Just like old times

[Michael CM1]

This forum is totally reminding me of what the iPhone forum was like for about 5 months before the iPhone 3G was released. Are some people seriously pissed about stuff that isn't even out yet? I mean these are mostly pictures from Chinese people, which means they probably are fuzzy due to some sort of lead poisoning (it's the milk!!!).

Seriously, take a chill pill. You will know FACTS within 12 hours. Take a look at the rumor roundups to realize that some of that stuff will be false. If not, the new MacBook line will:

• Range from $800 to $4,000
• Have Blu-ray drives on every computer or none of them, or maybe BTO
• Have a glass trackpad with no buttons because of some multitouch function
• Have all the needed ports on the right because the new ACDs will let you pop a 5-pound computer into a display-looking device supported by a piece of metal that barely supports the iMac now
• Totally ditch FireWire and make you use a soldering iron to have compatibility with any USB devices
• Have no video output; you'll just have to draw the images on your monitor yourself
• Contain quad-core processors that will melt as soon as the computer boots
• Come with iLife '09, with a free upgrade ticket to Mac OS 10.6
• Cure cancer
• End global warming
• Save the children

 

[azharc]

This topic is useless, saw a topic just like this couple of hours ago, it got moved to Wasteland.

 

[Dreamer2go]

This topic is useless, saw a topic just like this couple of hours ago, it got moved to Wasteland.

QFT
this wont be a forum without...speculations and opinions.

 

[Michael CM1]

I will add to this that if the rumors I saw on the main page about glossy only and this stupid glass trackpad are true, I will be livid tomorrow. However, as I said above, it's all rumor. Everybody seemed to be darn sure that there was going to be a $900 MacBook...but now it's just a display!!! Sounds like way too much "confirmed" info floating in the ether.

For my money, I'm banking on a MBP with HD DVD support. All the movies are cheap, so why not???

 

[edesignuk]

For my money, I'm banking on a MBP with HD DVD support. All the movies are cheap, so why not???

Because the format has lost the "war" and to do so would be pointless?

 

[8767092]

Because the format has lost the "war" and to do so would be pointless?

One can't deny that there is a large cache of existing HD-DVD media that can be had at a very reasonable price. Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, HD-DVD media, and a few choice pieces of software can enhance a digital HD collection on the cheap.

Blu-ray most likely won't survive in the longer term as even USB sticks are starting to store 20GB+ cheaply enough and cost about the same as a burnable Blu-ray disk does today.

I don't know the future, but I know that Blu-ray is going to have a hard time dethroning dirt cheap burnable DVDs for consumer data.

 

[Michael CM1]

Because the format has lost the "war" and to do so would be pointless?

I was aiming for extreme sarcasm, although a lot of the Blu-ray drives I have seen also read HD DVD. On a side note, someone needs to go buy all those stupid things up because Fry's has a serious stash of them taking up shelf space.