More than just a spike in the CPU clock I am hoping for an across the board improvement in many products and features; faster memory bus, ATA100 bus, FW2, better graphics, for both the iMac and the PM, better iPod, release of Jaguar. Maybe a new iApp.
<strong>what is the absolute minimum offering at MWNY that would keep you still pumped about Apple.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A Dual 1.2 GHz with DDR on a new motherboard at a lower price than the current model. Packaged in a new case with an additional optical drive slot. The drive must also be designed for maximal noise reduction / muffling.
(And as icing on the cake, a regular DVI port instead of (or in addition to) the proprietary ADC port.)
Hardware wise, I'd be fine with either a substantial speed bump (clock speed regardless) or a slight speed bump and a price reduction. Of course, I'd rather have the former.
However, I will be wholly disappointed if there is not some sort of Mac OS X upgrade. C'mon, I wanna see Jaguar!
F*** the Power Macs. I've already got one that's sweet for me! Never crashes, plays any games I want, any apps I need, and is faster than Jesus on crack (except for Mail hanging intermittently for no g*d***n reason).
But I want an iPod that can fit all my music (15.5 GB).
Unless they're actually in the market to buy a Mac, anyone croaking about what is needed to "satisfy" them needs to seriously rethink their definition of satisfaction.
If we're talking whimsy here, then sh**, I want Apple to buy out Intel and Microsoft and execute Grove and Gates by gunshot to the head during the keynote. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
After that, nobody would care if the G4 motherboard remained the same, right?
A wonderful prize package for 2 to fly on Steve's Jet with Steve (a couple pilots would be swell too) to NY along with front row seats for the keynote and a full 3 day pass as well as 5000 Apple Store bucks to spend right after the keynote. Guest will stay at a luxurious Hotel convenient to the the Javits center and will be wined and dined by various Apple and Mac Media Folks. First Class accomodations for the trip home.
Of course to be really satisfied I need to be one of the lucky winners to win that prize package. K?
Oh, and Apple announcing they have just bought EA and all their WIndows titles are being ported to the Mac (especially including SimCity 4000) would be nice.
Of course Dell and Microsoft both being forced to relocate to Kabul wouldn't be bad either????
[quote]stimuli has gone on record with the following statement:
A dual 1.4 Ghz, PPC 7500 (10 stage pipe, RapidIO, 512KB L2, 0.13 micron, SOI, copper, possibly on-chip memory controller) on a rapidIO bus connected to DDR would really, truly, non-RDF put Apple on top again. The 'snappiness' of such a system would defy belief, and push Apple ahead of the competition for a brief while.<hr></blockquote>
I would like to see this in a Quad CPU design, with the on-chip memory controllers each feeding four DIMM slots capable of running 1GB DDR SDRAM DIMMs for a total of 4GB RAM per CPU and 16GBs of DDR SDRAM for the entire workstation! (Unsure of what speed RAM, also unsure exactly what clockspeed RapidIO runs at...)
In addition, add the following specs:
4MB DDR SRAM L3 cache per CPU
Four (4) discrete ATA100 HDD busses/interfaces; hardware RAID enabled
Four (4) 120GB/7,200rpm/8MB cache ATA100 HDDs; RAID Level 0
One (1) ATA66 bus/interface; supporting two optical drives
SuperDrive2 (for burning & watching DVDs)
CD-R,RW drive (to avoid excess usage of SuperDrive for mundane Cd burning tasks & for avoiding the speed penalty involved when burning CDs in a SuperDrive)
HyperTransport feeding AGP slot (again, unsure of exactly what clockspeed HyperTransport runs at...)
AGP Pro 110 8x graphics slot
Apple/nVidia (co-designed) OpenGL board (dual NV30 GPUs, 512MB DDR SDRAM, dual ADC ports (to feed dual 23" ACDs), and; for attaching HD monitoring/playback/recording devices, dual GigaWire ports running at up to 400MB/s, two plastic fiber optic cables included; glass fiber optic cables available BTO)
Four PCI-X (64bit/133MHz) slots
Four USB 1.1 ports (1.5MB/s), two ports in back, two ports in front
Four FireWire2 ports (100MB/s), two ports in back, two ports in front (two FireWire1 to FireWire2 adapter cables included; more available BTO)
Some type of Airport
USB Keyboard & mouse standard
Bluetooth implementation; with Bluetooth-enabled wireless keyboard & mouse BTO
Mac OS X 10.2 (JagWire)
A few more BTO options at the Apple Store:
Bluetooth-enabled 6" x 8" Intuos3 graphics tablet; Inkwell optimized (whatever that might be...)
harman/kardon THX-certified 7.1 speaker set (stands or wall mounts available seperate)
Apple-branded FireWire camera; one CCD, iChat compatible, hardware MPEG4 compression chip built-in, able to plug into the new iPod...
iPod2; FireWire2 interface, color LCD screen, 20GB HDD, possible Airport for streaming data/video/audio back to Mac (aka 'digital hub')
Yeah, that should about do it...!
;^p
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
A wonderful prize package for 2 to fly on Steve's Jet with Steve (a couple pilots would be swell too) to NY along with front row seats for the keynote and a full 3 day pass as well as 5000 Apple Store bucks to spend right after the keynote. Guest will stay at a luxurious Hotel convenient to the the Javits center and will be wined and dined by various Apple and Mac Media Folks. First Class accomodations for the trip home.<hr></blockquote>
Make it 10,000; no, 15,000 Apple Store Bucks (aka Stev-omolinas... sorry, an obtuse Neal Stephenson reference, slightly modified)...
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Of course to be really satisfied I need to be one of the lucky winners to win that prize package. K?<hr></blockquote>
Sorry chap, that's gonna be me...! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> I got a lot of machine to purchase! (See above ramblings...) Especially if I want to get the Final Cut/Comp/DVD Pro & Maya Unlimited bundle...!
The full 42U rack of modified xServes (gonna have to, what with the specs of the new PowerMac above putting the current 'new' xServe model to shame) running an unlimited CPU license of RenderMan for OS X will have to be another Apple Store Bucks prize winning shopping spree...
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Oh, and Apple announcing they have just bought EA and all their WIndows titles are being ported to the Mac (especially including SimCity 4000) would be nice.<hr></blockquote>
Apple securing exclusive rights to Grand Theft Auto 4 would bring a HUGE amount of gamers (both PC and console) to the Mac platform...!
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Of course Dell and Microsoft both being forced to relocate to Kabul wouldn't be bad either…………<hr></blockquote>
But if they disappeared off of the face of the earth, never to be seen again, that would be better...!
Just a few thoughts...
Cheers!
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That's one word and a collection of letters<hr></blockquote>
Correct, and now corrected...
;^p
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Comments
Faster processors will come eventually.
dual G4 1333MHz, DDR or at least some sort of bottleneck removal tech, 800Mbit FireWire
happy:
dual 1400MHz, DDR-333 RAM on a 166 bus, 800Mbps+ FireWire
crazy:
G4 1600+ or G5
realistic:
-1200Mhz G4, same bus, same shit, higher price
G-News
±1,4 Ghz Dual w/ 333Mhz systembus @ $2999
±1,333Ghz Dual @ $2299
±1,1 GHz Dual @ $1699
realistic:
±1,3 Ghz Dual w/ 266Mhz systembus @ $2999
±1,2Ghz single @ $2299
±1,0 GHz single @ $1599
<strong>The least that will not dissapoint me?
Dual 1.4 GHz G4 powermacs, 1 GHz low end tower.
DDR RAM
Either a frontside bus tha supports FAST DDR RAM, OR an improved MPX 166 MHz system bus combined with the xserve hack.
That's the least that will satisfy me.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Idem ditto
Lemon Bon Bon <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>what is the absolute minimum offering at MWNY that would keep you still pumped about Apple.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A Dual 1.2 GHz with DDR on a new motherboard at a lower price than the current model. Packaged in a new case with an additional optical drive slot. The drive must also be designed for maximal noise reduction / muffling.
(And as icing on the cake, a regular DVI port instead of (or in addition to) the proprietary ADC port.)
However, I will be wholly disappointed if there is not some sort of Mac OS X upgrade. C'mon, I wanna see Jaguar!
In other words, ain't nothin' coming that will make me buy.
ting5
Dual 1.4GHZ with 333 DDR
IMac:
933 and 1GHZ speed bump
And an updated Mail program that hangs less.
F*** the Power Macs. I've already got one that's sweet for me! Never crashes, plays any games I want, any apps I need, and is faster than Jesus on crack (except for Mail hanging intermittently for no g*d***n reason).
But I want an iPod that can fit all my music (15.5 GB).
Unless they're actually in the market to buy a Mac, anyone croaking about what is needed to "satisfy" them needs to seriously rethink their definition of satisfaction.
If we're talking whimsy here, then sh**, I want Apple to buy out Intel and Microsoft and execute Grove and Gates by gunshot to the head during the keynote. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
After that, nobody would care if the G4 motherboard remained the same, right?
Of course to be really satisfied I need to be one of the lucky winners to win that prize package. K?
Oh, and Apple announcing they have just bought EA and all their WIndows titles are being ported to the Mac (especially including SimCity 4000) would be nice.
Of course Dell and Microsoft both being forced to relocate to Kabul wouldn't be bad either????
A dual 1.4 Ghz, PPC 7500 (10 stage pipe, RapidIO, 512KB L2, 0.13 micron, SOI, copper, possibly on-chip memory controller) on a rapidIO bus connected to DDR would really, truly, non-RDF put Apple on top again. The 'snappiness' of such a system would defy belief, and push Apple ahead of the competition for a brief while.<hr></blockquote>
I would like to see this in a Quad CPU design, with the on-chip memory controllers each feeding four DIMM slots capable of running 1GB DDR SDRAM DIMMs for a total of 4GB RAM per CPU and 16GBs of DDR SDRAM for the entire workstation! (Unsure of what speed RAM, also unsure exactly what clockspeed RapidIO runs at...)
In addition, add the following specs:
4MB DDR SRAM L3 cache per CPU
Four (4) discrete ATA100 HDD busses/interfaces; hardware RAID enabled
Four (4) 120GB/7,200rpm/8MB cache ATA100 HDDs; RAID Level 0
One (1) ATA66 bus/interface; supporting two optical drives
SuperDrive2 (for burning & watching DVDs)
CD-R,RW drive (to avoid excess usage of SuperDrive for mundane Cd burning tasks & for avoiding the speed penalty involved when burning CDs in a SuperDrive)
HyperTransport feeding AGP slot (again, unsure of exactly what clockspeed HyperTransport runs at...)
AGP Pro 110 8x graphics slot
Apple/nVidia (co-designed) OpenGL board (dual NV30 GPUs, 512MB DDR SDRAM, dual ADC ports (to feed dual 23" ACDs), and; for attaching HD monitoring/playback/recording devices, dual GigaWire ports running at up to 400MB/s, two plastic fiber optic cables included; glass fiber optic cables available BTO)
Four PCI-X (64bit/133MHz) slots
Four USB 1.1 ports (1.5MB/s), two ports in back, two ports in front
Four FireWire2 ports (100MB/s), two ports in back, two ports in front (two FireWire1 to FireWire2 adapter cables included; more available BTO)
Some type of Airport
USB Keyboard & mouse standard
Bluetooth implementation; with Bluetooth-enabled wireless keyboard & mouse BTO
Mac OS X 10.2 (JagWire)
A few more BTO options at the Apple Store:
Bluetooth-enabled 6" x 8" Intuos3 graphics tablet; Inkwell optimized (whatever that might be...)
Emagic-designed FireWire2 audio I/O hardware interface
harman/kardon THX-certified 7.1 speaker set (stands or wall mounts available seperate)
Apple-branded FireWire camera; one CCD, iChat compatible, hardware MPEG4 compression chip built-in, able to plug into the new iPod...
iPod2; FireWire2 interface, color LCD screen, 20GB HDD, possible Airport for streaming data/video/audio back to Mac (aka 'digital hub')
Yeah, that should about do it...!
;^p
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
A wonderful prize package for 2 to fly on Steve's Jet with Steve (a couple pilots would be swell too) to NY along with front row seats for the keynote and a full 3 day pass as well as 5000 Apple Store bucks to spend right after the keynote. Guest will stay at a luxurious Hotel convenient to the the Javits center and will be wined and dined by various Apple and Mac Media Folks. First Class accomodations for the trip home.<hr></blockquote>
Make it 10,000; no, 15,000 Apple Store Bucks (aka Stev-omolinas... sorry, an obtuse Neal Stephenson reference, slightly modified)...
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Of course to be really satisfied I need to be one of the lucky winners to win that prize package. K?<hr></blockquote>
Sorry chap, that's gonna be me...! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> I got a lot of machine to purchase! (See above ramblings...) Especially if I want to get the Final Cut/Comp/DVD Pro & Maya Unlimited bundle...!
The full 42U rack of modified xServes (gonna have to, what with the specs of the new PowerMac above putting the current 'new' xServe model to shame) running an unlimited CPU license of RenderMan for OS X will have to be another Apple Store Bucks prize winning shopping spree...
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Oh, and Apple announcing they have just bought EA and all their WIndows titles are being ported to the Mac (especially including SimCity 4000) would be nice.<hr></blockquote>
Apple securing exclusive rights to Grand Theft Auto 4 would bring a HUGE amount of gamers (both PC and console) to the Mac platform...!
[quote]BobtheTomato has gone on record with the following statement:
Of course Dell and Microsoft both being forced to relocate to Kabul wouldn't be bad either…………<hr></blockquote>
But if they disappeared off of the face of the earth, never to be seen again, that would be better...!
Just a few thoughts...
Cheers!
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> Maya Unlimited for Mac OS X <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: MacRonin ]</p>
Cost prohibitive...
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edit for spelling...
[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: MacRonin ]</p>
<strong>Two words...
Cost prohibative...
</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's one word and a collection of letters
Running OS X Jaguar would do it.
ting5
That's one word and a collection of letters<hr></blockquote>
Correct, and now corrected...
;^p
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[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: MacRonin ]</p>