New 'Get A Mac' Ad: iSight

[splank]

I dont see much of a point in a living room webcam, except for the one instance I did a video conference with my family while studying abroad for christmas, and that was a one time deal. As for the rumor, I Totally Spotted this video on Wired and submitted the rumor.

 

[weg]

What about the Mac Mini, then ? :/

According to that ad, the Mac Mini is a Pc. It's as easy as that.

 

[grahamtearne]

the ads are now available on the apple site:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/

 

[shamino]

Audio would be a problem, though. If the microphone is on the camera, it would be too far from the user, and it would pick up lots of background noise in the living room.

Maybe. You can get very good directional mics that would work OK. Whether Apple would put one in a living-room-camera, and what it would cost, is another question.

Anyone still use a floppy disk?

Rarely. Most recently, I used a few because I was playing around with my old Mac SE over my winter vacation.

Before that, I'd have to go back two years to when I installed Windows XP on my gaming PC. The WinXP installer wouldn't let me install to a SATA hard drive without the SATA device drivers, which it would only read from a floppy. (Weirdly, it would read from a USB floppy drive, but not any other kind of USB drive.)

But that's about it for any useful definition of "still".

 

[Snide]

There's A New Ad On The Apple Site Entitled Sabotage

Just saw the Ads on the Apple site, including a brand new one entitled Sabotage.

It's the best one since Better Results...

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

Don't waste your time with Youtube - that re-encoded video looked atrocious!

 

[a456]

Isn't it a bit strange that at the moment for mac users that don't have the latest iMacs or MBs/MBPs that they would put a webcam on top of their screen if only they could buy a compatible one, which they can't now the iSight is not available?

 

[Snide]

Isn't it a bit strange that at the moment for mac users that don't have the latest iMacs or MBs/MBPs that they would put a webcam on top of their screen if only they could buy a compatible one, which they can't now the iSight is not available?

How about this one?

 

[mikeinternet]

wouldn't it be great to answer/make 'calls' from a large screen centrally located in your home? isn't that in a million sci-fi movies? this just seems like something that would be great to eventually happen.

...apple has to get on board with some kind of skype or VOip thing or ichat that can dial out. i don't know much about this stuff but it seems to be the natural evolution of 'phone calls', (*no fees other than a connection) too bad the telephone industry nazis are going to hold this back as long as they can.

i can't wait til apple get's to tell cingular to piss off!

 

[qubex]

It's on the Apple.com main-page now. Bottom right-hand corner.

 

[Jerry Spoon]

Why would Apple put a webcam in the living room? Why would you want it?

So you can be just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2!

 

[brepublican]

I had to reload the NBC site like 4 times before it came up... It was kind of worth the wait

Ha! I started yesterday at Wired and only got to see it today. Gotta say, iLuv it! You know who'd have made an awesome 'IT guy'? Dwight Schrute. Yeah

 

[BoyBach]

Three new ads on the Apple site.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

'Tech Support' is my pick of the three.

 

[p0intblank]

Haha, I liked it!

 

[Gosh]

Best one yet was networking!

But webcam is better than of late!

 

[egdiroh]

Built-in iSight USB

While firewire isn't dead the builting isight, shows up in the system profiler as a usb device.

I don't know if they'll add it to the display, but I think that apple will come out with a isight solution for the minis and the mac pros, and that the solution will
be USB.

There are actually a number of reasons to avoid the integrated iSight, one of which is that the lack of standard mics, cameras, or radio equipment, allows mac pros into secure places where those things are forbidden. And while it is true that they have forsaken that capability on their laptop line, there probably weren't enough secure area laptop sales to make it worth while.
Also the ability to use the screen as something other then a landscape mode Desktop monitor might make them less then eager to deface their screens with them.

 

[Chef Medeski]

While firewire isn't dead the builting isight, shows up in the system profiler as a usb device.

I don't know if they'll add it to the display, but I think that apple will come out with a isight solution for the minis and the mac pros, and that the solution will
be USB.

There are actually a number of reasons to avoid the integrated iSight, one of which is that the lack of standard mics, cameras, or radio equipment, allows mac pros into secure places where those things are forbidden. And while it is true that they have forsaken that capability on their laptop line, there probably weren't enough secure area laptop sales to make it worth while.
Also the ability to use the screen as something other then a landscape mode Desktop monitor might make them less then eager to deface their screens with them.

Yes because there is no such thing as tape.

 

[Zwhaler]

The ad is there at www.apple.com

 

[kjs862]

This ad is on the apple website along with another new ad.

 

[zblaxberg]

i love how mac makes so much fun out of pc's.....gates must be loving these commercials


macs are better...down with the pc's
its just that simple