Another Day, Another Rumor...

[daRAT]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

I think tuesday will bring us a new color to the mini-ipod line ...

I hope there is a webcast of that announcement!

 

[splashman]

How much is enough?

Originally posted by rikers_mailbox
Would you rather have 256MB or 4gig of storage on your camera?

I do quite a bit of photography with a 4 megapix camera. I've got a 64mb card in it, and I don't believe I've ever actually filled it up. I'd get nervous filling up a much larger card without uploading to my Mac -- if something happened, I'd lose an awful lot of work.

I'm sure some would have a legitimate use for 4gigs of camera space, but I'm not one of them, and you'd have a hard time making a case to the average digicam user.

DV cameras, on the other hand, would be a perfect application for microdrives, whether 4gigs or larger. I hate only having an hour of shooting time. And a microdrive would take up so much less space than the miniDV tape mechanism.

 

[Krizoitz]

Originally posted by dho
I WILL be in IRC tomorow around 11-12 🙂

lets set a new record 🙂

irc.krono.net #macrumors 🙂

Wow...I thought IRC had died awhile back, I haven't used IRC in years. Good to know its still kicking around and that not all old tech goes away.

 

[Docrjm]

Bring it on!

Originally posted by billyboy
Apple are playing the crowd rather well me thinks and keeping a tight rein on their ad budget. So many grown adults are dying to hear about something, anything new. Publications all around the world are writing reams about the Mac anniversary; the Superbowl launch of iTunes giveaway is coming any time soon, Apple arent paying for the ad; the word count will be in the zillions when the Pepsi bottle top frenzy gets going. Kids will be mugged for their empty bottles, adults will be locking up their kids to stop them buying Pepsi and if they do get out and win a tune, parents will pull the plug on their Pentium 2 PCs to stop every third child logging in and getting mesmerised into the Apple store and demanding garageband and the $2000 Mac to run it on. And it goes on, and on, and the source of all this social mayhem is sat in Cupertino laughing his head off at the unfurling of a great master paln conceived a few years ago when Apple was in deep recession.

 

[Krizoitz]

Re: Do: Re: Mi: Fa: 20 years isn't special anniversary

Originally posted by TheAnswer
From Businessweek:

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said: "I had never listened to hip-hop and had somehow developed a pretty harsh image of it. Now I'm not saying I like all of it, but I found some people that have something to say and are saying it, more than anyone since Dylan in the 1960s. And Dylan is my all-time favorite. I met him once. It was one of the high points of my life."


So according to your logic...tomorrow Steve Jobs will announce a Mac with no processor?

Well that one just fell of the random tree now didn't it...

 

[Krizoitz]

Re: Re: Re: 20 years isn't special anniversary

Originally posted by TEG
If you are a liberal at 20, you're brainless, 40, moronic, 60, lonely, and 80, needy.

Could we at all possibly refrain from the political bashing here? Honestly its so childish. Agree to disagree.

 

[Krizoitz]

While it would have been great to have seen some nice updates and/or an amazing new product for the anniversary, all I wanted was for them to acknowledge it, you know make the web pages front have a happy birthday mac theme, maybe a link to a story about the history of the Mac from Apple's perspective, things like a time line, pictures, etc. Nothing to extravagant, just something to acknowledge that it had happened. Thats all. I don't need product announcements on that day, they can announce those whenever they are ready, but something other than that redone 1984 ad would have been nice.

 

[yoman]

i agree

Originally posted by Krizoitz
While it would have been great to have seen some nice updates and/or an amazing new product for the anniversary, all I wanted was for them to acknowledge it, you know make the web pages front have a happy birthday mac theme, maybe a link to a story about the history of the Mac from Apple's perspective, things like a time line, pictures, etc. Nothing to extravagant, just something to acknowledge that it had happened. Thats all. I don't need product announcements on that day, they can announce those whenever they are ready, but something other than that redone 1984 ad would have been nice.

i would have enjoyed such a link. Maybe you should let Apple know.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

It all depends on who the 'wow' factor is aimed at. We're all (mostly) existing Apple users - maybe they want to get the message out to more PC people.

Anyway, regardless of why we're still waiting for *any* updates/news - we still remain at the mercy of Apple.

D

 

[~Shard~]

Re: Whatever!

Originally posted by skidoo
Tomorrow, there will be an iMac update. G5, 30inch screen and a metal case.
Speed will also be an eye opener.
Watch, you will all see I am correct.

Two questions:

1) Are you related to NeatGekko?

2) Are you a betting man?

😎

 

[favpseudonym]

found this on another sight, thought it was fitting

 

[VicMacs]

the truth is...

screens are due...

20 years is not peanuts... something big is inminent!.... will we see the iHump?

 

[simX]

Re: Re: 20 years isn't special anniversary

Originally posted by pjkelnhofer
Except Apple set a precedent when they released the 20th Anniversary Mac in 1997 on the 20th Anniversary of the company.

Plus, he referenced the 20th Anniversary of the Mac at MWSF and said there will be a lot of great products this year to celebrate it. Plus, I suspect they didn't drag out (and add an iPod to)the "1984" commercial just to show it once at MWSF.

I am not saying that something is going to happen tomorrow (or next week or the next). Just that something will happen to celebrate the anniversary.

News flash: Apple was created on April 1, 1976. The 20th anniversary of Apple would then be April 1, 1996. When was the 20th Anniversary Macintosh released? That's right: 1997. That just about throws your whole argument out the window, now, doesn't it? 🙄 😛 (Unless, that is, you don't expect the "something" to happen this year.)

 

[MikeL]

Re: Re: Re: Re: apropos of nothing

Originally posted by rikers_mailbox
Would you rather have 256MB or 4gig of storage on your camera?

If you look beyond Best Buy and Circuit City you'll find that hard-drive based solutions for digital cameras have been around for a long, long time.

 

[Awimoway]

Uncharacteristically, Apple has let the date come-and-go without any acknowledgement .

I just don't understand where this notion keeps coming from. He acknowledged it at MWSF. He talked about the original Mac, the 1984 commercial, and they put a slightly updated version of the commercial on apple.com. There was an exhibit showcasing Macs down through history. The anniversary has been recognized. I didn't realize Jobs needs to personally send each and every one of us a strippergram (not that that would be a bad thing, per se 😉) in acknowledgment of the milestone.

 

[billefrafra]

Apple Hot News no longer has the 1984 ad banner up. In its place is the Virginia Supercomputer banner.

This change is less than 1 hour old, from what I've noticed. . . .

Whoops!

I guess it's one of 3 rotating links. 1984's still there. My sick anticipation has me desperately finding signs that aren't there.

 

[studebakerhwk13]

See ,,, Doc_mac has it on... whatever happens before now and the time tomorrow is more than cool...bring it on ... and all of us who bought before ... and all of us who are shopping in the future...will always have something to look foward to because we hooked our wagons to people who gave a damn about the future. Email me ... I'll tell you about every mac decision I ever made ... I'll tell you why this is where my heart lies. It's just an anniversary, everything else belongs beyond.

 

[dho]

Originally posted by Krizoitz
Wow...I thought IRC had died awhile back, I haven't used IRC in years. Good to know its still kicking around and that not all old tech goes away.

well besides crazy mac and linux users, its way dead. But since when did the pc world count anyway 🙂

TO irc.krono.net I GO!

 

[studebakerhwk13]

quit!!! ... you guys spend way too much time guessing what is coming and living with the treasure we have today. oh, yeah, bring it on, but good lord, we have tools at our disposal that are so far beyond the marvels of 20 years ago – don't be so impatient!!!! I can do things now that were inconceivable 20 years ago. I am sill listed as a newbie, but good lord, man, I been around the block a time or 20. It is not as easy to plan for a 20th as it is to pull it off ... an announcement come tomorrow ... cool ... will it really make a difference ... it is going to be so much faster than I am. But the point is ... you ... me ... we're all here for the same reason. We live on the edge ... all the time ... who gives a damn about the rest of the world!

 

[sethypoo]

Re: railheaddesign isn't making this up..

Originally posted by jessefoxperry
I read Railheaddesign daily, and without fail everytime he has predicted something about Apple(and especially when he gave it a date) he was right. Don't lose hope yet - there's something coming tomorrow.

Let's hope you're right, or Rail Head Design will undoubtedly become the laughing stock of the Apple/Mac rumors world!

That's the sad truth about rumors. You have to be right all this time or people start to ignore you.🙁

 

[sethypoo]

Originally posted by studebakerhwk13
quit!!! ... you guys spend way too much time guessing what is coming and living with the treasure we have today. oh, yeah, bring it on, but good lord, we have tools at our disposal that are so far beyond the marvels of 20 years ago – don't be so impatient!!!! I can do things now that were inconceivable 20 years ago. I am sill listed as a newbie, but good lord, man, I been around the block a time or 20. It is not as easy to plan for a 20th as it is to pull it off ... an announcement come tomorrow ... cool ... will it really make a difference ... it is going to be so much faster than I am. But the point is ... you ... me ... we're all here for the same reason. We live on the edge ... all the time ... who gives a damn about the rest of the world!

Woohoo! Yes! Someone finally had the guts to say it!

The computers we have now are great, awesome machines (Macs, that is 🙂 ). We should appreciate what we've got!

Cut Apple some slack and realize that they can't pull a rabbit out of a hat every time.

 

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by iriejedi
Good word has it G5 Powerbooks are at the store because we saw some Apple employee move a shelf down and wink...

Actually I talked with an HVAC guy and he said he recently doubled the AC capacity at several Apple Stores to 8 tons. He said the Apple store guy said they needed it in anticipation of 4MHz G6 DP laptops that emit over 260 degrees from their cases.
Yes, rumours are tedious and boring. I just like to be surprised. It's more fun: no expectations dashed, no brainpower wasted on the ridiculous. So why do I come here? Damn entertaining.

 

[mustang_dvs]

Re: How much is enough?

Originally posted by splashman
I do quite a bit of photography with a 4 megapix camera. I've got a 64mb card in it, and I don't believe I've ever actually filled it up. I'd get nervous filling up a much larger card without uploading to my Mac -- if something happened, I'd lose an awful lot of work.

I'm sure some would have a legitimate use for 4gigs of camera space, but I'm not one of them, and you'd have a hard time making a case to the average digicam user.

DV cameras, on the other hand, would be a perfect application for microdrives, whether 4gigs or larger. I hate only having an hour of shooting time. And a microdrive would take up so much less space than the miniDV tape mechanism.

Hmmm... I've always felt cramped when using anything less than a 256MB card in my 4MP Olympus E-10. In raw or High-JPEG format, I could only store 10-20 photos using a 64MB card -- are you sure you're not taking photos at a lower resolution?

And in my EOS 10D, I almost always use a 1GB microdrive, which provides room for ~250 photos at highest resolution - though I have a 256MB flash card that is dedicated for when the microdrive is downloading into my TiBook... The IBM drive feels much faster, though.

Originally posted by Les Kern
Actually I talked with an HVAC guy and he said he recently doubled the AC capacity at several Apple Stores to 8 tons. He said the Apple store guy said they needed it in anticipation of 4MHz G6 DP laptops that emit over 260 degrees from their cases.

Well, my sources in Apple's legal offices indicate that there is some concern over the number of G6 laptop testers who have spontaneously combusted during the engineering testing. They're convinced that, if released, these new Powerbooks (dubbed PbBooks due to the large amount of radiation shielding required by the ridiculous quantity of Protactinium found in the G6's AltiVec unit) could well make the 5300 debacle looks like a hiccup.

Well, we all know "Lawyers Are Wimps," right?

Of course there's also the thought of re-purposing the G6 laptop as the iGrill, but the projected $8,900 price tag, and the requirement that the user be licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory commission might dampen hopes of selling them through QVC and infomercials...

 

[benpatient]

well, at least they got rid of the Cesium-137 that was in the initial test batches. that was embarrassing to say the least....

 

[mustang_dvs]

Well, it turned out that the Cesium isotope wasn't radioactive enough, and besides, it's much more common than Protactinium.

The inherent coolness of the constant threat of a grisly and exotic death more than offsets the 23 pounds of lead shielding, according to Jonathan Ive.