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G51989 said:
I think he means a 4K display, current offerings for even a small 4K display look like they're going to be 10K+
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I think prices of 4K screens are going to drop quite quickly now that Sharp have entered mass production of a 32" 4K IGZO display.

The 55" Toshiba 4K TV launched several months ago in the UK at £7K (about $11K). First to market products are usually a lot more expensive that what follows not long after.
 
A Hebrew said:
You lost me, and Apple, at Blu-Ray.

(You lost me because I know you lost Apple, not because it would be bad :eek: )
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Blueray is pointless in a computer. It's nearly a outdated type of medium before it came out. I agree with Apple on this. I think you will never see blueray in a Mac
 
iMcLovin said:
Blueray is pointless in a computer. It's nearly a outdated type of medium before it came out. I agree with Apple on this. I think you will never see blueray in a Mac
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Also I read somewhere that next gen Playstation considered to ditch the optical and going with ESD.

And some time ago Sony also planned to abandon Optiarc, one of its division for computer DVD production, including the one used in the iMac.

I'm all about bluray. It holds a near perfect video and audio quality. But honestly we don't need Bluray for that. Any media which holds 50GB would do fine :D
I hate when my shiny discs scratched or cracked over time. I want a media that can be more durable and reliable. I had this Nintendo cartridges which still worked fine for almost 18years. Can't do that woth an optical discs.
 
Puevlo said:
With the new iMacs just around the corner and the long delay between updates means something special is planned. You can count on that. It will be 10x more revolutionary than retina and 50x better than a mere spec bump. I'm guessing Apple has some new technology not seen outside of science fiction movies. It will change the computing world as we know it.
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Someone's buzzed from an overdose of iJuice.
 
Puevlo said:
With the new iMacs just around the corner and the long delay between updates means something special is planned. You can count on that. It will be 10x more revolutionary than retina and 50x better than a mere spec bump. I'm guessing Apple has some new technology not seen outside of science fiction movies. It will change the computing world as we know it.
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I doubt it. If that were the case why didn't we see it on rMBP which just got released on June 11th. The conventional wisdom is the desktop is on the way out. Why would Apple want to put that much effort into a machine that within two or three years will be shown the door. I suspect you will see the same specs (enhanced some) found on the rMBP. If you have not noticed it, Apple is building more and more data centers. These centers will enabled Apple to offer its Apps from the cloud. Look at what Adobe and Microsoft are doing. You don't need powerful computers to operate apps in the cloud. Plus, in the long run, cloud services will save companies money. Just my thought anyway. :)
 
iSayuSay said:
Also I read somewhere that next gen Playstation considered to ditch the optical and going with ESD.

And some time ago Sony also planned to abandon Optiarc, one of its division for computer DVD production, including the one used in the iMac.

I'm all about bluray. It holds a near perfect video and audio quality. But honestly we don't need Bluray for that. Any media which holds 50GB would do fine :D
I hate when my shiny discs scratched or cracked over time. I want a media that can be more durable and reliable. I had this Nintendo cartridges which still worked fine for almost 18years. Can't do that woth an optical discs.
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I think either we'll come to the point where smartphones are so ubiquitous, storage is so high and speeds are so fast removable media will be largely unnecessary. Before then, maybe SD cards or USB flash drives will get to the point where the less than say, 32GB is basically disposable.

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IGregory said:
I doubt it. If that were the case why didn't we see it on rMBP which just got released on June 11th. The conventional wisdom is the desktop is on the way out. Why would Apple want to put that much effort into a machine that within two or three years will be shown the door. I suspect you will see the same specs (enhanced some) found on the rMBP. If you have not noticed it, Apple is building more and more data centers. These centers will enabled Apple to offer its Apps from the cloud. Look at what Adobe and Microsoft are doing. You don't need powerful computers to operate apps in the cloud. Plus, in the long run, cloud services will save companies money. Just my thought anyway. :)
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The "conventional wisdom" is most certainly not that the desktop is on its way out. ATX-sized towers, maybe; probably. There are certainly rumblings that it's going to become an increasingly "pro" and "prosumer" item, but that is not the same thing. It also is not coming in 2-3 years.

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ixodes said:
Someone's buzzed from an overdose of iJuice.
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...You really think the OP was serious?
 
IGregory said:
I doubt it. If that were the case why didn't we see it on rMBP which just got released on June 11th. The conventional wisdom is the desktop is on the way out. Why would Apple want to put that much effort into a machine that within two or three years will be shown the door. I suspect you will see the same specs (enhanced some) found on the rMBP. If you have not noticed it, Apple is building more and more data centers. These centers will enabled Apple to offer its Apps from the cloud. Look at what Adobe and Microsoft are doing. You don't need powerful computers to operate apps in the cloud. Plus, in the long run, cloud services will save companies money. Just my thought anyway. :)
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No. I think you mean that the average consumer desktop with basic functionalities are on the way out. I know it may seem like desktops are dead, and I know sales have dropped in that medium, but desktops aren't going anywhere.

And I don't see what iCloud has to do about the "death" of desktops and flourishing of notebooks. As software advances, so must the hardware.
 
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