yeah and an ipod, and an iSight and iLife and iWork. then you would have to remove the i from them all. Then what would you have? Work, Life and Sight, and you already have those now don't you?
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yeah and an ipod, and an iSight and iLife and iWork. then you would have to remove the i from them all. Then what would you have? Work, Life and Sight, and you already have those now don't you?
We've received word that price points for the new "Good", "Better", and "Ultra" iMac models will fall at $1199, $1499, and $1799 price points. No details beyond this are available, and it does not exclude the possibility of other configurations.
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Sorry, boys and girls, I called this one a long time ago - Apple IS getting snobbish:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/311454/
Ok, realistically, this is what I expect:
Steve will spend a LOT of time talking about dot mac. It has been really neglected and I anticipate the service being completely revamped.
Then he will show the brand new iMacs, 20" and 24" models. It will look completely different but won't have any "groundbreaking" features like multitouch. The design will be revamped and the specs will be upped.
He will then announce that the mac mini will now have core 2 duos with a few other speed bumps here and there (ram, hard drive, etc). The look will remain the same.
Then, finally, he will give a firm leopard release date (i.e. October 31st, at midnight or something).
Just my $0.02
Steve will spend a LOT of time talking about dot mac. It has been really neglected and I anticipate the service being completely revamped.
Then he will show the brand new iMacs, 20" and 24" models. It will look completely different but won't have any "groundbreaking" features like multitouch. The design will be revamped and the specs will be upped.
He will then announce that the mac mini will now have core 2 duos with a few other speed bumps here and there (ram, hard drive, etc). The look will remain the same.
Then, finally, he will give a firm leopard release date (i.e. October 31st, at midnight or something).
Just my $0.02
If snobbish means paying extra for a machine that looks and performs much more elegantly than any PC box, and is supported by walk-up Genius bars in beautiful stores filled with (mostly) useful employees - then I'm most definitely in agreement.
I sure as hell hope there isn't multitouch on a desktop PC. What a f*cking stupid idea... Ugh.
I just hope the entry level machine does not have a combo drive or integrated graphics at $1199, to try and up-sell me to the next machine. That would p--ss
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I think they will just rename the mac mini something else and make it a little bigger in size with a little more expandability.
New Mac Mini's:
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz and 2.16 ghz
- 4x DL Superdrive now standard
- Option to have two tray loading 2.5" hard drives (one for time machine)
- 80 GB and 160 GB hard drives
- 1 GB and 2 GB RAM
- Up to 3 GB RAM
- 6 USB 2.0 (two on new keyboard that's bundled)
- FW 400
- New Apple Keyboard included with both.
- $499 and $699
I would be immensely surprised. "iMac" is one of Apple's 3 most valuable marks and it wouldn't make sense to abandon it. PowerMac/PowerBook did not have the same mindshare--that's why they wanted to get the more powerful and valuable 'Mac' name into those products--the iMac already has that and outside of the iPod is Apple's most recognized product (the iPhone joined that club this year). There's a lot invested in the synergy between the iPod and the iMac, which has increasingly become the "home base" for all sorts of peripheral products (iPods, AppleTV, AirportExpress) that neither the portables nor the Mac Pro has been as deliberately positioned to fill.
The portables largely sell themselves (they're often much higher ranked in their particular markets than Apple overall) and the Mac Pro isn't really supposed to take center stage. They want the iMac out in front, and it only makes sense to tie it in with the iPod.
I'm thinking the same thing but starting to weaken. Do you think apple will give a discount for Leopard since the release date has been announced?
i never said that would be a great idea...but a lot of people on the boards are saying that a multi touch mac is coming...a feature as revolutionary as multitouch is not ready yet and will not make an appearance tomorrow.
I'll have to see the final specs to judge the price point. $1199 for a 20" (I assume) isn't really that bad. Considering most new higher end PC's are over $1,000 (see: Sony PCs) and that's not including a monitor (and if it is, you get some crap CRT usually...or a low resolution LCD if you're lucky). Not to mention you get the mac treatment (iLife, OS X, apple keyboard/mighty mouse, apple remote). Hopefully they have at least a gig of RAM standard. 512 doesn't really cut it anymore.
I do agree though that Apple really needs to maintain the "mini" market with a $600-700 machine, especially if they're dropping the $999 price point for iMacs, if they want to see their marketshare in the computer business grow. I know I know...iPod and iPhone are attracting people to their computers, but that only goes so far.
I do agree though that Apple really needs to maintain the "mini" market with a $600-700 machine, especially if they're dropping the $999 price point for iMacs, if they want to see their marketshare in the computer business grow. I know I know...iPod and iPhone are attracting people to their computers, but that only goes so far.
Friday October 26 Not Halloween
I think the Leopard release date won't be announced before the Tuesday September 25 Paris Apple Expo Keynote. The time-date will probably be 6PM Friday October 26 not Halloween. New systems are always released on a Friday evening.
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I'm excited.
I'm not expecting multi-touch though. Multi-touch makes sense for something you hold.
While people envision something like Minority Report, where you manipulate data in the air, the black fact is that people are apparently getting injured from using a KEYBOARD, eg, carpal tunnel syndrome. If you had people holding their arms in front of them working at a computer not resting on something, God knows what sort of syndromes they might develop. And I mean, seriously, it wouldn't be that comfortable.
With all the talk of the iMac being like the iPhone I had this funny thought of Apple introducing an iMac that can only run Web 2.0 apps, and asking developers who have gone through Classic--> Carbon/Cocoa--> Intel, to make another transition, "Adobe we're looking in your corner...."
I'm not expecting multi-touch though. Multi-touch makes sense for something you hold.
While people envision something like Minority Report, where you manipulate data in the air, the black fact is that people are apparently getting injured from using a KEYBOARD, eg, carpal tunnel syndrome. If you had people holding their arms in front of them working at a computer not resting on something, God knows what sort of syndromes they might develop. And I mean, seriously, it wouldn't be that comfortable.
With all the talk of the iMac being like the iPhone I had this funny thought of Apple introducing an iMac that can only run Web 2.0 apps, and asking developers who have gone through Classic--> Carbon/Cocoa--> Intel, to make another transition, "Adobe we're looking in your corner...."
I have heard this for years, but it still makes little sense to me that Apple would make a mini-tower.
This price/performance slot is filled by the iMac right now.
IMO, it's similar to the idea that because the iMac is made with laptop spec parts it's somehow inferior when in fact the opposite is true. The difference between "laptop parts" and "regular parts" is that the laptop parts consume less power are more efficient, lighter weight, and better quality most of the time. They are also often somewhat cheaper.
If Apple made a mini-tower with basic desktop specs, it would compete with the low-end to medium iMacs, yet be more expensive and have not as good quality parts. If they made a good mini-tower it would compete with the high end iMac and the Mac Pro. None of this makes much sense to me.
The only possibility I can see is a low-end mini tower to replace the Mini itself; a sort of ultra-low-budget Mac. But then why would they do that? And on top of everything, this assumes that Apple is ready and willing to write drivers for every low-budget crap video card on the market.
The reason that they don't make a mini-tower is because no one in their market really wants one. They might like a slightly cheaper Mac Pro, but no one really wants a budget crap mini-tower that they can switch the parts around on like with Windows. Unless you are a teenager or a geek, you don't generally upgrade a Mac. I have worked in an all Mac environment for many years now and 95% or more of all the upgrade requests I have seen are for a simple memory upgrade.
Most of our staff just use the computer we plunk down in front of them for three years or so and then get a new one.
It's the "Apple way."
Funny stuff. Yeah, iMac is too much of a brand at this point. Got Apple back on track. The only thing that will change is everything else about it. I can't wait.
No, Steve Jobs explained this during the transition to Intel. They simply wanted "Mac" part of the name for all their computers and wanted "Power" removed since they were moving away from the PowerPC processor. Yes, technically PowerBooks were around long before that but that was the image they felt people had in their minds. The iMac already has "Mac" in it.
