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Live Coverage of Apple's 'Back to the Mac' Media Event

xbjllb said:
Now I've got to look for a 12-core PC tower (or better) and Apple just lost $10,000.

Lion? Lipstick on a pig. The iPadification of Mac OS.

Macbook Air? Jobs attempt to make notebooks into a toy as useless and thin as he is.

And of course, his fetish with Blu-ray comes complete with no optical drive whatsoever to deliver content to clients. Useless.

Now we pro content creator users can finally leave. All several million of us.

The era is finally over. The mac, as far as creating pro content, is dead. I'll be divesting my entire company's mac inventory as soon as my current rendering project is finished.

Buh-bye.

:apple:

P.S. What did I expect from Willie Wonka? Sanity. Way too much to ask for.
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I guess sanity is relative.
In your case it's you who appear to be on the wrong side of those tracks.
What exactly were you wanting so badly that you are going to "divest my entire mac inventory" and move to a new platform.
Boy you so called Pro's sure act like a bunch of spoiled brats. No real Pro user would ever make such childish and knee jerk comments.
 
Here's the dilemma I'm in


they're both so closely priced.
 

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Soo.. Lion.

- App store - Could work, but likely major developers don't want to get into that channel for a 70/30 contract. Very good for indie and shareware though.
- Full-screen applications and switching, uh. Ever heard of Alt+Tab and full screen?
- Launch pad - And the launch pad is launched from the dock, lol. Dock and spotlight beat this hands down.
- Isn't software update supposed to be your updater, why separate to App store?
- Mission control looked like expose on steroids.

I'm sorry to be a partypooper, but not that impressed with this. I hope they have more planned for next summer. Especially with the only promising thing coming early to SL.

Macbook Air looks very good, but is not my cup of tea. I was really hoping for some MBP updates.
 
Neobond said:
Just "called" family out in cali, from minnesota, worked great! I don't know how I feel about video calling, it feels... unnatural.
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I like it but then again I've been using iChat video for years from CO to VA so my parents can see their grandson. Lovin' the fact that I can do this without my Mac now (they have iMac's and no iDevices w/FaceTime) especially once I get My3G and can do it while out and about on 3G.
 
I know this won't have much lasting impact here but I just have to point out that this wasn't a keynote, it was a media event. Without Apple at Macworld Expo there's hardly been a true keynote for years.

Not every announcement they have to make is "revolutionary" but the old tradition of annual major keynote releases seems to make everyone expect far too much from any level of event. Other companies have these all the time but hardly anyone beside journalists and investors pay attention.
 
My video stream stuttered and looped back a few times, but a refresh soon sorted it. As to actually what was announced, I'm pleased with the iLife updates, even though I don't use iLife much. I think the new 'Movie Trailers' feature in iMovie is very professional looking for saying it only takes a couple of minutes to create.
 
I hope they replace iChat with Facetime or vice versa. Having two apps that pretty much do the same thing is lame.
 
WiiDSmoker said:
Uhh? I'm not a troll you idiot. I'm asking a simple question. I visit and contribute to these forums alot.

Just answer the question
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Contribute is such a strong word. I say that, having read many of your posts.

Most big commercial games are presented in full screen mode, where app switching doesn't even work. The first Mac full-screen app I ever saw was when the year began 1-9-8, I don't actually remember what app it was. Probably Airborne!.

This sounds like a mode that will offer an iOS-like interface, which is not similar to any sort of standare Win or OSX GUI.
 
I hope that Apple instead of bringing iphone/ipad features to mac, bring mac stuff to iphone/ipad.

Why cant apple let mac be what mac is and not making it into a toy like ios??

MBA is good, but it has very high price tag. I understand that you have to pay for the thiness and SSD. But come on Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz?? atleast bring intel i3:eek: And its soon 2011 and they are still on USB 3.0?

And Mac os lion has nothing new compare to snow leopard, just those small multi touch stuff. Why not just release an update of 500 mb for snow leopard and bring it on.

I hope when they will update the MBP they add:

High res screen
thiner
13" get i3 or i5
USB 3.0
 
jll62 said:
Multitouch in OS X? Check
Engineering to create an iPad inspired Mac? Check

We could be 12-18 months from an Apple tablet running OS X. 3rd gen iPad will be a MacBook Touch?
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Exactly what I said to myself ;-) well...let's hope for the better !

"What would happen if a MacBook met an iPad?" :rolleyes: target missed...

"Everything we've learned, has come down to this." not exactly promising (but "down" seems rather appropriate, indeed) !

and this new "app store" NO REST FOR THE GREEDY :mad: billions of useless apps hiding an handful of interesting ones, all centralized, so apple can keep total control of what ? our poor digital wallets ? NO ! Apple development policy is a scandal, nothing good can come from this !
 
Couple thoughts I had after watching:

Finally we can put to rest the silly 'touchscreen iMac' rumors/requests/hopes. Touchscreen desktops are a stupid idea, I wonder how many people actually think it all the way through.

Do I want to spend hours touching my screen in photoshop(or your app here) or some other, faster, more productive and efficient way? Hmm..

It's cool (if that) in only a 30 second store demo way. Not as an actual computer. Want a touchscreen Mac? There's a little something called an iPad (more specifically, future iterations of said product)


Lion... not sure, seems almost premature considering how little they revealed. Yet I'm not sure I expected more. Just kind of an odd preview, though I of course appreciate a taste of the next OSX :D

Macbook air, cool, not really in my area of interest. Do agree that notebooks in the future will resemble the form factor more or less.


Mac App Store, seems another foregone conclusion to me. As someone who doesn't own a single iDevice still :eek: I have often thought it strange that the app store didn't cross pollinate into the Mac. i.e why can't I buy an iOS game if I choose and play it on my Mac?

I guess you still can't do that, but this is certainly more or less a solution to that. If it will allow me to say, buy Civ 5 quickly and easily, rather through some other method, good and well.
 
Baadshah said:
And Mac os lion has nothing new compare to snow leopard, just those small multi touch stuff. Why not just release an update of 500 mb for snow leopard and bring it on.
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Not to sound condescending, because I can be stupid as the next guy, but does everyone complaining about not enough new in 10.7 really think Apple showed us all the coming features?!?!

Seriously, do you?
 
Considering the MBA is available today, and Lion will be out in the summer (using Apple time, perhaps Nov. 2011 - ha ha), and it's hard to see that Apple would require MBA owners to buy an external DVD player to install Lion, perhaps future versions of Mac OS 10.7.x and later will be on a Software Reinstall Drive like the one that ships with the MBA - freeing up the original one as a very large thumb drive?

Since all the thumb drives I know of have small batteries to keep the information in memory - what happens in a few years when the batteries die?

What happens to your work (yeah, yeah - save to the cloud) and your iTunes library, etc. if stored on an MBA and then the battery goes dead dead? Does all data go bye-bye if there is no power available as all info is stored in flash memory?
 
xbjllb said:
Now I've got to look for a 12-core PC tower (or better) and Apple just lost $10,000.

Lion? Lipstick on a pig. The iPadification of Mac OS.

Macbook Air? Jobs attempt to make notebooks into a toy as useless and thin as he is.

And of course, his fetish with Blu-ray comes complete with no optical drive whatsoever to deliver content to clients. Useless.

Now we pro content creator users can finally leave. All several million of us.

The era is finally over. The mac, as far as creating pro content, is dead. I'll be divesting my entire company's mac inventory as soon as my current rendering project is finished.

Buh-bye.

:apple:

P.S. What did I expect from Willie Wonka? Sanity. Way too much to ask for.
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"look for a 12"
"Lipstick"
"fetish"
"Blu-ray"
"current rendering project"

Obviously you work in porn.

Go away.
 
gorby said:
Do I want to spend hours touching my screen in photoshop(or your app here) or some other, faster, more productive and efficient way? Hmm..
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Having a touch sensitive display (that functions well, as in apple's iphone/ipad) has always been a ui designers' and software programmers' fantasy ! You're lacking imagination here, it will change the way we interact with computers for the better ! ;)
 
freelancing said:
Since all the thumb drives I know of have small batteries to keep the information in memory - what happens in a few years when the batteries die?

What happens to your work (yeah, yeah - save to the cloud) and your iTunes library, etc. if stored on an MBA and then the battery goes dead dead? Does all data go bye-bye if there is no power available as all info is stored in flash memory?
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Ummmmmm....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile_memory
 
As someone who was eagerly awaiting just a slight refresh for the MBP line (looking to buy a 13") I have to say this event actually soured me a bit. All of the reasons I want the MBP are the exact *opposite* of the apparent direction Apple wants to take their line in. Huge bummer for me.
 
Catalyx said:
Not to sound condescending, because I can be stupid as the next guy, but does everyone complaining about not enough new in 10.7 really think Apple showed us all the coming features?!?!

Seriously, do you?
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perhaps the real question is why did they feel the need to pre-announce anything that early when it appears that they have no clue what 10.7 will be like?
 
If iPad + MacBook were to have a baby, I wanted it to be finally an...

= iPad with OS X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not this overpriced netbook called MacBook Air. :(

Oh well, maybe next time.
 
lilo777 said:
perhaps the real question is why did they feel the need to pre-announce anything that early when it appears that they have no clue what 10.7 will be like?
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yes, apple is going to release it next summer but they have no idea what it will be like.
 
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