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

Apple really thinks we are stupid trying to tell us that the reason why they don´t make touchscreens for OS X, is BECAUSE "your hand would get tired in front of the laptop touching the screen".

Seriously!!?? :eek: I mean come on Apple!!! Of course laptop or iMac with touchscreen OS X would be stupid idea.

Just make an iPad/tablet with OS X. Problem solved! Talking ´bout smoke and mirrors.

Why don´t they just admit that they don´t have the skill or talent to make OS X work with touchscreens. Would be less insulting to our intelligences than this pathetic "hand getting tired" excuse. :rolleyes:
 
BobHail said:
Just make an iPad/tablet with OS X. Problem solved! Talking ´bout smoke and mirrors.

Why don´t they just admit that they don´t have the skill or talent to make OS X work with touchscreens. Would be less insulting to our intelligences than this pathetic "hand getting tired" excuse. :rolleyes:
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Steve has gone over this before. Remember when he made fun of those Windows 7 tables? Mac OS X is not designed for fingers.
 
I also noticed that they demonstrated just how crappy the magic mouse is in a big way. Poor guy's hands just kept getting shakier everytime the thing would first swipe in unwanted fashion, and later NOT swipe when he was trying repeatedly.

Let's hope there's a better mouse by the time Lion rolls around ;) But my instincts to return it within a few day and opt for a logitech was the right one.
 
nefan65 said:
I typically base purchases on my needs, not if someone else has/had issues dropping things. I own a smartphone...but based on your logic I probably shouldn't have bought one, because I've seen a number of people dropping them...

Actually, you can get that kind of insurance for a laptop if your insurance company offers it...GENIUS. Last I checked, my car warranty doesn't cover damage that I cause. So why would Apple cover someone's inability to hold something?
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The point is idiots are buying things that will break, and they will have to replace them more than once. Wonderful for Apple; lousy for consumers. Uh, those who aren't masochists.

3N16MA said:
The screen is glossy according to the specs on Apple.
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Of course. How could it be otherwise? Pros want and need matte; Jobs gives them only glossy.

k2k koos said:
WHY? I've never dropped a laptop/powerbook/macbook/notebook whatever in my life, are you assuming that most portable computer users are clumsy?
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No. I'm telling Macbook Air purchasers to prepare to buy 3-4 of the flimsy things, like sheep.

spazzcat said:
lol we saw what 5 mins of Lion.
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More than enough.

Mike225 said:
"Back to the Mac" really meant that they have turned their backs to the mac
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Yes, and now it's time for us to turn our backs on them.

Yebot said:
"look for a 12"
"Lipstick"
"fetish"
"Blu-ray"
"current rendering project"

Obviously you work in porn.

Go away.
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SkippyThorson said:
Nice catch. That took some memory! :p
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Just bought a Boxx 8550 3D Extreme Tower AND RenderBoxx. Am going away now forever.

Bye Steve-o, bye Apple, bye Mac, bye especially to all your shill fanbot iBrats here on MacRumors.

SO done with you.

:apple:
 
gorby said:
I also noticed that they demonstrated just how crappy the magic mouse is in a big way. Poor guy's hands just kept getting shakier everytime the thing would first swipe in unwanted fashion, and later NOT swipe when he was trying repeatedly.

Let's hope there's a better mouse by the time Lion rolls around ;) But my instincts to return it within a few day and opt for a logitech was the right one.
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There is a better mouse already. Any mouse not from Apple is a better mouse.
 
gorby said:
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.
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Didn't he say the vertical orientation was the problem? The late rumors are about a patent for a computer that folds down, with a touch screen.
xbjllb said:
Bye Steve-o, bye Apple, bye Mac, bye especially to all your shill fanbot iBrats here on MacRumors.

SO done with you.

:apple:
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Aww, now you're making everybody happy!
lilo777 said:
There is a better mouse already. Any mouse not from Apple is a better mouse.
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While they've made some silly mice over the years, the Magic Trackpad is the best mouse I've used yet.
 
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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I don't know where you read that from, but it is incorrect. There are no batteries in thumb drives. I can't say that the data will last "forever" but I am reading that SSDs have a 100+ year life expectancy on read cycles. They do, however, eventually wear out after you erase/write a certain number of times (still with a 10+ year typical life expectancy).
 
JAT said:
Didn't he say the vertical orientation was the problem? The late rumors are about a patent for a computer that folds down, with a touch screen.
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agggghhhh the rumors lives :mad::D

i'm not saying it will never happen in some far off future... in some intelligently utilized way (which a fold down computer is not ;)) the trackpad is already the most intelligent approach to this idea
 
Cougarcat said:
Steve has gone over this before. Remember when he made fun of those Windows 7 tables? Mac OS X is not designed for fingers.
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Of course it´s not designed for fingers (yet), but it could be.

Remember how he made fun of netbooks and now they made one, really expensive one. It´s like a toilet made of gold. What´s the point?

If they made OS X work also with touchscreens, that would be revolutionary period!
 
wilycoder said:
and for $499 you can do that on an ipad.

so you are paying $500 to be able to run flash....

this thing is dead on arrival.
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You can not plug in a usb flash drive into a ipad, you can not install microsoft office in an ipad, you can not easily transfer word docs from an ipad to a mac or pc, you can not print to wired printers from an ipad, you can not host an online meeting (gotomeeting) with an ipad... just a few of the examples. An iPad is just a big iPod Touch with 3G; the MBA is a Computer.
 
hpwc121 said:
You can not plug in a usb flash drive into a ipad, you can not install microsoft office in an ipad, you can not easily transfer word docs from an ipad to a mac or pc, you can not print to wired printers from an ipad, you can not host an online meeting (gotomeeting) with an ipad... just a few of the examples. An iPad is just a big iPod Touch with 3G; the MBA is a Computer.
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The iPad is way more than just a big iPod Touch, maybe not in a technical sense, but in a usability sense. The apps on iPad are way more developed than those for the more mobile devices.

For example, iWork on iPad is absolutely wonderful.
 
beginning of the end for Apple, without a doubt! From now on Apple will be as main-stream as Apple pie. Back to the mac was actually saying to the professional user base ( graphic designers, movie editors, sound engineers...) hit the road.

Lion is looking to become windows vista but maybe even worst, i mean are theses guys serious, appstore? Say hello to i-ads all over the computer screen, most probably having a permanent appstore icon in the finder window comparable to the itunes store icon in itunes actually i'm pretty sure this will be the case making my computer look like a freaking commercial. and IOS good lord, an ipad toy operating system on a Computer that coasted me 5000$. if this is going to be the case i will "without a doubt" turn my back on Apple computers within the blink of an eye.

Also what an extremely lame keynote, i mean wow....so if i understand correctly, a keynote named "back to the mac" has nothing to show us but some lame ilife apps where people can put together a photo book and make a stupid lame trailer type video...:confused::confused::confused: "!!!" and they had everybody clapping there hands as if it was revolutionary stuff here...was i missing something?

beginning of the end i tells ya...Apple is taking the "telling everybody what to do and how to work on a computer/buy software...etc a bit to far. i'm not buying it, i'll wait it out till lion finally hits stores and lets hope i'm wrong here, afraid I'm not tough.

LionOS is like someone mentioned before a pig with lipstick
 
bingo, its an ipad with a build in keyboard. not sure what folks expected as the writing has been on the wall for a while, they only want to build products that can consume their paid digital content, anything outside of that space will slowly be phased out with non-support and then spun to say there was lack of interest. I am sure somewhere lagunasol and *LTD got a message in the mac'cave and have yelled "to the macmobile!"

Mike225 said:
"Back to the Mac" really meant that they have turned their backs to the mac
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So the new 13" Air has slower processor options than the old one.

And from what I can tell, it is slightly heavier than the old one too.

And it lost its backlit keyboard.

I'm sorry, but WTF?

Otherwise, nice with the MBP trackpad and unibody construction, but that was a given. Overall this is stupid.

And people come on, $999 for a 11.6 netbook with 1.4 Ghz prosessor is not excactly cheap. The 13" seems like better value.
 
gorby said:
agggghhhh the rumors lives :mad::D

i'm not saying it will never happen in some far off future... in some intelligently utilized way (which a fold down computer is not ;)) the trackpad is already the most intelligent approach to this idea
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Glad to be of assistance.

I have 2 trackpads, now.
 
Any videos up for me to watch?

From what I hear It'd be a great way to get to sleep tonight.
 
The bitter fanboy gnashing over about how they're not special anymore is just palpably hilarious on this thread.

I think you can still find Amiga PPC motherboards out there if you really want to use a platform no one else does, you know.
 
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