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Quote: Originally Posted by CDonG4 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=498339 If the developer preview requires an Intel processor, I would pretty much guess that the final release will too. Quote: Originally Posted by sdfisher …
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Quote: Originally Posted by CDonG4 ...Apple is already going to piss off enough people with not supporting PPC users in 10.6. ... Is this fact? If so I will be one of those people, not so much for my G4 laptop, kind of expected it, but for m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by diskimage I have wondered for a while now if Steve is even concerned about market share. ... I don't believe he nor anyone @ Apple is. Apple believes they make the best computers for whatever market they target. F…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE I think this shows the underlying desire by many to make money off Apples success ... And why do you think these companies think they can make money off Apple's success? Root cause analysis = they think…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This will disappoint those who hope MacBook sales are suffering because of the lack of firewire. They will come to the hard cold reality that they are of the extreme few who care about firewire. As an AAPL …
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Quote: In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week, Apple boldly noted a change in strategy for its 2009 fiscal year, by which it plans to target consumers in addition to " small and mid-sized business (?SMB?), education, ente…
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Hope truly does spring eternal. The never ending debate over the xMac. I seriously doubt it will ever happen. Apple is making huge gross margins, expanding their user base. They have no apparent financial incentive to produce a reliable, mid t…
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The topic that won't die. I believe the starting price point of $1499 for the tower would be too high and might end up being discontinued much like the 1.8GHz G5 single processor tower, but that's just me. I guess hope springs eternal for th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow So the original G4 Mac mini, which was $499, was a piece of junk? Gotcha. Opps. Well I guess since it has languished for about a year without updates maybe he does consider it a piece of junk.
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Thank you for your hard work in coming up with the numbers. Yes, for some unknown reason investors have been unusually hard on AAPL.
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Quote: Needham & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf However, the astonishing news coming out of the release was non-GAAP earnings, which treats the iPhone on a sales rather than amortization basis. On this metric, Apple earned $2.69 in the quarter. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I think it will. The more I look at it I see the design tradeoffs that afflict the macbook. It's so small and compact that I believe Apple "could" have added FW but didn't want to go through the desi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by trip1ex 'Cause you're not going to mistakenly buy any more FW400 devices going forward. And hell some of you won't buy a new laptop now either. That's an even bigger savings. Everyone bitching should take he…
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Quote: Originally Posted by coolfactor Apple's thinking is and always will be slightly ahead of consumers' thinking. Sure, we hate to lose Firewire, a technology that has a cool name, great performance, and bragging rights, since Apple invented i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland I could buy that. 32GB storage. Copy & Paste done right. New Apple apps etc. They are building up to this Mac touch like a mofo. I forgot in my post to mention that Apple's computers will have already be…
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Just a guess, but I expect Macworld 2009 to almost exclusively iPhone. New modesl? New capabilities? New applications?
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Quote: Originally Posted by mishkin That's not really so. Even the alluminium MacBook has only GeForce 9400M compared to 9400M + additional 9600M GT. Therefore it's not a 13" MBP, it's still a consumer-grade notebook, just sleeker and more robust…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pdiddy You can put firewire in if they have an ExpressCard slot. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw...esscard34.html I know it would be handy to have it built into the computer, but still, you aren't dead in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by matt_s 1. Can't daisy chain USB devices, need a Hub. 2. If you carry a hub, you'll then need to carry the power adapter. 3. If you have Combo external HDD kits with 1394 + USB, they will operate off 1394 bus power bu…
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So does anyone want to speculate that these laptops will include whatever tech that Peter Oppenheimer referred to in the last quarterly conference call?