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2005-12-06
IBM decided not to do a notebook G5?
Today's CEO of Freescale, Michel Mayer, was previously the person working at IBM who 'sold' Steve Jobs the G5 processor, when Steve Jobs for the first time wanted to go with intel five years ago. Today, he says (links to second page of c|net's interview): "And then IBM decided not to take the G5 into the laptop and decided to really focus its chip business on the game consoles." Now doesn't this sound very much unlike what IBM had us believe. I don't want to take sides here, but I get the feeling that maybe Apple should have gone intel the first time, but better late than never. In related news, digitimes reports that the first intel Macs are due on the 6th of June 2006 - not in January, as some sources tell us (and many other rumour sites predict).
- posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 22:14 [article link] 
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I'm curious, how reliable really is this digitimes news vs other reports? January really does seem much more plausible at this time in light of other various developments and the likelihood of Apple wanting to jumpstart the year AND Steve will be giving the keynote in San Francisco this January...
Well... Everything besides what Steve Jobs said so far is speculation - plausible or not. And what he said was that the first intel Mac would come out "by this time next year", which makes the 6th of June 2006 a _very_ plausible date.
The various rumour sites (this one included) could theoretically all have fallen for the same information (differently interpreted?) - or maybe even Apple is spreading false information, although that would be counterproductive (they don't want to hype intel Macs if they're _not_ going to release one at MWSF, do they...).
In the past, digitimes had both very false and very accurate information, so we can't rule them out completely. ThinkSecret was more wrong than right as of late.
My own sources said "first quarter 2006" for both iBooks and PowerBooks, which is a bit vague, I'm sorry...
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The various rumour sites (this one included) could theoretically all have fallen for the same information (differently interpreted?) - or maybe even Apple is spreading false information, although that would be counterproductive (they don't want to hype intel Macs if they're _not_ going to release one at MWSF, do they...).
In the past, digitimes had both very false and very accurate information, so we can't rule them out completely. ThinkSecret was more wrong than right as of late.
My own sources said "first quarter 2006" for both iBooks and PowerBooks, which is a bit vague, I'm sorry...
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