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3G iPhone and $1500 'Super Laptop' in 2008
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I think that would be a stupid move. Steve is smart enough to know (and yes for sure he read those rumor forums as well) that we expect something spectacular this time. He won't let us down
The mini super laptop or something else surprising will come! He will use the "one more thing" trick again! I feel it!With kind regards,
Bas
I think that would be a stupid move. Steve is smart enough to know (and yes for sure he read those rumor forums as well) that we expect something spectacular this time. He won't let us down
With kind regards,
Bas
word. and ya, many people probably think that he doesnt read forums but im sure he does. heck, he probably reads macrumors all the time as they are most imformative and very popular.
All I want is a portable, rugged laptop. I recently crushed my MBP, and have been looking for a replacement that will be small, but enough for my needs. I personally dislike the macbooks very much, and I have actually been looking into buying a 12 inch powerbook! If this rumor is true, it will be an end to all of my computer problems. I am hoping for the new (12 inch or 13.3 inch screen, I don't care) small MBP. Bring it on, Steve.
As I said, the $7 per flash drive adds up when you have to purchase large quantities of them. I would not consider them a replacement for a CD until they reach...say 99 cents for a 1GB model. Then, I can see more people giving them away like a CD.
I wouldn't mind having a bay for the optical drive as an option as someone suggested earlier in the thread. Maybe have a regular notebook hard drive and extra battery in its place if Apple is really going with a 32GB SSD drive. I think that would settle this for both of us.
1. No, more like I'm still in tune with and think about the general public and not just with the young, rich, tech-savvy people.
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As I said, not everyone will allow non-employees into their networks. They usually configure their machines for their networks.
As I said, one flash drive is cheap, but not when you start buying 10+. It adds up.
First of all, you just need one. Give it to your customers at the end of your presentation, and they can mount the drive and copy the file in a minute or two, and give it back. Faster than it takes to burn a CD. Not to mention, you'd be REUSING a single drive and not wasting time money and resources on a non-reusable CD that eventually gets thrown out.
I don't know where this "young and rich" stuff is coming in. USB flash drives are cheap. Heck I saw 4gb for $17 on Black Friday. I also see lots of people giving away lower capacity thumb drives (1GB and lower) with their company logos. Buy a box of them and silk screen them with your business logo and contact info, and you've got a great marketing tool.
If you're so worried about this being so expensive, perhaps it's time to ditch the powerbook and invest in an easel, flip book, and markers.
Maybe Jobs will release a laptop to go with the mac mini as the macbook goes with the imac & the macbook pro goes with the mac pro?
it would be cool if they did this.
it would be cool if they did this.
This is writen by a guy that says pc's are cool and macs have shoddy design
on one of his links: http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/
under: http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/2007/12/now-this-has-got-to-be-dangerous.html#links
he says
ps, I just figured that Apple would build stores as shoddily as they do their computers
As I said, the $7 per flash drive adds up when you have to purchase large quantities of them. I would not consider them a replacement for a CD until they reach...say 99 cents for a 1GB model. Then, I can see more people giving them away like a CD.
I wouldn't mind having a bay for the optical drive as an option as someone suggested earlier in the thread. Maybe have a regular notebook hard drive and extra battery in its place if Apple is really going with a 32GB SSD drive. I think that would settle this for both of us.
How much is "Large Quantities"?
Why would you need to purchase large quantities? You're not just giving them away, are you?
I do have a flash drive FOR MYSELF. It's fine to share if I'm in an office, but I don't always go to offices. Halls, clubhouses, meeting rooms in public facilities sometimes do not have computers available to use. (If they do, they tend to be crappy donated ancient Windows 95 machines or something) So again, I would have to give something out to them. The cheapest usable, most widely-available format for this is...the CD.
I think you're getting a little carried away with the easel, etc.
I would hate that, why do you need a touch screen and a keyboard! one or the other, and I would choose keyboard unless you really needed to save space like a pocket device (iPhone & iPod Touch)
I really hope that Apple update the current iPhone rather than replacing it with a new model. Right now the iPhone is an over priced box of pretty tricks. If they put 3G, a decent camera and flash support in Safari I'd probably buy it. Will probably go with the LG Viewty instead for now which, of course, is free.
we cant really judge it yet bc what if it was 1500 and had touch screen and 64gb flash or so, and ultra portable that wouldnt be too bad... lets not judge quite yet because we know nothing about it.
Would an ultra-compact design lend itself to running an external monitor? It would be nice to be able to do stuff on the big screen as well.
This is great news, Apple just never stops with the innovation.
A 3G iPhone with a official SDK and hopefully by then some good official applications will be a very tempting purchase for me (hmm iPhone or Android powered phone?). I'll be holding off on the ultraslim macbook however until I find out exactly how much space the flash storage provides, so far flash storage hasn't really gotten anywhere near the amount of storage traditional hard drives can provide...So heres a question. I was under the impression that the reason that apple chose to announce the existence of the iphone in Jan of '06 was because it was going to have to go through the FCC and its existence would have been exposed during that time. So if apple is planning on releasing a new 3g iphone, wont it also have to make its way through the FCC? Is it possible that apple will announce the existence of a new phone months before it is released in order to maximize the publicity like they did for the first version?
MacWorld 2008 - I has some insider info
3G iPhone update/refresh is expected, according to a Japanese (works at NTT DoCoMo) source of mine
3G iPhone update/refresh is expected, according to a Japanese (works at NTT DoCoMo) source of mine
AT&T and DoCoMo were working on joint development of 3G services a few years back. There was also a plan (did it ever go through?) to launch DoCoMo's iMode technology on AT&T's network in the early 2000s.
Any idea if anything came out of any of this? And if so, might it mean a dual Japanese and US 3G iPhone launch?
macbook air multi track pad killer application
you are all wrong!
come on, get the real killer-app-usage...
take the macbook air with your hands to upright format like a real book ... than it is an ..... ebook.
on the left side, the monitor will be your reading side
on the right side, by using the pad with your right fingers/thumb, you are flipping from one to the next /former page similar to an ordinary newspaper, marking a special text, flipping through chapters/pages, and many more ...
logic evolution of iTunes and Leopard feature - "cover flow"
buy an ebook at iTunes, "touch" the future...
... and amazones' kindle is kindly killed!!!
you'll see and touch
at Macworld
you are all wrong!
come on, get the real killer-app-usage...
take the macbook air with your hands to upright format like a real book ... than it is an ..... ebook.
on the left side, the monitor will be your reading side
on the right side, by using the pad with your right fingers/thumb, you are flipping from one to the next /former page similar to an ordinary newspaper, marking a special text, flipping through chapters/pages, and many more ...
logic evolution of iTunes and Leopard feature - "cover flow"
buy an ebook at iTunes, "touch" the future...
... and amazones' kindle is kindly killed!!!
you'll see and touch
at Macworld
it strange that little Norway have 3G and not USA i think. i am waiting for a 3G iPhone becouse i need 3G to videocalls and MMS.
in Norway its almost just 3G phones now.
in Norway its almost just 3G phones now.
This hasn't really been mentioned - it's simple, but I would LOVE if Apple upped the capacity of the Touch. I've been iPodless for about 2 years (various reasons) - I've been waiting for the Touch to reach at least 30GB before I pick it up.
