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Jobs on Mac Netbooks: Not Yet, But...

Spock said:
Instead of a netbook I would just like to see them drop the white MacBook and lower the new AL MacBook to fill in the $999 spot. Would also be cool to see them release a $799 iMac if they drop the Mac Mini.
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I do not agree 100%, more like 90%. I would like to see them keep the white macbook and drop that to $799 and then drop the aluminum to $1099 (although $999 would be better) - why I say this? Not everyone wants the new alu model, but it would be nice to have the white for people who can't afford the new one. also Axiotron is starting a mod'ing service - you send them your macbook and they will mod it into a tablet for like $1200 I think it was.

A full size tablet for under $2000 sounds nice to me..... I am sure with all the macbooks axiotron is buying, they would not just stop making the white. Axiotron has to be doing good if they are expanding the service.
 
slffl said:
I agree. I don't see the market for people needing something between an iPhone and the Macbook Air. Seriously, are there those of you out there that need something like that?
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Well, I take my iBook to bed with me most nights in lieu of a book or e-reader. I think I'd find plenty of use for a lightweight over-sized iPod Touch. Not sure if I need it to be phone but something for taking notes, watching a bit of video on the road and reading stuff would be great.

ibjoshua
 
i honestly doubt photographers will be able to use a mac much longer. the glossy mbp 17" is horrible and the new 15" are worse. way to much glare even when calibrated and set to maximum brightness to assess or compare photos.

as a consumer device the new mb and mbp with glass display are astounding, beautiful and a charm to work/play with.

let's see how it goes...
 
dAlen said:
Whats fascinating is 2 things:

1) Steve said they cant make a computer for $500 or it would be junk.
...so, no more mac mini? And does this mean he thinks the mac mini is junk?
(It is $500, or so thats the price I thought I saw.)
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I took that as meaning a full computer, with monitor, keyboard and mouse. If you add a 20" Cinema Display alone, you're talking at least $1198. That's more than double the $500 price point.

Just my 2 cents.
 
I'd say blown-up iPod Touch: Twice the screen size in every direction (960 x 640 pixels). Slightly faster ARM processor, more RAM, apps can run in background. WiFi only.
 
slffl said:
I agree. I don't see the market for people needing something between an iPhone and the Macbook Air. Seriously, are there those of you out there that need something like that?
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Yes. There are many people who write for a hobby for one example. This is not something you can easily do on an iPhone, and an Air is overkill and larger than needs to be for this.
 
slffl said:
I agree. I don't see the market for people needing something between an iPhone and the Macbook Air. Seriously, are there those of you out there that need something like that?
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I need food, water and air to breathe. Pretty much everything else falls under "want". Markets do very well out of want. That spawned advertising for one.

Posting this on a very unnecessary newly retro-white MSI Wind running 10.5.5. And very nice it is, too.
 
I think ill gag if another mobile device comes out before they address the missing mid tower ... please make something soon
 
Squozen said:
I wish I could make a blunder that earned me $25 billion.
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Me too. Was that poster being sarcastic? If not then he or she should do some reading. Keeping the Mac OSes close to the chest has always benefited Apple. Licensing nearly destroyed it.
ibjoshua
 
Photographers and laptop LCDs

onicon said:
i honestly doubt photographers will be able to use a mac much longer. the glossy mbp 17" is horrible and the new 15" are worse. way to much glare even when calibrated and set to maximum brightness to assess or compare photos.

as a consumer device the new mb and mbp with glass display are astounding, beautiful and a charm to work/play with.

let's see how it goes...
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Laptop LCDs are, at most, 6-bits color per pixel and you need at least 8-bits per pixel to get accurate and decent color representation. Fancy hardware-level dithering will not cut it here for any photographer that would care about matte vs. glossy screens.

Do not color-correct photos on your laptop's built-in LCD. Anything else but not that. :)
 
slffl said:
I agree. I don't see the market for people needing something between an iPhone and the Macbook Air. Seriously, are there those of you out there that need something like that?
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Yes!!! I would like a small tablet device similar to the iPhone but maybe 1.5x larger, 720x480, 32GB or 64GB and more capabilities such as copy/paste, file saving, etc.
 
queshy said:
agreed...apple has made it clear nobody likes small keyboard and tiny screens and poor performance in a COMPUTER.
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Apple doesn't speak for me or anybody else that has bought a netbook. I've found the 7" screen of my Asus annoying but not enough to regret buying it. I will certainly be making my next notebook a 9" at least (doesn't change the size of the computer at all) but the 7" is perfectly usable. The smaller keyboard has never been a problem.

Plus a small footprint doesn't mean that it has to have poor performance. My cheapo Eee 701 performs well enough, and more recent netbooks blow it away. With dual core Atom processors on the way they'll get even faster.

Just because it's a netbook does not mean the user experience is automatically poor.
 
No Hookers at Apple, Please.

In a land of $100 hookers, the $10 skank is king. There's no honor in being the cheapest flea bag. It's best Apple not compete here.
 
1984 said:
Yes!!! I would like a small tablet device similar to the iPhone but maybe 1.5x larger, 720x480, 32GB or 64GB and more capabilities such as copy/paste, file saving, etc.
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How would u use that?
 
bdkennedy1 said:
Every single time Steve has said that, a year later we have that product.
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Not usually. During just about every Q and A, someone always asks Steve about a potential future product/strategy. He always responds in a similar way. Over a year ago, someone asked him about implementing a touch screen into a Mac. He responded by saying something like "You could say that it is in our research queue." That mythical MacTouch has yet to surface.
 
Of course he's going to say that – he doesn't want every potential MacBook customer waiting for the new netbook instead of buying a MacBook. The fact that they've kept the old white MacBook alongside it for the time being shows they know they need a cheaper laptop (or similar) than the now more expensive MacBook, and that'll be the netbook (or something along those lines).

There's no way he's going to say that though, they want as many people as they can to buy the MacBooks, and then buy the netbook when it comes out as well.
 
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