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What do you think is the most likely 'big news' to be announced at the WWDC Keynote on Monday?
1/1: What do you think is the most likely 'big news' to be announced at the WWDC Keynote on Monday?
Other polls | 681 votes | 5 comments
Panther is likely, but is it "big" news?
I voted for 970 desktops & laptops. Not that I know what I'm talking about. Still, it seems to me like Panther shipping is the most likely thing in the list, but ... you know... If they said it would take another year, that would be big news. But "shipping soon"? Wellllll.... Then again, July is very soon. Hmmm....
Year of the Desktop?
If this is the year of the Laptop and they release a major update to the PowerMac, then what are they going to save for next year's big excitement?
PPC 970 is ALL the change
In my opinion, I think that we will see the 970 in both laptop and desktop form factors. This is based on the specs from IBM touting its power management and low (relatively) consumption. It will of course be a dual-processor and beyond capable chip, so Apple will have little problems adapting G4 SMP technologies to the new chip. Also, the 970 is a smaller chip overall, and supposedly generates less heat than current G4's (that remains to be seen by me, I'll believe it when I see it) so I don't think that it will represent as much of a technical challenge to adapt it over 2 form factors this quickly, especially not for such a notoriously good engineering team like Apple's.
Most likely v. Most WANTED
I voted for the dual PPC 970 desktop as the most likely, mainly because of the Slashdot posting that has been linked to far too many times already elsewhere (I wonder ... when was the last time Slashdot got Slashdotted? Anyway, I digress....)
For me at least, an iOffice suite would be the most WANTED. I'm proud that my machine is mostly Microsoft-free, but unfortunately I have a version of MS Office 98 that I run in classic because of some specific formatting functions in Word that just aren't well-supported in AppleWorks or Open/StarOffice. One of the first modifications I made to my TiBook out of the box was to install Mozilla and delete IE. Of course, now Safari is my main browser, but for some tasks I need the cookie/image control that Mozilla provides. When I got Keynote I was able to get rid of PowerPoint, but I can't wait until I can FINALLY be computing in a 100% M$-free environment.
Most Lusted-After
I almost forgot -- how about a dual PPC 970 PowerBook. The instant lust object for geeks everywhere!
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