Posts by Lemon Bon Bon.

You could say with the move to trackpads and the 'launch pad' in Lion that it's more of an iPad on a stand than ever...   ...all in time, perhaps?   Lemon Bon Bon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    The primary feature of calling a desktop a desktop and it's "not a desktop"…    Something like that.  It's primary feature is a screen and...

Just one look at the iPhone keynote introduction under Jobs showed the gulf between 'smart crap' phones as they were and the jesus iPhone.  Then the copy cats came.  Still pretending their iPhones.   The iPhone 5(!)...

*tiny violin for Samsung. You don't give hundreds of millions of business to your supplier who's ripping you off. They can keep selling their big ass phones. Meanwhile, Sharp and LG will be thankful for the business. Companies rise...

And as for the iMac not being a mid-box.  Well.   *Shrugs.  It occupies the 'mid ground' in Apple's desktops.  Regardless of conventional comparisons.   The Mac was never a conventional desktop....

"Desktop CPU, desktop HDD. Hardly a laptop."   Hardly a desktop either some might say...   Lemon Bon Bon.

The desktop cpu was relatively recent.  The quad cpu took ages to come to the iMac.  A legacy of it's thermal design limit.   It has a laptop gpu.  So yes.  For a large part of it's 'flat design' life, it's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    It's a desktop. There's no reason for this nonsense. Yeah, drop the ODD. Yeah, make the screen with the same process as all your others. But it doesn't need to be...

Quote: Originally Posted by retroneo  Look at the supremely fast X-Gene ARMv8 64-bit processor. If Apple can do the A6, they can certainly match the X-Gene. Add plenty of Rogue GPU cores for speedy OpenCL and...

All roads converging on Haswell being a very tasty year for Macs 'Pro' and iMac.  (Hopefully retina as well for iMac in the 3k by 2k res'?)   ...and those Sea Island...