No PC has gone before

[agreenster]

Maybe you DIDNT go over his head. He at least talks the talk.

Mmmmmmm......my foot tastes GOOD.........

[Hemmi]

For sure:

They are going to shoot an mac on mars - pathfinder III. Maybe they take the SE/30.
However steve´s a great marketeer.

[iapple]

I still doubt the G5. As much as I want it.
Also, the G5 isn't ready yet. The G5 that motorola is talking about recently is not the G5 for apple...sadly (it doesn't even have a Velocity Engine)

SOooooo.. I think it is some concept for some hardware. I don't think it is just the iMac that all this deal is about. I think it is something else. A flatpanel iMac is not going to "Blow us away" or "Going beyond PC's"
Something else
And you've gotta admit. THey aren't going to have a G5 OVER 2GHz! so a G5 at 1.2 Ghz is not really "beyond PC's".

Apple introduced the iMac, creating a whole new trend of machines, introducing "style", "color", and the importance of designs for Computers. (before most were square shaped and ugly, and look at all the iMac copiers!!)

I think the key things will be
Digital Hub
Airport (maybe gigawire?)
tablet

NOT JUST to do with speed. (although I must admit, I WANT A G5 that would show those wintel people the superiority of the Mac)


-------
I recently noticed that the word "Macintosh" is not used any more! (stupid me) power MAC, iMAC, iBook, G4Cube, powerbook... Maybe they will introduce the word again...

[i_did]

Where No PC Has Gone Before:
or
Wearable Computing With a Twist:

Your face - iGlasses
Your hand - iGlove
Your entire head - iHelm

I just hope it's not the iProbe

[jayscheuerle]

Perhaps this stuff comes from the same genius who said that people would build cities around the Segway. We'll have a few neat new toys, but this type of hyperbole means something very different to Mr. Jobs than it does to the rest of the dictionary reading public.

Of course, if Apple has been dumping all its resources into the next big thing, that would explain why all the bug fixes for OSX have been so slow in coming.....

-Dual processor Imac
-Detachable LCD

-One Processor in the "dock" and one in
the LCD. So when docked you get the power
of two processors and undocked unough power
to to lighter work and save battery.

[Argo1000]

Well DUH !!

'Where no PC has gone before'....codename iWalk (that is not likely to be the real product name)...Apple already has pretty good wireless LAN technology...

I get it.... the living room, the den, the kitchen, etc...

Hmmm.... what about (in addition to the speed bumps, flat panel iMac and probably iPhoto) what about a small, highly portable stealth iMac for the living room (or wherever) with connectivity to home TV monitors and stereo systems? With no monitor and perhaps a wireless keyboard/remote, it would be no bigger than a Cube (and a GREAT way to get rid of all those unsold Cube cases). It uses your home TV/stereo system for sound/display and links to the net with an AirPort card. (This would require a price drop for the Airport base station).

Failing that, they could just bill a flat iMac this way, since it would be much more portable...

Seems like a lot of product announcements for one show....

[evanmarx]

http://www.aventure-apple.com/ordis/.../spartacus.jpg

... even before the Ive era ...

[bobky]

hmmm

I hope Steve delivers on Monday, I fear alot of peeps are going to be p*ssed off with all the hype..

Personally I hope for a true digital hub device ( a bit like a set top box) that would sit near my tv, connect wirelessly to my mac, use itunes from my mac and play through the tv or connected hifi, using the tv as a display and recording digitally tivo style on the inbuilt HD.

And it would make coffee too.... (well maybe not)

[MacManiac1224]

I hope Apple is not digging themselves a deep hole with all of this hype. I think they know what they are doing, but all I know is they better deliver, or the rumor sites are going to be really pist, and so are the regular computer community, but something tells me they know what they are doing.

[cplmd]

Where no PC has gone before and a backstage pass to the future.

All those neat PDA type devices on UPN's ENTERPRISE are actually Apple devices that they have been betaing right under our noses.

Now the rest of us get to buy them.

Expect to see a few cast members from ENTERPRISE at the convention.

You heard it here first.

[cave]

whats up with this pics?

http://www.edit.ne.jp/~chop/siryo/fr-newmac.html

[Edited by cave on 01-04-2002 at 03:49 PM]

[blakespot]

Humorous:

http://fury.com/clippings/apple.html




bp

[elgruga]

Small wireless connectors to your stereo (iTunes), to your phone, to your whatever, with the airport base station built in to the iBook etc.
Select "Stereo" and wireless iTunes plays through the stereo in the kitchen or somewhere.
Nah.

Logically:

The computer part can not be changed - its going to be a CPU etc.etc.
It has to use an OS of some kind.
It has to run on electricity of some type.
It has to have a user interface of some kind.

The connections/connectivity can be changed.
The size of components can be changed.
The price can be changed.
The speed can be changed.
The 'look' can be changed.

Looks to me like we are going to stray into the area of design improvement - OR - something is going to get smaller or larger or faster.

The other stuff, like MHZ improvements, are not going to match the hype.

Conclusion:

As in the past, the new product will NOT meet the expectations created by the hype. It cant.
(Thats basically the definition of hype)

So whats this week of madness about?
Pre-selling products and creating a buzz.

The disappointment on Monday wont matter - we will still buy the damn stuff because we are hooked on 'new and improved'.

This week of hype has me seriously looking at this 'digital' lifestyle thing. I am seeing Apple's focus go from excellent tools to do a specific job quickly and well, to fun, digital merely because it isnt analog, style because SJ can afford it and likes it, and missing the boat on spending time and resources on OS X.

All this is meaningless because OS X STILL isnt ready for prime time.

And that makes this week a bit of a letdown.

Hoping to be proven wrong on Monday .

[Crotalus]

I'm not buyin it as a replacement for the desktop P-Mac. Maybe a replacement for the cube. Not Enough expandability. The iMac looked very plausible. Like something we might actually see on Monday. Just my 2¢ though.

This is great fun!! Apple HAS to be eating this up!

Forget 2.4G, forget iDevice(s)...

I agree with Gerry back on page 2. It the iMac. But I too think the flat panle will detatch from the "docking station," giving the user a tablet (& pen) to carry with them.

Whadda ya think?

This is great fun!! Apple HAS to be eating this up!

Forget 2.4G, forget iDevice(s)...

I agree with Gerry back on page 2. It's the iMac. But I too suspect the flat panel will detatch from the "docking station," or simply lift out of some flat panle holding device, giving the user a tablet (& pen) to carry with them. It would be like a PDA, but take it from a toy device to soemthing we won't be able to live without. Weeeeeee!!

Whadda ya think?

lazyrighteye

All of these comments about a flat-screen computer with a detatchable screen and pen-input, etc remind me of the speculation surrounding P1 -- Apple's consumer portable, which eventually was the iBook.

Here is an interesting article:

http://davenet.userland.com/2002/01/04/betOnTheIdock

This is great fun!! Apple HAS to be eating this up!

Forget 2.4G, forget iDevice(s)...

I agree with Gerry back on page 2. It's the iMac. But I too suspect the flat panel will detatch from the "docking station," or simply lift out of some flat panle holding device, giving the user a tablet (& pen) to carry with them. It would be like a PDA, but take it from a toy device to soemthing we won't be able to live without. Weeeeeee!!

Whadda ya think?

lazyrighteye

[monsterbucket]

OS X on the PC is my best guess...

the original osX team had a code name like star trek or trekkies or something.

[sprescott1974]

don't flame me but here are a few of my interpretations of the apple homepage's latest tag line culled from the posts of others:

1. The iMac with the removeable flat panel display harkens ideas of the saucer/nacelle seperation capabilities of Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

2. There are a lot of places that the PC has yet to go, because it has yet to be integrated into the digital lifestyle tht Jobs has been touting for the past few years. Almost every PC (meaning personal computer, not windoze box) has been resigned to desks/home office areas. It woul dtake something very revolutionary to move the PC into other areas of our lives. Apple is just the company to do it.

3. I've read on other sites that the much rumored iPad is best described as a Star Trek PADD-esque device. Given the new tag line, this idea could have some credibility.

All in all I think that number 2 is the most likely. Remember Apple thought that iPod would be instantly recognizable as a revolutionary device and although a lot of people would agree that it is just that, for most people it takes a bit of squinting to see it's true impact on the digtal hub/lifestyle idea. That said it is very plausible that Apple is starting up another hype machine simply because they believe in whatever it is they have been working on in Cupertino over the past however many months, a perspective that is very often skewed without the general public's thought processes taken into consideration. Segway anyone?

Posted at another site:

A WRISTWATCH


OK, this is pure speculation, but it's right out there, and it's Apple elegant (well, I think so). I declare that:
1. I have absolutely no inside information, and more importantly:
2. I have never once been right before.

Here's my "out there" guess:

Count the days, count the minutes... (as a watch does)
Go where no PC has gone before... (on a wrist - straight out of Sci-Fi movies, too)
Way beyond the rumor sites... (that never stop plugging an Apple hand-held PDA - worn the wrist is way beyond hand-held)
Backstage pass to the future... (lets you know where to go and how to get there to be in the right place for your future)

ALSO:
"We've been working closely with Palm lately..." (get the app right so we can release the coup de grace)
"PDAs are not a good place to be right now..." (they are about to become redundant...)

It's a wristwatch. Like the iPod, it needs no input except by synchronised firewire (?? - port too big - ??), and it means that your wristwatch can display:
Your full address book
Your to-do list (which can even be "ticked off" using a simple button)
Your appointments
The time!... (now that's seriously radical!) and date
...and it gets updated every night when you take it off for bed, or every morning when you get in the shower, or every time you walk past your infra-red port.

It's not for data entry, just for data recall. I'll buy one.

Now, I'll stop this nonsense.

Alternatively, if I've got it right, you shall all refer to me as "Oh Masterful One" whenever abusing me in future. (Abuse is fine, keep it friendly.)

Now I'll really stop this nonsense.

Edited by AJB on 01/04/02 03:01 AM.

we should be thinking about servers....

what about a rack mounted apple server with quad processors so powerful that would simply turn into dust the stuff we have out there?

just a thought....

[agreenster]

A wristwatch! Thats the funniest one Ive heard yet!

[georgemasters]

I was thinking about Apple's latest slogans and like many of you wondered about them in a literal sense. Considering this- and my observations of the irda port on the iwalk device (often used for wireless internet access), the comment on OS rumors about 10.1.2 including an irda software enchancment, recent
updates to security of Airport 2 software (a major hurdle for wireless web) and their current agreement with earthlink reminded me of this page:

http://www.apple.com/scitech/stories/skycorp/

Dated October 2001 the story talks about a 6 to 9 month period after the initial 12 month test period where 544 g4 servers would be launched into space providing wireless web- and allowing mac users affordable wireless internet access everywhere including the most remote locations, something NT and Linux has yet to accompolish. Could SF be a glimpse, dare I say, backstage pass into the future of the Mac? Would this
go beyond (literally read as thousands of miles beyond) the rumor sites and into a low earth orbit and across the globe? It would take a greatly accelerated time table than the one laid out in this story along with a pre-announcement from Steve. Exciting to think that this is something apple is working on and will be here one day if not this January.

T-Minus 3 Days and counting.