A tablet / Newton thing would be great -- it should be the form factor of the Star Trek padds: 8 " screen in a tiny titanium enclosure, that's what i'm dreaming of...
Just take the enclosure of the TiBook Screen, with half the size... the only problem is, you can't fit all the technological gizmos (processor, battery, drive, etc) into such a tiny space...
this pad would serve as a Mac for Email, surfing etc, and remote control your G5 wirelessly..
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
I'm not entirely sure how your comment is relevent to mine. How is wanting Apple's superior operating system on non-Apple hardware, and thinking the iPod's the best thing since sliced bread, a sign that "apple is not (my) 'thang'"?
I would have Jobs create the ultimate MacMaya Power bundle...
64 CPU G5 deskside 'visualization' machine
Massive RAM
Massive HDD space (RAID, duh)
Multiple graphics slots, with 'clustered' OpenGL cards ('real' OpenGL cards, not prosumer gaming cards) dumping to a brace of the mythical 30" Cinema Displays and a 18" Cintiq...
Apple buys Maya from Alias, along with most of their developers... Maya Unlimited (soon to be Mac only) shipping RSN...
Jobs sells RenderMan to Apple, the coders come along with it, and Apple provides Pixar with Ultra Top-Tier support, free for the life of both Pixar & Apple (somewhere out there on the web I have seen allusions to Pixar wanting to get out of the software business, and just concentrate on making movies), RenderMan made default renderer for the new Mac-only Maya Ultimate, fully integrated with real-time viewport action via hardware rendering (remember the 64 CPU beastie with multiple graphics pipelines?!?)...
Oh yeah, Apple fixes all the broken stuff in Maya that folks have screamed about for years, and then they actually listen to their customers about future upgrades...!
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
This is hardly fair. I completely disagree with the idea that PC hardware, especially laptops is even in the same league as Apple's current lineup, but I can see why people, especially those on a budget, would disagree.
Maybe it's just me, but Apple has always been about the OS. This idea of them making the coolest high-tech hardware is relatively new. Go back a few years and Apple was making beige towers just like every other PC manufacturer.
Since Apple will clearly never have competitively priced hardware, I think it might not be a bad idea for them to release OS X for intel. I fear that if they did though, their hardware sales would fall to the point that they would not be able to continue manufacturing their own (certainly eductaion and businesses would not be interested in buying cool hardware if there were cheaper alternatives). And that would be a shame.
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
Get a life Wickes. He can post on this forum if he wants to. Besides, he owns more Apple kit than I do. Perhaps Apple's notebook offerings don't quite do what he wants them to do? How exactly would that make him a jerk when this is a common complaint of the Mac faithful about Apple's PB's? He is hardly trolling. FOr example, maybe he needs seven hour battery life!
I would ask Steve to lower his profit margins from 27% to 10%. This of course would bankrupt Apple, so maybe I would just ask to be able to borrow Steve's RDF.
Easy: a nice widescreen 14-15" iBook with a 1-1.25GHz G4 in it and all the latest connectivity and I/O (USB 2, FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, etc.).
1152x768 resolution would be fine, as is 32MB graphics.
I say iBook because I prefer the look of it (at least the older, glossy-all-over version) to the titanium or aluminum. And it's MUCH more rugged and "luggable".
Somehow incorporate that handle from the toilet seat iBooks (updated to go well with the white, squarer enclosure of course) just for added "wow!" factor.
Hey that's pretty much along the lines of what I've always been hoping the iBook would grow to be. None of this 12" stuff (leave it or the PB) and just give us an affordable iBook with a decent screen.
Now, since we get to call the specs, I'd add video spanning and perhaps a slightly higher resolution to what you suggested. If it's 15" wide, could it be the same res as the first gen PB Titanium? Not sure what that was...maybe it was 1152 x 768.
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Just take the enclosure of the TiBook Screen, with half the size... the only problem is, you can't fit all the technological gizmos (processor, battery, drive, etc) into such a tiny space...
this pad would serve as a Mac for Email, surfing etc, and remote control your G5 wirelessly..
TWO BUTTONS DAMNIT!
They could be clicking buttons, or touchpad buttons, I don't care ... I have no doubt Apple could do a good implementation of either one.
The OS is set up with all sorts of contextual menus for the right-click, but Apple won't make a two button mouse ?! ... come on !
Granted, I already have two two-button mice, but they just look like sht next to my pretty macs !
OK ... 'nuff ranting.
P.S>
I'd also like to see a two-button Apple trackball (love my Orbit).
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
I'm not entirely sure how your comment is relevent to mine. How is wanting Apple's superior operating system on non-Apple hardware, and thinking the iPod's the best thing since sliced bread, a sign that "apple is not (my) 'thang'"?
64 CPU G5 deskside 'visualization' machine
Massive RAM
Massive HDD space (RAID, duh)
Multiple graphics slots, with 'clustered' OpenGL cards ('real' OpenGL cards, not prosumer gaming cards) dumping to a brace of the mythical 30" Cinema Displays and a 18" Cintiq...
Apple buys Maya from Alias, along with most of their developers... Maya Unlimited (soon to be Mac only) shipping RSN...
Jobs sells RenderMan to Apple, the coders come along with it, and Apple provides Pixar with Ultra Top-Tier support, free for the life of both Pixar & Apple (somewhere out there on the web I have seen allusions to Pixar wanting to get out of the software business, and just concentrate on making movies), RenderMan made default renderer for the new Mac-only Maya Ultimate, fully integrated with real-time viewport action via hardware rendering (remember the 64 CPU beastie with multiple graphics pipelines?!?)...
Oh yeah, Apple fixes all the broken stuff in Maya that folks have screamed about for years, and then they actually listen to their customers about future upgrades...!
;^p
Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot
TWO BUTTONS DAMNIT!
I'd ask for that too.
Hmm. Don't need Denon compact Flash recorder anymore...
That and a new cube.
How about better priced dual G5s or a slick tablet that will make everyone forget how cool the newton was.
Of course I'd only ask for that because I want to help Apple test the products
G3 1 at $510, G4 1 at $600, G5 1.5 at $1,624 or so.
G3 1 at $510, G4 1 at $600, G5 1.5 at $1,624 or so.
Expanded iMac form factor. Features no monitor, curvy design, 1 PCI slot for expansion.
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
This is hardly fair. I completely disagree with the idea that PC hardware, especially laptops is even in the same league as Apple's current lineup, but I can see why people, especially those on a budget, would disagree.
Maybe it's just me, but Apple has always been about the OS. This idea of them making the coolest high-tech hardware is relatively new. Go back a few years and Apple was making beige towers just like every other PC manufacturer.
Since Apple will clearly never have competitively priced hardware, I think it might not be a bad idea for them to release OS X for intel. I fear that if they did though, their hardware sales would fall to the point that they would not be able to continue manufacturing their own (certainly eductaion and businesses would not be interested in buying cool hardware if there were cheaper alternatives). And that would be a shame.
Socrates
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
If apple is not your "thang"... then post on a non apple-centric forum.
Get a life Wickes. He can post on this forum if he wants to. Besides, he owns more Apple kit than I do. Perhaps Apple's notebook offerings don't quite do what he wants them to do? How exactly would that make him a jerk when this is a common complaint of the Mac faithful about Apple's PB's? He is hardly trolling. FOr example, maybe he needs seven hour battery life!
With a 8x AGP Radeon 9800 256 Mb VRAM of course..
Originally posted by pscates
Easy: a nice widescreen 14-15" iBook with a 1-1.25GHz G4 in it and all the latest connectivity and I/O (USB 2, FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, etc.).
1152x768 resolution would be fine, as is 32MB graphics.
I say iBook because I prefer the look of it (at least the older, glossy-all-over version) to the titanium or aluminum. And it's MUCH more rugged and "luggable".
Somehow incorporate that handle from the toilet seat iBooks (updated to go well with the white, squarer enclosure of course) just for added "wow!" factor.
Hey that's pretty much along the lines of what I've always been hoping the iBook would grow to be. None of this 12" stuff (leave it or the PB) and just give us an affordable iBook with a decent screen.
Now, since we get to call the specs, I'd add video spanning and perhaps a slightly higher resolution to what you suggested. If it's 15" wide, could it be the same res as the first gen PB Titanium? Not sure what that was...maybe it was 1152 x 768.