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Evidence that Next iMacs and Mac Minis to use NVIDIA Chipsets

Redgiemental said:
So you hated them so much you swore off buying a new laptop without even trying them?

Then when you eventually did try them you liked them.

Yet you are still complaining.
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My complaint is with Apple's marketing techniques, not the glossy screens.

If you found you liked the Glossy screen why is it so hard to believe that perhaps the majority of people prefer them too?
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If that's true, where is the evidence to support it? Just because Apple chose to go entirely glossy doesn't mean a majority of their customer base supported it. Apple is pretty well known for forcing technology choices down their customers' throats.
 
Eric S. said:
Bag of hurt.
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There's a ton of debate on whether or not Blu-Ray is a passing fad or is here to stay. I say who knows and who cares. Why not go ahead and incorporate Blu-Ray just in case? Might I remind everyone that Blu-Ray drives/players are backward-compatible with regular CD's and DVD's, so it's not as if Blu-Ray drives will become totally useless if the Blu-Ray standard does eventually turn out to be a flop. Just sayin'. :D
 
Sehnsucht said:
There's a ton of debate on whether or not Blu-Ray is a passing fad or is here to stay. I say who knows and who cares. Why not go ahead and incorporate Blu-Ray just in case? Might I remind everyone that Blu-Ray drives/players are backward-compatible with regular CD's and DVD's, so it's not as if Blu-Ray drives will become totally useless if the Blu-Ray standard does eventually turn out to be a flop. Just sayin'. :D
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I think there should at least be software support for BD playback in Mac OS X. If Apple doesn't want to support the hardware fine, let everyone use external Bluray drives (as they already do), but don't ignore the technology all together. I think that as a leading Hardware and Software company in video production and film, Apple of all manufacturers should have had Bluray support from the beginning.
 
dal20402 said:
Include a small clip to retain the MagSafe plug.

I think it's a terrific idea for the mini. I don't think it provides enough power to drive any larger desktop.
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Whoa, you want a magnetic power cord that was designed to come out easily, to have a clip to prevent it from coming out easily? hmmm...


If anything, I'd like to see a third party (since apple would never do something like this) come out with a thin battery that plugs directly into the power port, and slides under the mini, then the power cord plugs into that. making it able to move from room to room, or in a car or to a friend's house.

Anyway, If this Mini is cheap and finally capable of 30fps (preferably 60fps) 1080P video... I'll be selling my HDX-1000. :D
 
Pigumon said:
Whoa, you want a magnetic power cord that was designed to come out easily, to have a clip to prevent it from coming out easily? hmmm...
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I don't think it was designed to come out easily. It was designed to break away if you trip over the cord. Magsafe is attached plenty firm enough that it wouldn't need a clip on a Mac mini any more than a USB or Firewire cord needs a clip. Putting a battery in a Mac mini would be a needless expense. It's a desktop computer, not a laptop. :)
 
Sellihca said:
Eidorian:

Optical media is too sensitive, balky for its size, slow and the drive itself is massive for what it provides. I don't know, am I being to out-there? What do other think?
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For raw data storage and backups optical media is out. Most of us already use external hard-disks for that task.

But for HD movies - purchase or rented, blue-ray is currently the only way to go. The industry needs cheap, high-capacity media, that can be copy protected. Flash memory is currently not an alternative to distribute movies.

Distributing content online, like it works great for music, could be an alternative in the future. But today over 90% of the people don't have the bandwidth to stream HD movie content. From the remaining 10% probably 90% don't have a LAN connection in their living room and wireless even over 802.11n isn't always fast enough to stream HD content. And even if you have all the technical prerequisites, in Europe you are still out of luck, as iTunes, the only store, which offers movies for download playable on a Mac, currently doesn't offer movies in Europe at all (except in the UK).

Not implementing blue-ray or even phasing out optical drives completely would make the MacMini useless as a media center for playing movie content.

Unfortunately, if you want to use your nice, new, big 1080p Flat-TV the way it was designed for, currently your only option is to buy a blue-ray player.

Cecco
 
Blu-Ray simply has not become mainstream enough, and therefore not cheap enough for the media itself. The higher cost and potential loss of including hardware support for Blu-Ray at this point is too much of a risk for Apple. Profits with existing SuperDrives compared to Blu-Ray are significantly higher. I think, if the technology holds with steady growth in the market, we shouldn't expect Apple to start considering Blu-Ray as an option until around Q4 2009, Q1 2010.

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MacAgent84 said:
Blu-Ray simply has not become mainstream enough, and therefore not cheap enough for the media itself. The higher cost and potential loss of including hardware support for Blu-Ray at this point is too much of a risk for Apple. Profits with existing SuperDrives compared to Blu-Ray are significantly higher. I think, if the technology holds with steady growth in the market, we shouldn't expect Apple to start considering Blu-Ray as an option until around Q4 2009, Q1 2010.
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Perfect! Bankruptcy 2011, right on schedule, once other manufacturers make cheaper iCrap iPhones and iPods and power users continue to desert the platform in droves for a cutting-edge workstation computer manufacturer.

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MacAgent84 said:
Blu-Ray simply has not become mainstream enough, and therefore not cheap enough for the media itself. The higher cost and potential loss of including hardware support for Blu-Ray at this point is too much of a risk for Apple. Profits with existing SuperDrives compared to Blu-Ray are significantly higher. I think, if the technology holds with steady growth in the market, we shouldn't expect Apple to start considering Blu-Ray as an option until around Q4 2009, Q1 2010.

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+1, We won't see Bluray on iMacs for a while, I honestly don't care for it at all, Im not picky with video quality, my bro is though, he constantly downloads bluray movies and shows the fam.
 
The Most Likely Scenario for the new mini:

New Design to Combat Dell Studio Hybrid (they come in your choice of color, you know). They will keep the optical drive, because the potential switcher wants it.

Possibly HDMI so you can hook up the mini to the tv. I dont know though, the tv really isn't the target market though. They want you to buy an apple TV.

Upgraded Graphics, almost the same processor. The current ones are the same as a Pentium dual core, so they are probably cheap. This cheaper proc helps pay for the nvidia chipset.

If apple was smart, they would lower the price to meet economic times. But that wont happen. If anything, the price will go up just like the macbooks.

I just know that my 6 month old $600 dell laptop is faster than a mac mini, and im getting tired of buying $350 dell desktops that beat out the mini.
 
Ion Platform

Too bad they might be going with the Atom 330. It's a serious step-back from the Intel Core Duo that's in there right now.
 
sighlent said:
I think there should at least be software support for BD playback in Mac OS X. If Apple doesn't want to support the hardware fine, let everyone use external Bluray drives (as they already do), but don't ignore the technology all together. I think that as a leading Hardware and Software company in video production and film, Apple of all manufacturers should have had Bluray support from the beginning.
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Yes, there should be. My customers want it.

They ask for BD equiped laptops. Sold an $1,100 Sony Vaio with BD today. It was the deciding feature for them. 4GB, 320GB and a P8400 Core Duo 2 with a 16.4" screen for $1,300 less than a MacBook pro.
 
iMacmatician said:
I think that is a reasonable possibility.

Maybe aluminum MacBook logic board on the high-end.
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Same chipset. 9400M is designed work with either DDR 2 or 3. Depending on Apple's plans for the Mini, if they actually have any you might see DDR2 in the lower end model and DDR3 in the higher end model or they might reserve DDR3 for the iMac.

Kilamite said:
So the high end Mac Mini won't have FireWire?
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Firewire is its own chip. The AluBooks lack it due to design choices.
 
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