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Introducing the MacBook Air?
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3G sounds like a good hypothesis.... many are wondering about that, and I'm sure that it is the way Apple would prefer to head with it's products.
Isn't this "another Job for AppleTV/MacMini/AirPort"?
Well sort of but not quiet it's the configuration issues that hold it up. Well that and you are adding another device close to those three.
So what if you rolled them into one device/ eco system?
A stack of devices like a HiFi. The head unit is an appleTV but a streaming only device, maybe small flash for system.
Apple makes or others under made for AppleTV logo make devices with same foot print, and a common connector.
Add a HardDrive unit and you have Media server (might add Firewire ports).
Add a DVD/BluRay and it's a player (might add USB ports).
Add a HD tuner(with enclosed HardDrive) you got a PVR.
Add a Cable tuner (with HD) you got a cable PVR
Add a surround sound system and speakers.
Add a ADSL modem.
Add a Trixbox Home PABX.
Add a ....
Maybe its' all tied together by a Magsafe connector with power and fiberOptic Data.
One of these on your desktop and the single MagSafe cable gets your MacBook docked, with screen, keyboard, mouse and charging.
The Same mobo in a screen and you get the imac like docking station.
I am sorry...but you need to improve your photoshop skill.
As a designer..i would suggest you to take some graphic design class from your local college
. maybe next time you would have some fake mock-up which people might believe it's not a poor photoshoped image.
So what makes you think that it isn't a Hackintosh itself? That seems very plausible to me.
I am sorry...but you need to improve your photoshop skill.
As a designer..i would suggest you to take some graphic design class from your local college
maybe next time you would have some fake mock-up which people might believe it's not a poor photoshoped image.
I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a joke
That would just be ridiculous to use.What's this? VISION in a MacRumors thread? Get out of here! We just want everything lighter, smaller, and more expensive!
I was lamenting earlier today Apple's lack of an affordable home server. With ZFS, they could make something approximately the width and depth of a Mac mini and twice as high, devote it to hard drive storage (the drives positioned on their sides), and you could have a four-drive array with built-in and automatic RAID-Z. A drive dies? Turn it off, pop out the old drive, pop in the new, and it rebuilds. Kinda like Drobo, but not as expensive since it's basically just four SATA ports in an Apple-designed box.
People have been pleading for an iServe for years. Lately, it's mostly been channeled into the iMediaCenter... but the iServe section is still vocal.
But Apple will never do it. Excuses about it being "too complex" are utterly retarded -- this is the 21st century, most people have been using computers for at least the past ten years and Apple knows only too well that the home server crowd is sophisticated enough to plug and unplug a drive.
No, Apple won't do it because -- like other computer manufacturers -- they are perverse.
I am sorry...but you need to improve your photoshop skill.
As a designer..i would suggest you to take some graphic design class from your local college
maybe next time you would have some fake mock-up which people might believe it's not a poor photoshoped image.
Perhaps he couldn't get in this semester because of all the other people taking thousand-dollar classes to make more impressive jokes on MacRumors.
I am sorry...but you need to improve your photoshop skill.
As a designer..i would suggest you to take some graphic design class from your local college
maybe next time you would have some fake mock-up which people might believe it's not a poor photoshoped image.
The biggest giveaway (though the lack of edges, the blurriness around the fingers, unusable tiny keys, etc. have an impact) is that it is not running Leopard. That's running Tiger.
Or earlier. (From Apple's PR: "It's an upgrade, to an older, more familiar, experience." )
Hope makes for fantastic ideas...
I am hoping for something as exciting and unique as an ultra-thin or tablet. However, I simply can't believe the tag line on the banner implies anything along the lines of this type of hardware. I have tried to imagine an ultra-light device that is a stand alone device on the road and an input device wirelessly connected to your home system when in the house or office. This, though, is surely fantasy, or just hope. Maybe the idea of a device untethered (other than power for charging, I think the idea of an inductive pad to be lame) by wired connections of any type. Cost always becomes a problem. Just seems like it would end up being to expensive if they actually made it right. How disappointed we may all be if this is about wifi or movie downloading. Even worse, what if it is just a tag for the iPhone sdk release and iPhone services. Come on Apple, bring it BIG!
I am hoping for something as exciting and unique as an ultra-thin or tablet. However, I simply can't believe the tag line on the banner implies anything along the lines of this type of hardware. I have tried to imagine an ultra-light device that is a stand alone device on the road and an input device wirelessly connected to your home system when in the house or office. This, though, is surely fantasy, or just hope. Maybe the idea of a device untethered (other than power for charging, I think the idea of an inductive pad to be lame) by wired connections of any type. Cost always becomes a problem. Just seems like it would end up being to expensive if they actually made it right. How disappointed we may all be if this is about wifi or movie downloading. Even worse, what if it is just a tag for the iPhone sdk release and iPhone services. Come on Apple, bring it BIG!
This new mystery laptop will feature an OLED logo.. you will be able to change it in the system preferences... Mac Book Air, Mac Book Pro, Mac Book Slim, Mac Book Trim, Mac Book Ultra, Mac Book Mini, Mac Book Micro... the choice will be yours
I have been waiting for a customizable logo for years. How cool would it be to have the logo in the old 80's rainbow apple? Very.
Because, according to the MacRumors article: "This log entry was made on or before January 9th (based on the cache), well before the Moscone banners were posted."
So it's conceivable the person hacked their computer to report "MacBookAir", but they would have had to have come up with the name on their own, without knowledge of the banner. It's possible, sure, but it's pretty unlikely. Therefore, it is likely MacBookAir is at least the codename for a product.
"I have been waiting for a customizable logo for years. How cool would it be to have the logo in the old 80's rainbow apple? Very."
Amen to that. That would just be another one of those little things that makes their laptops so great. A small way to personalize your laptop a bit more. Simple and without mods even. It would be great.
Amen to that. That would just be another one of those little things that makes their laptops so great. A small way to personalize your laptop a bit more. Simple and without mods even. It would be great.
One more thing...
I really think we are looking at an AppleTV update that does off-air HD recording. My MacMini does just fine with an eyeTV 250 Plus, but it would be nice to have an Apple made product.
I really think we are looking at an AppleTV update that does off-air HD recording. My MacMini does just fine with an eyeTV 250 Plus, but it would be nice to have an Apple made product.
Air means Online Services
Hi,
the guys from macapps.de think that air has someting to do with online services:
macapps.de
What do you think?
SirStevus
Hi,
the guys from macapps.de think that air has someting to do with online services:
macapps.de
What do you think?
SirStevus
iphone 2
something in the air + ipod ads = iphone 2
there is a lot of other reasons to defend this standpoint like:
biggest of which is that apple must have known that saying something in the air would get peoples hopes up and they dont want to disappoint and lower stock price
they need a new model if they want to sell 10 million by the end of the year (most people who will buy one probably already have)
there are a million other reasons but think about it
i know it is wishful thinking but still...
something in the air + ipod ads = iphone 2
there is a lot of other reasons to defend this standpoint like:
biggest of which is that apple must have known that saying something in the air would get peoples hopes up and they dont want to disappoint and lower stock price
they need a new model if they want to sell 10 million by the end of the year (most people who will buy one probably already have)
there are a million other reasons but think about it
i know it is wishful thinking but still...
Intel said they would be validating their Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset by late 2007 after showing it off in early december. Since this is Apple we're talking about, they are pretty buddy-buddy with Intel at the moment. The 2300 chipset handles 802.11n, 802.16e-2005 (WiMAX), AND, now here's the seller for the rest of the world, HSDPA. So This new macbook would be truly a unified wireless communications device. You've got WiFi. WiMAX, and the competing HSDPA all in one machine. Add bluetooth to that (which is already present) and you have a truly wireless device.
If you want to REALLY reach and make the device truly, truly, we-mean-it truly wireless, you would also introduce its power and charging capabilities with one of those nifty new power pads. Nothing to plug in. Take the thing anywhere and it just works. It doesn't matter country, it doesn't matter what carrier, all it matters is that there is some sort of useable wireless signal and you are willing to steal/pay for it.
After the banners went up on Friday, we posted the whispers we'd heard about the upcoming thin Laptop, and that it would be called "MacBook Air".
9to5mac posts some notes about the history of this name, including a Google cache record of a computer named "MacBookAir" documented in Adium's usage logs.
This log entry was made on or before January 9th (based on the cache), well before the Moscone banners were posted.
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As much as I love Apple, I've gotta say "Yuck!' to this one. C'mon Apple, keep your creativity going!
Hmmmm....
...Knowing Apple...
I wouldn't be surprised if there was only one cable for the AirBook,
the iPod Firewire Cable =)
hehe.
...Knowing Apple...
I wouldn't be surprised if there was only one cable for the AirBook,
the iPod Firewire Cable =)
hehe.
Genius!
MrCrowbar deserves an award for such a nicely planned prank!
Well, now that you have quoted me, you should see my disguised link to the actual unpacking video.
MrCrowbar deserves an award for such a nicely planned prank!
You mean something like this?
500GB or 1TB (RAID 1)
WiFi Only
Bonjour Networking
iTunes & iPhoto library storage
Any Apple wifi device can stream from it & sync with it
$399 & $499
After reading these posts, it's amazing how much they have in common with the posts 2 years ago when everyone hated the name of the yet to be released MacBooks.