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If you could design the next apple product
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Dual screen MacBook Pro. Replace keyboard and trackpad with a 17" iPad that changes if you enter a musical app, a video editing app, a drawing app, or just simply displays a keyboard for typing.
The iGPS.
A 4.5- 5 inch touch screen with GPS abilities. The ability to run google maps or any GPS apps (tom Tom, Garmin) It would only allow GPS apps, photo app (to set your background however you want or to show off) and settings...
I would say not iOS driven.... Similar to the iPod Nano apps
It could be flip in landscape or portrait
It has an aluminum back and front. 30-pin dock connector for charging and sync photos and the GPS apps.
A 4.5- 5 inch touch screen with GPS abilities. The ability to run google maps or any GPS apps (tom Tom, Garmin) It would only allow GPS apps, photo app (to set your background however you want or to show off) and settings...
I would say not iOS driven.... Similar to the iPod Nano apps
It could be flip in landscape or portrait
It has an aluminum back and front. 30-pin dock connector for charging and sync photos and the GPS apps.
I'd call it simply "The Mac"
A Mini-Tower styled like the Mac Mini but taller, it will come with a FULL SIZE wired keyboard and mouse with FULL SIZE Bluetooth versions as an option.
3 user upgradable hard drive bays with SATA III, 1 occupied with a 1Tb 7,200rpm drive with SSD options as a BTO.
2 PCI-X or equivalent expansion slots.
User upgradable graphics card.
2 Front USB ports, 1 front Firewire 800 and a FRONT power button
Core i7 Based.
4Gb RAM (DESKTOP RAM with 2 slots occupied, 2 free).
Priced no more than £1,099 for the entry level model.
Higher models will have higher spec GPU and CPU options.
This will fill the void left in their range that Steve Jobs was so willing to cater for when he returned to the company, releasing the G3 range of desktops and Mini-towers. The modern equivalent being a Core i7 Mini-Tower and the Mac Pro.
It wouldn't matter if they gouged sales of Mac Pros because they'd be selling far more of these systems to people who don't want some flavour or laptop for their desk that can't afford a Mac Pro but don't have a Mac in the rest of the range than really suits.
I see the Mac Mini as an under-specified, over-priced compromise because Apple don't sell a system like this and you need to add at least a second external drive + the one you already use for back up because it hasn't got enough internal expansion.
Given my current mac is a dual G4 with the fastest drive as the system drive partitioned into 70Gb System, 180Gb Storage with a second internal drive for audio use, buying a base spec "Mac" system like this would be perfect for me:-
It would fly for boot ups, have enough storage for my needs and be plenty fast enough for a few years without being out of reach financially.
A Mini-Tower styled like the Mac Mini but taller, it will come with a FULL SIZE wired keyboard and mouse with FULL SIZE Bluetooth versions as an option.
3 user upgradable hard drive bays with SATA III, 1 occupied with a 1Tb 7,200rpm drive with SSD options as a BTO.
2 PCI-X or equivalent expansion slots.
User upgradable graphics card.
2 Front USB ports, 1 front Firewire 800 and a FRONT power button
Core i7 Based.
4Gb RAM (DESKTOP RAM with 2 slots occupied, 2 free).
Priced no more than £1,099 for the entry level model.
Higher models will have higher spec GPU and CPU options.
This will fill the void left in their range that Steve Jobs was so willing to cater for when he returned to the company, releasing the G3 range of desktops and Mini-towers. The modern equivalent being a Core i7 Mini-Tower and the Mac Pro.
It wouldn't matter if they gouged sales of Mac Pros because they'd be selling far more of these systems to people who don't want some flavour or laptop for their desk that can't afford a Mac Pro but don't have a Mac in the rest of the range than really suits.
I see the Mac Mini as an under-specified, over-priced compromise because Apple don't sell a system like this and you need to add at least a second external drive + the one you already use for back up because it hasn't got enough internal expansion.
Given my current mac is a dual G4 with the fastest drive as the system drive partitioned into 70Gb System, 180Gb Storage with a second internal drive for audio use, buying a base spec "Mac" system like this would be perfect for me:-
- Core i7 (use one slower than the top iMac but still fast enough to wipe the floor with any Core 2 Duo based mac).
4Gb RAM (DESKTOP RAM with 2 slots occupied, 2 free)
1Tb drive partitioned as 80Gb recording drive, 920Gb storage
2 x Sandforce based SSDs as a superfast 120Gb System disk (Which I'd add myself)
It would fly for boot ups, have enough storage for my needs and be plenty fast enough for a few years without being out of reach financially.
I'd buy one. But I think it should be a Lee Kohler special edition, with your signature across the top.
I'd buy one. But I think it should be a Lee Kohler special edition, with your signature across the top.
I have the handwriting of a doctor, so I don't know about that
All of the above. But you forgot the most important- durability.
All new...
Vents folded in for transport.
Vents folded out for use. (automatically transforms when you press the power button)
Because like a G5 was taken.
Carbon Fiber Macbook:
Notice: You must own at least 5 carbon fiber credit cards to be eligible.(for the mortgage...)
Vents folded in for transport.
Vents folded out for use. (automatically transforms when you press the power button)
Because like a G5 was taken.
Carbon Fiber Macbook:
Notice: You must own at least 5 carbon fiber credit cards to be eligible.(for the mortgage...)
I'd buy one. But I think it should be a Lee Kohler special edition, with your signature across the top.
...or just the Kohler Special Edition.
A PowerMac
Get a custom X58 board that fits the Mac Pro case, and use that + an i7 940 or whatever, lighter duty power supply, sell it for $1500.
I'd say contract out an x58 board from Asus and stick Apple EFI on it, but that would require a different case because the Mac Pro cases are backwards. I mean, it'd be just as cool if they took a Mac Pro chassis and flipped it around internally but.. that's extreme overkill.
Ideally though I'd go for an ATX platform and then consider selling the boards as a $500 part to crazy people.
Get a custom X58 board that fits the Mac Pro case, and use that + an i7 940 or whatever, lighter duty power supply, sell it for $1500.
I'd say contract out an x58 board from Asus and stick Apple EFI on it, but that would require a different case because the Mac Pro cases are backwards. I mean, it'd be just as cool if they took a Mac Pro chassis and flipped it around internally but.. that's extreme overkill.
Ideally though I'd go for an ATX platform and then consider selling the boards as a $500 part to crazy people.
