Leaks suggest new MacBook Airs coming Wednesday, voice recognition in iOS 5

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  • Reply 61 of 78
    jfanningjfanning Posts: 3,398member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    One look at his icon and you can see he is both extremely young and extremely full of himself. I wouldn't trust any info from someone like this (although the MacBook Air rumour is almost a no-brainer to the extent that the update will happen soon regardless of whether it happens Wednesday or not.)



    I bet his Dad is an Apple store manager and has loose lips at the dinner table.



    Hmm, did your mother never tell you that you should not judge books by their covers?
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  • Reply 62 of 78
    sol77sol77 Posts: 203member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cpsro View Post


    In a week, it will be 8 months old.





    Source?







    Every article written about the Air for the last five months. Where have you been? You'll find googling for a link to be faster than any of us can provide it. Maybe try, "Macbook air selling well." ??? Keep up! There is no shortage of news about the Air selling well.
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  • Reply 63 of 78
    sol77sol77 Posts: 203member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cpsro View Post


    Lazy ol' me finds your source is irrelevant to the question of whether MBAs are, as you wrote, "still apparently" flying off the shelves. Your source link* is dated November, 29, 2010, which is over 6 months ago and just over a month after the MBAs were last updated.



    Sorry to disappoint!





    *http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ck_friday.html





    I think the guy was just giving a casual opinion...not a forensic analysis. I think you brought a knife to no fight whatsoever. Nothing in what he wrote made me think he is an apostle of macbook Air sales propaganda, and we don't need a knock down, drag out fight to prove how wrong he is. If you're as genuine as you want to be perceived, why not simply ask, "I know they were selling well before, but has there been any recent news?" Your purpose seems less about genuine inquiry, and more about walking around looking for someone to brawl with.
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  • Reply 64 of 78
    drdoppiodrdoppio Posts: 1,132member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    One look at his icon and you can see he is both extremely young and extremely full of himself. I wouldn't trust any info from someone like this (although the MacBook Air rumour is almost a no-brainer to the extent that the update will happen soon regardless of whether it happens Wednesday or not.)



    I bet his Dad is an Apple store manager and has loose lips at the dinner table.



    Yes, they make you show a photo ID when you register a twitter account. True.



    As to whether one could trust a young person, how about this Facebook kid? Only idiots would entrust him with their personal data...
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  • Reply 65 of 78
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by joelsalt View Post


    Average update times

    Imac = 229 days

    Macbook Pro = 215 Days

    Mac Pro = 259 days

    Mac Mini = 258 days



    Those are all between 7 - 8.5 months. The Air's history is longer than that, but its not unreasonable to assume an Apple computer would be updated in around 8 months time.



    What is the average update time for Macbook Airs? (Conspicuously missing from your data above).
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  • Reply 66 of 78
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cpsro View Post


    Lazy ol' me finds your source is irrelevant to the question of whether MBAs are, as you wrote, "still apparently" flying off the shelves. Your source link* is dated November, 29, 2010, which is over 6 months ago and just over a month after the MBAs were last updated.



    Sorry to disappoint!





    *http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ck_friday.html



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post


    ....People like you are probably too lazy to do so anyway; moreover, even if you did, you wouldn't be convinced.......



    Nope. You didn't disappoint!
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  • Reply 67 of 78
    tjwaltjwal Posts: 404member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smallwheels View Post


    How much CPU power is necessary for voice recognition and voice commands? Will such software dominate the usage of the CPU? I wouldn't want it if it slowed my computer/iPod Touch/iPad/iPhone too much. Would you?



    I had a voice recognition board installed in my Apple II+. it wasn't great but it did sort of work. With current processors I don't see VR being much of an issue. this is especially so if the processor isn't doing much else other than listening for an input.
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  • Reply 68 of 78
    joseph ljoseph l Posts: 197member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by muppetry View Post


    Twice in quick succession the page navigation links on this thread operated but also appeared to open new windows at two different sites, one porn, one gambling. I couldn't see anything odd in the page code. Now it's working fine again. Anyone else see anything like that?



    AI sells us to many, many tracking companies. Which pop up blocker do you use?



    I use Ghostery, which both blocks the tracking and (optionally) tells you which sites are blocked.



    The main AI page sells you to:



    Google Analytics

    Google Adsense

    Quantcast

    AdHere

    Federated Media

    Advertising.com

    Tribal Analytics

    Adsense

    Comscore Beacon

    Crowd Science

    Quantcast

    Valueclick Mediaplex



    and more.



    The actual forum pages add Viglink and a few others. More than I can keep track of.







    Do yourself a favor. If you install Ghostery, you are unlikely to get any more porn from AI.
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  • Reply 69 of 78
    joelsaltjoelsalt Posts: 827member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post


    What is the average update time for Macbook Airs? (Conspicuously missing from your data above).



    If you read the entire post you would have understood I wrote that it was longer, but it is still not unreasonable to assume it wouldn't settle into an ~8 month groove like all 4 other Mac computers, especially since its the newest and most likely to have outliers cause significant changes in the average.



    edit: my point is to emphatically assume Apple would not update it so at 8 months is preposterous, not that I think they will update them right away.
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  • Reply 70 of 78
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Does Lion have ability to undo .7.x upgrades?
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  • Reply 71 of 78
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aquatic View Post


    Does Lion have ability to undo .7.x upgrades?



    Nope.
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  • Reply 72 of 78
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by solipsism View Post


    Nope.



    Wait, I'm lost here. Does he mean .7.x updates as in Mac OS 10.7.x updates? And if so...



    1. How could we possibly know that it couldn't undo them? We don't even have 10.7.0 yet, much less 10.7.1.

    2. Why wouldn't it be able to?
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  • Reply 73 of 78
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton View Post


    I say "Open the pod bay doors"

    Mac hears: "Open iPod, play Doors"





    Voice Control works about as well as auto spell correction on iOS which I eventually just turned off it was so frustrating. Google App and Google Translate are a little better but it will be interesting if the addition of Nuance will make VC actually usable.
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  • Reply 74 of 78
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    Wait, I'm lost here. Does he mean .7.x updates as in Mac OS 10.7.x updates? And if so...



    1. How could we possibly know that it couldn't undo them? We don't even have 10.7.0 yet, much less 10.7.1.

    2. Why wouldn't it be able to?



    1) I know from the betas (which did jump to an oddly named 10.7.1 with Preview 3, I think) that it's not possible to remove newer builds for older ones unless you reinstall the OS forms scratch.



    2) Sounds like you think this is and has been possible.



    3) They could add this feature in the future and I can't say what Apple will do in future releases of Lion but as of right now, up through Preview 4, this is not possible. We'll likely know when Apple plans to include this feature because it's an undertaking to prepare for such a feat.
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  • Reply 75 of 78
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by solipsism View Post


    1) I know from the betas (which did jump to an oddly named 10.7.1 with Preview 3, I think) that it's not possible to remove newer builds for older ones unless you reinstall the OS forms scratch.



    Oh, yes, I encountered that. I suppose that means betas for (Snow) Leopard and the like could do that? Strange.



    Quote:

    2) Sounds like you think this is and has been possible.



    Not for the Lion Previews, no, but is it also not possible for retail discs of older OS'?



    Sorry, I almost never have to reinstall older versions of an OS, and whenever I do, I've always done a clean install.
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  • Reply 76 of 78
    muppetrymuppetry Posts: 3,331member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joseph L View Post


    AI sells us to many, many tracking companies. Which pop up blocker do you use?



    I use Ghostery, which both blocks the tracking and (optionally) tells you which sites are blocked.



    The main AI page sells you to:



    Google Analytics

    Google Adsense

    Quantcast

    AdHere

    Federated Media

    Advertising.com

    Tribal Analytics

    Adsense

    Comscore Beacon

    Crowd Science

    Quantcast

    Valueclick Mediaplex



    and more.



    The actual forum pages add Viglink and a few others. More than I can keep track of.







    Do yourself a favor. If you install Ghostery, you are unlikely to get any more porn from AI.



    It appears that the new windows arose from redirects from the domain easypicturehost.com. The forum pages include the following script:



    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://easypicturehost.com/icons/js/ad.js"></script>;



    though the behavior is not obvious from the script itself, which only Omniweb exhibited of the browsers that I tried. The easypicturehost.com domain looks suspect to me, so I'm not sure why its scripts are on AI. Hostgator appear to be hosting it.
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  • Reply 77 of 78
    joseph ljoseph l Posts: 197member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by muppetry View Post


    It appears that the new windows arose from redirects from the domain easypicturehost.com. The forum pages include the following script:



    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://easypicturehost.com/icons/js/ad.js"></script>;



    though the behavior is not obvious from the script itself, which only Omniweb exhibited of the browsers that I tried. The easypicturehost.com domain looks suspect to me, so I'm not sure why its scripts are on AI. Hostgator appear to be hosting it.



    I've heard the advice, more than once, to turn javascript off. I thought tho, that a site like AI could be trusted.



    Have you looked into Ghostery? Its scary how many trackers there are who all get sold info every time you click antything
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  • Reply 78 of 78
    muppetrymuppetry Posts: 3,331member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joseph L View Post


    I've heard the advice, more than once, to turn javascript off. I thought tho, that a site like AI could be trusted.



    Have you looked into Ghostery? Its scary how many trackers there are who all get sold info every time you click antything



    I have Ghostery running with Safari, but it doesn't see anything related to this. I guess it is not tracking javascript execution per se.



    I'm going to set up some dummy pages to see if I can figure out exactly what the script is doing. I still don't understand why it is called in AI's forum pages. The top level of the easypicture.com website is blank, and googling the domain doesn't turn up anything comforting.



    Maybe someone from AI could confirm if it is legit?
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