how about celebrating the 25th anniversary with 25 new hdwr products. Ranging from 'Pods, to digital still & motion cameras, an iWalk, iPad, some TiVo type thing, some revised iMacs, iBooks, pBooks and pMacs, and more of course. The pMacs would have to have g5s for the numerical aesthetic. If they did that, my stock would go threw the roof .
Well, if i were jobs..and i wanted to make a 25th anniversay mac. the first thing i'd do is look on the 20th and see what it was missing and what it promised.
it was a nice sleek design: gotta have that, of course.
it was small: well, we have the imac now, it's also relatively compact. so why not go in the exact opposite direction? i mean, if you're going to make this a very limited edition, price is no limit, i'd say a home entertainment mac. how about a gas plasma-based unit that you can hang on a wall--40" maybe? nice silver/white monitor.
it was an all-in-one design: we can go for that again--somewhat. have the g5 motherboard live in the monitor and serve it up with 1 gig of ddr ram and the highest end geforce 4. include airport--and make sure the the thing is no more than 4" thick.--2" would be wonderful, though i doubt plasma can be pushed that thin right now.
it had a bose speaker system: bang & olufsen floor standing speakers anyone?
and wrap it up with all that's missing: a nice, stylish, light, wireless keyboard with a leather wristpad, optical mouse or a trackpad and a dvd burner/amplifier/airport base station with gigabit ethernet that's like a stereo but in the familiar style of apple, of course.
now this is very far-off guess...but if you really want to wow people,
but if you want a smaller scale, the same ideas..but this time, with the now familiar 22" cinema display. start off with that and you'll still have a worthy 25th anniv. mac
How about a special edition Mouse that doubles as a vibrator? Get a hip house mix with low bass pumpin' through the Soundsticks, and combined with a vibrating mouse, that's all a Mac user needs for a good time! Or is it? Well what's missing is an orifice.
How about a Quicksilver Powermac but instead of having that exposed speaker in front, there is a deep hole there? It vibrates, it exudes lubricant when your browser is at certain websites, and it's a good 13 inches deep so it will accomodate ALL of use!
As long as Apple is in the sex toy business, they might as well add a Firewire operated sex toy as well. How about Firewire ben-wha balls? Powered by the Firewire bus, they vibrate, expand and contract, and send out small electric shocks that are quite stimulating! And they synch with iBody, an application that will give readings on internal temperature, pH (used to diagnose vaginal infections), and it even will keep a record of the internal vaginal temperatures, graph it out on a monthly basis, so one can predict ovulation times and thus use it as a form of birth control!
I see lot's of potential here, and imagine how demand for Macs would increase!
<strong>How about a special edition Mouse that doubles as a vibrator? Get a hip house mix with low bass pumpin' through the Soundsticks, and combined with a vibrating mouse, that's all a Mac user needs for a good time! Or is it? Well what's missing is an orifice.
How about a Quicksilver Powermac but instead of having that exposed speaker in front, there is a deep hole there? It vibrates, it exudes lubricant when your browser is at certain websites, and it's a good 13 inches deep so it will accomodate ALL of use!
As long as Apple is in the sex toy business, they might as well add a Firewire operated sex toy as well. How about Firewire ben-wha balls? Powered by the Firewire bus, they vibrate, expand and contract, and send out small electric shocks that are quite stimulating! And they synch with iBody, an application that will give readings on internal temperature, pH (used to diagnose vaginal infections), and it even will keep a record of the internal vaginal temperatures, graph it out on a monthly basis, so one can predict ovulation times and thus use it as a form of birth control!
I see lot's of potential here, and imagine how demand for Macs would increase!</strong><hr></blockquote>
If they release the G5 there could be some good 25 th aniversary linked slogans.... (infinately better than these, but you may get the idea!)...
25 years = 2xG5
2xG5...25 years of excellence
Lame I know, but I'm sure them more creative people at Infinate Loop could do better with some Jobsian pressure applied! (then again they did come up with "full speed ahead etc so maybe not....!)
I don't know anything on that kind of thing, but Quicktime Broadcaster is coming out at the same time as QT6. I've seen it demo'd.
Now, it requires you to have an analog capture board, but ATi can just make an All-in-Wonder Mac Edition. Then, if Apple doesn't support it somebody can hook it together with Watson and a frontend and basically you've got a TiVo.
In case anyone doesn't know, Quicktime Broadcaster will be a free piece of video capture software that will take analog in and convert it to all sorts of video formarts, just ready to be streamed instantly, with QTSS integration. This is the kind of thing they use for the MW Keynotes, only so far it's been a Sorensen product, or some competitor of theirs.
I think there's a slight chance for a 25th aniversary mac with a G5, 'cause it would justify it being limited edition and VERY expensive, which would be nessesary since G5 yields are probably not up to "major release" standards (if its even ready at all).
...so if we'll se a G5 of ANY kind at MWNY, chances are it'll be an anniversary model.
Then the G5 will "debut" as a rackmount only (still very expensive) in september, and hit the powermac in january 2003.
We'll have some cool apollo G4's with G5 mobos (just like the last G3 line -the B/W, was really a G4 with a G3 cpu, correct me if I'm wrong here) by MWNY though, i think.
actually, you are wrong there- the B/W were G3's on a G3 bopard, the Yikes! G4's were a G4 proc on a G3 board, with the Sawtooth models running G4's on G4 boards.
It got a bit messy right around that time, not enough parts, and too many parts... then the two year slump culminating in the current Quicksand desktop line- where oh where has our speed gone? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Personally, I would like to think that Apple won't release anything SE too soon 'cos there would be a hell of a lot of very pissed people who have bought macs from the new line up recently, myself included!
Anyway, they're having trouble fulfilling current orders of iMacs,imagine just receiving yours and then the SE comes out!
Then again, Apple have a habit of this, keeping us all in the dark about new models <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Apple.. TALK TO US!
Apple has become so SLOWWW in it's progress (basically Moore's Law at half speed) that this RIDICULOUS argument had largely disappeared (for a time) from the BB circuit.
APPLE -- and for that matter NO OTHER COMPUTER MAKER EVER IN THE HISTORY, AND INTO THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING -- has ever delayed a product for fear of offending recent purchasers.
If you buy a machine now, and Apple releases a new one the next day, that does not affect your machine in any way whatsoever. It is still the same machine it was at the time YOU YOURSELF decided to buy it!
They do not decide product release dates based on the infantile need of some posters to have the newest machine on the block for inordinate amounts of time. "Oh, yeah Steve, we have these here faster and cheaper PPC parts ready to go, but, wait, MiMac just bought a new igloo, let's give him a few more days of ego stroking." <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
They don't EVER delay product for that reason. They delay product because their hardware development cycle is an utter embarrassment. They can't get faster PPC's on a modern MoBo, and they can't implement faster RAM or faster ATA interfaces because PPC has brought an unforseen and substantial development slump. Bigger faster caches are a small patch over a simple problem of adding a few pins/gates etc to the PPC. Well, a 'problem' if you're Mot or IBM or Apple (and, yes, they bear a part of the blame). If you're Intel or AMD, you can make a multitude of adjustments and revisions to chip cores seemingly overnight, have them to the fab within days, and modify and improve your chip offerings just about every month.
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BTW, did u decide to make this thread when you were high?
Wow, all of a sudden I'm a millionaire.
(end of dream).
Ow. Dammit. Why'd you pinch me.
At least i"m still George Dietrich.
-George Dietrich
in the flesh.
it was a nice sleek design: gotta have that, of course.
it was small: well, we have the imac now, it's also relatively compact. so why not go in the exact opposite direction? i mean, if you're going to make this a very limited edition, price is no limit, i'd say a home entertainment mac. how about a gas plasma-based unit that you can hang on a wall--40" maybe? nice silver/white monitor.
it was an all-in-one design: we can go for that again--somewhat. have the g5 motherboard live in the monitor and serve it up with 1 gig of ddr ram and the highest end geforce 4. include airport--and make sure the the thing is no more than 4" thick.--2" would be wonderful, though i doubt plasma can be pushed that thin right now.
it had a bose speaker system: bang & olufsen floor standing speakers anyone?
and wrap it up with all that's missing: a nice, stylish, light, wireless keyboard with a leather wristpad, optical mouse or a trackpad and a dvd burner/amplifier/airport base station with gigabit ethernet that's like a stereo but in the familiar style of apple, of course.
now this is very far-off guess...but if you really want to wow people,
but if you want a smaller scale, the same ideas..but this time, with the now familiar 22" cinema display. start off with that and you'll still have a worthy 25th anniv. mac
just my thoughts..what you think?
How about a Quicksilver Powermac but instead of having that exposed speaker in front, there is a deep hole there? It vibrates, it exudes lubricant when your browser is at certain websites, and it's a good 13 inches deep so it will accomodate ALL of use!
As long as Apple is in the sex toy business, they might as well add a Firewire operated sex toy as well. How about Firewire ben-wha balls? Powered by the Firewire bus, they vibrate, expand and contract, and send out small electric shocks that are quite stimulating! And they synch with iBody, an application that will give readings on internal temperature, pH (used to diagnose vaginal infections), and it even will keep a record of the internal vaginal temperatures, graph it out on a monthly basis, so one can predict ovulation times and thus use it as a form of birth control!
I see lot's of potential here, and imagine how demand for Macs would increase!
You're completely insane.
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>How about a special edition Mouse that doubles as a vibrator? Get a hip house mix with low bass pumpin' through the Soundsticks, and combined with a vibrating mouse, that's all a Mac user needs for a good time! Or is it? Well what's missing is an orifice.
How about a Quicksilver Powermac but instead of having that exposed speaker in front, there is a deep hole there? It vibrates, it exudes lubricant when your browser is at certain websites, and it's a good 13 inches deep so it will accomodate ALL of use!
As long as Apple is in the sex toy business, they might as well add a Firewire operated sex toy as well. How about Firewire ben-wha balls? Powered by the Firewire bus, they vibrate, expand and contract, and send out small electric shocks that are quite stimulating! And they synch with iBody, an application that will give readings on internal temperature, pH (used to diagnose vaginal infections), and it even will keep a record of the internal vaginal temperatures, graph it out on a monthly basis, so one can predict ovulation times and thus use it as a form of birth control!
I see lot's of potential here, and imagine how demand for Macs would increase!</strong><hr></blockquote>
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Though with Steve Jobs in charge, we'll probably see iMovie: 25th anniversary edition. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
25 years = 2xG5
2xG5...25 years of excellence
Lame I know, but I'm sure them more creative people at Infinate Loop could do better with some Jobsian pressure applied! (then again they did come up with "full speed ahead etc so maybe not....!)
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I don't know anything on that kind of thing, but Quicktime Broadcaster is coming out at the same time as QT6. I've seen it demo'd.
Now, it requires you to have an analog capture board, but ATi can just make an All-in-Wonder Mac Edition. Then, if Apple doesn't support it somebody can hook it together with Watson and a frontend and basically you've got a TiVo.
In case anyone doesn't know, Quicktime Broadcaster will be a free piece of video capture software that will take analog in and convert it to all sorts of video formarts, just ready to be streamed instantly, with QTSS integration. This is the kind of thing they use for the MW Keynotes, only so far it's been a Sorensen product, or some competitor of theirs.
...so if we'll se a G5 of ANY kind at MWNY, chances are it'll be an anniversary model.
Then the G5 will "debut" as a rackmount only (still very expensive) in september, and hit the powermac in january 2003.
We'll have some cool apollo G4's with G5 mobos (just like the last G3 line -the B/W, was really a G4 with a G3 cpu, correct me if I'm wrong here) by MWNY though, i think.
It got a bit messy right around that time, not enough parts, and too many parts... then the two year slump culminating in the current Quicksand desktop line- where oh where has our speed gone? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Anyway, they're having trouble fulfilling current orders of iMacs,imagine just receiving yours and then the SE comes out!
Then again, Apple have a habit of this, keeping us all in the dark about new models <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Apple.. TALK TO US!
Apple has become so SLOWWW in it's progress (basically Moore's Law at half speed) that this RIDICULOUS argument had largely disappeared (for a time) from the BB circuit.
APPLE -- and for that matter NO OTHER COMPUTER MAKER EVER IN THE HISTORY, AND INTO THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING -- has ever delayed a product for fear of offending recent purchasers.
If you buy a machine now, and Apple releases a new one the next day, that does not affect your machine in any way whatsoever. It is still the same machine it was at the time YOU YOURSELF decided to buy it!
They do not decide product release dates based on the infantile need of some posters to have the newest machine on the block for inordinate amounts of time. "Oh, yeah Steve, we have these here faster and cheaper PPC parts ready to go, but, wait, MiMac just bought a new igloo, let's give him a few more days of ego stroking." <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
They don't EVER delay product for that reason. They delay product because their hardware development cycle is an utter embarrassment. They can't get faster PPC's on a modern MoBo, and they can't implement faster RAM or faster ATA interfaces because PPC has brought an unforseen and substantial development slump. Bigger faster caches are a small patch over a simple problem of adding a few pins/gates etc to the PPC. Well, a 'problem' if you're Mot or IBM or Apple (and, yes, they bear a part of the blame). If you're Intel or AMD, you can make a multitude of adjustments and revisions to chip cores seemingly overnight, have them to the fab within days, and modify and improve your chip offerings just about every month.