iDave said:
Pardon me? Sorry to take one sentence out of context, but can you explain that statement? Or were you thinking NTSC television screen?
Sorry, but I made a mistake. I
meant to say that the resolution on NTSC and PAL television was horrible and that's why LCD TVs are cheaper than monitors. As Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL.
AL-FAMOUS said:
and you argued your point against me so passionatly, infact tried to make me look stupid.....
hum anyway.. atleast you have "stepped back"
There is one reason ,and one reason only, that I have stepped back on the G5 iMac, and that's the simple fact that Apple now has a production liquid cooling system. I don't believe we'll see anything short of a liquid cooled G5 in a small form factor, because Apple doesn't believe in doing their engineering by half measures and the statement was made that the iMac was facing some rather similar problems to the PowerBook.
Obviously, a steady power supply than can be pulled from the wall, along with a more open design, would allow a solution to be found for the problem. What many people misunderstand about my arguments is that I don't say a 970 iMac is impossible, only that certain things about their fantasies are extremely unlikely. Apple could release a 970FX iMac tomorrow - provided you don't care how expensive, loud, or ugly it is. Many people don't care about at least two of those, which is why Dell is still in business, but I'm glad that Ive and Jobs do.
i take it you also take back the imac will be killed off thing???
Actually, I still wish they would kill the All-in-One concept in favor of a real consumer tower. However, the PowerMac bumps didn't make them quite the workstations I might have hoped for, so that means that this desire, too, is unlikely to come to pass at the moment.
Ah well.
oingoboingo said:
It's a matter of personal taste as to what you want your monitor to do (or not to do).
True, and that's all I was saying -
I don't particularly want a display that has all that crammed in to, for various reasons.
MikeTheC said:
The problem is when you appeal to the masses, you get masses of idiots for customers. That kind of constant harangue is NOT something that Apple needs or should let themselves in for. Think of this as being comparable to having a neighborhood or development where the entry price is fairly high (say $350K and up). It keeps, how shall I say, the trash out of the neighborhood.
How to put this delicately?
I delivered pizza in an upscale area - several in fact - and I noticed a couple of things that would surprise you about them. First of all, there was a kind of bullheaded belief amongst the people there that, even though they didn't know what it was like to work manual labor, we only deserved what they were willing to give us, and that was often nothing (more often than in poorer neighborhoods). On top of that, I never encountered so many people who thought they knew how to do my job better than I did, while completely failing to comply with even basic requests and guidelines that were meant to help them as much as us. They were rude as a general rule, unthinking in their criticism, and generally unwilling to even concede they might be wrong or that their supposed 'deal' they had from someone else was because of cut corners.
Actually, I guess it really is a lot like some of the mac community after all. They don't know anything about physics or electronics, constantly try to think they can improve a business Jobs is in the middle of saving, and generally complain that a crappier brand has a "better" deal, when it's really just hiding the costs and creative marketing lies.
ClimbingTheLog said:
If this is the removable tablet, you can have a series of contact electrodes that would hook up video, firewire, etc, when you slide the screen into the cradle. They could be positioned evenly and with the right lustre metal could even be attractive. They would be flat and unobtrusive on the portable. Positioned correctly any size screen/table could latch onto the dock/cradle/basestation.
That's a terrible idea, for several reason.
- The use of contacts as opposed to plugs allows for a much greater problem with lack of signal if an end-suer doesn't seat it properly. There's also the issue of the contacts becoming dirty, losing conductive material over time, and other basic issues that would affect the usability.
- Smart displays cost almost as much as the iMac does on its own. The chepest ones are smaller than the current screen (at a mere 12") and cost $800, while one the size of the current low-end iMac costs $1,000-1,400 and can't display video while detached.
- Battery life.
There's more, but that's enough reason not to do it.
AidenShaw said:
Absolutely.
What is the point of talking about 64-bits when the system won't hold more than 4 GiB, when the operating system is 32-bits, and all the applications are 32-bits?
Even when there is a 64-bit O/S and 64-bit applications, a consumer machine with 4 GiB of RAM or less won't have much of an advantage over the 32-bit versions of the applications.
It's reasonable to say that you're disappointed that the iMac might be getting the "fast G5" before the PowerBooks, but 64-bits isn't relevant....
B-but... It's got more numbers! Look!
I mean, it's got a
G5, and that's obviously better than a
G4 because it's bigger and shinier! No way it could at all have any downsides... So I want one. It's got more of those bit things, too. See? There's 64 of them, and not just 32! That means it's faster!
I can't believe Apple isn't putting dual G5s in the PowerBook. What do they think we are, stupid? The PC world has Pentium 4s and those Athlon 64 things in laptops, so we ought to have dual G5s!
(The above is firmly tongue-in-cheek, since I know
someone will misunderstand.)
