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With so many hardware products seemingly waiting for Leopard and with Leopard looking more and more like a WWDC release date, things will be rather 'dry' until July. Maybe new Mac Pros at NAB, but that'll be that by the looks of it. And there ar…
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Quote: could leave consumers hung up till early next year Apple would be nucking futs to wait that long. The current iPod form factor (introduced in October 2005 or so) will look rather old by this time next year and Apple would likely be losin…
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Seeing reports that the new Merom and Santa Rosa chipset won't ship until May, and taking into account the last time when the core 2 duos arrived it took Apple some extra 2-3 months before it introduced machines using the new chips, we can bet that …
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Quote: LED I think would be better for this. OLED has too short of a lifespan to be worth the bother. I don't think it's as bad. Sony quotes 18,000 hours for their blue OLEDs (up to 30-50,000 for red and green resp.). 18,000 doesn't seem much…
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Instead of LED backlights why not go for OLED? Sony showed a couple of 11" OLEDs at CES last month reportedly clearing for mass production this year. (Be sure to check the video clip at the bottom on that link to see how thin these monitors are!)…
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I've been following Mac products for more than 15 years and time and again saw that any big generational step had issues with its version 1.0 release. Do not trust Apple to ever get a big generational step perfectly right from the beginning. This …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ryan953 beveled as a click-area for window resizing using all four edges? Very well spotted! That could be it! Otherwise I do not see any need for such a relatively thick bevel. Hmmm... On the downside, by the…
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The important bottleneck, especially with a 64bit OS is RAM. What do you do if you have a cool dual core laptop that can even run Windows (through virtualisation) and several other apps at the same time - speedwise - but is suffocated with 3GB of…
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Well, Santa Rosa won't happen for a few months either. Some say end Q1, some say Q2. And I doubt Apple would be selling Santa Rosa machines the day Intel is shipping the chip set. So far it took Apple a few months every time Intel introduced new …
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Apparently today Apple will unveil the next gen iPod. As discussed in this thread over at Think Secret: http://forums.applenova.com/showthread.php?t=22289 The discussion moves between 'Apple didn't book any SuperBowl ad time so don't expect any…
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It's definitely going that way. Due to limitations of the motherboard chipset current MacBooks and MacBook Pros can't really go much higher than 3GB at which point standard sizes of 1 resp. 2GB don't leave much room for upgrades. MacBook Pros ar…
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Cool summary visionary. Most people tend to look and plan only a few months into the future. Your roadmap on the other hand is probably a 5-10 year affair. Until WiMax is widely available, an ultra-ultra-low power Intel chip, Flash storage pric…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The problem I have with the concept is not the technology but the economics. So far, all the eReaders were about $300 and the cost of the books that go on them are often only 10% less expensive than the paper b…
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I see where you're going addabox, but the point is to have a device with no HD, no DVD drive, a cheap iPod CPU (no Intel chip that requires cooling) plus multitouch. Such an eReader can only do a limited number of things given its hardware: viewi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox A 12" high res color LCD display with "OS X's" res independence is a tablet, not an "e-reader". Depends what you want to read. While agreeing that e-ink is an amazing display technology, personally I would …
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It remains to be seen what the iPhone actually is. Seems like an iPod CPU with a OS X 10.5 version compiled for it. It's not going to run a lot of applications. That's why it is a closed system. Your off the mill OS X apps won't run on it, they'…
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I read that Xerox once stated that any eBook reader would need 300dpi to be as pleasant a reading experience as a printed book. That sounds about right to me. A while back I saw a black and white 300dpi CRT monitor and it was amazing! Even 4pt te…
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I don't think Apple would bring out a black & white eBook reader. But with Leopard's resolution independence, maybe they will bring out a 150+dpi color eBook reader. Kind of same technology as the iPhone minus the phone part: Multitouch, 4/…
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I think there are a couple of issues mixed here which pose some engineering challenges: 1.) Turning a whole iMac into some portable display: The reason the iMac is cheap is because it has a cheap 3.5" HD and bigger (cheaper) cooling components…
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addabox, I envision this product to be more powerful than a mere wireless display (needing a host Mac) but less powerful than a MacBook. Literally just to view podcasts, PDFs and browse the web if you're near a wifi hotspot. It won't do Word or Ex…