Another weird thing I've noticed - we play HD video on our Macs all the time without blu ray. I think the days of optical media dominating content distribution passed last millennium.
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Another weird thing I've noticed - we play HD video on our Macs all the time without blu ray. I think the days of optical media dominating content distribution passed last millennium.
so your assumption is that based on sales, these are things that consumers don't want? No one wants quad core or BD or eSata or HDMI? Or they just are getting them from another vendor. profit and feature set is two different issues, and just because apple turns a profit, doesn't mean there is features that are missing that have been requested by the customer.
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iTunes Store HD content is pathetic, there are very few Movies available.
BluRay is the way to go unless they really make a significant turn around.
iTunes Store HD content is pathetic, there are very few Movies available. BluRay is the way to go unless they really make a significant turn around.
You sound like the college kids that come into the Apple store complaining about problems - problems that are what we call id10t errors. The kind of kids that drop their iphones into SOLO cups of beer, throw their laptops on the ground after a long day of class, delete files that shouldn't be deleted, and leave their computers running on blankets for days at a time.
then why in the world do you buy mac? you don't like the pricing, you think its build is substandard, and you don't like OSX as much as Vista (I seriously laughed my butt off at that).
that makes absolutely no sense.
True, makes no sense... if you look at your side of the story. But what also makes no sense is the fact that every apple user would brag about the user experience of apple.
But they forget to mention that the mouse is crap (tracking good, design unusable). Finder has semi useless coverflow and yet no properly functioning cut. There is a severe lack of games available for mac. No webcam works to its full potential with mac osx. Before you say it's built in, I have an 8core mac pro with a dell 30" which as a package was cheaper than any pc offering with the same specs. The list is massive. It also includes crappy apps that have 15 windows open for one app, eg adobe photoshop, ms office. Having them contained within another window is so much more logical and user friendly.
Yes i was cool for a bit for buying a mac. I too bragged. But then my pc using friends start showing me what they can do with their system that i can't with mine. They can add the latest and greatest video card at a cheaper price than the second or third one down the list that apple offers. All i had to brag about is time machine, imovie and expose and my awesome computer tower that weighs a tonne. I feel a little cheated let down like a lot of people by the severe mac fanbois. When you weigh in all the pros and cons from both pc (i'm talking about carefully selected harware + wondows7) and mac, they come come out as equal in my opinion.
These are not all superficial things, they are all pretty significant.
If its browsing you do and hate viruses, get a mac. If you know what you are doing and not clicking useless sh*t, get a pc but use opera and not IE8.
To sum it up, i want a proper mouse offering by apple that I can play games and use opera mouse gestures with. And top of the range video card and webcam support for mac OSX. (the hardware can take it i swear, it works with win7 on the exact same machine). They are spreading themselves too thinly accross soo many parts of the end user experience. When the iPhone came in, OSX suffered a huge loss. (But we did gain the best phone ever, but OSX shouldn't have suffered because of it).
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mosx: I had the same issues with the plastic enclosure of my white MacBook, it is a piece of cheap plastic. However how that is related to this thread?
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Apple didn't spend a huge amount of time and money developing this to not use it to it's maximum potential. Currently, it's really only the Mac Pro line that's going to make full use of GCD. I would therefore expect the new iMacs to have some sort of Quad Core processors to make use of GCD and Apple's investement.
I wouldn't expect the iMac line-up to become too powerful though as you have to consider Apple's pricing and specification structure. There has to be a visible price/performance divide between the top-end iMac and the lowest spec Mac Pro.
Apple didn't spend a huge amount of time and money developing this to not use it to it's maximum potential. Currently, it's really only the Mac Pro line that's going to make full use of GCD. I would therefore expect the new iMacs to have some sort of Quad Core processors to make use of GCD and Apple's investement.
I wouldn't expect the iMac line-up to become too powerful though as you have to consider Apple's pricing and specification structure. There has to be a visible price/performance divide between the top-end iMac and the lowest spec Mac Pro.
If the MP was the most affordable way to get those specs, just put windows on that machine and stop complaining.
Not a chance.
It'll have a Mini-Displayport.
If you want HDMI, you'll need an adapter(sold separately).
I just bought a new iMac, so i hope an iMac refresh is nothing major so im not too sad. lol. Im waiting a bit for a 17 MacBook Pro but id love to see a new Mighty Mouse. I like the current one, but it doesnt offer much.. plus it drains batteries like crazy!
I bought my Mac in 2007. I had liked what I had used prior to my purchase and was all caught up in the hype of OS X. It wasn't until after the return window had closed that the problems with OS X started and the hardware started to show its limitations. I couldn't return it by the time I knew I was not satisfied with it. I've tried several times to sell it unsuccessfully. People back out because they realize they can get a better deal with a PC.
They're overpriced. $1499 for a "desktop" with a dual core processor and integrated graphics? Only a sucker is gonna fall for that.
Considering I had two units fail multiple times because of build quality, that would be true.
Go ahead and laugh at that. Let me know when OS X finally fully supports bitstream decoding of video playback, gets proper multi-display support.. better yet, let me know when OS X FINALLY gets cut and paste support in Finder.
Okay, that couldn't be further from the truth as far as PC sales are concerned. True, netbooks are selling good. But HP, Dell, etc. are still selling tens of millions more units of standard computers per year than Apple.
As Steve Jobs once put it, for Apple to double its market share it only has to go from 3% to 6%. In an industry as large as the computer industry, thats not much of an achievement.
Apple makes more money because they charge double sometimes triple what their computers are worth.
Again, a $1499 "desktop" computer with a dual core processor and integrated graphics and a 24" screen? I could build something far more powerful for $1,000 less with a similar quality screen.
Why would you pay $2999 for something that already exists in the PC market for more than $1,000 less? In fact, HP has a quad core 17.3" system for $1,349.
"Splendid customer service"? Hmm . I don't know about that. Apple only took care of me because I live in California and we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the world. I could have named Steve Jobs in a small claims lawsuit and had him served directly.
I also went without a Mac for nearly 3 months combined because of their "splendid" customer service returning my Mac in worse shape than I sent it out in.
I truly wish I could sell it. Every time I try the person backs out because they find a better deal on a Windows PC. It's happened 3 times now.
But its okay. For the moment my Mac is happy running Windows 7 as the primary OS and Snow Leopard just for updates.
As I've said many times before, Apple's customer service ratings are highly skewed. You have people at this forum who have had their motherboards fail half a dozen times, yet they're still "satisfied" and happy with Apple. If you have one hardware failure of that magnitude in a PC product, that customer will never buy from that company again. Apple's brand loyalty is what keeps their customer service ratings high. Though I do know of a large number of people who have had a run in with Apple support who will not be purchasing another Apple product as a result of the way Apple builds their products and treats their customers.
So you think its genius of Apple to rip people off based on their need for vanity products rather than products that would actually help them in the real world?
What innovation would that be? Glass screens? Already had been done. The two tone design? They stole it from HP. They stole the keyboard from Sony. They have no standard features like eSATA or HDMI or multi-card readers or even full size ExpressCard. The battery? My 12 cell HP battery was giving me 7 hours of battery life for almost a year before the new MacBook "Pro" was introduced.
This is the funniest thing about Apple's fanbase. Apple can do NO WRONG. It is ALWAYS the users fault.
So lets see here. It's MY fault that Apple shipped my first Mac with a bum DVD writer and a plastic case that turned yellow and cracked with heat?
It's MY fault that they screwed up the repair so many times that they had to replace the system?
It's MY fault that I only use my then new MacBook to convert the occasional video for my iPod and yet that amount of heat still caused case cracking and battery warping?
It's MY fault that even after they replaced that case, it happened again a few months later? The case and battery on that plastic Mac was about 7 months old. The battery had barely over 10 cycles on it! Yet the case still cracked from heat even though I only used it enough to keep the battery healthy and to convert the occasional video. Yet thats MY fault that it cracked? It literally NEVER left the desk and it only moved a little bit. It was never set down on the back in a manner that would affect the area that cracked.
It's MY fault that Apple's contracted technicians broke my display during the repair process and replaced it with a defective one? Uh huh.
It's my fault Apple won't build proper display support into OS X?
It's my fault that OS X completely locked up when I inserted a DVD? hah!
If you don't see any innovations coming out of Apple, I guess we can see quite clearly what slant you are coming from.
One might actually be able to make just such an argument when you look at the sales and inventory trends the past 12 months in the Wintel world where about the only things moving are low-performance, low-cost Netbooks that lack BR, eSATA, quad-core CPUs and HDMI.
Dell and HP and Lenovo may be offering high-powered notebooks that pack everything and the kitchen sink in them, but they're all sitting on pallets in warehouses.
can people who have obviously never seen a blu-ray movie on a nice high-res screen please stop criticizing blu-ray?
I agree. You know, all those things would be fine, but what I really want is for my video camera to get recognized when I plug it in, and have my laptop remember my WPA password when I get home from work with it. The hard core "computer guys" always assume that everyone wants the latest and greatest, when in fact, the "regular Joe" know that the latest and greatest usually comes with new problems and headaches that we simply don't have the time and energy to arm wrestle with. Our needs are much more simple, more fundamental. My iMac seems to function very well for me in that sweet spot.
You should buy a wireless Mighty Mouse - they weigh a ton. I find them horribly cumbersome compared to the wired version.
Where do you find 1080p movies at 30-40 Mbps with all the menus and features?
A 720p stream compressed to 2-3 Mbps techinically has the pixels to be called HD - but the experience is nothing like BD - "the real thing".
I didn't think Apple even included the Remote with the laptops any more (now you know why the price dropped
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We watch the shows/movies and pay little attention to all the technical stuff. We are all about the content. Most of our HD archive was recorded on our Tivo - 720p or 1080i, and transferred to the Macs. Blu ray for people like us is huge overkill.
Make that eight - I don't have one.
Everyone I know simply plugs the camera into the computer. Few people would bother fiddling about trying to get the tiny card out of the camera just to transfer some images across. It no doubt makes more sense if you have lots of cards and use them as some sort of archival storage, but then that's what other companies make small USB card readers for.
iMacs have 24" screens, which not that long ago was considered a very nice size for a television. in fact, until a few months i was fine w/ a decrepit old 19 inch samsung.
anti blu-ray people, who prefer to eat their meat out of tin cans because they only care about the nutrients, fine -- i relate (honestly). but a lot of us occasionally like to dine out on filet mignon, & we should have that choice. if blu-ray is included, until it becomes industry standard youre likely going to have a choice b/w superdrive & blu-ray, so just **** already. you only sound like apple toadies.
anti blu-ray people, who prefer to eat their meat out of tin cans because they only care about the nutrients, fine -- i relate (honestly). but a lot of us occasionally like to dine out on filet mignon, & we should have that choice. if blu-ray is included, until it becomes industry standard youre likely going to have a choice b/w superdrive & blu-ray, so just **** already. you only sound like apple toadies.
Yep, it has four buttons ... three of which I usually turn off immediately when instlling a new Mac for someone (especially that horribly annoying squeeze nonsense). A Mac only really needs one mouse button, the OS has been designed that way ever since the original Mac, although it does allow more for those who think they need more ... or who are simply too lazy to move the mouse to the top of their 50ft displays to get to the menubar.
I was referring to the idea (which Ive read about on several sites like gizmodo/engadget) that the difference between 720/1080 isn't even noticeable until your dealing with screens over a certain size (i think it was 32"ish)