Genius...in the land of fantasy. What you're talking about would require not only a complete rewrite of the OS, it would also require a complete overhaul of all hardware. Not to mention all the third party stuff which would have to be reconfigured. i.e. completely not something that would come out in September or anytime in the next few years. The problem with touch screen is that although some people and some devices have a use for it (iPhone etc), most people and most desktop devices do not. For Apple the problem is how to incorporate what would essentially be a new UI that is not only practical but universally implementable in the Mac platform. In my opinion they are going the right way about it by doing it via touchpads, not touch screens. The morph from mouse to touchpad is cleaner, easier and more ergonomically logical than that required from mouse/keyboard to touchscreen (not to mention the additional cost of physically producing touchscreens).
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Genius...in the land of fantasy. What you're talking about would require not only a complete rewrite of the OS, it would also require a complete overhaul of all hardware. Not to mention all the third party stuff which would have to be reconfigured. i.e. completely not something that would come out in September or anytime in the next few years. The problem with touch screen is that although some people and some devices have a use for it (iPhone etc), most people and most desktop devices do not. For Apple the problem is how to incorporate what would essentially be a new UI that is not only practical but universally implementable in the Mac platform. In my opinion they are going the right way about it by doing it via touchpads, not touch screens. The morph from mouse to touchpad is cleaner, easier and more ergonomically logical than that required from mouse/keyboard to touchscreen (not to mention the additional cost of physically producing touchscreens).
there was an update in late Feb/early March. I remember because I was getting ready to buy an imac and by luck they surprise released them right before I placed my order
Apple didn't say this. this is all just the rumor mill claiming they heard from someone that heard from someone that perhaps maybe something is going to happen.
First of all, theres a gloss screen, like the ones Apple used to have as an option, and now there is the gloss screen with a piece of glass in front of it. It's obvious the majority of the people buying Apple computers don't know or don't even care about it, they just see that it looks nice.
The only real complaint from those people you find so hilarious is the fact that there isn't even an option to have a matte screen even when they used to offer that option. That's all we want, a choice.
actually it is for both. which is why the move should be to have the option. even if they keep the glossy on the boxed version, be able to go online and order one with matte. all are happy.
could be the same move they use with the whole blu-ray thing.
Quite a bit more needed to help boost desktop sales!
1/ height adjustable stand
2/ lose the ugly black (dellesque) back
3/ lose the ugly black apple on the front - go chrome (no not google)
4/ extra cost option of matte screen (up to $60)
5/ introduce express card slot (yeap I know it's not a laptop), for easy upgrading eg USB3.0. Or at least a multi media card reader.
6/ consumer accessible for upgrading HDD (along with RAM of course)
7/ multi-touch "keyboard" external interface with software functions e.g a touch keyboard (when required) and other options eg piano keys for GarageBand etc
8/ as part of the multi-touch "keyboard" interface - lose the mouse(!) for a touch pad interchangeable with number keys.
9/ the idea of a slide-out tablet is interesting - or some kind of docking facility!
10/ OK Blu-ray
1/ height adjustable stand
2/ lose the ugly black (dellesque) back
3/ lose the ugly black apple on the front - go chrome (no not google)
4/ extra cost option of matte screen (up to $60)
5/ introduce express card slot (yeap I know it's not a laptop), for easy upgrading eg USB3.0. Or at least a multi media card reader.
6/ consumer accessible for upgrading HDD (along with RAM of course)
7/ multi-touch "keyboard" external interface with software functions e.g a touch keyboard (when required) and other options eg piano keys for GarageBand etc
8/ as part of the multi-touch "keyboard" interface - lose the mouse(!) for a touch pad interchangeable with number keys.
9/ the idea of a slide-out tablet is interesting - or some kind of docking facility!
10/ OK Blu-ray
I still think this is a good idea:
but not for all circumstances of course.
I'm still really happy with my current iMac. But I'm not a big fan of the alu/black/glass like it is now, it somehow looks so hard and cold. Yet on the MacBook I think it looks great.
but not for all circumstances of course.
I'm still really happy with my current iMac. But I'm not a big fan of the alu/black/glass like it is now, it somehow looks so hard and cold. Yet on the MacBook I think it looks great.
And for two person gaming...sweet.
Ah well, maybe you're right. But a man can dream.
I'm not and don't but it is. If you see what I mean.
There is nothing professional about it, unless a consumer can't buy it. They're the same components.
I looked at that awhile ago. I can't remember which, but they needed either some special software (other than Screen Recycler) or a modification of hardware to do that.
I want to say...
Touch screen
Dual screen pull-out. Apple has integrate it's software with dual screen, so many the new iMac will have dual screenYou pull it out the side and there you go!
Yech!, yuck!, shiver!, ffffft!
Would you like to explain how that makes sense, exactly? Transistor count is, in a sense, a "side-effect" of adding more computational units (or adding complexity to existing ones, i.e. giving AltiVec Units new instruction sets, or in post-2006 terms, adding SSE4.1 to existing Core architecture).
If you hadn't noticed... the original Pentium 4 (Willamette), had 42 million transistors. Its successor (Northwood) had 54 million, if I remember correctly (much of which had to do with the doubling of L2 cache from 256KB to 512KB). I believe they may have also added another ALU, but it's been a long time since I read about it. Anyway, the performance was significantly increased over the shoddy Willamette chip, which performed, at 1.4 GHz, about equivalently to a 1 GHz Tualatin Pentium III.
Since then transistor counts have risen very dramatically... obviously in no small part due to the exorbitant amount of L2 cache (512 KB used to be standard... large, even, and now, obviously, 3-4 MB is the norm) and more importantly the added cores. Even ignoring the cores and cache though, transistor count has risen dramatically. This has given us added vector (SIMD) units and sets, notably SSE3/4/4.2.
There's no necessary "direct correlation" between transistor count and performance, as we can clearly see with Prescott (~125m, more than double Northwood), which was an absolute failure. But the point is, more transistors give the ability for more performance, if the developers engineer the architectural advances correctly.
It's a balance. Prescott had ample transistor count, but that extra silicon was poorly utilized, and was tied up in additional execution units that did little to aid performance.. all whilst adding to the already considerably lengthy pipeline of the existing P4 architecture until it was so long and inefficient that even the high clocks it was allowed didn't make up for it.
Shorter pipes are more efficient but allow for lower clockspeeds. Hence the core architecture is faster but clocked lower.
Plus holy hell take a look at the GPU scene... we're pushing (and I believe we actually already reached) a billion transistors... notice what the addition of shader processors has done for computational power
Interesting... and fair enough, I concede
Damn right. (I use an ink-jet printer though...)
I'm curious, but very few people seem to be addressing what the rumor was eluding to, features for the semi-professional audio/video people.
Many of the wish-list items talked about here would seem to have very little if any impact of those activities, other than: faster hard drives, Blue-Ray [possible, but no breath holding], possible quad-core high end, dedicated hardware encoding for high res codecs and/or SD card slot. We will see, no?
Many of the wish-list items talked about here would seem to have very little if any impact of those activities, other than: faster hard drives, Blue-Ray [possible, but no breath holding], possible quad-core high end, dedicated hardware encoding for high res codecs and/or SD card slot. We will see, no?
Blu-ray. Finally. Pro content creators can finally heave a sigh of relief.
And with the new FC and Logic Studios, a whole new world has finally reappeared. It's been a long time.
And matte screen options. Finally. Pro graphics users (and people with windows in their offices and houses) can finally heave a sigh of relief.
As far as an iMac pedestal redesign, whaddya want, antigravity? How about a nice strengthened Slinky with your monitor bobbing all over the desk like a Jack in the Box? Wish it into the cornfield, quick!!!!
Finally, all the Blu-ray and mattte screen naysayers can just shut up.
And the rest of us can say thanks and "See ya at the Apple Store Steve-O, with our grubby cash in hand!"
:apple
And with the new FC and Logic Studios, a whole new world has finally reappeared. It's been a long time.
And matte screen options. Finally. Pro graphics users (and people with windows in their offices and houses) can finally heave a sigh of relief.
As far as an iMac pedestal redesign, whaddya want, antigravity? How about a nice strengthened Slinky with your monitor bobbing all over the desk like a Jack in the Box? Wish it into the cornfield, quick!!!!
Finally, all the Blu-ray and mattte screen naysayers can just shut up.
And the rest of us can say thanks and "See ya at the Apple Store Steve-O, with our grubby cash in hand!"
:apple
BD is dying on the vine. Check out your Netflix and Blockbuster cues.
Less and less BD available.
China is now committed to Toshiba and HD DVD.
But who cares anyway?
All physical media for music, film and tv is dead.
New AV features?
BD Fail
HDMI possible
HD-DVD ain't coming back. The menu implementation was so awful it was stupid. I have an LG player that plays both, and HD-DVD is a pain to access any special features. No MENUS! Dumb.
The only reason HD-DVD is so cheap now is the chains are one step from dumping them in the trash.
Apparently it's a gamer BS personal problem with Sony.
I'm not a gamer, so I could give a rat's ass.
When it comes to Apple's gamer base vs. Apple's FCS and LS pro content creator base, guess who's going to win?
Fishrrman said:
Because you say no, and Apple makes at least ten times the money from a typical pro content creator as it does from you.
You're also outnumbered, outgunned, and outmanned.
Go game.
Shhh! It's a surprise.
Actually, it was all over the Final Cut Studio update
But of course that could just be used to support 3rd party drives
Matte Option? Absolutely!
Give us the option, Apple!
24" as the "entry level" screen with 26, 28 & 30 options
Lose the "chin"
Ditch the black!
Class it up!
You can do it!
Can this happen by the holiday selling blitz?
Give us the option, Apple!
24" as the "entry level" screen with 26, 28 & 30 options
Lose the "chin"
Ditch the black!
Class it up!
You can do it!
Can this happen by the holiday selling blitz?