More Apple goodies
Okay, so in just a few hours Apple will reveal their latest professional line of products. It was only last week that they released a whole new lineup of consumer products so tomorrow's announcements will possibly mark the last of Apple's PowerPC Macs as they prepare to go Intel by June 2006.
Plenty of pundits are predicting new PowerMacs and PowerBooks and there are talks of a professional phoography software akin to iPhoto.
As of last Wednesday, Apple's latest core products all come in twos.
Oddly? Yeah. While it is priced to be positioned as one of Apple's high end products, the feature differences between it and the current iBooks aren't considerable enough, which is clearly not the case with the 15" and 17" PowerBooks.
While compact, powerful and popular, the 12" PowerBook is having a hard time facing the challenge from the iBooks. Currently the iBooks are about as powerful as last year's 12" PowerBook which despite being an outdated model is unjustifiably more expensive in the second hand market.
The 14" iBook is US$200 less than the 12" PowerBook but it comes with a dual layer DVD burner while in the PowerBook it's an optional extra. The rest of the features just aren't compelling enough to justify the price difference.
You can see for yourself at Apple's site but if by the time you read this the site has been updated with the new units, go to everymac.com. They also list current and original prices of Apple's hardware.
As for the PowerMacs it's a bit easier to be cut from three to two as the new iMacs are significantly different systems and the difference between the three PowerMac models only lies with the procesor speed.
Photo Pro is supposedly similar to iPhoto but aimed at profesional photographers. Adobe recently released Photoshop Elements 3.0 without a Mac version in sight and this might be the reasoning behind the move. When Apple were making in roads with Final Cut Pro, Adobe saw a battle they'd rather not fight so they pulled Premiere for Macs.
It won't be a coincidence for a photography software to pop up right before PhotoPlus Expo, a major photography convention in New York.
Plenty of pundits are predicting new PowerMacs and PowerBooks and there are talks of a professional phoography software akin to iPhoto.
As of last Wednesday, Apple's latest core products all come in twos.
- iPod shuffle: 512MB, 1GB
- iPod nano: 2GB, 4GB
- iPod: 30GB, 60GB
- Mac mini G4: 1.25GHz, 1.42 GHz
- iMac G5: 1.9GHz, 2.1GHz
- iBook G4: 1.33GHz, 1.42GHz
- PowerMac G5 : 2.0GHz, 2.3GHz, 2,7GHz
- PowerBook G4 : 12", 15" 17" all 1.5GHz
Oddly? Yeah. While it is priced to be positioned as one of Apple's high end products, the feature differences between it and the current iBooks aren't considerable enough, which is clearly not the case with the 15" and 17" PowerBooks.
While compact, powerful and popular, the 12" PowerBook is having a hard time facing the challenge from the iBooks. Currently the iBooks are about as powerful as last year's 12" PowerBook which despite being an outdated model is unjustifiably more expensive in the second hand market.
The 14" iBook is US$200 less than the 12" PowerBook but it comes with a dual layer DVD burner while in the PowerBook it's an optional extra. The rest of the features just aren't compelling enough to justify the price difference.
You can see for yourself at Apple's site but if by the time you read this the site has been updated with the new units, go to everymac.com. They also list current and original prices of Apple's hardware.
As for the PowerMacs it's a bit easier to be cut from three to two as the new iMacs are significantly different systems and the difference between the three PowerMac models only lies with the procesor speed.
Photo Pro is supposedly similar to iPhoto but aimed at profesional photographers. Adobe recently released Photoshop Elements 3.0 without a Mac version in sight and this might be the reasoning behind the move. When Apple were making in roads with Final Cut Pro, Adobe saw a battle they'd rather not fight so they pulled Premiere for Macs.
It won't be a coincidence for a photography software to pop up right before PhotoPlus Expo, a major photography convention in New York.
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