Posts by Junkyard Dawg

That's certainly true about encouraging new rounds of upgrades, and it could explain why Apple hasn't upgraded the Mac Pro recently.  The new Xeon processors don't offer the sorts of performance increases you describe, and at...

Personally I'd like to see a physically larger iPod Classic that houses a standard 2.5" HDD.  2 TB of Apple Lossless music :P  Of course Apple won't do that, because they're about thin, and consumers don't care about audio...

I'd like to see the Mini split into two product lines.    First line:  Thin.  That's it in a word.  Solder in the DIMMs, use mPCIe blade SSDs like in the MBA, and provide no internal HDD bays.  The...

I see no need at all to EOL the Mac Pro.   My current desktop is a 3.46 GHz Hexa-core Mac Pro.  It has two SSDs and four HDDs (two 2 TB, two 3 TB).  Both SSDs are on a 6G SATA PCIe card, and I've added eSATA for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  It would end up a fairly expensive option but it's an option and if Apple would allow using GPUs over TB it could even be a decent setup. I'd rather AMD/NVidia made small mobile GPU...

Quote: Originally Posted by protaginets  Well, let's be honest.  Resolution is only a small part of the equation.   Have you ever read text on a Retina display?  It's amazing, even an iPhone...

Too bad Apple fucked this up, I was going to wait in line to buy one until I learned that it did not have a Retina display.     I would use it primarily for reading, so without a Retina display it's no better than my Nook...

You seem to think that Apple waves a magic wand and the universe obeys.  Ummm...no.     All the people using optical discs for movies or video don't care what Apple does or does not include on their hardware....

Likely next screen, or desired next screen? My desire is for Apple to implement wide gamut display technology across the lineup and add hooks to OS X to enable developers to easily support the wide gamut color space....

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  Or sales sucked! Sometimes the simple answer makes the most sense. The simplist answer is that the 17" MacBook would confuse buyers.  They would be faced with the choice...