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Apple Sub Notebook Hints: External Optical Drive, MultiTouch Trackpad?

homeboy said:
That's not something you would have to worry about because you, your children and their brand children would be dead by the time a normal person would be able to reach the point when the flash drive have reached it's limit read/write limit.

So basically that's not a draw back one would have you worry about. Your HDD drive on the other hand is very prone to failure, specially if it's in a portable device.
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On normal use you are right a flash drive would take forever to die. However as the main storage device for a computer where its accessed all the time. Where the page file lives on it and virtual ram you will be writing to it hundreds of times a minute if not more. So actually your estimation is a bit off I think.
 
fiftydollarshoe said:
This I not understand. All the things you mentioned are existing products which have existed for years and are being refined by the respected companies. Me thinks your looking for a rise but to suggest all the iPhone is mealy but a UI is inane. Its the very first multi-touch device to market - forget he phone bit its a groundbreaking UI. Think how antiquated the very first iPod looks now but at time I thought it was just amazing. Think about the very first Mac. These are leapfrog products. Because there is a lot of R&D out there but not of lot of it comes to market or comes to the market and doesn't find its niche or becomes useful. Nikon is the example of this.... in ten years times the technology that is in their high-end cameras will be in every digital camera even those under 100USD. Multi-touch in time will be in every device we know and our kids will think how did we ever use a mouse to do our computing. The iPhone is just the beginning.
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Yeah, doubt very seriously that we will see <100USD DSLR's from any of the big boys. :D
 
diamond.g said:
Yeah, doubt very seriously that we will see <100USD DSLR's from any of the big boys. :D
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You misunderstood. He means the technology in the current dSLRs will be in the $100 cameras. DSLRs will have advanced much more too.
 
sloopy said:
On normal use you are right a flash drive would take forever to die. However as the main storage device for a computer where its accessed all the time. Where the page file lives on it and virtual ram you will be writing to it hundreds of times a minute if not more. So actually your estimation is a bit off I think.
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Wrong, he is actually spot on.

SSDs do wear leveling at the firmware level. The absolute WORST case, which is constantly writing data at max speed to the SSD, still results in a theoretical 50 year minimum lifetime. The actual lifetime will be orders of magnitude higher, and increases with capacity. Take a look at that article I posted a couple pages back.
 
zioxide said:
There's no ports..
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This is the right side of the device and it's only .6 inches thick. All ports will be on the left side. Only the power button is on the right, like the new keyboards. Ideal if it were to be docked into the side of a iMac.

Have a look at my past predictions for Apple products.

Back in 2001 I came up with a design for the new iMac and Apple
released something very similar in August 2004

http://www.go2mac.com/images/iMac2001/4.jpg

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign/Tessera.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMac_transparency.png

Then in April 2003 I designed a full screen iPod and the touch has
recently come out...

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign/dt_ipad.shtml

The designs are both very close to what Apple releases.
 
multi-touch-pad killer application

you are all wrong!

come on, get the real killer-app-usage...

take the macbook nano with your hands to upright format like a real book ... than it is an ..... ebook.

on the left side, the monitor will be your reading side
on the right side, by using the pad with your right fingers/thumb, you are flipping from one to the next /former page similar to an ordinary newspaper, marking a special text, flipping through chapters/pages, and many more ...

logic evolution of iTunes and Leopard feature - "cover flow"

buy an ebook at iTunes, "touch" the future...

... and amazones' kindle is kindly killed!!!

you'll see and touch

:apple:
 
derrickearl said:
This is the right side of the device and it's only .6 inches thick. All ports will be on the left side. Only the power button is on the right, like the new keyboards. Ideal if it were to be docked into the side of a iMac.
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But by spreading the ports around the machine, you can make it thinner because you don't need to stack them to make them fit all on one side. Also, you don't end up with a nest of cables coming out of one side.
 
CWallace said:
But by spreading the ports around the machine, you can make it thinner because you don't need to stack them to make them fit all on one side. Also, you don't end up with a nest of cables coming out of one side.
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As an ultra portable device, what ports and connections do you truly need?

1. USB
2. headphones
3. power cord
4. an iPod type connection?

And on an MacBook currently, what ports are "stacked"? They are all laid out next to one another on the board.
 
derrickearl said:
As an ultra portable device, what ports and connections do you truly need?

1. USB
2. headphones
3. power cord
4. an iPod type connection?

And on an MacBook currently, what ports are "stacked"? They are all laid out next to one another on the board.
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Point made. :)
 
derrickearl said:
As an ultra portable device, what ports and connections do you truly need?

1. USB
2. headphones
3. power cord
4. an iPod type connection?

And on an MacBook currently, what ports are "stacked"? They are all laid out next to one another on the board.
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I'd Put:

1. USB 2.0 (3.0???????) (X2)
2. Ethernet (X1)
3. Mini DVI (X1)
4. Power Cord (Magsafe)
5. Headphones
 
anti-microsoft said:
I'd Put:

1. USB 2.0 (3.0???????) (X2)
2. Ethernet (X1)
3. Mini DVI (X1)
4. Power Cord (Magsafe)
5. Headphones
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Also point made. :)

I admit to being more familiar with HP laptops (since we use them at work) which have four to six USB ports, plus RJ-45 and RJ-11 and DVI or VGA, HDMI, Parallel, Serial, Headphone, Microphone and Line-In jacks, and power cord.

But you are right derrickearl that the basic ports needed - 2x USB, RJ-45, Power, and Mini-DVI could all fit on one side plus likely the master docking jack.
 
CWallace said:
Also point made. :)

I admit to being more familiar with HP laptops (since we use them at work) which have four to six USB ports, plus RJ-45 and RJ-11 and DVI or VGA, HDMI, Parallel, Serial, Headphone, Microphone and Line-In jacks, and power cord.

But you are right derrickearl that the basic ports needed - 2x USB, RJ-45, Power, and Mini-DVI could all fit on one side plus likely the master docking jack.
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Just a thought, does anyone know how much can be linked through the multi port that currently is used by ipod, iphone, etc? That whould allow one to carry a cable that can link everything together or atleast most of the non critical ports that only some may need.

Another thought on the docking station, in the mac rumors docking patent it lists some commentary on wireless technologies, do you think that there will be no dock connector for communication, but to only charge the device (maybe using the mag safe connector) and all communications are wireless?

https://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/03/apple-creating-imac-like-docking-station/

Man this is fun!!!
 
anti-microsoft said:
I'd Put:

1. USB 2.0 (3.0???????) (X2)
2. Ethernet (X1)
3. Mini DVI (X1)
4. Power Cord (Magsafe)
5. Headphones
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2-3x USB 2.0
1x FW800 (FW800 is backwards compatible to 400)
DVI-I
Magsafe
Optical+Analog Audio In & Out
1x ExpressCard 34
1x Gigabit Ethernet
 
bacaramac said:
Just a thought, does anyone know how much can be linked through the multi port that currently is used by ipod, iphone, etc? That whould allow one to carry a cable that can link everything together or atleast most of the non critical ports that only some may need.
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HP offered a "media cable" for their earlier 17" laptops (zd7000/zd8000) which offered RCA Composite, S-Video, Coaxial S/PDIF, power, and I believe 3.5mm analog line-in. It plugged into the same slot that the docking station cable did.
 
Think about what the ultra portable person does... Browse the internet, wirelessly, so no need for a RJ45 connection. Do you really see someone hooking it up to a TV or monitor. Use your :apple:TV, at least that's what Apple would want you to do.

Hell it's possible to do away with the power mag adapter if you were to run power thru the iPod connection. Get rid of everything that demands physical restrictions.

I would just want a USB to hookup a camera to d/l pics on the go. But take the camera home and hook it up to your other Apple computer.

You have WiFi and bluetooth. So again, what do you truly need in this device?
 
derrickearl said:
Think about what the ultra portable person does... Browse the internet, wirelessly, so no need for a RJ45 connection. Do you really see someone hooking it up to a TV or monitor.
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Such a device will likely appeal to corporate users. And many corporate sites use highly-secure networks (we use Cisco FAST EAP) which may or may not be supported in OS X. So you'd need a physical connection via RJ-45.

And a 12-13" display is not the easiest thing to read day-in and day-out, so the ability to use a larger external display would be desirable.
 
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