You've been hanging out with the goofy crowd too long my friend. All my associates are highly skilled quantum physicists, goverment spies, freedom fighters, etc... The only laughs at my parties are high brow chuckles, or the occasional evil snigger.
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You've been hanging out with the goofy crowd too long my friend. All my associates are highly skilled quantum physicists, goverment spies, freedom fighters, etc... The only laughs at my parties are high brow chuckles, or the occasional evil snigger.
Sounds like complete BS of a rumor, but what would be the best, most-forward reaching Mac computer innovation with be an iMac-iPad hybrid that uses a MacMini-type base/docking station with an iPad screen to take away.
The benefit is obvious: major storage and power for desktop computing with a take-away field-use device that feeds back into the more-competent base computer. Somehow I doubt Apple will make such a leap this year, but it is an obvious expansion of the current computers. It would be a MacMini-iPad combo, or a detachable iMac or sorts, but it would be best with an iPad that had far higher resolution than currently available. The base could support other monitors, tho.
The benefit is obvious: major storage and power for desktop computing with a take-away field-use device that feeds back into the more-competent base computer. Somehow I doubt Apple will make such a leap this year, but it is an obvious expansion of the current computers. It would be a MacMini-iPad combo, or a detachable iMac or sorts, but it would be best with an iPad that had far higher resolution than currently available. The base could support other monitors, tho.
Why is it a must?
Desktop sales are stagnant. I doubt Apple wants a money-loser.
There isn't enough demand for what you're asking. Towers, mini-towers, all that jazz . . . ideas that are being left in the past.
Obviously going to be a 1 meter MacBook Pro. With a retina capable screen of 102,500 by 164,000. I don't see how you guys could have missed the gaping hole in the current lineup.
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
Having used a big vertical touchscreen, I understand why Jobs said that after they tried the idea out, they found it to suck. They're completely un-ergonomic.
Want to see why? Operate your iMac with one hand, and with your other, reach out and mimic the motions on your screen as if you're tapping on menu items or typing on an on-screen keyboard with that arm. See how that feels after a minute. Five minutes. Ok, put your arm down to rest, now every time you want to click something pick it back up and reach all the way up to do it.
Zero chance.
Want to see why? Operate your iMac with one hand, and with your other, reach out and mimic the motions on your screen as if you're tapping on menu items or typing on an on-screen keyboard with that arm. See how that feels after a minute. Five minutes. Ok, put your arm down to rest, now every time you want to click something pick it back up and reach all the way up to do it.
Zero chance.
Seriously, if there is any truth to the rumor, it is most likely just the next generation product in the Mac Pro slot.
1. The design of the current Mac Pro is old-- it needs an update.
2. The timing suggests a fairly low-key announcement-- if it were a truly earth-shattering consumer-oriented product, it would be part of the keynote for the WWDC. The Mac Pro is a professional workhorse, and doesn't benefit from WWDC glitz.
An alternative theory is that an end of year ship could be a consumer product intended to hit the holiday market, but more likely that would be an iProduct, not a Mac.
1. The design of the current Mac Pro is old-- it needs an update.
2. The timing suggests a fairly low-key announcement-- if it were a truly earth-shattering consumer-oriented product, it would be part of the keynote for the WWDC. The Mac Pro is a professional workhorse, and doesn't benefit from WWDC glitz.
An alternative theory is that an end of year ship could be a consumer product intended to hit the holiday market, but more likely that would be an iProduct, not a Mac.
Just make sure you don't get professionals with advanced degrees using iOS gear.
Kinda explodes your whole "simple mindedness" fluff.
It's going to redefine "desktop", I think.
The typical computer-on-desk takes up a lot of room anyway, and it's already been stated that touch surfaces like to be horizontal.
It will essentially look like a giant iPad, which looks essentially like a super giant iPod.
It will sit on the top of your desk and you'll be one step closer to being Tom Cruise.
The typical computer-on-desk takes up a lot of room anyway, and it's already been stated that touch surfaces like to be horizontal.
It will essentially look like a giant iPad, which looks essentially like a super giant iPod.
It will sit on the top of your desk and you'll be one step closer to being Tom Cruise.
Given that fingers have been around for much longer than the computer mouse, I would say they are far more proven and reliable. There is nothing more natural than manipulating content with our fingers. Humans have been doing it for a long time.
Look at the recent past
Everyone here is thinking small. If this is true, it's going to be a change every bit as big as the switch to Intel, and maybe bigger. Let's look at Apple's recent history (the last two years):
1. They have killed the XServe line
2. They have deprecated so many features in Lion Server so that it can't be considered a business capable platform anymore.
3. They have removed so many features from Final Cut Pro that the pros, especially the high level ones that drove the sales, can't use it anymore.
Apple has realized that the real money is in content aggregation and sales, not in content creation. It seems that they are systematically killing its high end and content creation products in favor of mobile (and maybe not so mobile) content consumption devices, like the iPhone, iPad Apple TV and the rumored flat screen TV.
Apple isn't stupid. They have recognized the fact that iDevices and iTunes sales are driving their bottom line. Mac sales, even though they are rising, are still only a small portion of the company's revenues. Steve Jobs himself has said that we are entering the "Post PC era", and the writing on the wall is pretty clear. Apple is following HP out of the traditional PC market. The new Mac products (or whatever their name is going to be), will be nothing like the old Macs. I'm guessing that they will be powered by A5 and new "A6" chips, without the ability to run Windows or Carbon apps. They will ship with an updated version of Lion that is more iOS like out of the box, with touch and gestures the rule. They will have small SSD's for the OS and not much else, forcing users to store everything in the cloud. Of course they won't have optical, because that defeats the purpose of the iTunes model, but they will have an SD slot, because that format isn't going away soon.
In short, Apple will introduce computer that is completely consumer oriented and brain dead simple to use.
It will sell like hotcakes.
Everyone here is thinking small. If this is true, it's going to be a change every bit as big as the switch to Intel, and maybe bigger. Let's look at Apple's recent history (the last two years):
1. They have killed the XServe line
2. They have deprecated so many features in Lion Server so that it can't be considered a business capable platform anymore.
3. They have removed so many features from Final Cut Pro that the pros, especially the high level ones that drove the sales, can't use it anymore.
Apple has realized that the real money is in content aggregation and sales, not in content creation. It seems that they are systematically killing its high end and content creation products in favor of mobile (and maybe not so mobile) content consumption devices, like the iPhone, iPad Apple TV and the rumored flat screen TV.
Apple isn't stupid. They have recognized the fact that iDevices and iTunes sales are driving their bottom line. Mac sales, even though they are rising, are still only a small portion of the company's revenues. Steve Jobs himself has said that we are entering the "Post PC era", and the writing on the wall is pretty clear. Apple is following HP out of the traditional PC market. The new Mac products (or whatever their name is going to be), will be nothing like the old Macs. I'm guessing that they will be powered by A5 and new "A6" chips, without the ability to run Windows or Carbon apps. They will ship with an updated version of Lion that is more iOS like out of the box, with touch and gestures the rule. They will have small SSD's for the OS and not much else, forcing users to store everything in the cloud. Of course they won't have optical, because that defeats the purpose of the iTunes model, but they will have an SD slot, because that format isn't going away soon.
In short, Apple will introduce computer that is completely consumer oriented and brain dead simple to use.
It will sell like hotcakes.
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My friend that used to work at Apple R&D said they were looking at something in between an iPad and MacBook.
This was over a year and a half ago though, so I kind of forgot about it and figured they dropped it.
My friend that used to work at Apple R&D said they were looking at something in between an iPad and MacBook.
This was over a year and a half ago though, so I kind of forgot about it and figured they dropped it.
I hate to say it but I agree with you completely, and I am in that dying market. I'd buy such a Mac in a heartbeat. But as much as I'd like to spec out every component of my computer, I look at the iMac and even the new Mac Minis and think those are damn nice computers that I could probably be happy with for years. Even the die hard computer building nerds are getting used to the idea of not being able to mess inside their computers with notebooks quickly replacing desktops.
Your delusional if you think desktops are not still needed! I think apple needs a mid tower to sit between the Mac Pro and Mac Mini, priced around 1299-1799. You see now that HP is out of the PC making business, there will be a HUGE void left for companies to provide IT solutions to big corporations. Only 2 vendors left are Dell and Apple. IN order for apple to enter that area, they need a mid tier desktop.
That would be interesting indeed
I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but how cool would it be to do iOS development on the device itself?
And Samsung will copy it but will change the backside ever so slightly. Apple will sue them based on some patent infringement and we all have something talk about next year. Hallelujah