Thats a tad scary.
Guess thats why they recommend you don't leave your laptop recharging unattended.
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MacBook Event in a few wks - all about "the Brick?"
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Thats a tad scary.
Guess thats why they recommend you don't leave your laptop recharging unattended.
brick you say?
for me that has mac mini written all over it, but hopefully macbook's (pro ) as well!!!
for me that has mac mini written all over it, but hopefully macbook's (pro ) as well!!!
Yeah, led filled cables vs. cancer causing radio waves...we can't win...unless....
Yikes what was on my to-do list today...ahh yes..
1)Cancel macrumors account
2) destroy all of my modern technology
3) become amish
From my experience with these types of math problems, the other part to thinking outside the box is to take the right step(s) outside the box.
If we go along the same lines as the rainbow-colored iPod nanos statement, the likely meaning of "brick" given the statements in this thread would probably be:
Or a modular construction/design of the new notebooks.
Maybe this is the antithesis to the Macbook Air. Remember how we all thought that Apple couldn't possibly use a name like "Air"? Well, maybe the Macbook Brick is on its way. It may be a little chunky, but it will have all the ports and optical drive options that we need
if you combine two of the ideas in this thread with an apple patent you get a docking station which together form a "structure" of building blocks to form the computer. remember the patent apple filed where the small notebook machine was loaded into the side of a large display/imac?
mjb
mjb
First you have a 12"~13" slate tablet, then you attach it to a base with keyboard and trackpad to make it a notebook, then you hook it up to a dock to give desktop-level (or at least iMac-level) performance, then you attach 1 or 2 additional displays to the dock, then you link many of those Macs together via a home server.
Im going with the code
Hmmmm Brick.
While i know alot of you think that the BRICK refers to something with the Apple hardware, but im starting to believe it has to do with the building blocks or 'bricks' of the OS. We know that Apple is working on their new OS (Snow Leopard) which will not incorperate new features as much as it will completely rewrite the code for processing with multiple cores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6
Yes 9to5 said this is going to be a "macbook event" but when has apple ever had just a macbook event without involving any other mac products? I really believe that this will be a "Mac" event focusing on the MB/MBP lines, but will also speed bump iMac and Mini. In addition i think the BRICK will be all about the future of OSX and changing the BRICKS to take advantage of technology coming to the product line in the future... Snow Leopard, Nahalem, Mobile Quad-Cores....
thats my 2c
Hmmmm Brick.
While i know alot of you think that the BRICK refers to something with the Apple hardware, but im starting to believe it has to do with the building blocks or 'bricks' of the OS. We know that Apple is working on their new OS (Snow Leopard) which will not incorperate new features as much as it will completely rewrite the code for processing with multiple cores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6
Yes 9to5 said this is going to be a "macbook event" but when has apple ever had just a macbook event without involving any other mac products? I really believe that this will be a "Mac" event focusing on the MB/MBP lines, but will also speed bump iMac and Mini. In addition i think the BRICK will be all about the future of OSX and changing the BRICKS to take advantage of technology coming to the product line in the future... Snow Leopard, Nahalem, Mobile Quad-Cores....
thats my 2c
It's also possible that this is just about a power brick.
They did have an iMac event, but they included iLife and iWork too, which are for all Macs.
Makes sense, given that the iMac is rumored for a refresh and the Mac mini is overdue for an update.
And it just so happens that Nehalem is Intel's first modular CPU microarchitecture... coincidence?
I saw a power adapter on AOTS a few weeks ago that not only supplied power, but also acted as a wireless basestation for a computer without an Ethernet port. Maybe something like this would interesting for at the very least the MBA.
TEG
TEG
I think everyone has missed the obvious connection. You use bricks to build things and it takes more than one brick to make a elegant structure. So obviously Apple is introducing a new line of Macs that are modular. You buy a CPU brick a DVD brick a Blu-Ray brick a couple graphic card bricks and a hard drive brick and you have yourself a nice computer. Then when it comes time to upgrade you just throw a couple new bricks on the pile. I can't figure out why you guys didn't think of this. They will call it the Lego Mac. 
I can't figure out why you guys didn't think of this. They will call it the Lego Mac. 
I think everyone has missed the obvious connection. You use bricks to build things and it takes more than one brick to make a elegant structure. So obviously Apple is introducing a new line of Macs that are modular. You buy a CPU brick a DVD brick a Blu-Ray brick a couple graphic card bricks and a hard drive brick and you have yourself a nice computer. Then when it comes time to upgrade you just throw a couple new bricks on the pile.
Wow, superb, I am definitely buying one!
Are there any leaked photos available? : ))
http://www.saadit.com/visualization/onyx3000ir3bricks.asp
Doesn't look like a consumer product to me.
Doesn't look like a consumer product to me
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Maybe the Brick is a Mac in the form of a power brick - ala the AirPort Express.
Introducing the all-new Macmini nano!
Introducing the all-new Mac
I think everyone has missed the obvious connection. You use bricks to build things and it takes more than one brick to make a elegant structure. So obviously Apple is introducing a new line of Macs that are modular. You buy a CPU brick a DVD brick a Blu-Ray brick a couple graphic card bricks and a hard drive brick and you have yourself a nice computer. Then when it comes time to upgrade you just throw a couple new bricks on the pile.
Yeah, i thought this too. I've actually seen it in Japan, except I really don't know how easy it would be to get the bricks from that company. From Apple, it would be easy. Also, the computer I saw was pretty slow. I don't know how it was cooled.
I guess we'll find out in 20 years. Until then there has been zero scientific evidence saying it is harmful. Though there have been a few token studies like this latest one saying there is some correlation to using cell phones and altering the deep stages of sleep. I haven't seen the study itself just the media coverage of it but I don't trust any studies until I read them and they have been duplicated.
If it is harmful, do you really think it will change anything? We have already changed our lives around our wireless technologies and it may be impossible to change anything. Businesses survive because of wireless technology and increasing productivity. (Though people waste countless hours checking emails in the business world). Either way, every day we have risks to our health whether it is the background radiation we encounter every day, UV from the sun, or the pollutants in the air. I'm going to take a stab at it and say that tobacco is far more likely to kill than cell phone use since tobacco with diet/lifestyle being the first and second leading actual causes of death in the U.S.
thats would be stupid.. what if you forgot your power cord/brick? and still have your macbook with you? no wifi because of your idea.
