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Apple Press Event October 19 Confirmed
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dsswarehouse said:
Yikes I would hate to carry that thing around... I think 17" is overkill. I use a 12" for the ease of use carrying back and forth when needed and it is hooked up to a 20" Cinema Display when at home. I love the 20" screen but sure wouldn't want to carry it with me everywhere.
nagromme said:
Designers care, light colors, especially current silver is quite neutral and easy on eyes. When you do a lot of graphic stuff and color is important to you, you want to have as neutral workspace as possible. This is why Apple's display had always light neutral colors, at least the pro stuff.
The shoals are littered with the bodies of photogs who have tried to use iPhoto as a cataloging/photo management/lightbox app. It's a kludge at best and the other major Mac-based management App (iView) is not great. I like Photo Mechanic for the speed, though the interface can be tough to manage.
There is most definitely a need for such an app ...if this is what they are announcing, I, for one will buy it immediately. And I am sure I am not alone.
Here's hoping...
JT
deanwaterman said:
Isn't a 2GB shuffle going to eat into the low-end Nano if it's significantly cheaper than the Nano, or be eaten into BY the Nano if it's almost as expensive as the Nano? I know it lacks a screen, but I'm just wondering what others think.
Battery life as it is is low, and on a 17" HD they'll need a better battery...now a 20",leave that for the desktops. It is a portable.
dsswarehouse said:
Intel...
I have used AMD and Intel and AMD is faster at multitasking by far, even on the Athlon XP machines, with quanitspeed architecture...they can do a lot of processing. I think AMD should be in Macs...not Intel.
I have used AMD and Intel and AMD is faster at multitasking by far, even on the Athlon XP machines, with quanitspeed architecture...they can do a lot of processing. I think AMD should be in Macs...not Intel.
Stella said:
It will be kind of interesting to see if any of the details do eventually get published. Like you say, he would have discussed the move with engineering but ultimately he would have to pluck some number out of the ether. That number would be some kind of heuristic based on how many hours he can wring out of engineering, how long it will take the third-party software developers to convert, and how long he thinks the public will wait for product.Roller said:You mean like the time he promised a 3 GHz G5 in a year?
Seriously, even Steve Jobs would base the date on estimates from engineering and manufacturing.
Not to be sexist or anything, but I assume most of you are guys, right? I think we are most nerds with less nerdy girlfriends/fiances/wives if there is a woman in your life, right? This a random post, no?
Okay, for those of who correctly classified above: do any of you guys have your wife/whatever on an ibook or powerbook? I definitely will get a powerbook for myself, but I was thinking an ibook would be perfect for the fiance because it's light, cheaper, and can do what she needs to do, which is internet/excel/word etc. Anyone have any experience with this and find the wife/whatever happy/unhappy with the ibook/powerbook?
Okay, for those of who correctly classified above: do any of you guys have your wife/whatever on an ibook or powerbook? I definitely will get a powerbook for myself, but I was thinking an ibook would be perfect for the fiance because it's light, cheaper, and can do what she needs to do, which is internet/excel/word etc. Anyone have any experience with this and find the wife/whatever happy/unhappy with the ibook/powerbook?
Don't let anyone know...but I am a major guy at my skool, noone knows that I am a geek but when I get home to the batcave I get on my computer and turn 1337. But I get plenty of girls....just I don't deal with girlfriends. You can have my myspace if you want. But I am sure girls would like a pink iBook.
Not to mention if Apple advertised Mac OS X as well as the stability and niceness of there puters....a whole lot of people would buy them. I got my friend to buy one cause his computer always crashes....he said "I never knew Macs were so good." If they just hear the words "virus free" it will get there attention.
Not to mention if Apple advertised Mac OS X as well as the stability and niceness of there puters....a whole lot of people would buy them. I got my friend to buy one cause his computer always crashes....he said "I never knew Macs were so good." If they just hear the words "virus free" it will get there attention.
NewbieNerd said:Not to be sexist or anything, but I assume most of you are guys, right? I think we are most nerds with less nerdy girlfriends/fiances/wives if there is a woman in your life, right? This a random post, no?
Okay, for those of who correctly classified above: do any of you guys have your wife/whatever on an ibook or powerbook? I definitely will get a powerbook for myself, but I was thinking an ibook would be perfect for the fiance because it's light, cheaper, and can do what she needs to do, which is internet/excel/word etc. Anyone have any experience with this and find the wife/whatever happy/unhappy with the ibook/powerbook?
NewbieNerd said:Not to be sexist or anything, but I assume most of you are guys, right? I think we are most nerds with less nerdy girlfriends/fiances/wives if there is a woman in your life, right? This a random post, no?
Okay, for those of who correctly classified above: do any of you guys have your wife/whatever on an ibook or powerbook? I definitely will get a powerbook for myself, but I was thinking an ibook would be perfect for the fiance because it's light, cheaper, and can do what she needs to do, which is internet/excel/word etc. Anyone have any experience with this and find the wife/whatever happy/unhappy with the ibook/powerbook?
My whatever is quite happy with her iBook - more than powerful enough for internet, Word, Excel.
I couldn't allow her to have a new powerbook as that would have made it faster than mine - it was bad enough that it came with Panther compared with the Jaguar on my PB, but G4s had just been introduced to the iBook, so it was a good buy at the time.
At this precise point in time I think the iBook remains better value than the PB, but i would expect a PB update soon and no change to the recently updated iBook.
We're both still on the same computers though I have Tiger now. hahahahahaha.
I'm so sad.
Apple's choice of Intel is about what's coming next year, NOT about AMD vs. Intel (or IBM for that matter) today. It's about the Pentium M and the chips that are being derived from that. (And also about Intel's ability to deliver in volume, which some have said AMD can't always do. Not sure about that.)iQuit said:
Now hold on JUST a second!NewbieNerd said:
We're on MacRumors on Saturday night and you think we have girlfriends?
its 12 am over here....actually 12:30....i just got back from applebees and other things....and of course yesterday i was with girls....i am a geek only in my own time,check a look at my posts.
nagromme said:Apple's choice of Intel is about what's coming next year, NOT about AMD vs. Intel (or IBM for that matter) today. It's about the Pentium M and the chips that are being derived from that. (And also about Intel's ability to deliver in volume, which some have said AMD can't always do. Not sure about that.)
Now hold on JUST a second!
We're on MacRumors on Saturday night and you think we have girlfriends?
fklehman said:
Not if they up the Nano to 4GB and 6GB.
Plus, they gotta get that black shuffle in there somewhere.So both PowerMac and PowerBooks (other than the 12") are 3-5 days shipping, iPods are 5-7 days, Ultimate XServes are 5-7 days, 14" iBook is 1-3 days, and the 4GB nano is 1-2 weeks, and Shake 4 + DVD Studio 4 + iWork Family Pack (1-3 days)...other than that, everything's mostly 24 hrs on Apple's (US) site...so, how much is significant?
Something tells me they won't do that. If they had wanted the Nano to be 4 & 6 GB models, they would have started it that way. It's not like they didn't think of it, after all, it was replacing the Mini, which was 4 & 6. Something made Apple bring it down to 2 & 4, either size or cost, most likely.Whyren said:Not if they up the Nano to 4GB and 6GB.
Maybe I missed this point but has anybody thought about how a built-in iSight's lens is going to be protected when one closes the display?.And if they do that with the new powerbooks why didn't they do it with the iMac ?
The reason for only 2gb and 4gb Nanos is because before they were using harddrives, which are must less to buy then flash memory (which the nano is using). Why else do you think it is so thin?