Leftover WWDC Rumor Tidbits

[IlluminatedSage]

cube?

only if you can upgrade your Graphics card and later even the cpu. i never end up upgrading anything other than graphics card anyway. (cept for HDrive, ram)

would totally be interested in that. think the imac just isnt upgradable enough. try getting a nice graphics card in there, you cant!!!!

i just want a lil mac, bigger than macmini, which i can update and make powerful for what it is. doesnt need more than one dual core cpu.

 

[blackstarliner]

There is no way in hell that Apple can compete in the corporate market. Even with a some half-assed desktop. Cali design studios are not corporate customers. The firm I work at has 70,000 employees worldwide with an average of more than one 'work place' (read PC/monitor/kb/mouse) per person. Everything is Dell. It's cheaper than you can imagine and they buy all the equipment back at the end of the lease period (ca. 2-3 years). Someone has to support all these stupid users, and that is big business too. Where are you going to find a few thousand Mac-trained 24x7 support staff? In this life, you ain't.

The whiners are saying; I want a cheap Mac. But I don't want a mini coz I want to feel like a power user as it makes my peemus feel funny. I don't want a Mac Pro coz I'm cheap and I realize that 2000 bucks plus for a gaming machine may be a little pointless. I don't want an iMac coz it doesn't look like a PC. I want to brag about having more graphics (read: gaming) capability than is needed for the best 3D CAD tools and video editors. It is important how many Doom fps I can brag about at school.

If there is someone on this thread that genuinely wants a 'Gamer-Mac' NOT for gaming I apologise. But Jesus wept, there are so many better things to do with a computer than pretending to kill stuff. Turn off Doom, buy a mini (or a pro) and hit GarageBand or something. Screw this 'Gamer-Mac'. Buy a freekin PC, heaven forbid you should 'think different'.

Jeesh.

 

[Bengt77]

I would like to see a 23 Inch iMac - That comes in white and black....

It should use one Conroe (Core 2) up to 2.66GHz, use up to 4GB (2x2GB of DDR2 800) Ram... , One 750GB SATA2 HSS, and Have an Integrated X1800 Mobile 512MB Video Card.

That would be the Sex

Two HDDs because Leopard brings along Timemachine, so you really want two HDDs to backup your stuff.
Four ram slots is much cheaper and there should be more room now with cooler chips.

Hell yeah! Check my sig; just what I'm waiting for! The money is right here. I'll take a 23" iMac Ultra if it has all the extra memory (RAM, VRAM, HDD) that requires you to BTO the current 20" iMac, and has a substantially better graphics card (X1800 will be fine, although a mobile X1900 would be excellent, if it even exists). If such an iMac is only slightly more exensive than a maxed out 20", then I'm sold instantly.

Man, when is it coming already?!...

EDIT: And no, no black please. I went for the white iPod 5G, and will go for a white iMac as well. Black is too reminiscent of PC's. And don't even think about a black iMac with that greyish stand the current white iMac uses. That would be a colour scheme too much like Dell's and HP's. Just give me a white one. Or make the stand black as well. Or red. (No, that would be too much like the iPod U2.)

 

[jouster]

I am reposting with a different representation.

In the last one, the background was white which blends in with the page.

Here we go now, the black is 4520 by 2540 (the alleged 37" screen).

The pink is the 1024x768 I have on my eMac.

And the blue is an OS X icon at full res, 128x128.

Wouldn't resolution independence negate any size disadvantage?

 

[wbread5]

A Mac Pro Cube isn't THAT unrealistic, is it?

37"?!?!

you would have to shift your chair to span your eyes from one side to the other.

That would be great for producers/ users of protools, who would no longer need to buy two monitors to view a complete project's timeline.

 

[sunfast]

Wouldn't resolution independence negate any size disadvantage?

It certainly should do, and means we can have displays with a ridiculous pixel density. That don't look ridiculous.

 

[pink-pony115]

This year WWDC did not fulfill my vision of the mac product line.

 

[whooleytoo]

It certainly should do, and means we can have displays with a ridiculous pixel density. That don't look ridiculous.

Funnily enough, I'd actually use it the other way around - on mid-sized displays, I'd use a scale factor less than 1; so as to give the impression of a larger resolution screen. Personally, I think a lot of OSX's UI elements are far too large - particularly the menubar, menus & menu text.

 

[dextertangocci]

I wants me a Mac Pro Cube!

ME TOO!!!!!

 

[Rocketman]

A hodgepodge of last-minute claims that are unable to be verified, but posted for your amusement and discussion:

- Mac Pro Cube.
- 25" iMac in Black
- 27" (1920 x 1200) and 37" (4520x2540) displays

Tidbits that are believed to be true:

- Mac Pro announced at WWDC, shipping in August.
- Leopard targeted for shipping in Feb/March 2007.
- 24P in Final Cut Pro ready to go, announcement date unknown.

If you look at this in light of 20-20 hindsight, There was a 25" (24") iMac released, not in black, and it does indeed have a 1920x1200 display.

Rocketman

 

[lion0002]

My understanding was that the new version of Final Cut Pro would incorporate full res 1080 24p editing as well as 24f (canon's version of 24p from interlaced chips) pulldown removal. So in a sense it expands the type of footage you can edit without having to go through an intermediate codec. Just wait for Final Cut EXTREME! haha.