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MUCKYFINGERS
Jul 19, 2005, 03:00 PM
If they made the cover look like the top of the mac mini, oomph, I'd be sold.


cardiac dave
Jul 19, 2005, 03:04 PM
If they made the cover look like the top of the mac mini, oomph, I'd be sold.

How do you mean? White Plastic top and bottom and aluminum 'round the circumference?

Now that I think about it... sounds like that commercial where an iBook is walking down the street and a PB is coming from the opposite direction.... and they collide and the PB get's mixed with the iBook and the iBook gets PB all over it???

... Thanks Adam Curry
AcousticDoc
Jul 19, 2005, 03:05 PM
If they made the cover look like the top of the mac mini, oomph, I'd be sold.

with neon hot pink as a selectable color....damn I'b be sold.
brianus
Jul 19, 2005, 03:12 PM
Maybe for consistency it'll look more like the iMac G5. Very simple, all-white and iPoddish.

But why are they widescreening notebooks anyway? You either lose valuable screen real estate on an already small device, or you have to stretch the thing out horizontally. Neither seems particularly appealing.
MUCKYFINGERS
Jul 19, 2005, 03:15 PM
Maybe for consistency it'll look more like the iMac G5. Very simple, all-white and iPoddish.

But why are they widescreening notebooks anyway? You either lose valuable screen real estate on an already small device, or you have to stretch the thing out horizontally. Neither seems particularly appealing.

But they're going to increase the resolution of the monitor as well, right? So you don't really lose much screen real estate.
nightdweller25
Jul 19, 2005, 03:46 PM
But they're going to increase the resolution of the monitor as well, right? So you don't really lose much screen real estate.
Actually, you gain real-estate, they'll be highering the resolution.
ITASOR
Jul 19, 2005, 03:55 PM
Whatever they do, they should keep the 12" as it is!
biohazard6969
Jul 19, 2005, 03:59 PM
uhhhhhhh highering?......oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayy :rolleyes:
zelmo
Jul 19, 2005, 04:08 PM
uhhhhhhh highering?......oooooookaaaaaaaaaaaayy :rolleyes:

Hey, you knew what he meant, didn't you? ;) :rolleyes:

Sometimes you can't find the right word, and you have to improvise.
brianus
Jul 19, 2005, 05:02 PM
But they're going to increase the resolution of the monitor as well, right? So you don't really lose much screen real estate.

I meant physical "real estate". Yeah you get a higher resolution, but everything's smaller -- both in terms of pixels and in terms of the physical dimensions of the device. That's not a win, in my eyes (or FOR my eyes, for that matter).
AP_piano295
Jul 19, 2005, 05:19 PM
How do you mean? White Plastic top and bottom and aluminum 'round the circumference?

Now that I think about it... sounds like that commercial where an iBook is walking down the street and a PB is coming from the opposite direction.... and they collide and the PB get's mixed with the iBook and the iBook gets PB all over it???

... Thanks Adam Curry

THATS HOW RECES WERE BORN AND LOOK HOW THAT TURNED OUT :D
jiv3turkey748
Jul 19, 2005, 06:25 PM
i think it will probaly look about the same lust 13.3in instead of 12 and mabye a little thinner
sw1tcher
Jul 20, 2005, 03:18 AM
Hey, you knew what he meant, didn't you? ;) :rolleyes:

Sometimes you can't find the right word, and you have to improvise.

"increasing" would've worked.