I think iDVD being dropped and replaced with another app or two is pretty certain. I?d expect iDVD to put on their servers somewhere for downloading like they did with the older version of iMovie.
I?m not sure about iChat being dropped from Mac OS X 10.7 but it does make sense to add a chat program with FaceTime capabilities to iLife 11 so they can get it out to people ASAP without needing to wait a year or more before they tie their iDevices to their Macs. I doubt they?d call it FaceTime since that is what they are calling the open protocol suite standard they said they?d be submitting.
If they are using in-house development to make HTML/CSS/JS-based iAds it?s possible they were able to package this into a proper version of iWeb. if they can, this could be a forerunner for iAds on webpages.
On Mac OS X, I wonder how a different file system would benefit the future of solid-state drives.
Learn to read for content and you wouldn't have this problem! Seriosly you post to this forum but yet apparently haven't a clue to Apples cycles.
I don't wish to be mean but that is one of the reasons every Apple fan site has a chart showing common product refresh times or a list of days since the last refresh. Being an informed consummer is in your best interest. RIF.
These sorts of posts just amaze me. It is not like fall refreshes are a secret, well they are but we know they are going to happen. Further you have all of these online sites looking out for you.
I was and am aware of Apple's refresh cycle, I'm just mad at myself for giving in instead of waiting. I guess I should have just kept my woes to myself.
Not going to happen until Intel incorporates them into their boards - Apple isn't going to drop FW anytime soon and not going to incorporate USB 3 until Intel does next year.
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And can we get better sync services rather than through iTunes?
iTunes uses SyncServices. SyncServices is it's own platform on OSX.
Unless you've got some seriously obscure hardware (and it seems likely this is your whole problem), only a dufus would run Leopard instead of Snow Leopard if the hardware they have can support Snow Leopard at all. It's faster and far more stable and it includes all the drivers from Leopard anyway.
I have a pretty recent Macbook so I would fall under the dufus catagory. I am running 10.5 (I think that is Leopard). I just don't want to mess with what is working to get a few millisecond speed increase.
Just a nitpick, but can you guys please stop saying 'the Far East'? This isn't the 19th century, and these parts aren't being shipped from Cathay by the East India Tea Company, nor were they sold to Apple by strange, veiled eunuchs.
You mean there not packed on elephants in large caravans?
iTunes uses SyncServices. SyncServices is it's own platform on OSX.
It needs a front-facing application outside of iTunes, and iTunes needs sync stripped out of it. If iDevices are going to be an extension of your computer, iTunes is not the logical place to do this.
There will be no such thing as a 11.6" or 13" MacBook Air.
Instead, all Macbook Pros will lose their slot loading drive in favour of an increased battery life and better hard drives. This will actually be a major upgrade for the Macbook Pro family!
That would be very courageous of Apple to remove the drive! I, for one, would applaud it!
I would like to still see the MBA form factor though. I like the tapered effect. But I take your point remove the drive and increase the size of the battery!
I would like to see the Air with an array of colours like the ipod range, including a red one with applicable donation to a charity attached, my daughter would love a new pink model, took me for ever to stripe and sand her last one down and have it anodised.
Can anybody tell me the time period new MacBook Pro users are often allowed to get the new upgraded versions if they bought their recently? I think my sister got her MacBook a little over a week ago, and while she's not really a prosumer and wouldn't cry if they updated the 13" MBP, I think it'd be nice if she could get the newly updated version.
While iChat is a standalone application, I seem to recall it is distributed with the OSX packages. I'd be a little surprised if AAPL decided to delay making iChat work with Facetime until a release of OSX 10.7 that seems still some months away. I'm sort of on the edge (!) of upgrading my iPhone 3G to iPhone 4, and this feature might push me over. Guessing there is a Grand Strategy(tm) about this in Cuppertino.
And will OSX 10.7 come in white?
You are on "the edge" of upgrade from a 3G to a 4? Really? You're missing out on a LOT by sticking with a 3G. I can see if you had the 3GS and were holding out before your upgrade time, but a 3G.... geesh. Certainly you can spare the extra bones for a vastly superior device.
You think they chose lion because they can do the same the thing they did with leopard? Create an update or new version that follows with a similar title? Leopard - snow leopard. Lion - mountain lion (I.e.) just a thought.
I had a LaserWriter (an original White one)... Used it for years -- at one time it was Apple's most powerful computer.
But, I gave up the ghost in 2000-- the toner cartridges (even refills) were too damn expensive.
.
Dick, I had one too, one which I bought from Computer Plus ages ago. I used to get cartridges at Bay Area Data Supply and they were the least expensive. But time marched on and we then got a new Ethernet-capable LW in 1993, which was only recently replaced by a Brother networked MFC.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum's Signature
The customer will pay more... for less... of worse...
-The Palo Alto Postulate-
...because worse is undesirable, the customer wants less of it, and will pay more for what he wants!
-The California Ave. Corollary
\t
To which I add:
...I just don't understand the postulate or its corollary...
I would like to see the Air with an array of colours like the ipod range, including a red one with applicable donation to a charity attached, my daughter would love a new pink model, took me for ever to stripe and sand her last one down and have it anodised.
I wasn\\'t thinking that, I\\'m just upset that they are getting updated/ upgraded so soon after I bought one. The same thing happened when I bought my iMac G5; the Intel iMacs were released a week later. Such is my luck.
In general, it makes little sense to buy except shortly after release.
In the case of your new MBP, where did you buy it? Can\\'t you return it, no questions asked, within 30 days?
Dude if you are going to pinch my quote from MacRumors do me the honour of at least acknowledging it.
"Anybody else feel just a tiny bit sorry for Microsoft - they just had the WP7 launch, media interested and the blogs full of Microsoft for a while and then along comes Apple with this announcement and now for the next week all the blogs will be counting down to the Apple event.
Genius marketing. "
Why has macrumors the same idea, so what? They come up with something that isn't utter rubish once in a while.
I use iDVD every week for the High School Band. I make end of the year video for the band and all the parents want DVD's. Why does Apple think the we don't need DVD's? I use Final Cut Express for my editing so what am I to use? Apple wont sell DVD Studio Pro outside of Final Cut. Video is not all on line yet even though I post lot's of video to youtube. People still like DVD's. Why can't Apple at lease make a DVD Studio Express for those that still need this capability.
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I think iDVD being dropped and replaced with another app or two is pretty certain. I?d expect iDVD to put on their servers somewhere for downloading like they did with the older version of iMovie.
I?m not sure about iChat being dropped from Mac OS X 10.7 but it does make sense to add a chat program with FaceTime capabilities to iLife 11 so they can get it out to people ASAP without needing to wait a year or more before they tie their iDevices to their Macs. I doubt they?d call it FaceTime since that is what they are calling the open protocol suite standard they said they?d be submitting.
If they are using in-house development to make HTML/CSS/JS-based iAds it?s possible they were able to package this into a proper version of iWeb. if they can, this could be a forerunner for iAds on webpages.
On Mac OS X, I wonder how a different file system would benefit the future of solid-state drives.
I'd kill for a pro iWeb.
Learn to read for content and you wouldn't have this problem! Seriosly you post to this forum but yet apparently haven't a clue to Apples cycles.
I don't wish to be mean but that is one of the reasons every Apple fan site has a chart showing common product refresh times or a list of days since the last refresh. Being an informed consummer is in your best interest. RIF.
These sorts of posts just amaze me. It is not like fall refreshes are a secret, well they are but we know they are going to happen. Further you have all of these online sites looking out for you.
I was and am aware of Apple's refresh cycle, I'm just mad at myself for giving in instead of waiting. I guess I should have just kept my woes to myself.
USB 3.0. Drop Firewire.
Not going to happen until Intel incorporates them into their boards - Apple isn't going to drop FW anytime soon and not going to incorporate USB 3 until Intel does next year.
And can we get better sync services rather than through iTunes?
iTunes uses SyncServices. SyncServices is it's own platform on OSX.
Z file system?
Apple stopped developing it awhile back
Unless you've got some seriously obscure hardware (and it seems likely this is your whole problem), only a dufus would run Leopard instead of Snow Leopard if the hardware they have can support Snow Leopard at all. It's faster and far more stable and it includes all the drivers from Leopard anyway.
I have a pretty recent Macbook so I would fall under the dufus catagory. I am running 10.5 (I think that is Leopard). I just don't want to mess with what is working to get a few millisecond speed increase.
Just a nitpick, but can you guys please stop saying 'the Far East'? This isn't the 19th century, and these parts aren't being shipped from Cathay by the East India Tea Company, nor were they sold to Apple by strange, veiled eunuchs.
You mean there not packed on elephants in large caravans?
iTunes uses SyncServices. SyncServices is it's own platform on OSX.
It needs a front-facing application outside of iTunes, and iTunes needs sync stripped out of it. If iDevices are going to be an extension of your computer, iTunes is not the logical place to do this.
There will be no such thing as a 11.6" or 13" MacBook Air.
Instead, all Macbook Pros will lose their slot loading drive in favour of an increased battery life and better hard drives. This will actually be a major upgrade for the Macbook Pro family!
That would be very courageous of Apple to remove the drive! I, for one, would applaud it!
I would like to still see the MBA form factor though. I like the tapered effect. But I take your point remove the drive and increase the size of the battery!
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I don't need, I don't want any drive on a portable ! Geez !
While iChat is a standalone application, I seem to recall it is distributed with the OSX packages. I'd be a little surprised if AAPL decided to delay making iChat work with Facetime until a release of OSX 10.7 that seems still some months away. I'm sort of on the edge (!) of upgrading my iPhone 3G to iPhone 4, and this feature might push me over. Guessing there is a Grand Strategy(tm) about this in Cuppertino.
And will OSX 10.7 come in white?
You are on "the edge" of upgrade from a 3G to a 4? Really? You're missing out on a LOT by sticking with a 3G. I can see if you had the 3GS and were holding out before your upgrade time, but a 3G.... geesh. Certainly you can spare the extra bones for a vastly superior device.
I had a LaserWriter (an original White one)... Used it for years -- at one time it was Apple's most powerful computer.
But, I gave up the ghost in 2000-- the toner cartridges (even refills) were too damn expensive.
.
Dick, I had one too, one which I bought from Computer Plus ages ago. I used to get cartridges at Bay Area Data Supply and they were the least expensive. But time marched on and we then got a new Ethernet-capable LW in 1993, which was only recently replaced by a Brother networked MFC.
The customer will pay more... for less... of worse...
-The Palo Alto Postulate-
...because worse is undesirable, the customer wants less of it, and will pay more for what he wants!
-The California Ave. Corollary
\t
To which I add:
...I just don't understand the postulate or its corollary...
- Scruffy Bum at Calif Av Train Station's Tangent
I would like to see the Air with an array of colours like the ipod range, including a red one with applicable donation to a charity attached, my daughter would love a new pink model, took me for ever to stripe and sand her last one down and have it anodised.
Any color you want.
-> http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-222-macbook-air.aspx
I wasn\\'t thinking that, I\\'m just upset that they are getting updated/ upgraded so soon after I bought one. The same thing happened when I bought my iMac G5; the Intel iMacs were released a week later. Such is my luck.
In general, it makes little sense to buy except shortly after release.
In the case of your new MBP, where did you buy it? Can\\'t you return it, no questions asked, within 30 days?
In general, it makes little sense to buy except shortly after release.
It makes more sense to buy a computer when you need it, not when they are released.
If you wait for the next, better model, you will ALWAYS be waiting.
Dude if you are going to pinch my quote from MacRumors do me the honour of at least acknowledging it.
"Anybody else feel just a tiny bit sorry for Microsoft - they just had the WP7 launch, media interested and the blogs full of Microsoft for a while and then along comes Apple with this announcement and now for the next week all the blogs will be counting down to the Apple event.
Genius marketing. "
Why has macrumors the same idea, so what? They come up with something that isn't utter rubish once in a while.
I use iDVD every week for the High School Band. I make end of the year video for the band and all the parents want DVD's. Why does Apple think the we don't need DVD's? I use Final Cut Express for my editing so what am I to use? Apple wont sell DVD Studio Pro outside of Final Cut. Video is not all on line yet even though I post lot's of video to youtube. People still like DVD's. Why can't Apple at lease make a DVD Studio Express for those that still need this capability.
Feedback for Final Cut Express:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutexpress.html