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New Apple Device In Route To US?

nostaws said:
I loved reading the info, but I can't help that we have reached a new level of desperation for information about upcoming Apple products.

Shipping manifests? Cargo containers? Yikes! :)
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Hahahaha...that is very true!!!
Just like what Derrik Shepherd from Greys anatomy would say
" Do you wanna know what's better than sex...the anticipation..."

So oh yeah! Give me anticipation!:D
 
Don't forget

You have to subtract the weight of the fourteen Lithuanian girls hiding in the containers.
 
Apple must be loving this thread. I'd be willing to bet that there is a link going around Apple via email.

What a hoot!
 
Ok, I'm just as excited as the next about the new iphone, and will hopefully get it soon after launch (i don't stand in long lines) but who is researching apple shipping containers? I mean, really. You might wanna see someone about that.
 
Does it mean anything that the Apple Store lists the iPhone as unavailable for both the 8GB and the 16GB?
 
lifeinhd said:
ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple's moving their focus over to the TV.

They've made the ultimately simple computer, the iMac.

Now they're going to take that same concept and scale it up.

It's going to be an iMac with a 60" screen... yet still weighs only 30 pounds. Huge processing power. Huge hardrive. TV tuner. Touchscreen. Motion detecting mouse. Can have any other Apple portable docked in it.

It's like every flipping product Apple has ever made combined with a TV and a Wii.
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Would you really want to have to touch a 60" screen?
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Yes. Apparently you haven't heard of the company Perspective Pixel...

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

I can imagine so many uses for this. CNN is only the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJm7PK2vhQ

I'd love to see Apple working with these guys to make some kind of massive touch screen computers. I really see what I described earlier as being what the computer a few years from now will look like. A few decades more and we'll throw the multitouch and motion sensing together to have multitouch 3d holographic surfaces or something.
 
Eh...

ArtOfWarfare said:
Yes. Apparently you haven't heard of the company Perspective Pixel...

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

I can imagine so many uses for this. CNN is only the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJm7PK2vhQ

I'd love to see Apple working with these guys to make some kind of massive touch screen computers. I really see what I described earlier as being what the computer a few years from now will look like. A few decades more and we'll throw the multitouch and motion sensing together to have multitouch 3d holographic surfaces or something.
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I'm still not sold on the idea. That may seem fun at first, but it's not very practical in the long run for everyday computing tasks. Plus, if they stick one of those on any iMac design close to what they have today, every time you touched the screen, the computer would move, since it'd be so light, even with a 60" screen, and it would be adjustable tilt. Then there's also the problem of getting it to fit under the hutch on a desk. Or are you expected to have floor space for this thing next to your 60" plasma? Apple's been getting better about this, but they generally prefer smaller products. While I wouldn't mind seeing a 60" Cinema Display-based TV from Apple, I really wouldn't care too much for a 60" computer touchscreen.

For now, I think I'll stick with the more conventional forms of input... although it might be nice to see a touch screen MBP...
 
... are you calling Apple stupid? Problems with it tilting when you don't want it to wouldn't exist. Probably the way I would solve the problem is make it so it locks at whatever angle unless you're touching the backside. (Maybe the proximity sensor from the iPhone will detect your hand...? Or maybe something more mundane like a button/lever that you have to touch to release it.)

As for fitting it on your desk... I imagine you'd mount it on a wall.

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OMG, awesome idea I got...

imagine that out of the bottom of this thing extends a 12" desk. And then more... it's not just a desk, it's a touchscreen that you can have a virtual keyboard on. And hell, maybe we'll mix in some ideas from MS's surface with the ability to recognize cameras and wirelessly download the images from the camera. Play DVD's just by laying them on the desk without need of any slot loading drive?

But I'm jumping way ahead of anything Apple's likely to release soon. Give it another half decade.
 
Hold on to your excitement

I think the math works out this way. A 40' high cube sea container weighs in at 3800kg, so that gives us 3340kg of product. 3340/504 = 6.6kg/unit. If the provided weight was freight only, you'd have 7140/504 = 14.2kg/unit. I think this is the more likely scenario.

A Mac Pro weights 19kg, so that's clearly way too much. MBP is ~2kg, nowhere near enough. However, a 24" iMac is 11.5kg, or a 30" display weighs in at a hefty 12.5kg, either of which gets us suspiciously close with packaging to the 14.2kg weight.

I'd say there's too much being read into the numbers...
 
fmiddleton said:
I think the math works out this way. A 40' high cube sea container weighs in at 3800kg, so that gives us 3340kg of product. 3340/504 = 6.6kg/unit. If the provided weight was freight only, you'd have 7140/504 = 14.2kg/unit. I think this is the more likely scenario.

A Mac Pro weights 19kg, so that's clearly way too much. MBP is ~2kg, nowhere near enough. However, a 24" iMac is 11.5kg, or a 30" display weighs in at a hefty 12.5kg, either of which gets us suspiciously close with packaging to the 14.2kg weight.

I'd say there's too much being read into the numbers...
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You do realize the "unit" measure is actually "cartons" and those cartons could hold smaller cartons inside. Like a case of "X" product.
 
Peace said:
You do realize the "unit" measure is actually "cartons" and those cartons could hold smaller cartons inside. Like a case of "X" product.
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Yes I do, and I did that math also. A 1st generation iPhone is 135g, and using the first number of 6.6kg, you get ~48 units to a case. Given handsets often ship in "egg crates" that hold 48 units (and the difference between 48 and ~48 works out at about 0.3lbs), that IS another possibility.

However, I still maintain that on a bill of lading XYZ units probably means units, not cartons.
 
You have to remember this is supposedly a new product... with the name "electric computer".

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possibly some kind of solar powered macbook like what was on the first page? Of course I would think that would replace the older MacBooks...

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Well, you wouldn't describe the huge computer/tv thing I described as a desktop computer, would you? Wall mounted computer would make it too obvious I think so they just stuck on the very open ended "electric computer" title to keep people guessing. I'm spot on with this. I've got that gut feeling.
 
Peace said:
You do realize the "unit" measure is actually "cartons" and those cartons could hold smaller cartons inside. Like a case of "X" product.
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BTW, it only occurred to me later, but if you cube out that container, each carton or unit would be about 5 cu.ft. I don't have product dimensions handy, but that feels about the size of a 24" iMac in packaging to me... Perhaps someone could figure out how many iPhones would fit in the same volume.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
... are you calling Apple stupid? Problems with it tilting when you don't want it to wouldn't exist. Probably the way I would solve the problem is make it so it locks at whatever angle unless you're touching the backside. (Maybe the proximity sensor from the iPhone will detect your hand...? Or maybe something more mundane like a button/lever that you have to touch to release it.)

As for fitting it on your desk... I imagine you'd mount it on a wall.

...

OMG, awesome idea I got...

imagine that out of the bottom of this thing extends a 12" desk. And then more... it's not just a desk, it's a touchscreen that you can have a virtual keyboard on. And hell, maybe we'll mix in some ideas from MS's surface with the ability to recognize cameras and wirelessly download the images from the camera. Play DVD's just by laying them on the desk without need of any slot loading drive?

But I'm jumping way ahead of anything Apple's likely to release soon. Give it another half decade.
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I love Apple, I don't think Apple is stupid, and that's why I don't think they'd do something like this.

If you have it mounted on the wall, how would you touch the backside to tilt it? And who really has the wall space for something that big, after they've used it already for their TV? Also, how much would this thing cost?
 
fmiddleton said:
I stand by my 24" iMacs. Nobody would bring in a new device 2-3 months before its launch date just to have it sitting on a shelf and risk being opened up.
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But remember, "electric computer" is a title Apple has never given one of their products before. I don't know what the iMac title is, but it's not "electric computer." I don't think it was the iPhones either, though.
 
Product by Apple for Apple? (As in they had computers special made just for their own employees... of course I can't imagine a reason Apple would consider a product too good for everyone else... even if the price is a million dollars... if Apple thought they should have it, a few other companies would probably also think so. Unless they want to make another one of those almost useless record breaking computers...)
 
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