No more new Apple laptops this year

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An article at MacCentral reveals that there won't be a new PowerBook before the end of the year:

If you are planning to purchase an Apple portable for Christmas but want to wait to make sure a new model isn't released at the last minute, you can rest easy—Apple says this is their holiday line-up.

"This new lineup of iBooks, along with the current PowerBooks we have, will make up the complete portable lineup we will be offering for the holidays," said [David Moody, vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing].

Sadness! MacOSRumors has been predicting an imminent upgrade to the PowerBook G4 (as an interim measure while waiting for the PowerBook G5) for a while now; this statement from Moody may mean that Apple's more likely to go straight to the PBG5 in early 2005 rather than doing another G4 revision, or it may not. Either way, no new PBs for at least two or three more months. (Whatever the next generation of PBs is might well be announced at MacWorld Expo in January, but I'm guessing that even if that happens, they won't be widely available for a while after that.)

3 Responses to “No more new Apple laptops this year”

  1. Kenny Smith

    I think it’s going to be pretty hard to keep the G5 chip from overheating in a laptop (speaking a person who has a dual CPU PowerMac G5 on his desktop).

    I have to point a box fan at the front of it to keep it from overheating. 🙂

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  2. Michael

    It’s an opportunity for Apple to market a winter laptop. For those of us in the frozen wastelands of the Northeast (ok, it’s only like 45, but I hate having to turn the heat on in October), a laptop/hand-warmer/lap-warmer would be very welcome. Apple just needs to distribute the heat evenly within the laptop.

    Going to an outdoor sporting event? The new Apple laptop is pre-loaded with sports stats and season schedules, barbecue recipes, and directions to all major professional and college sports stadiums. And its newly retro old-iBook shape is ergonomic as a butt-warmer!

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  3. pete

    Leave it alone – we dont want a faulty powerbook pressed into coming out b4 the technology is avilable. That would be a shame; I look forward to the pbg5 in the third quarter of 2005 (i suspect).

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