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Sell The Old One

miloblithe said:
Now how do I convince my wife that we need one....
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Sell The Old One for just a little less than the new one costs now while you can get top dollar for it. Then you are only asking her to approve a few dollars more for a lot more power. :D

I was able to sell my Dual 2.5 for $2500 in early February just as the Quads went prematurely refurb for $2800 (+ $200 sales tax). It's all in the timing of the sale.
 
Apple NAB Press Conference Sunday April 23

Peace said:
http://www.nabshow.com/vr2/shows/nab2006/start.html

Apple has two booths at NAB Las Vegas April 24th-27th
One booth is 100' X 100' and the other is 50' X 50'

Lot of space to show off stuff ;)
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Apple NAB Press Conference Sunday April 23 will tell all. I'm hoping for FCS 5.5 or 6 plus 17" MacBook Pro announcements. By holding off on exercising our $199 FCS upgrade from FCP 4.5 etc, we will be able to get a newer version of everything by waiting almost to the end of the offer period December 20, 2006. This NAB event a week from tomorrow will tell us all we want to know about the next year's plans for Final Cut Studio. :)

And the 17" MacBook Pro is a favorite model among Video Editors and thus one of its primary markets. This would be the logical time and place to announce all about it and when it will ship next month to achieve maximum BUZZ and anticipation among many of its potential buyers. :)

Meantime, this coming week would be a good time to announce the new MacBook so the complete mobile Mac scene is complete once NAB is in full swing. The MacBook announcement won't happen during NAB. So it's got to be either before or after and I think Apple would rather start taking orders for MacBooks this coming week rather than in the first week of May. Then the Apple Stores can be swamped with patrons the first or second week in May when they both ship. :)
 
dferrara said:
"Special Edition" G5? Um, that was the quad-core. 40-inch Cinema Display? Maybe. Final Cut Extreme? LOL.
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Lol, yeah maybe it is far fetched. But hey, not my article. Blame ThinkSecret if its not true.

All I'm trying to say is that it could CONCEIVABLY be the reason Apple has two large booths.
 
Two Large Booths May Be One Big Booth

hyperpasta said:
Lol, yeah maybe it is far fetched. But hey, not my article. Blame ThinkSecret if its not true.

All I'm trying to say is that it could CONCEIVABLY be the reason Apple has two large booths.
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Two Large Booths May Be One Big Booth. Does it specifically list them in different halls? :confused:
 
Multimedia said:
Two Large Booths May Be One Big Booth. Does it specifically list them in different halls? :confused:
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Here's the area Apple is at :

note Apple is conveniently located near the major freight elevators.
 

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Sweet, I'd love the iBooks to go intel.

Then all we would need is 12" + 17" PowerBooks and Power Macs.

Sweeeeeeet. :D
 
This Is Apple's Usual Size NAB Booth

Peace said:
Here's the area Apple is at :

note Apple is conveniently located near the major freight elevators.
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There is nothing special about the size of this Apple Booth. They always have a huge booth at NAB. This is the normal Apple NAB setup. :) One more week to the press event that they hold at their booth on the eve of the opening of the exhibits.
 
Peace said:
Here's the area Apple is at :

note Apple is conveniently located near the major freight elevators.
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Aha, so employees can take photographs to "leak" just before the products are released! I get it! Cunning...

Maybe we'll see a bit upset and Apple will release the MacBook G5. With a dual-core 2.5GHz 970, 1Gb of RAM, and a nipple as an optional mouse replacement (choose between the nipple and the pad when ordering) I might even regret ordering my non-Apple laptop a couple of days ago...
 
Does anyone know if I can get an "ex-demo" in Canada anywhere? Apple stores I guess? And are the significantly discounted? I might pick up a G4 ibook if they are a steal.
 
DKZ said:
And look at that touchpad, you'd break your fingers trying to manuever anything with that.
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The detail that makes me smile is the fact that the laptop looks thinner than the iPod dock. :p
 
devilot said:
The detail that makes me smile is the fact that the laptop looks thinner than the iPod dock. :p
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My favorite part is how it appears to have a power connector, two ethernet ports, three USB ports, a Firewire port, and an audio port all in the 4-5" depth of the keyboard :).
 
I like this guy's site (www.applele.com). I wanted to go to Apple and somehow I added "le" in three and boom, I was on his site. Don't bother eMail him though, his english is not that good but I sure wish he would work for Apple. I especially love his idea of the iPod shuffle:

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I mean, a display showing what the "display" in iTunes shows would be perfect for the shuffle I think. All the images he makes are done in 3D Max and are fictional. The little white iBook mini appeared June 2005 thus shortly after the intel announcement. That's why there's the intel inside sticker on it. But you have to admit there's pretty much detail in his work.

I have a nice idea for the next workstation replacing th Powermac: An aluminum 19" rack with 4U in an umpright position. You could configure that with an XServe and a RAID or just 4 XServes for desktop cluster power. :D
I know, it sounds crazy but I like the idea even if this desktop might be too deep to be practical...

40" Displays? That would be twice the diagonal as my 20"... OMG, I want one, no, two! Would I require dual dual dual link to drive 2 of those? :p
40" sounds just crazy, but if anyone does this, Apple would be first. Remember when the 30" was showed in the keynote? I heard some disbelief in the audience. Would be just the same for a 40" screen. You might say 40" is too big because you would have to move your head a lot and might want to throw up when using exposé too much... But any video or audio editor would want one of these babies for sure. Let's hope the big apple booth is for the 40" screens and the small for Macbooks and 12" and 17" MBPs.
 
matticus008 said:
My favorite part is how it appears to have a power connector, two ethernet ports, three USB ports, a Firewire port, and an audio port all in the 4-5" depth of the keyboard :).
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My iBook G3 700 from 2002 has a modem port, Ethernet, 1 FW, 2 USB, a video out and a headphone socket - only one fewer than you list - in exactly 5".
 
~Shard~ said:
Adobe has already provided a release date. It was announced about 3 weeks ago that CS3 would not be released until the second quarter of 2007, so you still have at least a year to wait. :cool:
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And I would say we wont see the new Pro towers until Adobe have released CS3
 
appleguy said:
And I would say we wont see the new Pro towers until Adobe have released CS3
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I disagree. Apple will announce Conroe PowerMacs @ WWDC in August. There is no way Apple would wait another year to transition the PowerMac line. Perhaps Woodcrest will align with the CS3 release, however Conroe will definitely appear in a few more months. :cool:
 
jouster said:
My iBook G3 700 from 2002 has a modem port, Ethernet, 1 FW, 2 USB, a video out and a headphone socket - only one fewer than you list - in exactly 5".
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True, but a keyboard is 4.5" deep, and a USB port is about a half-inch across, not counting the spacing behind it. 5.5" of real hardware space doesn't fit in 4.5". The artist has good ideas, but a poor sense of space and proportion. Look at the shuffle screen, for instance. It's less than half as tall as the diameter of the iPod earbud, and there are two lines of text and a progress bar squeezed in there. That means each row of text is less than 2mm tall--way too small for print and even worse for electronics.
 
MrCrowbar said:
I like this guy's site (www.applele.com). I wanted to go to Apple and somehow I added "le" in three and boom, I was on his site. Don't bother eMail him though, his english is not that good but I sure wish he would work for Apple. I especially love his idea of the iPod shuffle:

pict05_ipodshuffle_r01c.jpg


I mean, a display showing what the "display" in iTunes shows would be perfect for the shuffle I think. All the images he makes are done in 3D Max and are fictional. The little white iBook mini appeared June 2005 thus shortly after the intel announcement. That's why there's the intel inside sticker on it. But you have to admit there's pretty much detail in his work.

I have a nice idea for the next workstation replacing th Powermac: An aluminum 19" rack with 4U in an umpright position. You could configure that with an XServe and a RAID or just 4 XServes for desktop cluster power. :D
I know, it sounds crazy but I like the idea even if this desktop might be too deep to be practical...
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Wow !!!:D that guy is amazing. Some of the best fakes I ever saw.

But I don't really agree on the Shuffle. When they introduced it, they said most flash players that come with such a mini screen are a functional nightmare. It's very hard to operate on such little screens, so there only function would be displaying title and artist and the playtime. Maybe you could navigate a little, but the higher price, more weight, less battery time, larger design are in my opinion too big disadvantages for a faster (but clumsy) way to find a song and info on a song.
Most people I know that have one of those tiny MP3 players with a small screen don't really use it.
 
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