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Specs/Prices for new Macs?

Digital Hub

Here is what I think Apple needs to come out with. Steve is really pushing the digital hub concept. So why not built the Digital Hub. This unit would be pretty basic hardware wise, 700MHz G3 16MB video card DVD/CDRW Combo drive 256MB RAM and 60GB HD. I/O Ports would only be FirewireUSB, S-video, Airport,56k modem 10/100BT and RCA Video and Audio.(No internal upgrades to keep cost down)The Unit would come in the same for factor as a VCR or DVD player(you could get Harmon-Kardon to make speakers for it) Software wise it would run a customer verison of Mac OS X, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD(add VCD support to iDVD) Quicktime, iPhoto, Appleworks, Mail, and a Web browser. Now lets kick it up a level, it would also reun Mac Os X games. So what would this machine do,

1. Rip CDs into iTunes(no more CD rack, all in one neat place)
2. Burn CDs
3. Sync with iPod
4. Play Games (mor games for mac)
5. Edit video with iMovie( its got a firewire port)
6. save to a VCR or backto camcorder with firewire
7. Burn Video CD with iDVD
8. inport photo from digital camera thru USB
9. print photos (remember Mac OS X has printer andcamera drivers)
10. editphotos with iPhoto program
11. go online and email(airpot ethernet or 56k)
12. any thing Appleworks can do
13. watch Quicktime TV(which might get good soon)
14. with the usb and IR hook up joysticks printer ect.

What it will NOT do.

run Produtivity programs (word excel quicken photoshop ect)
this is to be a hub not a full Macintosh, it would add to the cost and take away from apples iMac sales.

This would Boldly bring the computer where it has not gone bfore- into the living room.

so what do you think? this would be somthind that the market has not seen before and would bring new users to apple.
 
Anyone noticed that on spymac's site, they have the new iMac specs saying 14.1" LCD. Further down, they say that the iMac will definitely have a 15" LCD...
 
Well...

I wouldn't believe Spymac on anything after the recent fiasco. iWalk, and now we have 2 different specs for LCD iMacs @ different parts of the page???
 
Some observations

A) If spymac reports the sky is blue.. go check. They're never right.
B) Apple bumps specs on machines at MacWorld. Buying a new Apple ANYthing within 6 weeks of MacWorld means you are in a crisis and need it this instant, or you're crazed. (Business purchases that have to beat year-end tax or budget deadlines get my sympathies here, no one else)
C) Steve Jobs could announce that Jesus Christ had come back just to get a close-up look at the newest Macs, bring Him on stage and lead a round of Irish drinking songs, and some of you would complain that this didn't live up to the hype... and some of the others would complain about the choice of songs.
 
What about the people who complain because they're not religious? :) Good to see a bit of humor... there are a lot of people taking this way too seriously!
 
Re: Some observations

Originally posted by IndyGopher
A) If spymac reports the sky is blue.. go check. They're never right.
B) Apple bumps specs on machines at MacWorld. Buying a new Apple ANYthing within 6 weeks of MacWorld means you are in a crisis and need it this instant, or you're crazed. (Business purchases that have to beat year-end tax or budget deadlines get my sympathies here, no one else)
C) Steve Jobs could announce that Jesus Christ had come back just to get a close-up look at the newest Macs, bring Him on stage and lead a round of Irish drinking songs, and some of you would complain that this didn't live up to the hype... and some of the others would complain about the choice of songs.
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now, that could be *the* most sane post i've seen on any of the message boards
 
flashback to MACWORLD NEW YORK... two years ago... Apple tape the then new LED buttonless mouse under the seats of some of the keynote attendees as a little thank you for attending.....
 
that last post was for mcbane

that last post was for mcbane's question on why the tape....
 
lcd imac too expensive

$1200 is too expensive your apples economy line computer, 800 or 900 for the low model is much better much like the current one, also that is not enough new releases from apple for all this hype, there is something to join the ipod in apples extra stuff line, i remember (think it was this site) that said that a report said jobs will release something new, powerful, and revolutionary, and i thing a new imac cannot hold up to that (the new, powerful,.... is just from memory i probably will get it wrong) i mean the new imac may be cool but the bottom line is its still a computer, a cool one but still just a computer, i think they will either release a new pda that it like those pocketpcs except for mac, the ipaq from compaq(wow, shows how everyone follows apple huh) is an example but their is nothing like that for the mac, i think they will release a portable ipad thing that is better then the rest, or the icam, i mean imovie and iphoto really point to a new device, so there must be somthing their. The last thing is something new thats unlike anything we have ever seen. but i have one idea about the new imac, the screen is portable, you pop the screen off and it switches to a new mac os x for a pad, i think that is they have an ipad come out it will a feature on the new imac. so now you have a potable tablet, it can open programs with a pen like those of the palm, and it will have an ok set of speakers in it, but the charging dock is when it becomes the imac, it has a main plug like those of the batteries on a laptop, plug it in and it switches to the regular os x, the plug connects you to the firewire, usb, and everything else. Now if you tkae the imac ipad along for a trip an adapter for one firewire and usb can be attached to the imac ipad but only works on things like ipod and zip drives, nothin big. also this adapter lets you charge it, and it comes standard with airport but you cant download stuff so easily without the docking station. this would put a ton of stuff in one peice (or two however you look at it). to back up this idea more the pictures of the screen with a pen on it in the macworld expo borcher (I CANT SPELL!!!!!)shows something like this. if the imac is not detachable, they should release an ipad, and if the imac is like this, i think we will see an icam, also i think the superdrive will become sold outside the g4 as an external drive.

but one makes me feel like a sucker is that i just got a new g4 powerbook,i feel dumb, but at least its still new. for now.
 
Star Trek?

Apple... back away from the Star Trek references. We are mac addicts not Trekkies.

(Sorry.... Days of feaverish anticipation has made me bitter).
 
thats it !!!!

i typed this in at "google": factor ten g5 motorola

first hit:

the new CPU will be offered at 800MHz, 1GHz, 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz, and while the first two are nominally aimed at the embedded space - the others are aimed straight at the desktop, we hear - we can see Apple using them as to transition over from the top end G4, the PowerPC 7450.

Getting to those clock speeds involved increasing the G5's pipeline from the 7450's seven stages to ten. The part is capable of exceeding 2GHz, we're told, but the initial batch of shipping clock speeds suggests that the either the yield or the stability of 2GHz parts isn't high enough to ship chips at that speed.
 
so...

increasing the G5's pipeline from the 7450's seven stages toTEN.

NOT "X" NOT "10" BUT TEN!!!!!

 
sorry guys, no G5, but....

I have been following the rumors surrounding the G5 for some time now, and most everything I have read (with the exception of very recent and overly optimistic rumors discussing upcoming expo) suggests that the G5 won't make it to a mac desktop untill at least this summer.

However, this is no reason to be sad. Lets look at the history of several chips that have been through the races and retired already. Take the 603/603e PPC, 604/604e set of chips. The 603 started at something like 60MHZ, and was tranformed and pushed to 300MHZ (gaining an "e") before retirement. 604 started at I believe 100 or 120, was pushed to 350MHZ (gaining the "e" again) before retirement. The G3, still in use today started around 200 and has already made it to 700. if trends continue, the G4 (started around 350MHZ, supposed to have been 400) still has a ways to go, I don't see the G5 being released untill the G4 starts running out of legs, probably around 1.4-1.6 GHZ, and with new chip enhancements/better catching (some of which has already been emplemented), it's nothing to sneez at.

The things that apple has been bloating about are things to be that excited about. A few updates have been long put off on the G4's motherboard. I will certainly be excited when they announce DDR board, AGP pro (not 4x) slot, and ata 100 or 133, these things WILL happen at the expo, no doubt. Gigawire shouldn't be too hard, they've already got NIC's capable of 1000Mbps, firewire lags at 400, especially with USB 2.0 already out and at 480Mbps. The apollo design won't be wasted or passed up, it will be on the new board boasting speeds in excess of a GHZ.

I read some others above talking about how the case won't fit enough cooling equipment for faster processors. Wrong. The cooling equipment in those things is stone-age. AMD athlons (i would know i have one) run between 60 and 80 watts (more than twice that of a G4), a lightbulb worth of heat energy concentrated into a square centemeter, better heat sink designs can cool these things no prob, including some that will fit in tiny rackmount cases 1 "U" size, about an inch thick and roughly the size of the ZIF socket A it fits over. So what I'm getting at with this one is that a new case design would only be for the perpose of a new look.

I think we all know that the flat screen iMacs are coming, apple already ordered 100,000 units (per month from here on out) separate from the tipical order for their other monitors. They won't have a CRT available after this expo, apple wouldn't split up a line of computers, and i am almost certain they are aiming for an entirely flat line of computers.

Anyways, enough of my gab and on to someone elses, sorry about all the spelling errors, I fail to spell well. And oh crap i have to be to work in like 5 hours and i better go to sleep now.
 
Do you think we'll see a Superdrive configuration in the "new" iMac/consumer desktop?

I hope so.
 
Quite Possibly...

If there is a G4 in the new iMacs I don't see a reason why not!

Always remember Apple loves the we did this first sorta thing. So if they can incorporate Superdrives into their entire line, or at least both lines they will brag about it to PC developers who in turn will eventually copy it!
 
I hope so...

I've just sold my G4 Cube to make way for the new "Whatever".

DVD burning would be revolutionary an a consumer mac.
 
Screen Size

Apple may of placed a large order for LCD screens. But as far as I know it hasn't been said anywhere what size!!! It could be 15" of maybe 6" for the iWalk or for somthing tottally diffrent
 
Re: From what I remember...

A realistic expo will be:

imac - LCD or 17"CRT
PowerMac - 867Mhz, 933Mhz DP + 1Ghz G4 (Motorola said the appollo is not ready)
ibook - Minor speed bump (100Mhz)
PowerBook - Stays the same

+ Some sort of new device

I dont believe we shall see the major speed bumps everyone is talking about!
 
screen size...

did anyone notice that the screen size on the CRT model is 14"? thats smaller than the current imac's 15 inches... that would blow
 
She canna take more hype, captain....

....baaaaah!

1) you won't see an iBook speed bump unless the PowerBook bumps too. Apple will not sell a 700MHz iBook and a 667MHz TiBook.

2) you will at least see Apollo. Motorola is known for keeping their trap shut until Apple announces new product. That is if Apple stays with the PowerPC.

3) iPod update is highly unlikely. Too new. Apple has a limited budget with sales falling so precipitously. $5.4b in sales is a huge drop.

4) the iMac will likely be transformed into something a little more than a rehashed 20th Anniv Mac.

The possibility of Apple trashing Motorola is getting closer with each passing day. Motorola is a sinking ship, Apple may have to cut bait.

Imagine if Apple could spend its advertising dollars on extolling the virtues of its machines without having to convince everyone they are FASTER with SLOWER processors (which they aren't).

And, fear not, those who will say "but Apple's a hardware company!" The software can be tied to the hardware. They just won't have to compete on the Hz factor- and right now, Apple Mega Hurts.


.....but all will be revealed come Monday. I just hope Apple wakes up and moves the platform to an X86 ISA and get out from under Motorola's leperish thumb before it destroys the company.


.....baaaah! I hate TrollaMotor!
 
Re: j763...

Originally posted by applesurferrr
im not saying that the ibook is a bad machine its wonderful i love it!! but i just mite be a little gealous of the new ones that are comming out...o and i would get soud sticks for them thats what i have and i love them sound quility is amazing!
-cody
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Buy a dictionary numb nuts
 
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