdeliver- Microsoft does enough of that for most of the industry.