News.com bericht dat Apple volgende week tijdens de Macworld Expo mogelijk nieuwe produktaankondiging zal doen. Het meest waarschijnlijk is een upgrade van de iMac lijn, waar sinds oktober van de vorige eeuw niets aan gewijzigd is. Er is hoop dat de voor deze zomer beloofde public beta van MacOS X op Macworld wordt gepresenteerd of dat er in ieder geval een release date bekend wordt gemaakt. Updates aan de PowerMac lijn worden niet verwacht, hiervoor moet waarschijnlijk tot de Seybold beurs in augustus gewacht worden:
Many are expecting new iMacs, as the consumer model has not had an upgrade since last October, and sources say Apple has been pushing retailers to clear out the older models."We continue to gain evidence from the channel that Apple is likely to embark on a new product refresh," Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Gillian Munson said in a research note. "This is a similar pattern to what we saw in the Apple channel prior to Apple's last big product release, the color iMacs."
[...] Jobs also promised that a "public beta" version of Apple's new operating system would be available this summer, leaving many hopeful that CD-ROMs will be available at the show. At the least, Jobs is likely to offer a specific date for the test version, which he has said will be followed up with a final version in January. [break] nVidia heeft ondanks speculaties over een GeForce2 MX Mac kaart geen aankondigingen gepland voor Macworld. ATi en 3dfx laten wel het een en ander zien: [/break]
[...] Much of the talk in the Mac graphics chip market has been about the entry of industry darling Nvidia, but the graphics firm has no announcements planned for Macworld.
Meanwhile, ATI, which has all of the graphics contracts for current Mac hardware, says it will have an announcement with Apple on Wednesday. ATI supplies graphics chips to Apple's computers. ATI said it will also launch an add-in version of its Radeon product at Macworld.
Another graphics chip firm, 3dfx, says it will show a host of programs running on its Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 boards at the show and will ship products later this month.
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