That really would be interesting. Perhaps Apple is making these fakes, just to screw with everyone --
maybe J.R. is really someone like Jonathan Ive, I don't know, a middle name or something. Hmm....
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Apple's New $899 Product is an LED Display and Not a MacBook?
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That really would be interesting. Perhaps Apple is making these fakes, just to screw with everyone --
maybe J.R. is really someone like Jonathan Ive, I don't know, a middle name or something. Hmm....
Knowing what I do about Steve Jobs, I wouldn't be surprised if he created a task force to create many of the "leaks" and rumors.
Maybe...
Maye the $899 SKU is a display/something-really-cool-that-no-one's-thought-of-yet, and the others (including the $1299, $1799 laptops) are macbook pros? After all, they did mention something about 'new products at prices competitors can't match'. It would make sense to roll out a really cheap MBP with reduced features.
Maye the $899 SKU is a display/something-really-cool-that-no-one's-thought-of-yet, and the others (including the $1299, $1799 laptops) are macbook pros? After all, they did mention something about 'new products at prices competitors can't match'. It would make sense to roll out a really cheap MBP with reduced features.
These prices are insane. Apple needs a drastic price cut on the lap top line up to stay relevant. They need to offer a sub $1000 15 inch laptop with with video card.
Let's hope there's more to the story.
Let's hope there's more to the story.
I toally and completely agree. It's what I've said time and time again.
EDIT:
while picking out his clothes ahead of time
Yeah, I'm sure he's having a hard time picking those.
A Apple designed TV woulfd need to be 2 models:a model with a ATSC tuner US and a model with a DVB tuner for Europe and Australia.
Gettin' ready, eh? Could they be available in-store as soon as tomorrow?
Best Buy does that a lot.
While the HP display you linked to has millions (even billions) of colors, it's $3,499!
All the $300-$500 HP and Dell 24" displays that people are talking about are 6-bits per channel TN displays, which means only 262,144 colors on screen at the same time!. If you want a "true color" IPS display with at least 8-bit per channel for 16 millions+ of colors you have to pay twice the price.
I have a 20" HP LCD. Nice monitor, but you can see the color banding on gradients, the most glaring example is Leopard's gradient windows. Note that the banding effect is much less apparent when I plug the thing in analog VGA mode (as opposed to digital DVI), but then the display is much less stable and blurrier.
Thank YOU!!
A decent blu ray player still cost around $300, what the he!! are people thinking when they expect an $899 laptop to include a $300 dollar device.
My store has an HP Core 2 duo with 4GB of memory, 320G HD, Nvidia 9600GT w/512MB, Blu-Ray, and a 17" screen for $999. The HP 1175-NR
"In the new (aluminum) MacBook lineup, there are only two standard configurations:
$1299: 2.0 GHz, 2 GB memory, 160 GB disk
$1499: 2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, 250 GB disk"
why would they slow the down the processors but drop the $1099 model. For some reason i doubt all of this information. We will know tomorrow, and put all of these rumors to rest.
$1299: 2.0 GHz, 2 GB memory, 160 GB disk
$1499: 2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, 250 GB disk"
why would they slow the down the processors but drop the $1099 model. For some reason i doubt all of this information. We will know tomorrow, and put all of these rumors to rest.