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  • Quote: Gamblor is on the money. I wished Apple would take on board some of his advice. Thanks, LBB! Hey Steve: I work cheap, too. (I've got to, in order to maintain my "cheap bastard" status. )
    in Macinchat's MWSF rumors Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: A headless Mac is not a switcher box anymore then an iMac, iBook, PowerMac, or PowerBook is. It's not price, it's not expandability, it is compatibility and the myths of compatibility that are keeping Mac sales down. Wrong. Apple's low e…
    in Macinchat's MWSF rumors Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: These are the real issues. A headless Mac is an Apple geek's wet dream. It allows you to have a powerful upgradable Mac, but without having to buy the Pro system. TOUGH LUCK! Save a little longer and get a G5 or quit your bitching and buy an…
    in Macinchat's MWSF rumors Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • ... or better yet, both.
    in Macinchat's MWSF rumors Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • I hope this rumor is wrong... The Powermacs should all be duals (at current price points), leaving room for single proc G5's to be introduced starting at $1k.
    in Macinchat's MWSF rumors Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • I think you guys are overlooking something-- there have been rumors that the display arm on the iMac is expensive to make, and prone to failure. Apparently, it has somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 parts, and is difficult to manufacture. That's …
    in Focused thread for new iMacs Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: Gamblor is that what you want??? or what the business world wants? hehe Most businesses I see shoot for machines that cost about $1200 for the typical cubical denizen. The machine I mention above would work just fine for them, if it were…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: The 'headless' 1k Mac is a pipe dream. If it ever eventuated, it would be the end of the Apple (as we know it, and presumably like it) That's just a wee bit alarmist, don't you think? I fail to see how a cube-like G5 1.6GHz machine at $1…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • OK, but what if they can have a case that cost $50? In you scenerio above, they'd save $625,000 over using the same cases as the Powermacs, and they'd save $1,000,000 over paying full price for all 125,000 cases. I think the existing cases are p…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: It seems to me that the iMac is going to be the prosumer machine. I suspect that Apple is going to come to the same conclusion, but I'm hoping that they'd come out with a G5 "pizza-box" machine starting around $1k. Who cares if it compet…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by cubist For that matter, you should have been able to build a new G4 tower with a Superdrive for no more than $1500. I find it very remarkable that anyone would switch platforms, with all the costs that entails, to save…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: Insist on a G5? Well, you can't get an Athlon64 or Opteron with WinXP Pro for $1299 either. (Make sure you include equivalent hardware and price of WinXP Pro.) Why is the only viable competition for the G5 an Opteron/Athlon64/Itanium? Yo…
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: I believe I'm in this camp with you. Me three! I think Apple realizes that there's a market for an expandable machine in the $1k-2k range (and the G5 1.6 only BARELY counts), otherwise they wouldn't be selling Powermac G4s for $1299. …
    in Is there a need for a new prosumer line? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Aparently, this MW will be focused on Final Cut Pro.
    in what's gonna be left for macworld in jan? Comment by gamblor December 2003
  • Quote: unless you want to put the mp3/aac decoder in the headphones, it aint gonna happen, bluetooth doesnt have the bandwidth. Somebody's done just that, or at least they've got a reference product. Check it out: www.implusesoft.com Bluetoo…
    in what's gonna be left for macworld in jan? Comment by gamblor October 2003
  • Here's my baseless prediction: single 2.0 dual 2.2 dual 2.4 A 20% boost on the top end in January, leaving room for a 25% boost when going to 3GHz in July.
    in The next Powermacs. Comment by gamblor October 2003
  • And now you know... the rest of the story.
    in wireless headphone ipod? Comment by gamblor September 2003
  • Since we're talking about streaming MP3's or AAC's from an iPod, uncompressed CD quality is moot. You're going to get as good quality as you would through wired headphones. Besides, the first headphones listed above can decode a 320kbps MP3 stre…
    in wireless headphone ipod? Comment by gamblor September 2003
  • Quote: stereo != high-fidelity And this was in response to... what? The specs for those bluetooth headphones say "CD-Quality". does CD-Quality = high fidelity? Edit: I just think it's funny that about a year ago I had an argument here with…
    in wireless headphone ipod? Comment by gamblor September 2003
  • Quote: And I'm sure you weren't using that comment as a device to have the last word on this debate, were you Yes. Quote: Personally I use my Palm to preview photos and show them to people as it has a bigger and better screen than my came…
    in Built in card reader (compact flash) in Macs? Comment by gamblor September 2003