It seems to me, with the introduction of Lion, and all the multitouch gestures they've implemented into it. It could be possible to create some sort of tablet device running Mac OS Lion. I doubt they're creating a Macbook Touch per say, unless they can make the screen horizontal in a way to make it ergonomically work for touchscreen use. But it seems Apple is commited to touch devices, as they've all been so incredibly successful for them. So it's not hard to believe that they'll make a touchscreen Mac.
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Oh God! Let's hope this is not the touch screen iOS/ MAC OS hybrid!! Unless it's damn frigging good?
They will merge the MB Airs and MB Pros, into the Air one form factor with just flash storage, in 11, 13, 15 and 17", 2 TB ports 1 USB, and the 17" will be large enough for an additional SSD. The mini, imac and pro will still have the same forms but all styled to be part of the same range. All devices will be re branded to fit in with the iDevices.
I give you:
The iMini
The iMac
The iMac Pro
and The iBook Prosumer
I give you:
The iMini
The iMac
The iMac Pro
and The iBook Prosumer
The Apple Thunderbolt Display may be the first piece of the new Mac. It makes all those ports unnecessary to have on computer itself. That leaves hard drive bays and a PCIe slot or two for high-end graphics cards. One can live in hope it will be the return of the Cube in an aluminium form.
Nah, the rainbow Apple logo goes back to the company's founding in the late Seventies, again predating common use of the rainbow by LGBT advocates.
It's a TV.
Either that or it's a thunderbolt port that plugs directly into your brain, à la Dead Space 2.
Either that or it's a thunderbolt port that plugs directly into your brain, à la Dead Space 2.
maybe they will finally drop the "i" business. Am i the only one who thinks its becoming outdated?
And yet, every time Ive come into contact with Apple software on Windows, its buggy, crashes, uses tonnes of RAM and CPU. My iTunes takes a good 40 seconds to open, freezes for whole minutes at a time if I plug my iPhone or iPad in, if I open the iTunes store the whole program locks up. When I finally close iTunes, it reopens itself endlessly, until I am forced to go into the command prompt and kill all of the several iTunes processes, and even this isnt guaranteed to work.
Quicktime is a bloated and sluggish player that they insist on tacking on with iTunes, giving me no choice. Whenever MobileMe syncs, it uses 100% of my processor for the entire duration, bringing my system to a standstill, it cannot even spare the power to continue playing the song I was listening to. This has been the same on all 3 of the Computers Ive owned personally.
And yet at work, I work with Microsoft systems everywhere, Computers that havent been turned off in months, and yet faithfully continue their task, almost everything is run on Windows, the Radar screen is run on Windows, the Eurofighter Typhoons run on Windows. We have a handful of Linux systems for a few airfield nav systems, but everything else is Windows. All the software makes sense, the entire ecosystem runs along smoothly.
You keep criticizing Microsoft for "Outdated Technology" yet Snow Leopard, which launched pretty close to Windows 7, was several steps back in terms of security in the system.
You say "the only reason people use is because others use it". Im sorry but that just excluded you from any logical and reasoned arguement, making wild, and frankly childish claims like that. How much would you value my opinion if I came in spouting "The only reason people use Apple products is to look cool in Starbucks" ?
Apple is not in the business to make TVs. What about a consumer Mac Mini like those cheapo Dells but runs Mac OS?
Businesses don't care how cool their servers look in Starbucks. And you can't compare Apple products on Windows to Windows products. Apple doesn't really care how good their Windows iTunes is, but it's super clean on the Mac.
And name one security breach that Mac OS has that Windows doesn't. The fact is, you can get viruses in Windows, but Linux-based systems cannot. Secondly, a hacker can so easily get into Windows. The passwords are not secured since there is no Keychain.
You seem to have no Mac experience.
Apple can enter virtually *any* tech segment with a more than even chance of success.
Let that sink in.
They can pretty much do what they like and the result will probably be another market created/revolutionized/redefined.
I've heard this before and it rings true. I agree that humans are adapted to subconsciously use tools as extensions to our bodies. And this is amazing.
What I'm saying about the mouse versus touch interface remains the same:
- a computer is a tool - whether controlled by mouse or touch screen
- a mouse is an indirect tool for manipulating a display
- a finger (touch screen) is a direct interface for doing the same
Let's go a step further and say our hand is a tool. To be frank, it is: like any other, it's a tool which allows us to manipulate the environment according to our will.
So I'll be silly and say WHY NOT USE A STICK TO CONTROL A MOUSE.
Yeah, we could use our hands to control a stick to control a mouse to control a screen. Or wait, the stick gets in the way... So instead, we could simplify and use our hands to control a mouse to control a screen. Or, wait, maybe you see where this is going:
we could use our hands to control a screen.
That sounds sensible. And simple. What a good idea.
Take this further and we can say that hands are by no means the ultimate means for controlling things. We could also say that screens are by no means the ultimate end of being controlled.
Far more fun would be to sidestep all these hand/screen shenanigans and control our very world with our mere minds.
But that's going a bit far, even for Apple.
I needed to buy a cheap Windows laptop just to use some Windows-only applications for school (the price of parallels was close to just buying a new laptop). The only reason I would use Windows or Microsoft Office would be to be on the same page as everyone else and to use what is most compatible. I think this, along with price, is why people choose Windows. Of course, many people may prefer Windows, but I'm sure if you ask most people why they didn't get a Mac, they would say it was either the price or the compatibility of software, etc. Your quote about using Apple products to look cool in Starbuck is irrelevant because the reason I (and others) use Windows is for compatibility (and price) with everyone else. I'm sure if Mac OS X were the most widely-used OS, people would start buying that, especially if the price was lower.
I didnt say that as my arguement, I asked how much would you value my opinion if I opened with that statement?
Because it is just as valid you as declaring without proof "the only reason people use Microsoft products, is because everyone else does".
You're one person, there seems to be a lot of this on this forum. People saying "Well I don't do that, so noone else does".
What about me? I use Microsoft products because they make more sense to me, I feel much more comfortable using them, and to me OS X just doesnt feel right for me. Just because thats how I feel, it doesnt mean everyone else feels this way.
The Mac OS can easily save files compatible with Windows, even if you use Pages. People don't seem to know, though, and they just want to have the same OS as others to be safe.
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Not really. Companies want an OS that is widely used for their servers. They would never care about looking cool as their computers are not portable.