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Apple One More Thing Invitation-Only Event [Image]

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refinery said:
one more thing: Apple tablet computer. same specs as mac mini with built-in touchscreen LCD display. base station serves as airport base and AV center, allowing tablet to stream video to base station and display it on tv. features an dashboard-inspired overlay keyboard for typing without a keyboard plugged in. 12" LCD. $999.




apple would not go to all this trouble to announce speed bumps or updated iPods. This is something huge, and i think it's the tablet mac.
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That'll do for me! Ties in with both the Media center ideas and the tablet mac theory. Good rumor analysis there ;)

I could seriously see it being something along those lines though. It won't be a new iPod, since this would take attention away from the nano, and I doubt it's pro-mac updates, given the curtain. My bet is the new tablet, or they announce their collaboration with BBC to bring iMP, hence the hiring of space at BBC London.
 
Detlev said:
OK, who (what industry or reporters) is being invited? Why an anonymous tip? Does it say, "Keep this quiet, or you can't come!" This smells of Page 2.
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but it is page 2 :p

but your right we need more ACURATE information :confused:
 
After reading this and many other threads and news stories about whats going to happen on october 12, i'll give my 2 pence.
Now look at the invitation, in the background it has theatre curtains which you would usually see in a CINEMA, cinema=movies. Ok yeah, the curtains are where the annaouncement will be, but they havent done that for any other invitations have they?
Also, the line says 'One More Thing' now this might be a shock to people... but the meaning of it is 1. i.e, one, first, 1st, 1. Got it?
Good.
Also as there has never been so much speculation about this event, even though the facts are in our face, i dont believe for one second that all of this will only be for an 80GB smaler iPod. That will absolutely be pointless. An invitations showing theatre curtains as a big hint and we get an 80GB slightly smaller iPod? Bollocks.
And there will be updates to the Power PC line, bt why would there be a major announcement for dual core power pc macs? There's no point as the Mac's will be moving over to Intel next year anyway.
Now everyone's saying of how video is premature for the ipod, how its pointless at the minute and how the ipod is only for music. NO-ONE has even mentioned photos. The iPod has already not had music as its only feature, photo has been there for a year, and no one minds photos are there, and im sure that people wont when video is there too. Jut because its video doesnt mean that every single person will be using video. And im sure that there will be a product called iPod Video which will be seperate from the other iPod, like how iPod Photo was, until it was the norm back in june, and thats probably goin to happen again around june next year.
So all in all, i hope to have an iPod Video by the year end.
 
SuperDA said:
After reading this and many other threads and news stories about whats going to happen on october 12, i'll give my 2 pence.
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And I'll offer my comments as well... :cool:

SuperDA said:
Now look at the invitation, in the background it has theatre curtains which you would usually see in a CINEMA, cinema=movies. Ok yeah, the curtains are where the annaouncement will be, but they havent done that for any other invitations have they?
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Correct - they haven't done this for other invitations, although they have used other "props", such as the jeans pocket for the iPod nano event.

SuperDA said:
Also, the line says 'One More Thing' now this might be a shock to people... but the meaning of it is 1. i.e, one, first, 1st, 1. Got it?
Good.
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Not really actually - "One more thing..." is a famous Steve Jobs phrase which he has used many times at Keynotes. Anyone who closely follows Apple (and even those who don't, i.e. the media) have picked up on this, and understand it's meaning.

SuperDA said:
i dont believe for one second that all of this will only be for an 80GB smaler iPod. That will absolutely be pointless. An invitations showing theatre curtains as a big hint and we get an 80GB slightly smaller iPod?
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Agreed, it will not only be an 80 GB slightly smaller iPod.

SuperDA said:
And there will be updates to the Power PC line, bt why would there be a major announcement for dual core power pc macs? There's no point as the Mac's will be moving over to Intel next year anyway.
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No point? I completely disagree. Apple is presumably eyeing the Conroe and Woodcrest chipsets from Intel for the PowerMacs, and those chips aren't due out until mid-2006 at the earliest. Therefore the PowerMacs will undoubtedly be the last Mac to go Intel, and they will not go Intel until 2007. Since that leaves us a whole year with PPC PowerMacs, it completely makes sense to release dual core PPC Macs to fill in the gap until the Intel Macs come out. Bring on the 970MP!

SuperDA said:
Now everyone's saying of how video is premature for the ipod, how its pointless at the minute and how the ipod is only for music. NO-ONE has even mentioned photos. The iPod has already not had music as its only feature, photo has been there for a year, and no one minds photos are there, and im sure that people wont when video is there too. Jut because its video doesnt mean that every single person will be using video. And im sure that there will be a product called iPod Video which will be seperate from the other iPod, like how iPod Photo was, until it was the norm back in june, and thats probably goin to happen again around june next year.
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Yep, makes sense. :cool:
 
thanx for the reply, regarding about the power pc's, i mean that there would only be a small announcement for upgrades to it, such as dual core and speed upgrades, there'd be no point in a big announcement as there hasnt been for these kinds anyway, so i think there's goin to be a small announcement for dual core g5's, then move on to the ipod video :D
 
SuperDA said:
thanx for the reply, regarding about the power pc's, i mean that there would only be a small announcement for upgrades to it, such as dual core and speed upgrades, there'd be no point in a big announcement as there hasnt been for these kinds anyway, so i think there's goin to be a small announcement for dual core g5's, then move on to the ipod video :D
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No problem, just wanted to hare some different views. I hear what you're saying though. I guess all will be revealed on Tuesday - er, Wednesday - sorry, force of habit. :eek: So is Wednesday the new Tuesday? :D
 
~Shard~ said:
No problem, just wanted to hare some different views. I hear what you're saying though. I guess all will be revealed on Tuesday - er, Wednesday - sorry, force of habit. :eek: So is Wednesday the new Tuesday? :D
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lol probably, but im thinkin that we'll hear of a leak or sumthin around late tuesday
 
SuperDA said:
lol probably, but im thinkin that we'll hear of a leak or sumthin around late tuesday
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Apple has done fairly well at keeping things under wraps as of late, much better than they used to, so we'll just have to see - a leak wouldn't be a surprise though, but I'm honestly not expecting one.
 
refinery said:
personally, this is what i think:

speed updates across pro lines

powerbooks and G5s go dual core, along these lines:

12" PB: bumped to single 1.67ghz G4 chip
15" & 17" PB: dual core 1.7ghz
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*sigh*, like talking to a wall.....
 
ihome and more

Here is my stab at the Oct. 12 the event. Is this not supposed to be the year of HD, anybody remember this prediction during the keynote last January? So, We have not had too much HD this year until the event on Oct. 12. I say a new set of HD screens for Powerbooks and iMacs. Maybe the long awaited iHome appliance will tie it all together. Of course, this would correspond with an updated video subscription service for iTunes.
 
boisegreg said:
Here is my stab at the Oct. 12 the event. Is this not supposed to be the year of HD, anybody remember this prediction during the keynote last January? So, We have not had too much HD this year until the event on Oct. 12. I say a new set of HD screens for Powerbooks and iMacs. Maybe the long awaited iHome appliance will tie it all together. Of course, this would correspond with an updated video subscription service for iTunes.
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This is similar to something I had said in another thread here (and I'm sure others have said it as well). This is the year of HD and if all they are releasing is iMovie HD, this year, then it seems to me that Jobs was just blowing a lot of hot air up our butts.

I think one things we can be sure of is that an announcement like this means there's going to be something new to be released. Perhaps it's just a new iTunes Video service, or a new application, but hopefully it's a new piece of hardware that goes beyond a CPU change or double the RAM.

The thing that makes me skeptical about an "iHome" device is that to be more than another MythTV or Windows MHC PC it'd have to have a cable-card builtin and/or the ability to record in HD. I don't think at this time it would be possible to release something like that w/o it being very expensive. And since Steve just recently poo-poo'd the convergence of computers with the TV, I think we may have to wait a bit longer before he changes his mind and releases such a product.
 
yoak said:
What about the possibility that SJ suprise us all with the first Mactel, maybe the tablet?
Just a thought :confused:
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I'd say that's very unlikely. Apple has to work with developers to make sure everyone is ready for the transition. The developers have to make Universal Binary versions of their apps, package them up for download and make them available at launch, so they need to know ahead of time what the timetable is (and Apple has so far stated that it will happen in 2006, by WWDC). Apple can't just turn around and go "Ta-Da!!!!" three months early. The first Intel Macs are going to be the first machines in a while which we'll know about ahead of their release. My guess (and it's purely a guess) is that we'll get a demo and release details at MWSF, and a release a couple of months afterwards.

I'm still keen on the idea of an iHome. As ccrandall points out, though, for it to be everything people want is going to make it quite pricey once you start adding dual HDTV tuners, cablecard capability, all manner or inputs and outputs, and so on. As an example, the motorola HD cable box / PVR they use for my local cable service costs around $600. Ouch.

I'd like to see something to store your iLife libraries... if you have multiple machines, then having large iTunes libraries on each and every machine starts to eat up storage space, and keeping them synchronised is a pain. Having one machine set up to share a library means that the machine has to be on all the time, the user logged in and iTunes has to be running.

I'd love to see a mini-server where we can stream from one library to any machine in the house. An option in iTunes prefs will let you use that library instead of creating one on your local machine (so any CD's you rip go to the central library). Of course, you can play music directly from it as well if you hook it up to a HiFi.

Oh well, we'll find out on Wednesday...

Neil.
a.k.a. Arnel
 
Personally, I'd tend to believe that this event will have the last PPC updates for all systems. I doubt there will be any more updates after this conference, and that would of course go with the idea of one more thing. It would be the last and finishing remark of an era, similar to what one more thing means in our usage of the prase. It will be interesting to see what they update, but I personally doubt they update the iPods as it wouldn't really go with one more thing at all, and because they want to milk those high margin machines known as Nanos for a few more weeks before they take some of the press away and make the normal iPods be more valuable.
 
maybe this seems out of left field but..what ever happened to the rumor that apple was going to sell shirts and stuff at their retail store...could this be the big news and apple would put on a fashion show....cause i want apple apparel.....
 
puckhead193 said:
maybe this seems out of left field but..what ever happened to the rumor that apple was going to sell shirts and stuff at their retail store...could this be the big news and apple would put on a fashion show....cause i want apple apparel.....
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I think Apple would get completely frowned upon if this big "event" was simply a fashion show. ;)

The Apple merchandise is coming, but it definitely will not be the focus of this event even if it is ready to be released.
 
UK Refurb Store

Late last week the UK Refurb Store reverted to Wednesdays-only after a few weeks open every day.

It is scheduled to open at 10am UK time on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see what it has on offer, given that the "One More Thing ..." event starts at 6pm UK time ...
 
iSmell

someone said fashion show...
let's launch another weird concept :p

iSmell: the new fragrance for the homes, offices and cars for Apple enthousiasts...
with automatic distribution system powered by USB2 (adaptors for 110/220v, AA Batterypack & 12V available)

available in different smells: home, office, garden, seeside, desert, forest, mountain, newcar, trafficjam, party
available in different sized flacons: iSmell (the big one for 'desk use'), iSmell nano (fits in your pocket on-the-go, to feel at home wherever you are) & a package containing all different types in unlabeled small doses: iSmell shuffle because life is random ;-)
and the iSmell Extreme base station (designed to let the fragrance be distributed trough office airco's)
 
iHome + intel?

Not sure if this was mentionned before, but if we take for granted that the curtains means movies (as in "iTunes now sells movies", let's say from Universal), maybe they'll sell a new "Mac" (set-top box) to connect to your home network and your television.

And since it's not "really a Mac" (primary use is a media box), not many people will want to install new software on it, so it won't matter much if this is new first "Mac" to use an intel processor (people will only use the software that comes with it). It should also feature that new ATI GPU that handles H.264 decoding (and encoding?) in hardware.

Edit: to those who think this event is PPC/PowerBook/PowerMac/etc related in any way, remember this: the "one more thing" comment almost always introduces a new product. Simple upgrades aren't worthy of the infamous line.
 
tablet

video iPod? this is the general opinion so therefore i think its wrong! how often do people here get it right? remember the nano?... it was a matter of hours before that event that someone got it right, apple are so leak-proof these days we really dont know what is coming. i wouldnt be surprised if the predicted speed bumps AND video in the 5G ipod were minor events before the 'one more thing...'

i think we might be getting at a tablet mac (were there not patents filed a while ago...) with a HD display that can be used for EVERYTHING including a lovely big screen (thus making your current tv/dvd 'cinema' obsolete)

:)

...but im probably way off as well.

i do think its something big, apple are aware just how much hype and speculation surrounds their 'media invitations' these days. when the bbc and other media organisations start to report about rumour site gossip, apple know it will harm them if they whip up too much of a frenzy.

and one more thing... a video ipod will not be enough! (it certainly will not impress me as much as the nano) we want NEW hardware!
 
h_harker said:
...a tablet mac...with a HD display that can be used for EVERYTHING including a lovely big screen (thus making your current tv/dvd 'cinema' obsolete)...
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I'd like to see the do-all product that can do what my PDA does and still render my 36" TV obsolete!
 
mpw said:
I'd like to see the do-all product that can do what my PDA does and still render my 36" TV obsolete!
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We all agree then. The new device is a 36" widescreen tablet/PDA with a 50GHz Intel CPU, 200PB of storage and 16TB of memory. ;)
 
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