No news about Powerbook G5?

I love the iPod Shuffle. It's exactly what I've been waiting for. I am especially happy about the 512k version. I just need something that can play my ever-growing iTunes music collection at the gym. I just can't justify bringing my 40GB iPod to a place that has a high risk of it getting broken. $99 is a total no-brainer!

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No news about Powerbook G5?

Everyone's best guess is that we'll HEAR about it in June. There's no way they'll be talking about something that far off now.

There won't be a Powerbook G5 for at least another 6 months.

The next update is supposed to be Powerbook G4 bump.

That's the word on the rumor sites anyway.

When are there going to be Powermac updates? I need to know when to buy!

That's got to be a big thing for web development in educational institutions, no? Heck, I'm looking forward to using it for my blog!

i'd look for a dual G4 core PB before a G5 PB.
the G5 runs too hot for a slimline notebook.

How can anybody ask about Powerbook and Powermac updates now after we've had months of everybody telling us this would be the show and tell for the flash based iPods and cheapmacs. Like it or not, rumor sites did predict this one pretty well and we knew what was coming. Then again, don't we usually?

And G5 laptops? Are you kidding? Do you have full body armor to protect you from the massive heat buildup?

Apple will do better to go with the G6s for the laptops (though Pontiac just usurped that name thank you very much).

Great products and very respectable prices. Good one Apple!

Yet greedy me, I want them to drop the iMac G5 $200 across the board, like the did with the monitor line up.

I was pleasantly surprised with the Mac mini announcement. I knew it was coming, but the overall footprint was smaller than I thought it would be. I ordered one today - high-end model with SuperDrive (it would be a real pain to add one later, I am guessing) and Airport Extreme. I plan to use mine as a silent webserver, unless I decide to use it as my desktop machine!

I can see this model eating into iMac and G5 tower sales. But Apple absolutely had to do it. This is the marketshare grabber that we have all been waiting for.

I also decided to order the iPod Shuffle 1GB. The primary reason was because I need to carry a USB drive around anyway; I am assuming I can drag and drop files to it. Secondly, I don't want my main iPod to be busted or stolen. This one will be great for airplane flights.

jamesq- I'm glad to see I'm not the only one buying the Flash shuffle primarily as a flash drive. I was going to buy a flash drive anyway, and price per meg for the iPod shuffle isn't that much higher then the typical flash drive, with the added bonus of being able to play music.

Nice to know that Mac Mini and iPod shuffle are selling so well.

This was a killer Keynote and I'm still trying to wrap my poor old mind around all that was released.

The biggest news for me was the iMac mini because I believe it will appeal to a lot of PC user who own a Mac. People can talk specs until they are blue in the face, but THAT design is going to wow the PC user - just like the iPod did. It's also priced very nicely for them - a no brainer to give it a try.

iPod shuffle? The entire family has iPods and I have a gen 1 in a drawer somewhere. It will be great for the kids whose families are on a tight budget and should blow out the door.

Bigger than the iPod shuffle for me is iLife 05. I think that this will be a huge improvement over the current iLife - and the current one is pretty damn awesome. I believe that iLife 05 is going to blow away the PC converts who go with an iMac mini and will generate sales at the iMac or PM when they play with it for a while. I just hope that there is a family pack available - we have 5 Macs that will need upgrading!

iWork is also interesting as, I think it moves in a different direction than AppleWorks has. AppleWorks will still have value for the newbie as there are a lot of templates that will be valuable for them. I work moves Keynote and Pages to a new level - lots more sophisticated than a word processor. Hope to see a spreadsheet and data base following in June.

Money to spend now? iLife 05 and iWorks. 04 was the year for converting everything to Macs so there is no place (yet) for the iMac mini. Pity.

The Mac Mini will be a hit. I can see myself by a bunch of these to create my own little 3D render farm...

I can't believe how many math dropouts think this is going to cannibalize... POWER MAC SALES?!

No. If you're going to buy a new monitor and everything, this is not a huge VALUE.. this is for ppl who already have a PC.

Guess what?

That's a big market. Bill Gates will agree. About 95% of the computers out there could very quickly become macs with this 500 dollar machine.

That's all you need to know.

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Bigger than the iPod shuffle for me is iLife 05.

I just hope that there is a family pack available - we have 5 Macs that will need upgrading!

Yeah, and it's only $100, which is only $20 more than a single. Not too bad, huh?

I agree, iLife gets over-looked because it's "just updates" but I think this was the best part of the keynote as well.