Live Coverage of Apple's iPad Mini Media Event [Event Ended]

[BJMRamage]

doh!!

missing an Optical Drive...stinks


but LOVE the Fusion Drive...a smart harddrive.

 

[smwatson]

No optical drive is bizarre. It doesn't need to be thin! Make it faster!

 

[w0by]

Magic drive?

It's just a Seagate Momentus XT. They've been around for years.

 

[thadoggfather]

Every hardware manufacturer has. Apple s acting like they invented the wheel here.

Yeah.

And now announcing, USB 3.0 Apple style

I had a Momentus XT back in 2010. Hated it, so I returned to optibay (when I had the 13" MBP): SSD in place of optical drive with OS and main apps and media hard drive in hard drive place for media and all other stuff that isn't speed intensive.

 

[ECUpirate44]

$1299

 

[Maxcorpious]

Sweet... I'm getting one... finally.

 

[Eidorian]

A GT 640M and a GTX 660M? Ouch, they both use the same GK107 core with 384 shaders.

Yeah.

And now announcing, USB 3.0 Apple style

I had a Momentus XT back in 2010. Hated it, so I returned to optibay (when I had the 13" MBP): SSD in place of optical drive with OS and main apps and media hard drive in hard drive place for media and all other stuff that isn't speed intensive.

What made you hate it?

 

[KPOM]

I'd personally rather have usability and flexibility than a thin iMac. It's not like you are carrying it around, it sits on your ****ing desktop.

That's why it has the hybrid drive (aka "fusion drive"). Maximum storage and maximum performance at a reasonable price.

 

[jrswizzle]

Does anybody know the name of the artists that were playing before the event began?
Cheers

One of them was Imagine Dragons

 

[rjohnstone]

The new iMac looks like a ravioli.
USB 3 finally, but "fusion drive"... wasn't that MS's idea?

 

[rnizlek]

O god here we go...

Apple Fusion Drive = Hybrid drive

Hybrid drives have been out for ages, and here they go touting it as something new.

This doesn't appear to be a hybrid drive. Based on the internals that were shown, there are actually two separate drives here, managed as a single logical drive by the system.

 

[CocoaPuffs]

Apple can introduce a toilet and make it seem revolutionary.

 

[HarryKNN21]

GTX660M on new iMac, here we go.

 

[TheHateMachine]

LOL Fusion Drives...

 

[sasasule]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasss imac refresh weee if i cannot look on pc i sure can look on iphone hehe

 

[rmwebs]

and to say "fusion drive is built into os x" is a load of crap. I had a hybrid drive in my old 2007 white intel iMac - it does the hybrid work itself.

 

[uptownnyc]

December for the 27"?

 

[drscreenplay]

Delayed Live event?

So the live video is delayed?

 

[Anuba]

Anyone who actually thought they'd make a 27" Retina display needs to grow a brain. Jesus... do the math. THINK.

 

[frayne182]

No optical drive is bizarre. It doesn't need to be thin! Make it faster!

Agreed. They were thin enough. Don't want a fan blowing it over

 

[waloshin]

Tim is going to announced the iPad mini of course.

 

[Hell0W0rld]

This price is better.

 

[lapeno]

Totally forgot about the ipad mini....lol

 

[highdefw]

"one more thing"

 

[Pianoblack3]

"And for those stuck in the past, yes there is an optical drive…" Cheeky bastard :O