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SallyWattle said:
On emacs and ibooks there is a digital graphics out. All you need is a plug in converter for either a rca/s-video or a vga monitor. It would save a lot on hardware space and increase compactness (new word?) and flexibility.
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That's fine for a computer (where your main output is VGA/DVI), but for a home media box (which connects to the TV), the S-Video/RCA connectors need to be directly on the box.

Also, I can understand wanting to save space on laptops, but I don't get it for the eMac, iMac and that supposed "iHome", where space isn't really rare.
 
Metatron said:
[...] If it's primary purpose was to go with a TV, then the RCA ports would come in typical apple fashion, throught the headphone jack.
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"RCA port through the headphone jack"? What kind of stupid crap is that. Sorry but if this is really a "home media centre", it has to have regular connectors on the back, not some stupid adapters.

"RCA port through the headphone jack" must be for your laptop, where space for ports is limited (and I still say that Apple laptops should have a S-Video out right on the laptop, adapters are lame).
 
earthsaver said:
This is particularly interesting because iHome is a dealer of small appliances, particularly toasters. Now, given the company has a horrible reputation, however perhaps this is Apple's chance to come out with a computer really worthy of being a toaster.

OK, OK, it did that already with the Cube. But that was a failed product in the end that folks turned into toasters and Kleenex boxes. Perhaps Apple has figured how to give us the best of both worlds. Will we now see the true meaning of the famous After Dark screensaver?, though in its time it wasn't actually saving anything.
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iToaster
 
1984 said:
Looks like they added carpeting since then or the older hoax was in a freight elevator at the same location. I'm sure it was done in an elevator again as a joke, just to see if anyone was paying attention.
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I think this will be the new trend (since it already happened twice): all Apple hoaxes have to be made in an elevator! :D
 
ßlack said:
[...] I have a couple of reasons why I think this is real product. Well one, it fits the previous description of size in a past rumor, which stated it will be Xserve size. I think it fits that.
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I don't want to burst your bubble, but think about it: the guy can make his hoax based on known rumors... That doesn't prove anything at all!
 
Spelling of Centre vs. Center

The fact that Centre is spelled in the British English way rather than the US English way isn't, on its own, the sign of a fake. IBM sell a workstation called the ThinkCentre, with the British English spelling of centre.

It might be Apple's way of being different from Windows Media Center Edition (which is still Media Center when sold in the UK!)

Rich
 
dashiel said:
just like the older powerbooks had the apple logo upside down when you had the laptop open ;)
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Did they really make such a mistake? With all the people working on such products, I find it hard to believe! :eek:

dashiel said:
One has to wonder, what do these hoax people get out of this? Maybe it's just 21st century crop circles?
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Yes. Yes it is.

I, for one, am glad we're finally seeing hoaxes... I was getting tired of the leaked infos from ThinkSecret. :mad:

But now that Apple is after them, I can't be sure of what ThinkSecret is saying anymore! (are they trying to post stuff they know isn't true?!) :confused:
 
HasanDaddy said:
I will say this ----- the argument of a lack of RCA inputs does not make sense to me, because a device like iHome would not likely have RCA inputs, rather, it would have some kind of other input, like USB to S-Video, or Firewire to Video, etc ------ and in that way, it would come with a special cable to hook up to the TV
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I don't want to start a war about this, buy it seems that most Mac users have been brainwashed. I don't know ANY desktop consumer device that requires "adapters" to connect anything. The only place I can understand adapters being required is when space for connectors is limited in the first place (such as portable devices).

Heck, even the el-cheapo 40$CAN DVD players made in China now have RCA, S-Video and components outputs.

If Apple designed a box which primary use is to connect to a television and a home stereo, why wouldn't they include the required ports directly on the box?! This makes no sense at all.

The very idea that the iHome would require the use of adapters to connect it to the television and sound system is laughable, and is something the media would use to rip Apple into pieces.
 
ShiggyMiyamoto said:
Heh. I'd use it for certain games that my iBook can't handle.
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What makes you think it wouldn't have the exact same specs as your iBook? Macs aren't known for their gaming capabilities (and will never be until Apple starts putting more serious GPUs and decent VRAM sizes, see the "chicken in the egg" scenario), so a "iHome" would be less likely than your iBook to run games. Or equal, at best.
 
Yvan256 said:
Did they really make such a mistake? With all the people working on such products, I find it hard to believe! :eek:
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The Apple logo was inverted on all Powerbook G3. PB Titanium (G4) was the first with the orientation we have today. However, this was no mistake. When you sit in front of your closed powerbook G3, you see the logo like it should be - leaf upwards. With the G4's, it is upside down.

Personally, I liked the old way better, since I was the one who payed for the machine and owns it. Of course, the current orientation looks much better to all the other guys around you...
 
MacFan25863 said:
I'll only believe it when Steve Jobs is up there talking about it (except in the case of iPod socks, when I didn't believe him...)
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So, I wasn't the only one wondering "Is this real?! iPod socks?!?" :confused: :D
 
Yvan256 said:
What makes you think it wouldn't have the exact same specs as your iBook? Macs aren't known for their gaming capabilities (and will never be until Apple starts putting more serious GPUs and decent VRAM sizes, see the "chicken in the egg" scenario), so a "iHome" would be less likely than your iBook to run games. Or equal, at best.
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I wasn't talking about games like Halo or Warcraft III etc.. I was talking more like the Dance Dance Revolution simulator known as Stepmania (http://www.stepmania.com). I can run it sort of on my 600 MHz G3 "Snow" 2001 model iBook but it lags and messes you up. It especially screws you up when you use an actual dance mat. I have 384 MB of RAM and I would think that would be enough for it to run.. but apparently it's not.

I never disagreed with the possibility of it being equal to an iBook... but I highly doubt Apple would create such a low-end computer in this day and age. I'm not saying that they'd use the now stoneage G3 chip but I'm sure you know what I mean.

I'd also find it a good idea to have one of these, if it's all that screenshots make it out to be, because my mother could finally have her own computer to write e-mails etc. She's using my brother's iBook at the moment, which works but that leaves my brother without his computer.

Any word whether it will have wireless capabilities or not ala Airport Extreme? We just got wireless in the house here and it would be perfect.

Oh and to the people here who think it's made of cardboard based on that short 82k video clip: If you look closely he's not picking it up all the way. Most of the weight is on the box. It's made of the normal polycarbonate plastic Apple uses for most of their CPUs. I'm almost 100% sure of it. This is pure speculation, mind you. I have no inside information. Sure you could take normal brown cardboard and drench it with white paint but you'd see the rough edges of the cardboard being put together. You've claimed that, but I strongly disagree, as others here have. I can't wait for Tuesday when these mysteries will finally be solved.

:)
 
fake fake fake .. anyone who thinks those are real needs a head check .. you can obviously see that it is a paper box taped together with printed ports .. geezes people get carried away fast ..
 
Bandit said:
is because apple would not come out with this as the computer meant to steal PC users away from the dark side. As much as I would love this to be real the media center PC is a niche market that would not appeal to the masses. If apple's main goal (as reported by thinksecret and appleinsider) is to get PC users to switch they need to show them a better computer at a cheaper price. [...]
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Just thought of something... What if Apple's new device could be both a computer and a media centre/center? After all, Microsoft is trying to pull that exact stunt (while letting companies make "media" boxes that fits more with other audio/video components).

I say, call it "iBox", just to block people's mind from "xBox" (remember that Bill Gates keep saying the xBox is meant as the living room computer, and xBox 2 sure will try to push that even further).

People currently think of the xBox as a gaming console. Block the xBox2 by releasing the iBox, thus deflecting people's mindset before the xBox2 arrives and set the iBox as the only media computer (instead of xBox2).
 
richiethom said:
The fact that Centre is spelled in the British English way rather than the US English way isn't, on its own, the sign of a fake. IBM sell a workstation called the ThinkCentre, with the British English spelling of centre.

It might be Apple's way of being different from Windows Media Center Edition (which is still Media Center when sold in the UK!)

Rich
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Yeah, as someone already said, it would be like Apple's correcting Microsoft on the spelling. :D

Microsoft: Introducing the Microsoft Media Center.
Apple: it's spelled iHome Media "Centre" you idiots. :D
 
MacFan25863 said:
...(except in the case of iPod socks, when I didn't believe him...)
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Hahaha, i was tempted to buy those but I'd only need one. Also I noticed I couldn't get any information for the camera that took the picturesin Photoshop. Now at very first I thought it was real. But then I noticed why it was fake. Pretty impressive though.

*jams VGA cord into ethernet port*
Duhh...Why isn't it working? *sparks fly*

:D can't wait 'till Monday
 
That guy should never have put the video online.. Those pictures almost got me convinced, but the video shows the box isn't heavy enough to be an computing device.
 
That guy should never have put the video online.. Those pictures almost got me convinced, but the video shows the box isn't heavy enough to be an computing device.

Nice work anyhow.
 
mproud said:
"Centre" is kind of like "Theatre". Spelling it with 're' makes it seem more classy and of great quality. It's sometimes considered "cool" to have a French spelling, at least by American standards.
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Sorry, this isn't particularly on topic, but whatev. This is actually the first time I've ever posted, and I wanted to clear something up. As a musical theatre major, I can tell you that 'theater' and 'theatre' are actually two distinct words. 'Theatre' refers to the art form itself, i.e. 'I am a great lover of the the theatre.' or 'He was one of the theatre's great actors.' 'Theater,' on the other hand, refers to the building in which one acts, as in 'At what theater is that new play going to open?' or 'Wasn't it sad when that grand old theater burned down?'

Nowadays, people tend to use them interchangeably, using their preference for the 're' or 'er' for everything. In fact, most dictionaries now list them as the same word because of it. But if you want to be really correct about it, the difference is there.
 
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