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Well, a few days after posting my analysis, the stock is headed back up. I actually decided to pick up 100 shares in the middle somewhere. I like the prospects of AAPL more today than in the recent past. They've got a hit product on their hands (and…
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10-15,000 units being built is a bit of an absurd estimate. I imagine that far more than 15,000 units were ordered on the date of announcement (after all, they had 150,000 orders in three weeks). Three weeks puts us at about the end of January. Assu…
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Sorry. No chance in hell. The soonest an update would come would be in time for a spring buy cycle in education, which is much smaller. eMac is for education. Apple sells them to us grudingly, because the margins are low (although they bump u…
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No bumps, no changes. A small price cut (maybe $100 back to previous pricing?). A minor bump about 2 months after MWNY. They'll want to flush out the inventory channels (and they won't have to change pricing to them since they've already given them …
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Take the computer away from the computer. You'll have your laptop, desktop, workstation, etc. Your iPod will have all your storage and FireWire2 so that it basically becomes your data storage device - mp3s, word files, applications, movies, etc. …
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The XServe has some interesting design features that people don't think about. Additional L2/L3 cache makes a big difference, and the specialized HyperTransport chipset will help as well. If they _just_ move the architecture from the XServe to the P…
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If any of you follow Slashdot, there have been a lot of threads over there lately about how Microsoft has been getting its *** kicked with this new licensing scheme. Linux is making some serious inroads in schools, which probably worries Apple as m…
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From press release - Oracle to run on Xservers... :-) "Apple's powerful new Xserve rack-mount workgroup server solution combined with Apple's UNIX-based Mac OS X Server software is a superior platform for Oracle9i Database," said Michael Rocha, s…
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Wireless keyboards and mice last longer than you think. I have a Logitech combo at home, and I've changed the mouse once (and it didn't just stop working, it warned about 12 times and I ignored it for the first month or so), and haven't changed the …
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Big if: if there is a iCam in the works, Japan would definitely be the place to intro it. They'll go nuts over it. He'll also show off the iPod again (with update if available) as again, the Japanese market is huge for those things. Perhaps a versio…
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My personal belief is it will be a cross between a couple of things mentioned above. Not a pure cybernetic implant, but a wearable device (watch, headband) which will interact with your neural net to project images, communicate, etc. Think of it as …
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Enough of this s*** about "for serious gaming, a PC is a must". Actually, that's a flat out lie. For serious gaming, buy a console. I'm serious - the GameCube, even the XBox kick ass over the best PC hardware because they are customized for gamin…
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But what if the following Apps supported clustering? Photoshop - see Demo, see Demo run. See Demo crush Pentium computers with clustering set up in 10 minute SeyBold Demo. Only available in Photoshop X. Maya - drool. Again, trying to sell lots…
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MWSF or more likely Seybold. Definitely not MWNY. That's a consumer show, people always forget that for some bizarre reason. I would expect Seybold (when is it again) so they can show off the 100 Gigaflops boxen to the professional audience.
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My guess is this. Simple speed bumps until Photoshop X. The reason is really simple, really. They always like to show off their new processors with Photoshop. Lots of filters, etc., perhaps showing the creation of a poster or something lame like …
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I don't think anyone is saying it NEEDS a 17" LCD right now. I think in 2 years, when the prices drop, it will be a natural extension for the top end model. My only concern is balance. I could see a 17" screen causing it to tip over. As an aside …
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All I seem to hear is tweaking. The one suggestion (which is old, but applied to the new form factor) is the wireless monitor pad thing. I do agree that this would be cool (stylus could be built into monitor, touchpad/sensitive screen, high speed…
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A cube-like base? If that's the best we can come up with for a change, Apple's hit this one right on the head. I really like the free-motion of the monitor. I think it would be great for the business world, actually. I can't tell you the number o…
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Price wouldn't have to be that high. Current prices on lineup are: 15" $599 17" $999 22" $2499 (remember, the 22" was $3999 when it came out and people still bought them!) Assume a price drop at MWSF and you get something like: 1…
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Well, I think one of the reasons they came out with the iPod was to push FireWire a bit. USB has taken off since they came out with it, but FireWire has only a couple useful apps currently (external HD, VideoCameras, and now iPod). Since very…