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Quote: Originally Posted by whoami there will be a "product transition I can't get into." I'd say simply new iMacs which should arrive next month as most seem to guess. If you think about it: 36% of Macs sold are desktop Macs. Mac Pros do…
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There was a time, think PowerPC G3 CPU, when PowerBooks used exactly the same CPU as PowerMacs. In those days you could almost get 'pro' performance in a pro mobile machine. But those days are gone. Today the iMac is pretty much the MacBook Pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe Apple TV is like an iPod, you can rip your own movies and play them without the hassle of disc changes Your argumentation is greatly flawed. While it is legal in most places to rip your CD collectio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT Does Apple need to support Windows with all of its apps? No. But then you have an expensive iPod (due to the camera) offering features no one on Windows can really use well. So most Windows buyers will then jus…
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There were rumors about a 13" LED backlit panel Apple is sourcing. If the screen could be made really slim, like 2mm instead of the ca. 7mm now and the DVD drive upgraded to a slim drive (the 7mm Panasonic model Toshiba is using in its latest slim …
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I assume the next set of monitors will have UDI. Which of course makes only sense if computers have either HD or BluRay drives. Which will probably not happen until Leopard. It's kind of an interlocked requirements conundrum. Or in other words…
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The Newton OS was likely the most elegantly designed mobile OS ever. Shame Jobs killed it. I wonder what its main designer, Walter Smith, is up to at the moment. Last I looked he was working at Microsoft on their 'Max' project. Not even sure if t…
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Addabox, spot on! Though I hope you're wrong. (That's the optimist in me speaking... ) Quote: Originally Posted by addabox We're nowhere near having commercially viable 15" high res OLED screens Apple's sitting on so much cash they coul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison And what other tech is really cool that Apple could latch on to? Straight away I'd say high-res OLED screens. Apple struck an interesting deal with Flash RAM manufacturers to get its hands on lots of t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MusLtngBlue Time machine can do a full system restore for any point in time. What do you mean by 'full'? Full as in any file in any folder? Like for example invisible files in some temporary folder inside /Syste…
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The last two big keynotes were both a big disappiontment on the Mac front. iPhone and Apple TV that's what we've got. But we're still stuck with the same old Mac Pro, Mac Book Pro, Mac mini and iMac designs from years ago. My guess: MWSF 2008 …
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Resolution independence? Would have been nice to see a demo of that. Well, Leopard is delayed for a reason: it's not finished yet. It might be feature complete now, but many of the features are probably still too buggy to demo live on strage to…
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Could it be that the original post was in fact based on a real keynote presentation - albeit one that was scrapped last minute (or within the last few days)? 'QuickLook' is not a name someone would easily guess IMHO as it is too cheesy to even co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 8Lives First post here, so please be gentle! 1. Is 2GB RAM enough? 4GB is an expensive option, though perhaps worthwhile as the size of everything (plus Leopard) expands. Not sure this is still true on Intel proces…
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But it could also be a Freudian slip... Most rumors seem to agree that new iMacs should see the light of day at WWDC. Those qualify as 'desktops', no? So perhaps those 'massive investments' are iMac related?
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For all those assuming that MacBookPros coming out at WWDC == great big changes. That's probably no true. If Think Secret is correct then the new MacBook Pros will still not offer an HD model with true 1920x1080 native resolution. I don't see…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shadow The fact that nobody tried to use it on a laptop should be telling enough. While touch keyboards never came standard on any mainstream notebook they did exist and were available for PowerBooks. Apple bought …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MusLtngBlue If they haven't updated it by now, there's no reason to launch something so close to WWDC, or else it would get severely overshadowed by what happens at the conference. Well, maybe that's exactly what th…
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It really looks very similar to a MacBook Pro. As was noted before the camera is in the same place. Even the screen hinge mechanism seems to be the same. Perhaps Apple did in fact contribute to this design (who knows what their relationship with…
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While we're all excited about prospects of brand new designs and top secret features, if you look back, most of those expectations were squashed. Let's face it, Apple is a much more 'conservative' company than we would like them to be. 'Radicall…