Damn, kinda like what Dorsal said? The iPod or lookalike white small removable drive for the iMac?
Ok, but why?
Oh shit!! Ok, follow me. You have this removable harddrive and you just created an iMovie clip so you save it on this removable drive. Then you swap it out and put it into the iDock (another thread going on) and you can play the movie on the TV without having to burn a dvd, that is if you have a dvd palyer.
This is getting wierd, iDock, iPod and now the new iMac with removable drive that is iPod like according to Dorsal....what a show this gonna be.
Apple keeps stressing Digital hub digital hub, perhaps the next iMac is going to actually follow up on that to the fullest extent, imagine a cheap iMac loaded with ports and inputs and outputs and connections; Could function as a computer for internet-games; could function as raw video and/or audio file dump; could function as a sort of starting point for a future line of apple peripherals(iCam, iPod, iSomething)
hrm, Sounds like a risky strategy that would only successfully wok if done perfectly, so This COULD or could not be a really big thing for apple, as for LCD, though it would be super sweet, I don't know it, It would definatly up the price.
But why? Say a person removes their HD..then what do they do with it?
But it would be cool to have a specialized dock for the iPod, so one can shuttle data between Macs using the iPod. Problem is, what if you don't have an iPod? Not everyone wants to spend $400 for removable media, when a CDRW disc holds 800MB and costs less than $1.
[quote] Future desktop systems (iMac type machines and modular machines) will have bundled gadgets suited for specific uses (for example: an iPod bundled with an iMac where the iPod would slide in a slot in the imac made for it) depending on the desktop system it comes with. Some of the examples cited indicated to me atleast, that Apple want's to expand it's core business from just consumer and professional graphics artists to business and media creation. <hr></blockquote>
If it was slightly larger than the iPod, it could easily hold 30GB of data.
I could use that in the school I teach at. Each student gets a portable HD to take with them, so they can work on any computer they like (I teach video production). That way we wouldn't have problems with kdis erasing each others work or using too much disk space.
That's actually a great, great idea.
Especially if it also fit into a video camera. Which would record directly to the HD (no tape to lose quality with). Perfect video. Perfect video. Perfect audio. Perfect.
Then you slip it into your iMac, and boom.
or, like the article I read on Yahoo News about Apple (it was an opinion about Gigawire), slip it into any one of Apples stands in the airport, and continue your work from home.
Simple.
Amazing.
Truely revelutionary.
That is so exciting!!!
Imagine this senerio:
You ahve a commercial for a cliant, and it's not finished quite yet, but you need to get on your plane. So you do. But you have a 3 hour layover in some wierd city. So you get off the plane, get a cup of coffe, and park yourself in front of an iMac terminal. No HD in the mac save for the system disk, so you pop in your disk. You work on it and when it's done, you take it with you.
Or in a coffee shop that sports iMacs.
Or at your school or university, where funding (for state run schools) isn't enough to allow for enough computers. So you do your work on the comptuer, but TAKE YOUR WORK WITH YOU.
I don't know who that guy is who started this post. I'd like to know more about how they would know this, but if he/she is right, then damn. Great idea.
It's very, very revolutionary.
Andrew
Why not use CD-Rs? Cause thye break easily, they're larger, take longer to write, (they don't use Gigawire, or Firewire) and they only hold 800MB. Not 30GB.
<strong>Actually, digital video camcorders don't lose quality on the tape because they record 1s and 0s to the tape. Like a Unix backup tape drive.
But yea, a 30 GB hardrive in a camcorder would be sweet.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Try recording 5 2 Hour plays on one tape (I do video recordings of school plays), and see if there aren't any artifacts. There will be. The tape degrades (sadly), and the MiniDV tapes are the worst.
<strong>Each student gets a portable HD to take with them, so they can work on any computer they like (I teach video production). That way we wouldn't have problems with kdis erasing each others work or using too much disk space.</strong><hr></blockquote>
"Morgan, where's your hard drive?"
"Um, I accidentally dropped it in the toilet/stepped on it/erased it/pick a horrible thing."
Hard drives in the hands of grade schoolers? Bad idea.
The idea of the iDock is intriguing to say the least, with one problem: the iPod's HDs only come in sizes UPTO 5 gigs. Too small for a real computer. Toshiba, the maker of the HD said that larger sizes will be available next year. So, we won't see an iDock that can take both the iPod and this fabled removable HD from the iMac for a while, if at all. The iDock makes much more sense for a removable HD. All in all, this is a pipe-dream cracked up by soulcrusher to generate some controversy. Not gonna happen.
[quote]Or it could be like USB was with the iMac in 1998; a technological first for Apple, premiering on its consumer desktop machine. <hr></blockquote>
Learn to check you facts.
USB was on consumer desktop PCs long before it appeared on the Mac.
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You'll know what I am talking about when you see it. It makes perfect sense.
[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: soulcrusher ]</p>
Ok, but why?
Oh shit!! Ok, follow me. You have this removable harddrive and you just created an iMovie clip so you save it on this removable drive. Then you swap it out and put it into the iDock (another thread going on) and you can play the movie on the TV without having to burn a dvd, that is if you have a dvd palyer.
This is getting wierd, iDock, iPod and now the new iMac with removable drive that is iPod like according to Dorsal....what a show this gonna be.
<strong>Easy to remove, accessible, small, swapable portable hard drive.
You'll know what I am talking about when you see it. It makes perfect sense.
[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: soulcrusher ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Get real. I would see one in a Pro system before they made it into the consumer level machines.
Apple keeps stressing Digital hub digital hub, perhaps the next iMac is going to actually follow up on that to the fullest extent, imagine a cheap iMac loaded with ports and inputs and outputs and connections; Could function as a computer for internet-games; could function as raw video and/or audio file dump; could function as a sort of starting point for a future line of apple peripherals(iCam, iPod, iSomething)
hrm, Sounds like a risky strategy that would only successfully wok if done perfectly, so This COULD or could not be a really big thing for apple, as for LCD, though it would be super sweet, I don't know it, It would definatly up the price.
But why? Say a person removes their HD..then what do they do with it?
But it would be cool to have a specialized dock for the iPod, so one can shuttle data between Macs using the iPod. Problem is, what if you don't have an iPod? Not everyone wants to spend $400 for removable media, when a CDRW disc holds 800MB and costs less than $1.
[quote] Future desktop systems (iMac type machines and modular machines) will have bundled gadgets suited for specific uses (for example: an iPod bundled with an iMac where the iPod would slide in a slot in the imac made for it) depending on the desktop system it comes with. Some of the examples cited indicated to me atleast, that Apple want's to expand it's core business from just consumer and professional graphics artists to business and media creation. <hr></blockquote>
Kinda sounds like a swappable drive to me
If it was slightly larger than the iPod, it could easily hold 30GB of data.
I could use that in the school I teach at. Each student gets a portable HD to take with them, so they can work on any computer they like (I teach video production). That way we wouldn't have problems with kdis erasing each others work or using too much disk space.
That's actually a great, great idea.
Especially if it also fit into a video camera. Which would record directly to the HD (no tape to lose quality with). Perfect video. Perfect video. Perfect audio. Perfect.
Then you slip it into your iMac, and boom.
or, like the article I read on Yahoo News about Apple (it was an opinion about Gigawire), slip it into any one of Apples stands in the airport, and continue your work from home.
Simple.
Amazing.
Truely revelutionary.
That is so exciting!!!
Imagine this senerio:
You ahve a commercial for a cliant, and it's not finished quite yet, but you need to get on your plane. So you do. But you have a 3 hour layover in some wierd city. So you get off the plane, get a cup of coffe, and park yourself in front of an iMac terminal. No HD in the mac save for the system disk, so you pop in your disk. You work on it and when it's done, you take it with you.
Or in a coffee shop that sports iMacs.
Or at your school or university, where funding (for state run schools) isn't enough to allow for enough computers. So you do your work on the comptuer, but TAKE YOUR WORK WITH YOU.
I don't know who that guy is who started this post. I'd like to know more about how they would know this, but if he/she is right, then damn. Great idea.
It's very, very revolutionary.
Andrew
Why not use CD-Rs? Cause thye break easily, they're larger, take longer to write, (they don't use Gigawire, or Firewire) and they only hold 800MB. Not 30GB.
[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: amidala ]</p>
"Get real. I would see one in a Pro system before they made it into the consumer level machines."
Hmm. Well how do we know it won't show up in the new PowerMacs as well??
Or it could be like USB was with the iMac in 1998; a technological first for Apple, premiering on its consumer desktop machine.
Also, if I remember correctly, the iBook was also the first machine to implement UMA and AGP graphics.
But yea, a 30 GB hardrive in a camcorder would be sweet.
<strong>Actually, digital video camcorders don't lose quality on the tape because they record 1s and 0s to the tape. Like a Unix backup tape drive.
But yea, a 30 GB hardrive in a camcorder would be sweet.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Try recording 5 2 Hour plays on one tape (I do video recordings of school plays), and see if there aren't any artifacts. There will be. The tape degrades (sadly), and the MiniDV tapes are the worst.
Andrew
<strong>Each student gets a portable HD to take with them, so they can work on any computer they like (I teach video production). That way we wouldn't have problems with kdis erasing each others work or using too much disk space.</strong><hr></blockquote>
"Morgan, where's your hard drive?"
"Um, I accidentally dropped it in the toilet/stepped on it/erased it/pick a horrible thing."
Hard drives in the hands of grade schoolers? Bad idea.
Andrew
Learn to check you facts.
USB was on consumer desktop PCs long before it appeared on the Mac.
<strong>
Learn to check you facts.
USB was on consumer desktop PCs long before it appeared on the Mac.</strong><hr></blockquote>
He said it was the first time it appeared on an Apple machine.
Andrew
Yes it was a first for Apple.
premiering on its consumer desktop machine.
Yes, it did premier on their consumer machine...
What fact didn't he check? Seems all in order to me.
Could easily be done, just slap in an Iomega Peerless !
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