Point taken - but Apple has forseen the problem: each brickbook will be sold together with iOil, a highly refined hemp extract from Steve's personal plantation that users may apply to the surface of the device to ensure a satisfying level of personal lubrication.
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MacBook 'Brick' Codename Speculation
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Point taken - but Apple has forseen the problem: each brickbook will be sold together with iOil, a highly refined hemp extract from Steve's personal plantation that users may apply to the surface of the device to ensure a satisfying level of personal lubrication.
My money would be on 'The Brick' being something intangible.
There has been some info relating to profit cutting by Apple for Q4 - Further re-iterated by a Wall Street bank "Aggressive Price Point" So price drops to increase market share.
It's a riddle, so it's meant to mean something obvious yet at the same time difficult - A physical object is too straight forward. (to me)
A brick to break windows, The new Macbook - switching users from windows, thus breaking them.
This tablet thing I can't see happening for a good few years yet. Think about how it would actually used - A laptop is the perfect document companion with the keyboard etc - If a tablet type device is sat on a surface, you'd have to be crouching over the unit to type, surely? - Doesn't make sense.
There has been some info relating to profit cutting by Apple for Q4 - Further re-iterated by a Wall Street bank "Aggressive Price Point" So price drops to increase market share.
It's a riddle, so it's meant to mean something obvious yet at the same time difficult - A physical object is too straight forward. (to me)
A brick to break windows, The new Macbook - switching users from windows, thus breaking them.
This tablet thing I can't see happening for a good few years yet. Think about how it would actually used - A laptop is the perfect document companion with the keyboard etc - If a tablet type device is sat on a surface, you'd have to be crouching over the unit to type, surely? - Doesn't make sense.
tablet?
Maybe a tablet similar where the screen turns to cover or reveal a keyboard?
I could see something like a NetBook with a screen from 10 to 12 inches. Internal SSD disks ( or standard disks as well ) with optical built in. Check out the old Dell 700m. If mac did something like that, but put the mac engineers/designers after it, it would be something to behold
Maybe a tablet similar where the screen turns to cover or reveal a keyboard?
I could see something like a NetBook with a screen from 10 to 12 inches. Internal SSD disks ( or standard disks as well ) with optical built in. Check out the old Dell 700m. If mac did something like that, but put the mac engineers/designers after it, it would be something to behold
Tesla tried and gave-up on a wireless energy devices almost 100-years ago! Several very wealthy railroad magnates gave Tesla the equivalent of several hundred million dollars to build and market this type of device. I know we have some very smart people today but Tesla was WAY ahead of of his time and still would be ahead of his time TODAY!
It is possible to transmit energy over the air but it is TERRIBLY inefficient and would ONLY be beneficial and responsible for smaller devices such as the iPhone or iPod line. The reduction in efficiency is so great that is would take sometimes 60% the energy to charge your MacBook via wireless than by walking over to an outlet and charging it with your wall outlet and charger! Maybe Apple reduced the loss to a more acceptable degree but even then the loss would FAR outweigh that of a wall adapter and yes, I know it has inherent losses as well in heat and the inefficiencies of switching transistors (very low) and the general conversion process.
For those that want to learn more about inductive charging or wireless energy I would encourage you to search the web. There are many great engineering and research articles regarding this subject. It is a GREAT idea is theory but the technical limitation and health concerns over flooding the air with high-potential radio waves that are inductively converted into energy are great.
I lived next to a high-power radio station of 50KW FM and 15KW AM. I could stretch a very long wire or wind a semi-resonant could and 'couple' that energy from the radio station and convert it into current and voltage. Even at a close distance and with hundreds of feet of wire I could only get a few volts (around 9V) with terribly low current. So at that rate it would take more than a day to fully charge a simply iPod with a small capacity battery.
Maybe Apple and the technical community of which I was once part of - knows something new that has not been published or vetted. I would love to be wrong but with the current limitations of that idea and the current environmental situation with dwindling resources it would seem irresponsible to introduce a device that could require twice the power and much longer times to charge a device over 'wireless'.
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I think the brick would refer to the severe price reduction or as they say in the retail business - we dropped the price like a brick. That would make the most sense to my warped and twisted mind.
People - the brick is nothing more than a major reduction in price. Apple has saturated the current market with $1200-2000 notebooks when the average computer is selling for $499 at the big-box stores. I am not here to argue the merit of said $499 computer versus an Apple but Apple may be realizing that in order to increase their market share beyond 10% in the notebook are (fastest growing area in computers today) they will need to lower prices - and the same goes for the iMac and Mac Pro.
Apple may have hit a wall at their price versus performance versus average joe and his new computer needs.
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Hmmm, with enough towers and power, you could eliminate the need for batteries. Mobile devices could just feed off the EM waves. You wouldn't need that much power since you wouldn't have to charge a battery. The average iPod has a play time of 24 hours. When not in use, a small battery could be charged to power the unit for when there's not tower in range.
Than again, lots of towers, very high power consumption, probably unhealthy radiation... you'd have to compare a few grams saved on the device against the weight of the necessary radiation suits... hmmm
macbook brick don't worry its not a tablet
macbook brick, could be the tablet mac but with keyboards not like the patent which we saw earlier or it could be that!
Apple has always beat others in launching new technology, and as we all know Microsoft upcoming OS is supporting touch and Mac still haven't. It is no doubt that Apple must be launching tablet during this fall, or they could change macbook into touch sensitivity like tablet kind of features, because brick only resembles something close to that.
What do you guys think???
macbook brick, could be the tablet mac but with keyboards not like the patent which we saw earlier or it could be that!
Apple has always beat others in launching new technology, and as we all know Microsoft upcoming OS is supporting touch and Mac still haven't. It is no doubt that Apple must be launching tablet during this fall, or they could change macbook into touch sensitivity like tablet kind of features, because brick only resembles something close to that.
What do you guys think???
It's a long shot, but pehaps it's the rebirth of The Cube? A bit bigger than a mini, but as upgradable as a full tower...
And for my contribution to the nonsense acronyms:
Big Round Inverted Credential Kicker
And for my contribution to the nonsense acronyms:
Big Round Inverted Credential Kicker
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Apple loves to build hype up over their products. Its a brilliant marketing campaign. Get all the rumor sites geared up for something cool. Makes us want it more.
Apple loves to build hype up over their products. Its a brilliant marketing campaign. Get all the rumor sites geared up for something cool. Makes us want it more.
How about a completely touch-screen device, like two super-sized iPhones on top of one another, hinged, and covered with some tough rubber sleeving. That could be new killer Apple device - a Brick with which to break Windows? Half way between a cell phone and a laptop computer, but actually both. Virtual trackpad, large virtual keyboards, bigger battery? I can drag OK with my iPhone's glass. I guess some mouse operations would have to be accommodated some other way.
hahaha 650 macbook hahahaha
could you imagine what the current macbooks would sell for. my current blackbook 3 months old would sell for 400. i would cry.
A lighter, thinner Macbook with an LED display would be wonderful. I was not a fan of the Macbook Air until I borrowed a friend's - it really changed my opinion. The only thing I think the MBA lacks is expandability. Trading off a little bit of thinness for a better hard drive would be worth it to me.
I guess it would be too much to hope for a dedicated video card in the new MBs, though. I have to admit the integrated graphics hold the MB back from being as good as it could be. I know Apple needs to differentiate between the MB and the MBP, but still.
About pricing - I don't see how Apple can go to an aluminum case and an LED display in the MB without raising prices. The cost of materials is higher than ever. I would imagine the cheapest Alu Macbook will cost at least $1299.
I guess it would be too much to hope for a dedicated video card in the new MBs, though. I have to admit the integrated graphics hold the MB back from being as good as it could be. I know Apple needs to differentiate between the MB and the MBP, but still.
About pricing - I don't see how Apple can go to an aluminum case and an LED display in the MB without raising prices. The cost of materials is higher than ever. I would imagine the cheapest Alu Macbook will cost at least $1299.
The Brick
ok ok - more lateral still...
'the brick' is a Pink Floyd ref' - "all in all...another brick in the wall"
we know SJ is a Baby Boomer music freak, Boomers luv their Floyd...
I am SO right here.
as for what it means, well you know, don't make me do ALL the work here...
lol
unhelpfully,
MH
ok ok - more lateral still...
'the brick' is a Pink Floyd ref' - "all in all...another brick in the wall"
we know SJ is a Baby Boomer music freak, Boomers luv their Floyd...
I am SO right here.
as for what it means, well you know, don't make me do ALL the work here...
lol
unhelpfully,
MH
Brick = Power Supply
If you noticed with the new 3G iphones, the power supply has shrunk to just a plug. I never understood why the power supply for my first gen iphone was so huge... My Macbook Pro has a HUGE brick power supply which I have to lug around... If they managed to create a much smaller, thinner power supply for the macbook, the overall weight for laptop and power brick would be reduced, easier to carry, and fit into a thin laptop case...
If you noticed with the new 3G iphones, the power supply has shrunk to just a plug. I never understood why the power supply for my first gen iphone was so huge... My Macbook Pro has a HUGE brick power supply which I have to lug around... If they managed to create a much smaller, thinner power supply for the macbook, the overall weight for laptop and power brick would be reduced, easier to carry, and fit into a thin laptop case...