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Quote: Originally Posted by yikes600 Apple's support docs like this one reference the just-release Mac Pro as "Early 2008" instead of just "2008". This would imply that another update is planned for the year. I'm only making note of this because …
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Quote: Originally Posted by geobe I will break these down into the four business units. Intro, really excited. Before he jumps into the new stuff, takes 10 minutes to talk about the successful launch of leopard. Maybe has the next leopard up…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wirc I don't care what is released, but I want every product to be upgraded to have LASERS. Lasers EVERYWHERE. I don't mean to obsess over feature sets, but, I cannot stress this enough, if the competition gets lasers,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by agent_orange Although it does *sound* like too much, lets cast our minds back to the MacWorld of January 2003. A whole raft of new things were announced - 17 and 12 inch PowerBooks, Airport Extreme and LOADS of new sof…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bonsai1214 i see no point for a portable macbook with no optical drive. kind of defeats the purpose of it being an "ultra portable" laptop. i'm wondering how the new front row will work too. safari integration? …
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Quote: Apple controls 75 percent of the online video market I didn't realize this, and it is probably a skewed statistic. Most of the video that I see on the web is WMV or Flash based. There is a bit more Quicktime today than there was two years…
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I'm with Wizard. If I were in the market for a laptop Apple's current systems would fit my needs. Beyond that a Tablet similar to the ModBook but with a lower price would tempt me but not a sub-notebook. One problem that I see is that I would want i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by billymac okay first post, so please be gentle I really like the new Imac's. They're nice looking and I'd like to purchase a 20in model for my kitchen. The one thing that would make it absolutely perfect in every way…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM In a way they are taking on some of the risk. The arrangement was that they would accept less pay up front in exchange for royalties on broadcasts and sales. So if it doesn't sell, then they get paid less than…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder What's really ironic right now is that the writers are on strike because the studios are paying them ZERO for any streaming views of the shows they create. So NBC is saying that there's no reason to pro…
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On the hardware side the question is what is needed. For the most part it is file storage. This can be handled with USB hard drives. What is missing though is redundancy and backup storage, which is becoming more important as we have more "stuff…
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Dave (aka Wiz) That sounds more like wishfull thinking or dreaming than a prediction for what might come along in January. Reality we may see an upgrade to the Mac Pro line, they have been coming out about a month after intel releases the chip…
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Quote: Originally Posted by strask ...And yeah, Apple should be paying a royalty from its iPod sales.... Explain to me why Apple should pay a royalty to the content producers from their hardware sales when the record companies (and video) are …
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My guess is that the companies are holding out for more money for HD content but Apple doesn't want to play that game. The producers are used to getting premium $ for new media sales, look at CD vs. tape, DVD vs. VCR, and HD DVD/Blue Ray vs. DVD. Th…
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The things that AppleTV need to gain more attention are not hardware but software and content. QuickTime/iTunes/AppleTV OS need an upgrade to support different purchase models such as direct purchases through the AppleTV and potentially rentals. Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flounder Yes, it's extremely disappointing. They seemed to have moved the roughly 10% education discount for hardware over to software as well. Educational institutions can apparently still buy it for $69, so you m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by filburt As much as I want to love Apple TV, it's got beta written all over it. No video rental, no iTunes Store, no multi-channel surround sound, no subtitles, no 1080p, no HD (720p) contents (not counting trailers and…
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What i find most telling about this is the following line; Quote: Additional native video codecs for h.264 and MPEG-4 -- users no longer need transcode those file types to WMV. This points to the iPods influence on video formats as well as audi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MiMac Apple should really have pushed FireWire 800 from the off. It is a really great technology and certainly out performs USB in so many ways. PC boxen manufacturers got the jump on Apple with USB 2. A great pity rea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bg_nyc Well, my point was that DRM doesn't stop unauthorized duplication. Like I said, Jobs was pushing companies to drop it because it is worthless, and management of Apple's Fairplay DRM system is more headaches tha…