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What's your dream setup?

derickdub said:
It's absurd what people will pay for cables, right?
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Not what they'll pay, but how much they'll OVERpay. If there was a benefit to having a $100 HDMI cable that would be one thing, but the fact that a $5 cable functions exactly the same says something about people buying monster anything(including beats)...and it's nothing good.
 
my setup would consist of a phone, a tablet, and a laptop

for the phone it has to be either the iPhone 5 or the next NEXUS device.

for my next laptop would be a 17' Macbook Air with an ultra high quality screen, plus all the guts needed to be able to everything fast and play everything possilbe in the hottest setings.
 
Hmmm...

Living Room:
Samsung PN59D8000 HDTV
Mac Mini (any is fine)
Xbox 360
PS3
10 TB of hard drive space
Energy Take Classic 5.1 Surround Sound System

I would use my iPhone as the remote control.

Workspace:
iMac 27"
Wireless Apple Keyboard & Trackpad
4 TB of hard drive space
Any MIDI keyboard
Any speaker monitors

Already have my on the go, MBP 13" i5 or iPad
 
Bobby Corwen said:
Lol those don't exist

And even if it did; The projector is a small portable box, whilst a TV is totally not portable. I can fit my 130 inch screen in a backpack and bring it to a girls house to watch videos.
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Why you would want to carry a projector when you have a 17" screen, I don't even wanna know. Unless, you know, that girl doesn't have a TV in her house.
 
Bobby Corwen said:
Lol those don't exist

And even if it did; The projector is a small portable box, whilst a TV is totally not portable. I can fit my 130 inch screen in a backpack and bring it to a girls house to watch videos.
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Wait that still is at 1080p resolution right... I remember when my brother got his 'big screen' his 60 some odd inches he was so proud of at his *cough* resolution... Funny thing is it was still in the standard realm (and at 60"+ you could imagine how pixelated it was). Case in point it's not the size that matters (as it is the resolution being as close to a 'retina' standard; do your research to find the proper pip before you break out the flames). 1080p at 130" I'd want to be about 20' away from the wall to appreciate the 'quality'. Now outside video watching on the side of a barn I could see it working.
 
Aldaris said:
Wait that still is at 1080p resolution right... I remember when my brother got his 'big screen' his 60 some odd inches he was so proud of at his *cough* resolution... Funny thing is it was still in the standard realm (and at 60"+ you could imagine how pixelated it was). Case in point it's not the size that matters (as it is the resolution being as close to a 'retina' standard; do your research to find the proper pip before you break out the flames). 1080p at 130" I'd want to be about 20' away from the wall to appreciate the 'quality'. Now outside video watching on the side of a barn I could see it working.
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Yes 1080p native is 1080p. It's far from pixelated on any level. My model is specifically known for not having the "screen door effect" where you can see space between squares on some models.

The way the desktop looks is a dream. You can walk right up to it and every icon on your dock has no pixels.

Its really simethin you have to see to understand. This did not exist at reasonable prices even 3 years ago. Its a new level of quality on this frontier.

I try to tell people but it's hard to understand until you see one projecting your Mac desktop and it takes up your whole wall brightly shining in a resolution so high that it looks like the monitor.

Prodo123 said:
Why you would want to carry a projector when you have a 17" screen, I don't even wanna know. Unless, you know, that girl doesn't have a TV in her house.
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If she has a TV it's not the same. I can't explain how it feels being in a dark room with the music turned up while projecting the visualizer or a video. It's the same way a movie theater is much more immersive than a TV. Its pretty intense.
 
Maxed out 13" MacBook Pro (that's right, 13" is all I need :p)
Maxed out 27" iMac on a pretty good sized desk (along with wireless keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad
Nice flatscreen, not too big because my room is small
Aaaaand an Apple TV for obvious reasons.

BAM!
 
Everything I could possibly want in terms of electronics is pretty accessible (less than the price of a decent car) so I don't exactly dream about such things.

Anyway though in a 2 bedroom apartment I would choose to have:

(Bedroom) Maxed 21.5" iMac & a 42" 1080p flatscreen, surround sound, NAS

(Main Room) 32" 720p flatscreen with an Apple TV + iPad

(Office/on the go) 13" i5/128 MacBook Air and the most up to date iPhone

Throw a nice printer & some headphones in there somewhere as well.
 
Why would you want a 720p HDTV? I get that for <40" there isn't much of a point in 1080p, but still, there isn't much of a price difference between the two so why not get 1080p?
 
DWBurke811 said:
Why would you want a 720p HDTV? I get that for <40" there isn't much of a point in 1080p, but still, there isn't much of a price difference between the two so why not get 1080p?
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Apple TV cannot display 1080p content, so images look sharper on a 720p TV than a 1080p TV.
 
AppleDApp said:
There'll probably be a software update enabling the apple tv to output 1080p.
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Why? Wouldn't there have already been an update by now? I haven't paid too much attention to the Apple TV, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing 1080p isn't enabled because the A4 can't handle it 100% smoothly... Again, just a guess.

I was wanting one too, but without 1080p, I guess I'll have a computer hooked to the TV. I could do more on it, it just wouldn't look as cool :p darn you Apple, for removing Front Row in Lion..
 
Dreams...


Macbook Pro with two Thunderbolt ACD's. And a Mac Mini server connected to a 42 inch LCD ;D.
 
Apple TV is 720p because that's what HD iTunes movies download as.

I'm good with 720p because my digital cable is 720p. My only reasons to go 1080p are as a second monitor, I don't have a bluray player.
 
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