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New MacBook Air and Revolutionary Mac OS X Feature on Wednesday?
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wuuuttttttt
Where the hell do you work? lol and you planning on taking a day off for this? it sounds like you earn thousands a day haha can you afford to take a day off !
Apparently Jobs don't think so, and I agree. I want it to wake up to my desktop instantly like the iPhone or iPad no fuss with the sound and a black screen for a few second.
Um, a bunch of people had done that before Apple. The MP3 player existed well before Apple.
Read the comments when Apple announced it
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.500/
Incorrect Apple were not the first with a hard drive MP3 player.
In 1998, Compaq developed the first hard drive based DAP using a 2.5" laptop drive. The player had an initial capacity of 4.8 GB, with an advertised capacity of 1200 songs.
In 2000, Creative released the 6GB hard drive based Creative NOMAD Jukebox. The name borrowed the jukebox metaphor popularised by Remote Solution and also used by Archos. Later players in the Creative NOMAD range used microdrives rather than laptop drives.
In October 2001, Apple Computer (now known as Apple Inc.) unveiled the first generation iPod, a 5 GB hard drive based DAP with a 1.8" Toshiba hard drive.
Exactly. My boss would tell me to GTFO if I told him I was taking off for an Apple keynote.
Err actually the iPod was by no means the first hard drive based MP3 player when it was introduced. It was highly criticised at first due to its high cost compared to other available players, such as the Archos models.
In fact, many people were quite stunned that (after all these revolutionary computers) they had decided to join the (existing) market of digital audio players. They only broke through in this market because (in your words) they made a damn good one
The flash-based ones did but they didn’t have a 5GB hard drive or an intuitive user interface.
Looking back, I would call the iPod pretty revolutionary (although few of us knew it at the time — just look at the Macrumors comment thread when it was announced). It’s sort of like the Xerox PARC (Alto/Star) vs. the Macintosh argument.
I was thinking something similar.
Maybe we'd all do it if we could.
Was a first but when you've been in practice for over 2 decades... It's SSDD.
Hell, at least the compensation is still enormous.
nobody remembers the sony minidisc walkman?? sure, sony shot themselves in the foot with the format, but those things were TINY. it was easy to carry around a handful of those discs rather than 20 or so CDs.
I still have mine. Works a treat, i've got hours and hours of old radio stuff in crystal clear digital even managed to buy an actual album on mini disc format (radiohead's the bends.)
I still have mine. Works a treat, i've got hours and hours of old radio stuff in crystal clear digital
even managed to buy an actual album on mini disc format (radiohead's the bends.)
SSD/RAM combo?
I remember when we'd do RAMdisks back in the day to overcome the same problem MBAs have traditionally had: RAM deficit. Maybe Apple, with all their flash expertise, has developed a way to utilize or optimize SSD silicone to function like RAM? Wishful thinking?
I would have bought a MBA years ago had they had the capability to go 4GB.
I remember when we'd do RAMdisks back in the day to overcome the same problem MBAs have traditionally had: RAM deficit. Maybe Apple, with all their flash expertise, has developed a way to utilize or optimize SSD silicone to function like RAM? Wishful thinking?
I would have bought a MBA years ago had they had the capability to go 4GB.
