count chocula said:
1.66 core duos in a lap top would fetch way more than $1000...probably $1300 at least. Just look at the price difference between the imac and macbook pro.
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1.66 core duos in a lap top would fetch way more than $1000...probably $1300 at least. Just look at the price difference between the imac and macbook pro.
Color!
If they offer colors, I'll be going for a white one ... unless one of the colors is beige! Everyone and <a href="http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_Q1_W11_2006-04-18_inspn_1300_N510406?c=au&l=en&s=dhs">their dog</a> makes blackish laptops, but a nice retro-style beige laptop that reminds me of the early 1990s would be cool. And a real keyboard like on my Toshiba 386 lappies would be an impossible but otherwise nifty feature
If they offer colors, I'll be going for a white one ... unless one of the colors is beige! Everyone and <a href="http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_Q1_W11_2006-04-18_inspn_1300_N510406?c=au&l=en&s=dhs">their dog</a> makes blackish laptops, but a nice retro-style beige laptop that reminds me of the early 1990s would be cool. And a real keyboard like on my Toshiba 386 lappies would be an impossible but otherwise nifty feature
QCassidy352 said:
What's never going to happen? That we'll never see more BTO options? That seems like a rather foolish prediction.
I think you're just hung up over semantics. I think we will see a pro and budget 13", they just won't be two completely different models. They will be two different configurations of the same case. I think it's likely we'll also see more BTO options or good/better/best versions of the 15" instead of two different 15" cases. One option is instead of upgrading the base 15", just keep the same specs but drop the price until it's $1499 and up the specs of the "pro" version at $1999. I could care less if they call the cheap version "pro" or not. As far as I'm concerned, the mini ships in a choice of pro and consumer versions (although apple didn't name them that).
Go back and read BRlawyers post, he spells it out well.
And just for the record, I don't think there's a chance in hell of a mac hardware announcement tomorrow.
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And you think you're going crazy?
sam10685 said:true. but take the iPod line; a 1 gb Shuffle is $99 a gigabyte. HOWEVER, a 60 gig 5th generation iPod is $6.65 a gigabyte.
Well, the shuffle uses flash based memory while the iPod is a harddrive. Also, when you buy something in larger quantity the price tends to lower. Its like buying Ketchup from Costco, you might have to buy 2 gallons of it, but it costs less per ounce than the 16oz bottle you buy at Albertsons. The 30gb at $10 per gb compared to the 60gb at $6.67 per gb shows this theory well.
QCassidy352 said:
No one needs it that streamlined? You havent run a business have you? Streamlined=saved dollars. Apple using DDR 667 in the new models, 5400 rpm drives stock in all of them, it saves them money and time. One deal for all of their memory and hd's=less cost because of larger bulk buying. Streamlining things like these could save hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars for a company like apple. Cutting a model or merging lines could save them even more.
i dont know if this hs been mentioned before, but i can completely see apple not making any announcement at all for the new Macbook/iBook and just putting on their website. It would be "Thinking Different". Also, I dont think a new iBook deserves a whole special event unless its really really thin and sexy.
What do you think about this for apples line up:
Desktop Laptop iPod
Pro: Powermac/Macpro= Macbook pro= ipod video
Consumer: iMac=Macbook mini= ipod shuffle
Budget: mini= macbook nano=ipod nano/mini
kind of fits a little too conveniently don't you think?
What do you think about this for apples line up:
Desktop Laptop iPod
Pro: Powermac/Macpro= Macbook pro= ipod video
Consumer: iMac=Macbook mini= ipod shuffle
Budget: mini= macbook nano=ipod nano/mini
kind of fits a little too conveniently don't you think?
sam10685 said:
I know of some camera memory cards that have really tiny hard drives, but in the shuffle... LOL
The Nano is flash based too by the way. Flash memory is extremely expensive and very slow compared to HDDs. But on the good side, flash memory has much lower power consumption and hase no moving parts. I think we might see hard drives beeing replaced by flash memory in notebooks in a couple of years because it's not sensible to shock and is easy on the battery. I can picture the apple specs... "What!? No hard drive!? Oh, 160GB flash drive... nice"
I wonder what will replace hard drives in the long run though. The invention is pretty old now... any ideas?
MrCrowbar said:
You meant the opposite, right? Yeah, you did...
MrCrowbar said:
That's an easy one - holographic storage.
I looked on samsung's site and the K9NBG08U5M is a 32gb flash drive. How much do these go for and would they use this in an upcoming macbook (pro)?
EDIT: Whoops it appears they are 32 gigabit (4gigabyte) and that they use them in nanos. Still, solder maybe 3 or 4 together and that would certainly be enough for day to day use and I could just have an external one at home that I could store really big things. That is they way you get 6 hours with a core duo!
EDIT: Whoops it appears they are 32 gigabit (4gigabyte) and that they use them in nanos. Still, solder maybe 3 or 4 together and that would certainly be enough for day to day use and I could just have an external one at home that I could store really big things. That is they way you get 6 hours with a core duo!
I was thinking about the media event thing and why the Macbook won't get one... I think the only reason they held one in Feb is becuase they thought the Video Ipod would be ready.. and then its wasn't so we got overpriced speakers instead... voting for silent update, but I don't think it will be tomorrow.. later this month, maybe the first two weeks of MAy. Apple doesn't love me enough to let me use my new latop the last quarter of school...
That shouldn't matter. As long as as you didn't hurt the logic board replacing the hard drive, the only thing that's out of warranty is the hard drive. The rest of the computer's warranty should still be good. Call apple up and bug em!iPC said:my g3 800 just crapped out on me too... stupid logic board. problem is i worked on it before so i can not send it in (not original hdd).
P.S. This assumes that the computer is still under warranty.
epepper9 said:
My bad, of course modern flash memory is faster than HDDs. I guess the connection makes it slower in every day use. Filling up my 512MB schuffle takes much longer than moving the same files to my USB hard drive. Why is that?
Holographic Memory?? My imagination processing unit is not powerful enough to render a picture of that...
I'll check wikipedia later
Could be a number of reasons. For one thing, remember that a hard drive is capable of much faster speeds than USB 2.0 has, eg FW800, SATA, etc. The circuitry in your HDD is probably just better and designed for faster transfers and bigger files... Well that's my guess anyway.MrCrowbar said:
Unless you connected your shuffle to your keyboard, in which case it would only be USB 1.1?
tny said:
How about a small wager? $1 through paypal? We both make our predictions and whoever is closer wins. If it's too debatable, it's a draw. Or we could make it on just one point. Like core solo or no core solo. As you can see, I have a gambling problem.