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Quote: Originally posted by snoopy Ah, but will Motorola actually fix the FSB to be competitive in the desktop market? That is the question. Another possibility is a much faster G4 from IBM, with fast bus and FPU. This is the 750 VX 'Mojave,'…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph highfalutintodd: The margins on the first LCD iMac were right about 10%. Apple's done it before. They go for an average margin of 27% or so; less at the low end, more at the high end. Actually, I didn't ha…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph [B]On the other hand, having the PowerMac drop down into the iMac's price range constrained what Apple could offer consumers in the first place. Or, to put it another way, the Cube's reincarnation as a low-end h…
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Quote: Originally posted by Matsu The Consumer machines just have to get cheaper, Apple needs to take advantage of plummeting Drive/LCD/RAM prices to make iMacs as cheap as possible,.... now is the time to strike at the heart of the issue, PRICE,…
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Moki, you're killing me here. Put up or shut up, man. This cryptic streak you've got going on is killing my dangerously optimistic pre-WWDC vibe. I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm, but here are my specs based on UTTER AND COMPLETE SPECULATION …
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Get the Nokia 3650. I work with a woman who takes her cell phones VERY seriously, and she has used both on the T-Mobile network (she shares my love for the Mac and all its fun stuff as well, so we put them both through the paces with iSync and Bluet…
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Quote: Originally posted by DrBoar However, if the AGP support 2 monitor and the motherboard support multchanel sound, 4 IDE disks and two optical drives as well as a resonable number of FW and USB ports, I really have a hard time imagine that yo…
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Quote: Originally posted by NETROMac LOL , oh... and Avie, if you're listening, say "hello" to Steve from me and tell him that we're looking foreward to watching him officially trounce the P4 on stage ac the WWDC in june. I'll second that.…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer I'm definitely not an Apple insider although people send me things occasionally, apparently for the same reason that you're asking for my opinion. I am an insider on other, occasionally semi-related topics …
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Quote: Originally posted by gar well... actually it has to do with education and breeding. higher educated people look for them selfs what is best for their needs. mac or windows. lower educated people ask a relative (also lower educate…
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Quote: Originally posted by Utmost I really don't see the possibility of a "low cast Mac" on the horizon. Nor would I necesarilly want to. Macintosh computers have always primarily appealed to a certain niche market and Apple has specifically d…
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Quote: Originally posted by spooky No, No, No, No No. . . apple has spent the past 4 years pandering to the low end, grandpa joe consumer brigade and gotten nothing out of it. in the meantime the pro user has been frozen out by apple's heavy r…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gizzmonic Good point...but Apple's in a quandry there, selling the eMac to education consumers because the iMac's display is too fragile, and the education market prefers the simplicity of all-in-one. It can't dit…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gizzmonic 4)This machine would not cannibalize eMac and iMac sales. You know, maybe we're treating the iMac and eMac as sacred cows when they really shouldn't be. Does the Apple of 2003 and beyond really NEED two al…
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Programmer was right, this topic has been beaten to death, but, what can I say, I'd rather continue this discussion than actually work. Here's the problem as I see it: - Aside from occassional forays like the XServe, Apple doesn't seem terri…
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While many of my friends have TiVo, I'm the odd duck out and have a ReplayTV. I love this device dearly, and wouldn't give it up for the world. I strongly looked to both the Replay and the TiVo before purchasing, and I just kept coming back to the c…
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What follows is not a prediction because I know it would never come true in a million years. What follows is my naive hope and dream for a "revolutionary" act by Apple in 2004 for the Mac's 20th anniversary: "In 1984, Apple Computer introduced Ma…
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Forgive me if this has been mentioned already. I don't recall seeing this in the course of this discussion, but mental lapses are always possible. A good friend was telling me yesterday that there is speculation in the Danger forums about an …