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What's next for Apple to update?

xIGmanIx said:
I don't understand that logic since Apple has been on the Blu Ray association board of directors since 2004. To me, this should be a no brainer and should be implemented. Any excuse given is exactly that.
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Okay, so since they've been on the board for five years, we should have it by now.

We DON'T, so our "excuses" must actually be valid reasons.

Or can you give us an excuse for, since they've been on the board, why we DON'T have it.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Or can you give us an excuse for, since they've been on the board, why we DON'T have it.
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Like i said, i don't understand the logic. My expectation is that is something that Apple should be able to deliver and should make that option available to consumers.

I mean, what was the reason behind copy and paste on the iPhone for being absent for two years? Just because there was a "reason" doesn't make it a good one.
 
xIGmanIx said:
Like i said, i don't understand the logic. My expectation is that is something that Apple should be able to deliver and should make that option available to consumers.

I mean, what was the reason behind copy and paste on the iPhone for being absent for two years? Just because there was a "reason" doesn't make it a good one.
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Not having a "good" reason doesn't change the fact that it isn't happening. Nothing can do that.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Not having a "good" reason doesn't change the fact that it isn't happening. Nothing can do that.
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that may be true, and to be honest i am not here to change anyone's mindset, but is your expectation that Apple can't support Blu Ray or just wont? otherwise i have casted my vote that i would like to see blu ray on a Mac, especially in the next 6 - 9 months so that i can stop using my wife's mac.
 
xIGmanIx said:
that may be true, and to be honest i am not here to change anyone's mindset, but is your expectation that Apple can't support Blu Ray or just wont? otherwise i have casted my vote that i would like to see blu ray on a Mac, especially in the next 6 - 9 months so that i can stop using my wife's mac.
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Oh, absolutely "won't". The hardware supports it fine, Apple just doesn't want to.
 
I want a new Mac Mini but it probably wont happen for a long time. Maybe a case redesign like a black-glass top. Faster clock speeds like base model 2.13GHz and high end model 2.4GHz.

2.13GHz Mac Mini, 2GB of RAM, 160GB Hard Drive, Nvidia 9400M
2.4GHz Mac Mini, 4GB of RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, Nvidia 9400M
Expandability to 8GB of RAM, Apple BTO up to 500GB Hard Drives, 256GB SSD.

Just what I want but I doubt it.
 
imacs, possibly notebooks(but most likely not cause they were just updated, in August/September.

iPods in October.

that is the normal cycle.
 
What about the possibility of a Tablet being announced in the near future.

Some people wrote a while back they thought maybe when Steve Jobs returned in June that soon after a something new in the notebook category may come out. Haven't heard much about it since?
 
iPods in September. Hopefully they make it a "multimedia event" and give us new iPods and a new Apple TV. Apps on the aTV would be really cool - use an iPhone/iPod touch as a controller and play the app on your TV? :D Or receive e-mail, IMs, even SMS on your TV and reply from your phone when there's an iPod/iPhone linked to the aTV? Cool!

I'd really like to see Apple open up the USB port on the aTV, too. My biggest gripe is storage space - even 160GB is not enough, and all my content is on external drives, so streaming isn't an option unless I want my notebook locked down to my desk.

More expandable aTV with Apps and I'd be hard pressed to say no...
 
rgarjr said:
The ipods classics are feening for an update..
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I'm calling it now: we've seen the last ipod classic update. When the touch goes to 64 GB this September, they'll kill off the classic. The touch has replaced the classic as the flagship model. The very name "classic" indicates it's an older design on the way out.

I know some people need/want more than 64 GB and will be sad to see the classic go, and I'm not saying it makes sense or I agree with it, but this is clearly the way we're headed. Maybe, *maybe* the classic has one more year (until the touch hits 128), but I doubt it. 64 GB is enough space to hold 98% of consumers' entire music libraries, and even if you have more than that, that's still a lot to take with you.

So IMO, the next update is ipod touch and nano in September. No shuffle because it was recently updated and no classic because it will be quietly killed off.
 
xIGmanIx said:
that may be true, and to be honest i am not here to change anyone's mindset, but is your expectation that Apple can't support Blu Ray or just wont? otherwise i have casted my vote that i would like to see blu ray on a Mac, especially in the next 6 - 9 months so that i can stop using my wife's mac.
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Never mind Blu-Ray and whatever licensing and political issues therein, I'd just like to see proper functioning Flash content within OSX. I mean, WTF is up with that?!

As for hardware...

iPod refresh in September - Nano to get a remote accessory to enable the use of something other than the sh*tty Apple 'buds, and updated iPod Touch.

MacBook Air - desperately needs a proper update, display issues ironed out and soldered-on 2GB RAM is a bad joke, needs to support upto 8 like the MBP13", plus improved (7hr) battery tech, oh and a 256GB SSD would be ideal.
 
Up to 8GB on the Macbook Air? Never going to happen. It's not a pro machine and it is not designed for pro use. If you are running something so intense that it requires 8GB of RAM then the MBA will probably melt.

Anyway, I think the iMacs will be the next major thing, though of course iPod updates and Apple TV may come before or at the same time.

Notebooks may get another touch up before the end of the year (around November or so, just in time for the holidays) or beginning of next year.


***** Although the one possibility that not many people are discussing is that Apple will intro a whole new regular Macbook line (this is different from "updates" to existing products). Somehow I don't see them keeping one configuration of an old design (good, but still old) as the only option for those who want a non-Pro Apple laptop.

I wonder what they will do there. Perhaps this will be Apple's answer to the whole netbook thing. Maybe they will introduce 2 sizes of new Macbooks, an 11" (which would still allow for a nearly full size keyboard if not a proper full size keyboard) and a 13" to replace the existing one. Of course they wouldn't be netbook priced, but would be thin/light and allow themselves to be as convenient.

Or maybe they will drop the Macbook Air and make that the standard Macbook. They just did a $300 price drop, so obviously their costs have decreased enough to make high enough profit margins in order to do that, so perhaps in the next few months they will drop it further and count on the economies of scale to keep the margins high enough for Apple's standards.

Whatever they do, I think they will definitely add some variety to the mix. Having 6 different options for a stock Macbook Pro (two 13", three 15", and a 17") and only 1 option for a regular Macbook looks just ridiculous.
 
Gregintosh said:
.......................................................................... Although the one possibility that not many people are discussing is that Apple will intro a whole new regular Macbook line (this is different from "updates" to existing products). Somehow I don't see them keeping one configuration of an old design (good, but still old) as the only option for those who want a non-Pro Apple laptop.

I wonder what they will do there. Perhaps this will be Apple's answer to the whole netbook thing. Maybe they will introduce 2 sizes of new Macbooks, an 11" (which would still allow for a nearly full size keyboard if not a proper full size keyboard) and a 13" to replace the existing one. Of course they wouldn't be netbook priced, but would be thin/light and allow themselves to be as convenient..........................................................................
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that sounds like an interesting idea. apple needs an answer to the netbook concept. the air is great but has a too large footprint and is too expensive. the 13"MBP is a bit too large and heavy for a netbook. a 10 or 11 inch macbook with full keyboard, no optical drive, only USB and SD card slot would be large enough to be a real apple and smaller than the air. could be made fairly cheap ($799).

there was a recent analysis that mopst users are disappointed by the low performance of their netbooks. so apple could do it right and provide something like a netbook but with enough performance. that sounds like a typical apple aproach.
 
AppleTV's at the September iPod event... Hopefully!

1080p
DVR
Apps

Likely? Meh... Necessary? Absolutely... Really want the MR homepage to start lighting up with rumors here in the next few weeks about the AppleTV. Now that the iPhone is out, maybe these "sources" will start to leak again about something else.
 
My predictions for this September:
- Snow Leopard (110% chance)
- new iPod Touch (99% chance)
- new iPod Nano (90% chance)
- killing off/new iPod Classic (50% chance)
- killing off/new AppleTV (20% chance)
- information about the "iPad" (3% chance)
- "iPad" release (<1% chance)

My predictions for next February(ish):
- new iMacs (85% chance)
- new Mac Pro (70% chance)
- new MacBook Pros (60% chance)
- new MacBook line (40% chance)
- new Cinema Display (20% chance)
 
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