I was afraid of that. Hopefully that pricing is wrong.
Me too. I also don't understand "they aren't announcing MBs but they will be shipping by the end of the week??"
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Apple's New $899 Product is an LED Display and Not a MacBook?
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Me too. I also don't understand "they aren't announcing MBs but they will be shipping by the end of the week??"
Agree.
They sure have, intentional or not.
Exciting.
Could be.
Still think we will see a nice laptop announcement tomorrow.
899 model
its going to be like the Axiom modBook. just a tablet display - no keyboard, keyboard will be like the iPhone. case will just be a detatchable lid, magnetically held of course. bluetooth keyboard to be separate. external dock/ stand similar to current displays, with all ports. Will look like a 13" version of current imac that can be whisked off its dock for the road. apple logo at the bottom though will be replaced with a single home/ sleep button like iphone. size will be larger than macbook air, thinner than current macbook. actual macbooks will bump up to only 15inch version at current price point. new spellchecker as you type will provide list of words similar or sounds like to what you start typing. this will speed up slow typing with one hand or typing on screen to a usable speed. drawing with finger and multi touch, for accuracy (vector/ cad), and multi hand draw with one, control accuracy/ clicking with other. Macbook Air will continue as a high end 13inch with separate GPU, higher ram.
its going to be like the Axiom modBook. just a tablet display - no keyboard, keyboard will be like the iPhone. case will just be a detatchable lid, magnetically held of course. bluetooth keyboard to be separate. external dock/ stand similar to current displays, with all ports. Will look like a 13" version of current imac that can be whisked off its dock for the road. apple logo at the bottom though will be replaced with a single home/ sleep button like iphone. size will be larger than macbook air, thinner than current macbook. actual macbooks will bump up to only 15inch version at current price point. new spellchecker as you type will provide list of words similar or sounds like to what you start typing. this will speed up slow typing with one hand or typing on screen to a usable speed. drawing with finger and multi touch, for accuracy (vector/ cad), and multi hand draw with one, control accuracy/ clicking with other. Macbook Air will continue as a high end 13inch with separate GPU, higher ram.
Going to aluminum on the Macbook means a price increase, not a decrease. This has been my opinion from the start, and I think we'll see that out tomorrow.
It would be a shame if they got rid of the matte option for the MBP.
And it figures that they may be releasing new displays tomorrow since I just bought two 23" ACDs just a few weeks ago. But on the other hand if the new displays are LED backlit they're probably wide gamut.
As far as Dell making cheaper monitors. Yeah, if you don't need accurate color reproduction then get that Dell. I have a 2408WFP at work and it's fair enough, but my ACDs kill it when it comes to accuracy. The reds on the Dell are absurd.
It would be a shame if they got rid of the matte option for the MBP.
And it figures that they may be releasing new displays tomorrow since I just bought two 23" ACDs just a few weeks ago.
But on the other hand if the new displays are LED backlit they're probably wide gamut.As far as Dell making cheaper monitors. Yeah, if you don't need accurate color reproduction then get that Dell. I have a 2408WFP at work and it's fair enough, but my ACDs kill it when it comes to accuracy. The reds on the Dell are absurd.
but a dell monitor costs $400 !!
ignorant people. ips panel apple 23/34 inch monitors have been using is not in the same league with 400$ TN panels.
This is a problem apple seemed to have created though. Nowdays they cant figure out what level of customers they are aiming at. Cheap porducts? not really.. Pro products? not really either..
ignorant people. ips panel apple 23/34 inch monitors have been using is not in the same league with 400$ TN panels.
This is a problem apple seemed to have created though. Nowdays they cant figure out what level of customers they are aiming at. Cheap porducts? not really.. Pro products? not really either..
Completely agree with this. Apple needs to clear the view on consumer lineups vs pro lineups. Every other major retailer does it. I get a feeling though that today's announcements will make the line even thinner.
I don't understand this. People are slagging off Apple, saying they've confused us, go and buy a Dell instead etc. But we've not actually had the official announcements yet, unless I've missed something?
At least wait until after the keynote before we start giving them a hard time!
At least wait until after the keynote before we start giving them a hard time!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/577915/
to refresh displays, by only introducing a 24" LED CD with Docking Bay, would be pretty weird.
If the ACDs get refreshed, Apple will update all ACDs, maybe drop the 20", introduce redisigned a 24" LED, a redesigned 24" LED with Dockbay and a redesigned 30" LED. Not bigger......
Display-Port obviously
Pricing should stay the same as is is right now.....
to refresh displays, by only introducing a 24" LED CD with Docking Bay, would be pretty weird.
If the ACDs get refreshed, Apple will update all ACDs, maybe drop the 20", introduce redisigned a 24" LED, a redesigned 24" LED with Dockbay and a redesigned 30" LED. Not bigger......
Display-Port obviously
Pricing should stay the same as is is right now.....
ROFL a 24" for 899? If this is true then today is already a let down. People do not want 800 displays when they can the same for 400. pelple want new cheaper notebooks.
I woke up this morning to a slew of rummor, non of them make sense. Apple needs to bring down prices simple as that.
I woke up this morning to a slew of rummor, non of them make sense. Apple needs to bring down prices simple as that.
So Apple doesn't have a proven record in the display business? Where have you been?
And FWIW I have 2 HP2465 monitors at work, and they aren't as nice as the Cinema Displays I've seen.
by using this...
http://sewelldirect.com/Accell-DisplayPort-to-DVI-Adapter-Cable.asp
and take a look at this.... ;-)
http://www.displayport.org/open/Interoperability.htm
some people might find the picture in the upper left corner interesting
Hey Guys, I have found image on russian forum, I suppose this is an Apple LCD TV with Apple TV inside. How do you think, is it true?
seriously.....? fake! if the ACDs get updated, Apple will use the iMac, iPhone and the new MBP design for the bezel. No way things are looking like this.
and TV ist not "pro" series, it´s a consumer product like the macbook and the iPod.
Fake and Apple wouldn't want a TV to be US only, they'd need a different version to cope with the countries that use DVB instead of ATSC.
Well F8 is 248 in hex. 24.8"?
(not likely, but it's fun to throw petrol on the rumor crazies
)Hey Guys, I have found image on russian forum, I suppose this is an Apple LCD TV with Apple TV inside. How do you think, is it true?
If Goodmans or Alba made Apple displays rofl
I've seen no reports of Ives succumbing to dementia...
Easy to say for a consumer - the creative pros would argue differently, and pay above the odds for a high quality display. It's about time Apple remembered it's original core market.