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C2D is something. Can any other home computer supplier say that all of their systems ship with 64-bit as standard.
 
YAHOOOOOO!!! WOOT! WOOT!:D

iMac: Core 2 extreme, ATI HD graphics, bigger hard drive, coolest looking PC on the planet, glossy widescreen, better keyboard with 2 (count 'em - 2 USB 2.0 ports). I'm so happy with these enhancements. Bring on the games.
Gotta go see if the store's up yet....Muhahaha.

Rich :cool::apple:
 
InfernoSoul said:
Oh? Tell that to the millions who are buying Blu Ray. You are on computer related forum talking about the latest tech revisions of computer hardware and you say no one cares about Blu Ray? What an ignorant comment. I don't know why you are here but I am here for the latest and greatest tech. Even Steve was going on about how DVD(at least the Resolution) is getting obsolete at the conference. If you want to stick with DVD and its limited compabilities compared to Blu Ray then that is fine, but to say no one cares about Blu Ray is just plain ignorant. Most of us have a few 500GB HDD's filled with digital media and would like to be able to put it on a better format.
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And it seems Apple is gearing more and more towards HD media. Why have iMovie HD and HD camcorders becoming increasingly inexpensive but leave out the option for consumers to burn these to HD discs?
 
Nice looking iMac's I hate the new keyboard tho :(, I think I will hold off getting one until 10.5 comes out soon. I just wonder how good the new graphics adapters are, I've never been a fan of ATI, but it has to be a better option over the Intel GMA 950 on the budget iMac before :)
 
Not much of an upgrade

While I am glad to see the Mac Mini is still being offered, it would have been nice to see an video driver that didn't use shared memory.

I think the Mac Mini, "days are numbered" rumors will continue.

Maybe with the upcoming AppleTV News that Steve Jobs eluded to.

Let's face it, the only upgrade they can do to Apple TV is HIGH DEFINITION. Okay well, that and MOVIE RENTALS, or better yet, BOTH!

It will happen! And if it is a hybrid with MacMini, well that might not be too bad either. The current Apple TV is arguably more powerful that the Mac Mini anyhow, so why not?
 
caliguy said:
And it seems Apple is gearing more and more towards HD media. Why have iMovie HD and HD camcorders becoming increasingly inexpensive but leave out the option for consumers to burn these to HD discs?
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Steve J. talked about this during his presentation.
 
MyJelleo said:
I wish someone would ask Steve when the major iphone update should be expected.
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And he would have dodged the answer and said the current product is great and that a person should buy one now.

Which is true.

guerro said:
Because they are douche bags who don't know what they are doing.
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OR. They have other things to do during the day then play games therefor it never crossed their minds...
 
The new iMacs are really nice but I'm looking at the mac mini...

- 1.83 or 2.00 GHz Core 2 Duo
- NO 802.11n, still 802.11g
- 1GB RAM

Close enough. The mac parts scrapyard that is the mac mini continues. Would have liked N wireless.

I'm in!!!!
 
caliguy said:
And it seems Apple is gearing more and more towards HD media. Why have iMovie HD and HD camcorders becoming increasingly inexpensive but leave out the option for consumers to burn these to HD discs?
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I agree. Maybe we will see an announcement or more information around Leopards release in October. Blu Ray has been nothing but getting more successful as the months go on. Loads of major studios are supporting Blu Ray. So it would only seem logical.
 
Is it bad to be most excited about a keyboard?

I can't tell you how many white keyboards I've had to replace in my office.
 
guerro said:
Steve J. talked about this during his presentation.
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Yes and when asked why there was no support for uploading HD content to .Mac he stated there are no camcorders that can do true HD. We all know that's BS plain and simple.
 
blashphemy said:
damnit why didn't anyone ask Apple about why they didn't have Blu-Ray as a BTO option?! :mad:

also: store went back down cause the new iMac link was broken, still waiting for it to come back up...
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Because BluRay is dead on delivery. and HDDVD is not far behind!! Downloadable content is the future, not disc technology from the 80s.
 
RichardI said:
YAHOOOOOO!!! WOOT! WOOT!:D

iMac: Core 2 extreme, ATI HD graphics, bigger hard drive, coolest looking PC on the planet, glossy widescreen, better keyboard with 2 (count 'em - 2 USB 2.0 ports). I'm so happy with these enhancements. Bring on the games.
Gotta go see if the store's up yet....Muhahaha.

Rich :cool::apple:
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Is that a mobile processor-I'll check the service manual when it comesout.
 
megfilmworks said:
Because BluRay is dead on delivery. and HDDVD is not far behind!! Downloadable content is the future, not disc technology from the 80s.
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Still, downloading HD movies is a far way off as most people don't have the systems to handle such files and home media centers are not a common home system. I do agree that in the future downloadable entertainment is the way to go, but for the next few years HD content via disc format is still a fairly new consumer technology and Mac systems should incorporate them as such.


Are any Mac systems HD compliant? Meaning, if you pop in an after market Blu-ray player in a Mac Pro it works?
 
AlexisV said:
A 5 minute Q&A session and a tenth of it was wasted with such probing questions such as why no Intel stickers?

Nothing about the Mac Pro, Cinema Displays or how Leopard's progressing. I thought the people in there were supposed to journalists!
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I am with you. Nothing on Leopard surprised me a bit.

Intel stickers? You have to be joking me. What idiot asked that?
 
megfilmworks said:
Because BluRay is dead on delivery. and HDDVD is not far behind!! Downloadable content is the future, not disc technology from the 80s.
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Oh yeah that is logical. Download a 50GB movie when it is released? Are you out of your mind? Do you honestly think the general public has an internet speed capable of downloading such a huge movie in less then say a week? Even with a 10 mega bit(1mega byte/sec) speed would take like 34 hours to download one movie. That isn't practical especially for the general public. That and they would rather have a hard media then a digital media. Look at DVD, HD DVD, Blu Ray, Video games in general sells compared to digital media sells even CD's are still selling well.
 
plumbingandtech said:
And he would have dodged the answer and said the current product is great and that a person should buy one now.

Which is true.



OR. They have other things to do during the day then play games therefor it never crossed their minds...
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THAN play games. But, anyway, the point was that they asked no good questions.
 
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