I think the MacPro should feature external PCIe, as Thunderbolt controllers are expensive
“I think we should use old tech because new tech is expensive.”
and even 2.0 limited to 20gbps - but then again, I'm not a MacPro customer so what do I know?
Isn’t that up and down simultaneously?
Originally Posted by Peter Windle
A powerful laptop that can run both Mac and iOS, seamlessly.
iOS doesn’t run on a laptop, it’s not meant for one, and it wouldn’t work on one.
The Home Mac needs to become the home hub of everything electronically stored and everything electrical. Content management and sharing, managing electrical devices at home and so on...
Everything that iCloud provides, I should be able to do from my home Mac. Content sharing, software/OS Management, TV recording, TV guide and the whole suite of things that happen in modern lives.
You’re missing a big point to it… it’s right in your product name, too!
When I take photos on one device, they should go onto my central Home Mac to share with others on my network, not to iCloud.
This is merely personal preference. Said files DO go to your computer, since your computer’s connected to iCloud. What you’re wanting is to remove the cloud portion of it.
…live TV…
I believe that this is a phrase people need to get over pretty quickly. My future involves television without schedules. You shouldn’t be wasting your time “recording”. Television should be dictated by release dates, not timeslots.
If done right, it’ll be huge. We’ll have to see whether the time is right for the future to finally get here.
The computer in your pocket will have a profound affect on the whole industry. Imagine in 10 years when that pocket computer only needs a display (desk, wall mount, @ work, or @ home) and human input device to be everything we need? The cloud, fast connectivity, and a personal hub (biometrically secured since it holds our precious stuff).
Microsoft's main income is from office. To really go after Microsoft Apple should release a Windows version of iWork. Many Windows users already use iWork on the iPad and would love the same suite of apps on Windows.
The next step for the Mac believe it or not is a new wave of advanced professionally built Apps for IOS.
We´re talking Final Cut Pro X on steroids, Logic X ++, Aperture X and a few other massively innovative and brilliant apps for IOS.
Priority #1 for apple in the next couple of years is bringing out the next generation of applications, stuff we can´t even imagine right now.
It´s the apps that will define the platform, not the other way around. And we all know third-party developers won´t be able to break ground here without Apple stepping up the game considerably. There is a reason iLife and iWork just became free on IOS.
iOS doesn’t run on a laptop, it’s not meant for one, and it wouldn’t work on one.
I guarantee you if they put an A7 chip in a MacBook, and you could flip a switch and have a touchscreen display, you could most possibly run iOS and iOS applications on a MacBook-type device. The technology just had not been developed yet. What I am alluding to is similar to the technology of the PC Pentium Cards in PowerMac 6100/60 computers that let you run DOS and Windows on your Mac. Simply keystroke command to switch operating environments, and it invokes that chip.
The Macintosh line is discontinued. A new cultivar of apple is chosen for the third revolution in computing, and Apple makes multitouch desktop computers.
Seriously...what I had in mind for this implementation of "multi-touch" technology was not a stand-up iMac or vertical display.
It is a large-screen "table top" computer...large 24" 27" or 30" display, multitouch running Mac OS X or a variant of iOS for desktop use and desktop application use.
Such a technology has already been demonstrated by Microsoft.
This is a large, multi-touch surface that is a computer....like a giant iPad, that sits flat on the table or at a slight angle tilt. The reason that multi-touch for desktop has been debunked is because the vertical situation of a computer monitor is not a comfortable computing experience for an extended period of time. Something more like this "tabletop computer" is much more natural, like using an iPad on a table or with a smart cover stand to elevate it slightly....but a MUCH MUCH larger surface...something you could edit FinalCut movies on or run Adobe Photoshop on....
I have yet to see Apple go in this direction. The iPads are so tiny, I cannot believe Apple has not made a larger surface touch computer at this point. But, the way I see it...tabletop computers are where the future of multitouch computing is.
Why are the article's apostrophes coming up as question marks?
Obviously some error in their HTML editor translating the copy/paste from the writer, or an error in HTML translation. I had an error posting earlier when I tried to post the trademark sign (tm) option-2. I get this ™
EDIT: Obviously ™ and ¿ and ü and £ and all the characters work now. But I was getting like %2#/2%
Looking down at a display, with your head tilted downward for hours, is also not very ergonomically sound. Hell, sitting for hours at a time each day isn't healthy.
I guarantee you if they put an A7 chip in a MacBook, and you could flip a switch and have a touchscreen display, you could most possibly run iOS and iOS applications on a MacBook-type device.
I understand the point you were trying to make, but just a historical correction: Pac-Man was not an Atari arcade game. Atari simply licensed it for home use. The original arcade version was by NAMCO and produced by Midway in the US.
We have 20 or so Macs, mostly Mac Pros that we've avoided upgrading for years, other than internally, while awaiting new Mac product. Now it's here (almost) we expect to upgrade all of the working machines within 18 months, and that involves a huge investment in external storage. I suspect we're not alone - so shares in WDC and Seagate suddenly look good. Apple's problem with the new machines won't be demand, it'll be supply. Unless they're priced very stupidly, they'll fly off the shelves.
See I still care about the Mac line. No doubt the iPad and iPhone are great products but when they are talking about them during a keynote, I usually don't pay much attention. During the new Mac introductions, I pay big attention. I always pay attention to what Intel, nVidia, and AMD have in the pipeline because I wonder how it will affect the new Macs.
It's been said many times. Perhaps the most famous are the suggestions that Apple should dump everything to work solely on their iPod business right before the "MP3" market started to start its slow descend.
In a sense, Apple did that. If you remember how Jobs introduced the iPhone: He said, "Today we are introducing a new iPod, and new computer, and a new phone... then he repeated it several times...until the audience got that it was one device.
With regards to the Mac going away; It's the desktop Mac that is losing sales, not the laptop. Apple's laptops, especially the MBA, are doing fine. The build quality is so much better then the other brands that most of the Apple laptops eventually end up running Windows. In fact, if you check out Apple's site, it is possible to have the laptop ship to you with Windows installed, in place of OSX.
Rather then call it a post-PC world, it's more of a post-desktop world. I love it!!
Rather then call it a post-PC world, it's more of a post-desktop world. I love it!!
Desktop sales had been dropping in comparison to the notebook for years before the iPad came along. The modern tablet is hurting both desktop and notebook sales. There are just too many people that don't need either, or at least not enough that they will update their "PC" as often as they would before now that they can buy an iPad.
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“I think we should use old tech because new tech is expensive.”
Isn’t that up and down simultaneously?
iOS doesn’t run on a laptop, it’s not meant for one, and it wouldn’t work on one.
Everything that iCloud provides, I should be able to do from my home Mac. Content sharing, software/OS Management, TV recording, TV guide and the whole suite of things that happen in modern lives.
You’re missing a big point to it… it’s right in your product name, too!
This is merely personal preference. Said files DO go to your computer, since your computer’s connected to iCloud. What you’re wanting is to remove the cloud portion of it.
I believe that this is a phrase people need to get over pretty quickly. My future involves television without schedules. You shouldn’t be wasting your time “recording”. Television should be dictated by release dates, not timeslots.
If done right, it’ll be huge. We’ll have to see whether the time is right for the future to finally get here.
The next step for the Mac believe it or not is a new wave of advanced professionally built Apps for IOS.
We´re talking Final Cut Pro X on steroids, Logic X ++, Aperture X and a few other massively innovative and brilliant apps for IOS.
Priority #1 for apple in the next couple of years is bringing out the next generation of applications, stuff we can´t even imagine right now.
It´s the apps that will define the platform, not the other way around. And we all know third-party developers won´t be able to break ground here without Apple stepping up the game considerably. There is a reason iLife and iWork just became free on IOS.
iOS doesn’t run on a laptop, it’s not meant for one, and it wouldn’t work on one.
I guarantee you if they put an A7 chip in a MacBook, and you could flip a switch and have a touchscreen display, you could most possibly run iOS and iOS applications on a MacBook-type device. The technology just had not been developed yet. What I am alluding to is similar to the technology of the PC Pentium Cards in PowerMac 6100/60 computers that let you run DOS and Windows on your Mac. Simply keystroke command to switch operating environments, and it invokes that chip.
The Macintosh line is discontinued. A new cultivar of apple is chosen for the third revolution in computing, and Apple makes multitouch desktop computers.
Simple.
Look forward to your Gorilla arm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-touch-screens-will-not-take-over
Seriously...what I had in mind for this implementation of "multi-touch" technology was not a stand-up iMac or vertical display.
It is a large-screen "table top" computer...large 24" 27" or 30" display, multitouch running Mac OS X or a variant of iOS for desktop use and desktop application use.
Such a technology has already been demonstrated by Microsoft.
This is a large, multi-touch surface that is a computer....like a giant iPad, that sits flat on the table or at a slight angle tilt. The reason that multi-touch for desktop has been debunked is because the vertical situation of a computer monitor is not a comfortable computing experience for an extended period of time. Something more like this "tabletop computer" is much more natural, like using an iPad on a table or with a smart cover stand to elevate it slightly....but a MUCH MUCH larger surface...something you could edit FinalCut movies on or run Adobe Photoshop on....
I have yet to see Apple go in this direction. The iPads are so tiny, I cannot believe Apple has not made a larger surface touch computer at this point. But, the way I see it...tabletop computers are where the future of multitouch computing is.
Why are the article's apostrophes coming up as question marks?
Obviously some error in their HTML editor translating the copy/paste from the writer, or an error in HTML translation. I had an error posting earlier when I tried to post the trademark sign (tm) option-2. I get this ™
EDIT: Obviously ™ and ¿ and ü and £ and all the characters work now. But I was getting like %2#/2%
I guarantee you if they put an A7 chip in a MacBook, and you could flip a switch and have a touchscreen display, you could most possibly run iOS and iOS applications on a MacBook-type device.
See below for why that’s wrong.
Yeah, see, only the “dual boot” folks have to deal with this. My solution has nothing whatsoever to do with touchscreens used vertically.
In a sense, Apple did that. If you remember how Jobs introduced the iPhone: He said, "Today we are introducing a new iPod, and new computer, and a new phone... then he repeated it several times...until the audience got that it was one device.
With regards to the Mac going away; It's the desktop Mac that is losing sales, not the laptop. Apple's laptops, especially the MBA, are doing fine. The build quality is so much better then the other brands that most of the Apple laptops eventually end up running Windows. In fact, if you check out Apple's site, it is possible to have the laptop ship to you with Windows installed, in place of OSX.
Rather then call it a post-PC world, it's more of a post-desktop world. I love it!!
Desktop sales had been dropping in comparison to the notebook for years before the iPad came along. The modern tablet is hurting both desktop and notebook sales. There are just too many people that don't need either, or at least not enough that they will update their "PC" as often as they would before now that they can buy an iPad.