1. Will Phil sport a mock turtle? Will it be black, or "aluminum" colored?
2. Will Steve sabotage Phil's keynote presentation? Perhaps inserting slides of himself in bed with the new iMac, thereby drawing shrieks from Mac faithful?
4. How the f**k does aluminum and chrome reduce the cost of "consumer" desktops and make them price competitive with other consumer desktop choices?
They don't do it for no reason, either. PS/2 keyboards are (slightly) cheaper, all else being equal, and USB support in NT and 2000 left so much to be desired that I'm not surprised that USB keyboards and mice never really caught on in Windows land the way they did on the Mac.
I'm not really sure how good XP's support of USB is. I'd be shocked and amazed if it isn't better, but then USB keyboards and mice make special demands of the OS, because they have to be able to function at startup.
NT has no USB support. Basically MS used lack of USB to force us content users of NT to upgrade. At least Win2K was better than NT.
Man, I hope Apple comes out with an affordable G5 so I can ditch my dual 500MHz celery desktop.
The horizontal nature of the poster may also be postioned to show the new iMac from various angles. After all, anything Ive designs doesn't stop looking good just from the front.
Here are some large crates just delivered to the Expo. Who the hell stacked them like that? Are they nuts?
I expect to see plastic again, apple keeps reducing the quality of the plastic in the ibook to make it cheaper. no reason they wont do the same to the imac
I expect to see plastic again, apple keeps reducing the quality of the plastic in the ibook to make it cheaper. no reason they wont do the same to the imac
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1. Will Phil sport a mock turtle? Will it be black, or "aluminum" colored?
2. Will Steve sabotage Phil's keynote presentation? Perhaps inserting slides of himself in bed with the new iMac, thereby drawing shrieks from Mac faithful?
4. How the f**k does aluminum and chrome reduce the cost of "consumer" desktops and make them price competitive with other consumer desktop choices?
Originally posted by SerpentFruit
4. How the f**k does aluminum and chrome reduce the cost of "consumer" desktops and make them price competitive with other consumer desktop choices?
Hmm...you don't really 'get' the Apple thing yet do you?
Originally posted by SerpentFruit
4. How the f**k does aluminum and chrome reduce the cost of "consumer" desktops and make them price competitive with other consumer desktop choices?
First off, it reduces cost by allowing Apple to buy in larger bulk amounts, which reduces the cost per unit.
Secondly, I have to add, do you count in binary?? (1, 2, 4??)
Originally posted by Mike Eggleston
First off, it reduces cost by allowing Apple to buy in larger bulk amounts, which reduces the cost per unit.
Secondly, I have to add, do you count in binary?? (1, 2, 4??)
That's because there is no step 3!
Originally posted by Amorph
They don't do it for no reason, either. PS/2 keyboards are (slightly) cheaper, all else being equal, and USB support in NT and 2000 left so much to be desired that I'm not surprised that USB keyboards and mice never really caught on in Windows land the way they did on the Mac.
I'm not really sure how good XP's support of USB is. I'd be shocked and amazed if it isn't better, but then USB keyboards and mice make special demands of the OS, because they have to be able to function at startup.
NT has no USB support. Basically MS used lack of USB to force us content users of NT to upgrade. At least Win2K was better than NT.
Man, I hope Apple comes out with an affordable G5 so I can ditch my dual 500MHz celery desktop.
Originally posted by Mike Eggleston
First off, it reduces cost by allowing Apple to buy in larger bulk amounts, which reduces the cost per unit.
Secondly, I have to add, do you count in binary?? (1, 2, 4??)
First - producing with bulk aluminum is cheaper than producing with plastic?
Secondly - Oops!
Originally posted by SerpentFruit
Bigger questions-
1. Will Phil sport a mock turtle? Will it be black, or "aluminum" colored?
4. How the f**k does aluminum and chrome reduce the cost of "consumer" desktops and make them price competitive with other consumer desktop choices?
1: YES, in a last minute turn around, steve will give the keynote!
2: think of soda, cans are cheaper than bottles, and consider this, they now have aluminum beer bottles
Originally posted by SerpentFruit
First - producing with bulk aluminum is cheaper than producing with plastic?
Secondly - Oops!
I heard rumors that Apple has produced a special very low-cost cardboard box edition of the iMac, JUST FOR YOU!
Originally posted by kim kap sol
I heard rumors that Apple has produced a special very low-cost cardboard box edition of the iMac, JUST FOR YOU!
Then must be the "pizza box" iMac so many have been discussing?
Originally posted by a_greer
1: YES, in a last minute turn around, steve will give the keynote!
2: think of soda, cans are cheaper than bottles, and consider this, they now have aluminum beer bottles
Keep in mind bottles and cans don't use a whole lot of aluminium. It's quite thin, thin enough to tear. A computer enclosure isn't so flimsily built.
Originally posted by Telomar
Keep in mind bottles and cans don't use a whole lot of aluminium. It's quite thin, thin enough to tear. A computer enclosure isn't so flimsily built.
Don't be a girlyman. It's only aluminium. We just need to pump you up.
...for $499 I can get a PC I can tear up... Damn Apple for not making cheap, flimsy...
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Don't be a girlyman. It's only aluminium. We just need to pump you up.
...for $499 I can get a PC I can tear up... Damn Apple for not making cheap, flimsy...
Why?
You can't be satisfied with OLD products?
I think Apple is going to release a 25 Mhz Mac Classic 20th Anniversary Edition.
It will ship with 128 Kb RAM, 40 Mb HDD, 3.5" Floppy and 9" monochrome display. AIO Unit. Standard Keyboard and 40 lb mouse.
For the Mac diehards, of course!
I heard rumors that Apple has produced a special very low-cost cardboard box edition of the iMac, JUST FOR YOU!
stay out of the rain then.
Here it is courtesy of The MacObserver. Kinda large for an iMac I'd say.
Here are some large crates just delivered to the Expo. Who the hell stacked them like that? Are they nuts?
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
Here are some large crates just delivered to the Expo. Who the hell stacked them like that? Are they nuts?[/IMG]
No, its just Apple's new anti-gravity technology in action. It can't be used in portables because you need the power cord to hold you to the ground.
Originally posted by applenut
I expect to see plastic again, apple keeps reducing the quality of the plastic in the ibook to make it cheaper. no reason they wont do the same to the imac
I expect aluminum.