More Apple products within the month of October?

[piedad]

Internal meeting schedule hints at further product releases
Sources that can be qualified as reliable told MacosXrumors that although there have been many announcements yesterday, Apple is set to release another set of products as soon as next week.

One of the sources gave us good reason to believe this information is true by pointing out that on Saturday 9 (yes, Saturday), Apple had a meeting related to the October 12th announcements, with staff involved in Apple’s retail division. Attendees have also been informed that there is another meeting planed for Saturday the 15th.

The source also explained that a few days before a major product announcement, a certain number of Apple Store staff members usually have a meeting with a briefing on forthcoming products although few details on the new products are given to them.

Although Apple did not explicitly tell its employees that this second meeting was related to another wave of product releases, speculation has already started among staff members.

If there is no misinterpretation, then the two meetings’ schedule with employees involved in Apple’s retail division can be considered as facts. However, at this point, we can’t be sure if the second meeting really has to do with imminent product releases.

PowerMac, and PowerBook updates are still expected to be released soon, while the Mac mini’s update remains to be made official, although Apple has silently started shipping updated Mac minis to customers.:eek::eek:

[jcc177]

Could it be a powerbook with Isight?

[King]

I think updated Powerbooks is more likely

[torpedo1110]

Also, I'm hoping for a shuffle capacity bump.

[Dave_D]

I'll take a jab at the speculation biz;

Any attempts to stuff more new products from Apple will probably affect their already strained supply chains. The holiday season is the season for consumer products, which wisely includes only the iBook, iMac & the entire iPod line. PowerBooks and PowerMacs are best introduced after the holiday season since these are marketed more towards the prosumer/pro markets.

Hence all the consumer products are already updated for 2005 to drive consumer purchases all the way through the holiday season which Apple will count on to tide them over until June when the first Mactels are set to debut. I predict we will probably see a 'Last of the PPCs' sometime Jan'06 as a memorial model before migrating out completely to the intel platform.

Those who want a Powerbook/PowerMac will have to wait for Jan 06.

Again, if you need one, buy one. If you can wait. Wait.

[MX3]

Hi, a friend of mine from the US (who's also very much into macs) told me that the new ibook will also be coming out sometime Jan. '06. I'm thinking of getting one, but if the new one is soon to come out, I can still wait. Is this news fairly accurate, or is it just a rumor? Thanks.

[PatrickGaerlan]

Right now, it's just a rumor. Officially, Apple has not announced anything definite yet. The most that Apple has said so far is that the first Intel-based Macs will be coming out mid-2006.

[MX3]

I see, but based on past trends (if there's even one), is a new ibook already due?

Sorry for being makulit. Thanks again.

[PatrickGaerlan]

No problem, I understand that you want to make sure that you don't spend your hard-earned cash on a new iBook now only for it to be replaced by a significantly better model in a relatively short amount of time Many of us here believe that Apple will come out with new Intel-based Macs early next year, before the official mid-2006 date. Hard to say if the iBook will be one of the first ones to get the Intel chips though.

[MX3]

Thanks Patrick! Now, I just have to see how long I can really wait.:sigh: