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Apple's October 19th Media Event

I'm sooooo excited about the possibility of a kick a** P/Book that my credit card is putting it's sneekers on to keep away from me!

And what's more frustraiting is that I'm working away from home at the moment, and I have to use a bindoz ThinkPad ALL the time, and can't get my fix of MAC!!! :mad: :(
 
Giantred said:
This morning Jobbs called Bruce the CEO of Adobe. He infromed Bruce that tomorrow they will be releasing iPhoto Pro which will be a mild competitor with Photoshop. Dont believe me if you dont want to.
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Actually, Apple called Adobe with it in August. It's called Photo Pro. Adobe let it slip in a survey (see Thinksecret for more).
 
Does any one know of any live updates? The ones provided in the last one were cool but they took forever to find.

I'm hoping MacRumours does go to it's text only front page - that was cool, all the info I wanted and no waiting for the damned bloody ads to load. God I hate dial-up so much... I hate you Telstra...
 
sluthy said:
Someone said the teaser involved black and a camera lens...

Maybe, I don't think anyone's suggested this, since we're at the photography convention, possibly...

The return of the Quicktake?

Perhaps the innards of the iPod with an integrated upgraded iSight? I know I'm sorta talking crap, but it'd be completely unexpected. Any thoughts? I know the iSight's resolution as it is now isn't exactly SLR grade, it was just an example.
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Quicktake? lol!

I'm a new switcher (started following Apple carefully in 2003, switched in 2004). I know a few old products (Performa was the equivalent of the iMac? And the Quadra was like the iMac Pro?). Other than that all of these old products sound hilarious.
 
This is the deal

• Adobe didnt produce the intel version of photoshop, and

• steve want to launch the intels early, so

• steve had his people build photoshop for intel and named it photo pro!

i know it, i just know it :p
 
nigham said:
Exactly what I've been wracking my head about. The pro photographers use three things - cameras, software, and displays. A couple of possibilities come to my mind:

- They're doing their first MacTel Release - either a PM or PB or something new - the big secret is that Photoshop (and very probably their own PhotoPro) has already been ported to Intel native. Also extended support for RAW mode of many pro cameras that people have been begging for might be built into PhotoPro and/or added to iPhoto
- They're releasing a totally revamped line of displays. I think its a bit suspicious that the displays haven't been updated in quite a while and there is apparently nothing to point to the fact that the displays are being updated (all shipping times are 24 hours for instance).

Its got to be something that people who work on photography and creative works will be impressed by. Although I'm sure there will be a new iSight, I find it hard to believe a webcam is going to capture anybody's attention at Photoplus. And as someone said earlier, Apple releasing a professional digital camera would be a joke.

EDIT1: Just thought of it - don't discount the possibility of a tablet/pen based input system - possibly touch screen displays?

EDIT2: I was #200!
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what about.... isight in the powerbook? :)
or isight in the displays? :s

maybe the first powerbook in black? :) I really hope we're gonna get the next Pismo... Apple needs another Pismo alike laptop! :)
or I would sure like it! ;p

let it rain Steve!! LET IT RAIN!!
 
I have dented my powerbook. It fell off a bed onto a hardwood floor onto the power supply connector. Now there's a dent just where the connector goes in. Bareley noticeable to anyone else. The power supply connector was bent and cracked. Shame that's not metal too ;-)


nagromme said:
Let me congratulate you on your wedding (MacWorld SF) and first child (WWDC).



Thanks. That's the very thing. 2001.



I have to set the record straight here :) Anodized aluminum can possibly be dented (with enough force--it's never happened to mine despite much abuse) while plastic iBooks cannot. But scratches? Al is virtually scratch-proof, while plastic scratches very easily. I have put my AlBook through a lot to know that. It still looks like it came fresh from Apple, despite me grinding it on gritty tabletops, hitting it with metal cable-ends and keys, etc. (I know that even Al can scratch, but MUCH less easily than plastic. Impacts generally leave a mark that rubs off easily--because it's the thing that HIT the Al rubbing off on it--like drawing with a crayon. That's because aluminum oxide is harder than most of the things you run into. Not so with plastic.)
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JRM PowerPod said:
That can't be right. that would mean a decrease in the PowerMac lineup. Coz a dual 2 is faster than a dual core 2 and same with the 2.3. If the 2.7 is still the top. I'm gonna be cut. major cut.

THIS IS NOT SOLID
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It would not definitely mean cutback in performance. For starters, dual-core CPU's can talk to each other a lot faster than single-core CPU's can. Yes, the FSB is shared between the cores, but I'm not sure that would the FSB limit the performance of the dual-core G5. Also, the dual-core G5's have 1MB of L2-cache, as opposed to 512KB. That increases performance and eases the load on the FSB.

But, if those clock-speeds are right, it would be a disappointment.
 
JRM PowerPod said:
That can't be right. that would mean a decrease in the PowerMac lineup. Coz a dual 2 is faster than a dual core 2 and same with the 2.3. If the 2.7 is still the top. I'm gonna be cut. major cut.

THIS IS NOT SOLID
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Have to agree, the article seems somewhat flawed, and from anoynmous source, could be the office tea boy thought of it on his way to work, and the posted it to boost the trafic to the site.
:D
 
LIVE COVERAGE

I will be covering this live in AIM chatroom: appleinsider

I am at the event.

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Also, I can see Apple calling it Dark Room. :D
 
Due to a secrecy agreement we have with Apple I cant tell you what the spec are but some of you are close.
 
ACW said:
Due to a secrecy agreement we have with Apple I cant tell you what the spec are but some of you are close.
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Yeah yeah, your story is more convincing if you gave a bit more details. ;)
 
my wish is the apple stores will have the products available to buy. i want a 17" pb.
 
ACW said:
Due to a secrecy agreement we have with Apple I cant tell you what the spec are but some of you are close.
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YOU ARE FULL OF IT!!!!!!!!

However if not.

HERE ARE MY OPTIONS RATED FROM MY WORST TO BEST (which one is closest?)

WORST NIGHTMARE
Single dual core 2
Single dual core 2.3
Dual single core 2.7

WOULD DO DIT
Single Dual Core 2.0
Single Dual Core 2.3
Dual Dual Core 2.5

BEST EVER
Dual Dual Core 2.0
Dual Dual Core 2.3
Dual Dual Core 2.5

WHICH ONE BUDDY?
 
I I know now what they'll present: iCam - The first Apple Digital SLR with 20" HD display
Can act as MP3-Player but can only load 100 songs so that it doesn't mean too much of competition to the iPod Nano...

:D
 
Live coverage

where is there live coverage today for the event ?

And is anybody starting an AIM chatroom again ?
 
Makes some sense to me that Apple would use Single Dual Core's to replace Dual CPU's in the 2.0 and 2.3 (especially the 2.0)... from a performance standpoint at worst its going to be the same speed. But they must gain a large saving per system no doubt, with a simplified motherboard design and not having to get two grade A slabs of silicon per machine.

If thats true and they do appear (with redesigned boards for single CPU's) then i can see them adding PCIe and DDR2.... the *only* thing about the PCIe option that i have doubts about is - where are the Mac Compatible PCIe Graphics cards? There are none... unless NVIDIA/ATi have made some specially for Apple's newest secret and are keeping quiet?

It's *possible* that Apple could drop SMP and use Single Dual Cores in all the systems upto the top end? Maybe squeezing out a few more MHZ and giving us a single Dual Core 2.8Ghz as the top end. This would allow them to lower prices, and also no doubt add features such as DDR2/PCIe....

Im calling that there wont be a Dual Dual Core PM. But i hope im wrong. :D
 
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