The tower concept will eventually go out of style in that large size. But if it does stay year after year, so much more will be able to be put into that case and it will save Apple money if they can stick with that same design for the next several years.
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The tower concept will eventually go out of style in that large size. But if it does stay year after year, so much more will be able to be put into that case and it will save Apple money if they can stick with that same design for the next several years.
on verizon phones (like the blackberry storm) tethering is only an extra 20 bucks maybe att will be more price competitive.
Finally, DRM free music and flexible pricing!
Let the record companies price their wares however they want and let the consumer decide! Hope this comes true.
Let the record companies price their wares however they want and let the consumer decide! Hope this comes true.
What I see is just a larger divide in the consumer desktop and workstation. The iMac, though limited in upgrades and processors, is a nice machine for the average user. Picked one up for the fiancee who is a school teacher and helps me on a photo assignment here and there, and it's still overkill for her a year later.
Four years from now it may be time for her to upgrade.
I see the average desktop getting smaller for sure, I agree. But I also see the workstations like the HPxv series, Dell XPS, Mac Pro, and others from Lenovo and so forth remaining the same size. As you said, I see them just having more crap inside of them.
As for the changing of the design, we've only had it for about 5 years, with the white and blue G3 being the first of the previous design of pro towers, lasting a little bit longer. From that curvy design to this one wasn't much of a change and I am greatful for it.
What Apple could do though, is bring back the small tower design as a mini-tower for those people that don't need the massive MP on their desk, or small photo/video/gfx houses needing a few tiny machines for inexpensive workstations, and the Mac Pro as the server/main workstation.
HA! The sad truth is that people are sucking up that data plan at $30 with no texting included, so I believe those that think they need it will suck up tethering via an iPhone at whatever price AT&T will charge them.
With Sprint tethering used to be $5 extra with the data plan at $15 a month. Now it's $15 for tethering and $30 for the data.
tether
I think Verizon charges $10 for tethering. Either way, nobody should accept this horse***** from any mobile carrier. They all do the same crap. They sell you a phone that is capable of so much, then they lock it down so that they can sell the stuff back to you. They do it with ringtones, and now with tethering. You can pull unlimited data out of the air into your iphone, but if you want to pull it out of the air through your iphone to your computer they find a way to charge you. People need to stop being sheep. Pretty soon they'll charge you $0.99 every time you want to change your desktop wallpaper.
I think Verizon charges $10 for tethering. Either way, nobody should accept this horse***** from any mobile carrier. They all do the same crap. They sell you a phone that is capable of so much, then they lock it down so that they can sell the stuff back to you. They do it with ringtones, and now with tethering. You can pull unlimited data out of the air into your iphone, but if you want to pull it out of the air through your iphone to your computer they find a way to charge you. People need to stop being sheep. Pretty soon they'll charge you $0.99 every time you want to change your desktop wallpaper.
DRM already live
I just went to iTunes Plus and found that all of my previous purchases were available to upgrade to DRM free. I know this is new as I have been upgrading my library all along and now I was presented with upgrading 600 songs. It's live but the cost was the same as before, $0.30 per song.
I just went to iTunes Plus and found that all of my previous purchases were available to upgrade to DRM free. I know this is new as I have been upgrading my library all along and now I was presented with upgrading 600 songs. It's live but the cost was the same as before, $0.30 per song.
Macrumorslive feed has been hacked
Oh dear... look at the 09:24 am comment.
Not happy about this
Oh dear... look at the 09:24 am comment.
Not happy about this
Yep. Sucks there's mental 12 year olds out there who hack things but clearly the live feed is devolving due to being hacked by someone(s) who clearly should never be allowed to breed. So much for the live updates. Grrr!
Edit: Okay, sorry Macrumors but you really should just kill the feed now and it'd be nice to legally find and prosecute the punks hacking, or at least give them a good beatdown.
If it's any consolation, gdgt.com (I've never heard of them) has a live feed, it's pretty good, only you won't see the previous posts for whatever reason.
http://live.gdgt.com/2009/01/06/live-macworld-2009-keynote-coverage/
Edit: Okay, sorry Macrumors but you really should just kill the feed now and it'd be nice to legally find and prosecute the punks hacking, or at least give them a good beatdown.
If it's any consolation, gdgt.com (I've never heard of them) has a live feed, it's pretty good, only you won't see the previous posts for whatever reason.
http://live.gdgt.com/2009/01/06/live-macworld-2009-keynote-coverage/
sooooo keynote is over and just confirming - there was no iPhone nano and no updates to iPhone of any kind except for ability to download iTunes tracks over 3g/wifi direct to the phone right?
Yay I can activate my sealed iPhone 3g now that I've been waiting a few days to open!
Yay I can activate my sealed iPhone 3g now that I've been waiting a few days to open!
quite frankly...
...BORING.
who wants a $2800 laptop? No imac or Mac Mini...blech.
DRM-free is welcome; the $1.29 is not.
...BORING.
who wants a $2800 laptop? No imac or Mac Mini...blech.
DRM-free is welcome; the $1.29 is not.
Ok now let's think about this...with the exception of the drm-free music (which is huge i agree), was anyone else disappointed in the keynote? after hearing all the rumors and usual hoopla, there wasn't a mac mini upgrade, no netbook, no apple tv, no mac upgrade, no iphone nano???? i'm not saying i wanted all or any of these announcements, but the keynote just seemed a little anti-climactic. hopefully they hold a private event soon to announce what i was waiting for...snow leopard!
LAME.
A laptop I can't afford and DRM-free music I already had with amazon mp3 for a year. I don't use iphoto, and I don't think that facial recognition is going to get me to switch from lightroom any time soon, so I can't really see what the point of this keynote really was. Tony Bennett? That's cool if you like Tony Bennett, I guess.
I wanted to see a new mac mini or a new, smaller iphone. Either one of those would have excited me. The economy is in the crapper, and Apple's only keynote hardware announcement is a laptop with a battery you can't replace and a price tag you can't justify. they should at least have announced that the mini is dead or something. anything...
A laptop I can't afford and DRM-free music I already had with amazon mp3 for a year. I don't use iphoto, and I don't think that facial recognition is going to get me to switch from lightroom any time soon, so I can't really see what the point of this keynote really was. Tony Bennett? That's cool if you like Tony Bennett, I guess.
I wanted to see a new mac mini or a new, smaller iphone. Either one of those would have excited me. The economy is in the crapper, and Apple's only keynote hardware announcement is a laptop with a battery you can't replace and a price tag you can't justify. they should at least have announced that the mini is dead or something. anything...
the only thing exciting about that keynote was the hacker throwing in funny lines into the feed.
i've come to expect disappointing keynotes though to be honest, the only good one over the past 5-6 years was the iPhone drop. The rest have been nothing more than a instructional on how supposedly "cool" the new software was. HELLO!!! that sheit is for the WWDC, not Macworld. Macworld was supposed to be about computers. C>O>M>P>U>T>E>R>S!!1
i've come to expect disappointing keynotes though to be honest, the only good one over the past 5-6 years was the iPhone drop. The rest have been nothing more than a instructional on how supposedly "cool" the new software was. HELLO!!! that sheit is for the WWDC, not Macworld. Macworld was supposed to be about computers. C>O>M>P>U>T>E>R>S!!1
I think the variable pricing is good news. The greedy record companies will try to charge 1.29, a few months later they will realize they won't sell at that price. My prediction is, that one year from now 80% or more will be 69 cents.
Let me point out to you a small area on the map.
#1) look up United States of America, this may take some time but I am sure you can figure this one out.
#2) look up California, a pretty big, long state.
#3) look up Northern California, north of Southern California.
#4) look up Silicon Valley, a region within Northern California.
#5) look up high tech, including companies that do software and hardware.
#6) look back at your post, and spend a few bucks and visit Silicon Valley!!!!!
I have seen ignorance on the internet, but little as bad as your post. Sorry.
Wait, you would've been more pleased if they announced the mini to be dead?
Hey, just because it didn't have anything for you ... I, for one, love iLife and am very excited by the updates there.
Um, the software is about the computers. It's a consumer-type event. iLife and iWork are the perfect places to showcase software updates. It's a conference about the state of Mac computers, hardware and software.
WWDC is for developers - programming and so on. If they were describing new APIs for face recognition, THEN maybe iLife would fit there.