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Quote: Originally Posted by Timo ugh. Flagship is one. One best. Not four, or five "flagships." A company that sells only premium computers builds only flagship stores. Of course, in a big storm, there are no tugboat stores to help the fla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gastroboy Same old high prices everywhere come to that. Absolutely no allowance even for the drastically fallen US $. Now that the aluminium iMac is looking just that little bit less of a lemon, I'd almost be te…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GQB Jesus... relax, will you? 15 years ago. (BTW, wasn't it your buddy Newt who sued a place where he tripped while ascending to a podium and got a boo-boo?) That was actually a much more noted legal scholar, former…
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Last week at Whole Foods, I paid $2.29/lb for apples. This week apples were only $1.69. I am suing Whole Food for $1 million dollars, which is a conservative estimate of my actual, emotional, and spiritual damage. As the eponym of the product in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by GamoGuy Doesn't this give you a clue that the next iPods might do a whole lot more? Like what, without becoming an iPhone? Personally, I want my iPod to play music, and that's it. Other people may want a few video…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Who said the Nano would even exist with these upcoming versions? Paragraph 5 of the article.
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Why would OS X be useful on an iPod, especially a nano? iPods don't do that much, and the things that they do are already written in the current iPod OS.
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Quote: Originally Posted by countach According to my theory, Apple wants to upgrade the entire range to 802.11n to support the new iTV offering. This means they have bigger plans for the mini than merely upgrading the core. Plus there may still be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BRussell Because people already have DVD players? Because the DVD players that Apple's market wants are HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players and they cost 2x as much as the iTV.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross They are. That's what I said above. But it's even being done with 720p broadcasts, from hi rez masters. There's only so much bandwidth in a satellite, and it comes down to number of channels (more money) or mor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT Granted. Apple will have discounts. But the exercise demonstrates that there are considerable cost differences between a 1S Conroe system and 2S Woodcrest system. The only rational for a 1S Conroe system requirin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by THT It should have the usual accoutrements of I/O, but less of it. No Firewire 800 though, just FW400. Something like that. 3 GHz Xeon 5160 CPUs cost $850 in bulk, 2.66 GHz Xeon 5150 CPUs cost $700, 2 GHz Xeon 51…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Good points. My only reply is that often Apple is just ahead of it's time and maybe gives up a little early on some of it's ideas. While some say Newton failed look at how popular PDAs became and Newton was fi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Placebo The Xeons in the Mac Pros are $700+ each. I was using THT's $300 - $1000 figure. I'm not sure what speed Xeon you're referring to. The numbers for the MacPro don't really add up, unless the $700 is for th…
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I am reluctant to get into a Discussion on a subject that I don't know much about, but ... Quote: Originally Posted by THT For costs, the Mac Pro is an expensive machine with expensive components for the most part. A 2S Woodcrest motherboard wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac DCQ, I think it's hard for Apple to continue to avoid making a mini tower for your average user. While I would be quite content with an iMac speced the way THT has suggested there are others who prefer a m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ApplePi One thing I really hate is how even when dreaming up new mac products people have to cripple their ideas. We have to say stuff like "maybe only one or two PCI slots" for a $800-$1800 machine, even though every $…
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Quote: Originally Posted by maimezvous I love the old cubes. If the cube was resurrected with dedicated graphics and expandable HDD, I would most certainly shut up and get my wallet. I own a cube, and I still like it. In the talk on this thre…
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I think that designing a mid-grade tower should involve some sort of calculation of what the actual cost of the computer would be. What people seem to be asking for is a computer that costs 60 - 75 % of the cost of a standard configuration Mac Pro.…
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If MS were so inclined, could they break Parallels or VMware virtualization, either by adding some functions that aren't covered by them or by having Vista insist that it won't run while another OS is running? Presumably MS can't break BootCamp, th…