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Apple Feb 28th Media Event Coverage
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i can't wait to see what it's going to be. even though i probably won't buy anything now, but i might later. i hope it's a new ipod, cuz that's the next thing on my list i think. maybe the touch screen with 100gb hard drive?
what if its to announce that the origami project is secretly being developed with microstupid? that would be cool. Apple designing and MSFT funding (thus giving apple alot more space financially to design something ****ing awesome.)
Concerned
OK, so I'm a little concerned with all the posts regarding "What time is it there?, I only know what time it is here".
It could be that 'stupid rays' and 'idiot gas' is being disseminated from this website, and the internet in general.
I think we should all take precautions by wearing the appropriate safety gear while tracking this thread (safety goggles, gas masks, etc).
Safety first people.
OK, so I'm a little concerned with all the posts regarding "What time is it there?, I only know what time it is here".
It could be that 'stupid rays' and 'idiot gas' is being disseminated from this website, and the internet in general.
I think we should all take precautions by wearing the appropriate safety gear while tracking this thread (safety goggles, gas masks, etc).
Safety first people.
mcbade said:
John, I totally agree with you...I'd like to add that they still need to work on those screens...a lot. My #1 peeve with my 12" PB is not the hardware or anything (hey, I'm a not into photography/movie production/web design etc), but the screen. You can't see it in sunlight, at all, and it seems like it should be 2x as bright, with better colors, and more screen protection (number of pixels for me doesn't need to change).
I digress. I totally agree with you, but one thing that you might want to know is that Macs are Macs, not MAC's. MAC implies an acronym; Mac is an abbreviation for Macintosh. No big deal, but the problem is that some people will take it to mean you don't know what you're talking about. I'm almost like "who cares?" on this one, but just thought you should know.
TV and video blahs
Yes Macnoviz....I live in Canada....just up the west coast from Cupertino, and we're not allowed to buy the TV content yet. We can buy music videos...just not TV.
Slehmann
Macnoviz said:I really hope one of the minor announcements will be video content in all countries. In Belgium, we are still awaiting music videos, series (and movies)
Is there anybody else here that doesn't have video and is quite angry for it?
Yes Macnoviz....I live in Canada....just up the west coast from Cupertino, and we're not allowed to buy the TV content yet. We can buy music videos...just not TV.
Slehmann
brepublican said:
You do all realise, that irregardless of your time zone, spot on this planet, etc, that from this very moment, until when the presentation starts, is exactly the same amount of time for all of us?
Piarco75 said:
This setup will be enough to simply destroy my 1.42 G4 Mac Mini... It will be at least 3x most powerfull or more on Universal applications... ILife 06 will fly...
But, I think the price would need to be rised... at least $800 to a config like this...
Man, I would buy it in a heartbeat!!!!!
so how many hours till the announcement - i am gonna get ready for it - i hope it will be big - i hope the ipod hifi thingie are just small announcements and there is a whoopa - i hope it won't be small and apple please give me something more on the ipod - i want wifi don't make me wait till the next revision - i think it is aweful in this day and age i don't have something that can go in my pocket and has wifi and a decent browser - come on my wallet is waiting ...
ipod video
don't care about anything else, all i want is a full screen, touch ipod. Just as good as av 500, with 80gb hd and tv recording capabilities... and all the obvious other stuff.
may have to wait till 1st April(too long), but i really only want to wait an hour and a half.
any1 agree??
don't care about anything else, all i want is a full screen, touch ipod. Just as good as av 500, with 80gb hd and tv recording capabilities... and all the obvious other stuff.
may have to wait till 1st April(too long), but i really only want to wait an hour and a half.
any1 agree??
Battery
Talking of the MBP, does anybody know what the battery life is of the MBP, its battery is 60 Watt-hour, but how long does that last?
Talking of the MBP, does anybody know what the battery life is of the MBP, its battery is 60 Watt-hour, but how long does that last?
Shaker said:
If a mini is $499 and an eyeTV is $300, then sure, they can do it for under a grand no problem. They really just need to get h.264 encode onto a chip. If they can do decode on a chip in an iPod, I don't see why they can't get encode into a mini.
Romanesq said:
That's not what you said. You said that 99% of people were NOT happy with AAC. I guess you need to be more clear next time?
Carl Spackler said:
Completely agree with the first part. To make a DVR cost competitive, it would be best to keep it as stripped down as possible. I don't think they even need to put storage in the box, just make it more of a video airport express than a TIVO. Box with a tuner, AV ins and outs, airport and ethernet, and probably a codec encode/decode chip to keep bandwidth down.
Why jump into this? Because it's the way things are headed. If apple doesn't do it, someone else will, and they'll lose a pretty sizable potential market. TIVO is doing well, but only because there aren't any affordable alternatives. And what does Apple care if they lose some iTunes sales if it means they sell more hardware units? Apple makes a LOT more on the hardware sales, they'd probably be fine with giving away songs on the iTunes store, but the record companies wouldn't let that happen.
If apple was so worried about the supposed conflict between selling media and letting people get it on their own, why does iTunes support ripping CD's to mp3? Doesn't seem to hurt their song sales, does it?
tjwett said:
That list is pretty ambitious, but nothing that's physically large. It's mostly ports. Faster CPU isn't bigger, more ram is only a little more space. Even a TV tuner can probably be put onto a chip. The powermacs are about internal expansion, and chips WAY faster than a core duo. They'll likely have more than two cores and higher clock speeds.
MarcelV said:
The base mini is a low end machine. Nobody expects all those features in a $499 machine, but there will be more expensive (or BTO) versions as well. I happen to think that they could do a DVR verson for $499 or less, the compromise would be minimal computer features (less ram, slow processor) There's no reason the mini can't be a media machine. Although if they did a reasonably priced DVR in a different case I'm sure nobody would complain.
jamieg said:
You can burn them to DVD *now*. You're just limited to data dvd, not video DVD.
Interesting how Steve didn't save the new content on iTunes today for the event.Either it wasn't worthy ( which it isn't imho ) or it's a smokescreen..
Apple's getting real good at putting smokescreens up there..
Watch Out!!
Apple's getting real good at putting smokescreens up there..
Watch Out!!
Fabio_gsilva said:
i'd say it'd have to be more like $1000 to be reasonable, but i just don't see it. it'd be better than my 17" intel imac, that i paid $1200 for.
shyataroo said:
Lol. Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, and in fact I hate the whole "LOL" thing. But Apple being funded by MS to design a product whose profits they'll share or something, running WinXP? Jobs has no problem allowing software on Mac OS X - that's how it should be - but promoting the pain and suffering of Windows to innocent people? Jobs is a capitalist, not a sadistic demon with bad product-naming skills. I can assure you that there will be a few good points in the defective Origami, but nothing "****ing awesome," being guided by no more than a philosophy of expensive gadgetry, without strong notions of form and function, of use and practicality, of aesthetics, or of focus.
tolly said:
i agree. except i wouldn't mind a 100 gb hard drive. it'd be nice. i'm in the market for a ipod anyways. can't wait (and April 1st is too long). actually, my spring break is next week, i might need an ipod buy then ...