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"But yes IF that feature is in the Next OS then having higher resolution will always be better."

It's been confirmed/a>.

For the umpteenth time Apple don't "make hardware" any more than IBM make Lenovo laptops and call them Thinkpads. Taiwanese companies Quanta Computing and Asustek "make" the Macbooks just as they did the Powerbooks and iBooks before that. These two companies got the Apple contract because of low production margins resulting from them already making half the worlds notebooks. Look it up and learn what O.E.M means. Apple is closer to a "value added reseller" than a hardware manufacturer.

See rumor here.

In short: Intel apparently has a similar technology (presumably with the flash memory being on the motherboard, rather than in the hard drive, which seems like a better idea), and it's rumored Apple is working with them to get it implemented for next year's Mac laptops.

http://www.truphone.com/

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0, 39020348,39283143,00.htm

John

If you can't trademark a user interface, how come Apple have done so? How come Pepsi went around registering a particular shade of blue soda can as their trademark? You should perhaps read about design trademarks, they're becoming increasingly popular.

And I don't see it as an "intentional gap", any more than the TiVo loophole was an "intentional gap". It seems clear to me that RMS doesn't see it as an intentional gap either; the only question is whether it's a dangerous enough one that it should be worried about, and whether it's one that can feasibly be closed.

Where did the "highlight all instances" go? That was one of the key functions that got several people I introduced to Firefox to got to love.

Also this comes out as Safari just adds it in.
http://images.appleinsider.com/mom-safar3-1.jpg

Why did they remove them? Anyone got a clue?

Sound like what Apple is planning to do with the next version of .Mac

"However the small packaging for the nano is a good first step."

This is a not even a first, they already did this months ago for iLife '06 (New Apple software shipping in mini packaging), the MacBook Pro (pict), Mac OS X Tiger (Apple to update Mac OS X Tiger retail offerings), etc. This is not to say Apple is eco-friendly, I don't know, but the new boxes have been around for some time now.

"However the small packaging for the nano is a good first step."

This is a not even a first, they already did this months ago for iLife '06 (New Apple software shipping in mini packaging), the MacBook Pro (pict), Mac OS X Tiger (Apple to update Mac OS X Tiger retail offerings), etc. This is not to say Apple is eco-friendly, I don't know, but the new boxes have been around for some time now.

"We had to look at what was in the market and offer a competitive price," said Scott Erickson, Microsoft's senior director of product marketing for Zune. "We're not going to be profitable this holiday but the Zune project is a multiyear strategy."

That all depends on whether you have the iTunes MiniStore enabled or not. If it's turned on, then it definitely does upload your playing statistics to Apple.

Granted, after people freaked out about it initially, they changed it to be opt-in:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1473

To be clear, Apple is conducting their own internal investigation, but is not under investigation by the SEC or any other third party. They have not received any delisting notices.

Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2049

A quick search on Google yields the following link:

http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t -27959.html

I've seen the same at other sites. Apple makes about $0.10 after paying licensing fees, credit card processing fees, and paying for bandwidth. iTunes sells iPods pure and simple.

The important thing to remember is: this is not an announcement. This is HALF an announcement.

Apple has already invited the media to a special event on September 12, where it is widely expected to announce two things. The first is that the iTunes music store is now going to sell feature-length movies. And the second thing is... well, nobody is quite sure, but it is rumored to be something major. Like, for example, an new version of Airport Express that allows you to stream video as well as music. This would be a big step on the road to making an Apple a true media center.

The fact that Apple has announced its widest-screen-ever iMacs with so little fanfare is a sign that the rumor is true--that Apple does, indeed, have something pretty big up its sleeve. If Apple is indeed about to make a big step forward towards being a media center, a 24-inch iMac suddenly has a new use: it's big enough to start serving as a genuine TV replacement.

Oh, and I'm going to add one more speculation to the mix. When Apple announced that some of the features of its upcoming operating system were "Top Secret", the explanation given was that they didn't want them copied by Vista. I always thought that was a bizarre explanation--is Microsoft really going to cram completely new features into Vista in the next few months? More likely, I thought, was that these "top secret" features depend on hardware that Apple wasn't yet ready to reveal. Specifically, I hypothesized that they were media-related features that would interface with a Mac-branded PVR. I was probably over-optimistic on the PVR thing, but I may have been right that these unnannounced software features tie into a Mac-branded audiovisual device. If so, expect the announcement of the new video-streaming base station to be accompanied by an announcement of new Leopard features to take advantage of it.

The important thing to remember is: this is not an announcement. This is HALF an announcement.

Apple has already invited the media to a special event on September 12, where it is widely expected to announce two things. The first is that the iTunes music store is now going to sell feature-length movies. And the second thing is... well, nobody is quite sure, but it is rumored to be something major. Like, for example, an new version of Airport Express that allows you to stream video as well as music. This would be a big step on the road to making an Apple a true media center.

The fact that Apple has announced its widest-screen-ever iMacs with so little fanfare is a sign that the rumor is true--that Apple does, indeed, have something pretty big up its sleeve. If Apple is indeed about to make a big step forward towards being a media center, a 24-inch iMac suddenly has a new use: it's big enough to start serving as a genuine TV replacement.

Oh, and I'm going to add one more speculation to the mix. When Apple announced that some of the features of its upcoming operating system were "Top Secret", the explanation given was that they didn't want them copied by Vista. I always thought that was a bizarre explanation--is Microsoft really going to cram completely new features into Vista in the next few months? More likely, I thought, was that these "top secret" features depend on hardware that Apple wasn't yet ready to reveal. Specifically, I hypothesized that they were media-related features that would interface with a Mac-branded PVR. I was probably over-optimistic on the PVR thing, but I may have been right that these unnannounced software features tie into a Mac-branded audiovisual device. If so, expect the announcement of the new video-streaming base station to be accompanied by an announcement of new Leopard features to take advantage of it.

Historically, Windows and Mac versions of Office are released in alternating years. In addition, the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has announced that they will "provide free converters to allow users of current versions of Office for Mac to read the new Microsoft Office Open XML formats following the availability of Office 2007 for Windows next year."

For more information, take a look at Apple's report (courtesy of AppleInsider), and AppleInsider's analysis.

For more information, take a look at Apple's report (courtesy of AppleInsider), and AppleInsider's analysis.

"We found no instances of forced overtime and employees confirmed in interviews that they could decline overtime requests without penalty . We did, however, find that employees worked longer hours than permitted by our Code of Conduct, which limits normal workweeks to 60 hours and requires at least one day off each week."

Looks like lots of overtime may be due to the overriding social/economic climate. These are the people who want to work 7 days a week (probably to support a family living elsewhere). Not saying it's right- but there's a lot more to the story.

God bless the people.

"Twice nothing is still nothing." Apple's share of the world market is 2%, of the U.S. market, 3.6%. Apple's struggles to gain PC market share continue June 1, 2006.

Do you think this is why Nancy Heinen left? They never did give a good reason for her leaving. Maybe she wanted to make the misinformation public and they disagreed. Or maybe she was the reason for the mistake...

They face stiff competition when an almost identical Compaq laptop is $300 cheaper -- and has a bigger screen. Same CPU, same RAM, same graphics chip, same ports

  -- except the Compaq also support 802.11a -- same HD, etc.

With the Compaq you can opt for an AMD Turion 64 w/ATI graphics chipset instead of the Intel and it's CHEAPER.

  The Mac has the built-in camera but the Compaq has the option of a built-in Lightscribe DVD+-DL burner for $25 more.

Yes, the Mac is more fashionable but the big point is going to be OS X -- will the general public (i.e. -- not Apple fanboys) be willing the make the switch at a 30% premium?

Agreed. I just wanted to point out the discrepancy for the sake of accuracy. Here's hoping that the Mac Pro will debut with the "Woodcrest" variant of the Core 2 Duo Extreme as reportedhere.

Let's talk about rumored features. Like VoIP or Maps. It would be interesting to say the least to have maps upload to my ipod. If they finally get to an ipod with VoIP capability then perhaps gps or something similar to verizons mimo mapping deal would make my ipod gain a whole new niche in my life. More rumors include Bit Torrent, Virtualization, Windows API support, Not Called Leopard, Living Elements, A New Finder, Improved Dashboard, and Collaborative Documents. Way out rumors go as far as IE7, hooks with windows to encourage gaming and having .mac do word processing/iwork stuff online. Either way they are beating Windows to the punch and always look better doing it. When Vista is finally launched Apple will be readying Lion. I honestly hope the competition with Microsoft pushes apple to start introducing a smart way to interface with my media center ;) HD shows that I can keep, watch on multiple devices, ect - I will pay as much as I pay my frikin cable company to subscribe to 10 shows per month. C'mon and see the holy grail - hook a macmini to my tv and let me kill my cable box.

Let's talk about rumored features. Like VoIP or Maps. It would be interesting to say the least to have maps upload to my ipod. If they finally get to an ipod with VoIP capability then perhaps gps or something similar to verizons mimo mapping deal would make my ipod gain a whole new niche in my life. More rumors include Bit Torrent, Virtualization, Windows API support, Not Called Leopard, Living Elements, A New Finder, Improved Dashboard, and Collaborative Documents. Way out rumors go as far as IE7, hooks with windows to encourage gaming and having .mac do word processing/iwork stuff online. Either way they are beating Windows to the punch and always look better doing it. When Vista is finally launched Apple will be readying Lion. I honestly hope the competition with Microsoft pushes apple to start introducing a smart way to interface with my media center ;) HD shows that I can keep, watch on multiple devices, ect - I will pay as much as I pay my frikin cable company to subscribe to 10 shows per month. C'mon and see the holy grail - hook a macmini to my tv and let me kill my cable box.

You'd do well to follow your own advice. I've already posted this, but what the heck:

Q1 2001 (roughly 5.4% worldwide) and Q1 2006 (roughly 2.0% worldwide)

Mac's marketshare may not be stellar yet, but compare it to their marketshare 5 years ago.

Sure, how about 2001 vs 2005? A quick Google found this from 2002 and this for 2005 (hint: they are basically the same, maybe even lower). The rest of your post hit the nail on the head (though maybe unintentionally) - Mac's are all about perception and appearance. They seem to have a far larger market share than they actually do.

That being said, I'm also considering getting a Macbook :) (why no integrated video, why?!?).

Link

I heard that video game consoles being loss leaders was an urban legend, perhaps due to faulty analysis.

This article is an ad for iSuppli Corp and their teardown services. Having read their similar analysis of the XBox 360 and iMac Core Duo, I'm underwhelmed with everything that's come out of them. There's a lot of estimates based on the general going rate for buying things, but I don't see any reason to believe iSuppli has real insight into the part pricing scale a company like Toshiba receives on their purchases. For all we know, Intel is selling them CPUs "at a loss" relative to the going rate for some business purpose none of us have insight into. There's all kinds of deals like that going on behind the scenes of flashy tech stuff, where products are sometimes paid for out of company's advertising budgets rather than their operating ones. What you can be sure of is that none of those companies are worried about keeping iSuppli up to date on how that effects retail pricing.

Who's to say that the supplier is "crappy"? Who's to say that it wasn't just a bad batch? South Korean laptop battery manufacturer LG Chem is likely to run into problems securing additional orders from Apple Computer after the computer maker last month was forced to recall 128,000 of the LG Chem-made batteries. Apple appears to have done the right thing and recalled them anyhow...

These days, LG is hardly considered "crappy" in any of their endeavors, these days.

The assumption you've made is that the reason behind the batteries failing is due to excessive heat. There have been no reports to support this assumption.

The earlier reports of excessive heat issues have been rectified with software updates and in some cases with the removal of a strip of plastic that have been left in the vent and wouldn't allow for proper ventilation.

South Korean laptop battery manufacturer LG Chem is likely to run into problems securing additional orders from Apple Computer after the computer maker last month was forced to recall 128,000 of the LG Chem-made batteries. This sounds more like it's the manufacturer LG Chem, than it is Apple...

Macs only cost slightly more than PC's. Check it here.

Apple's been making a "small profit" on the iTunes music store for quite some time now. It comes up at every quarterly conference call, and the answer has been the same since about 2004.

Even bigger news is that Appleinsider says that the required firmware updates [...] deliver EFI with BIOS support for the Intel Macs [...].

You can record on an iPod

iPods come with voice recording straight out of the box? Wow. Belkin must not be getting many sales with its voice recorder.

the iPod is also not tied to iTunes.
Wow? Last time I touched an ipod you couldn't play music on it that wasn't synced via iTunes. I guess now you can use an ipod like a hard drive and just throw your music on it so it can play! When did that change?

the iPods are really quite rugged - and there are thousands of different protective cases available.
I wasn't really debating that at all... but if you wanted to go that route - click here here here... and there're lots more that you could find.

and you appear to be perpetuating these misconceptions.
And you appear to be a mindless fanboy.

I find it hard to care about some very very rich people suing some equally rich people.

IANAL but the case wont have too much impact on future law. Apple Computer said that they will never be in the music biz so were alowed to use the name. Now they are they've renaged on the deal so they will have to pay. It's the cost of doing business in that segment. The only question is how much.

Neither of the parties will have any less bread on their table as a result.

"... Apple betrayed our country!! They played on hour fears!!!!"

Wow, he must be pretty stupid to say something like that when he up for re-election on Apple's board of directors.

Why? He just got rid of it.

You could be right: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1226

Apparently they tried few times but proved unsuccessful, but I couldn't find Creative having such a patent. Doesn't make the situation less ridiculous :)

Regarding letter sent to RIAA: movies are next. Screw you also.

Sincerely,
Everyone

Analysts for Needham & Co this week said they believe Apple will hold a special media event sometime in April to unveil Intel-based iBooks and a touch-screen video iPod.

The problem is that mainstream news sources pick this up. In general, if one knew that spoilers were only to be found on spoiler websites, then the enthusiasts could get the early scoop, and you could wait to be surprised if you wanted. But you've got banks like Needham & Co. reading Think Secret and spouting it off as their own research.

But maybe Apple spoilers are just so popular that media companies feel they would lose out by not printing rumors. Does(n't) that legitimize the existence of spoiler sites?

Oh god, its going to be a "Mac Pro", isn't it. Boo.

Well, according to this article, you may be correct.

All the links you gave seem to support the original poster's point ("It's not an Intel motherboard, it's an Intel *chipset*."). As far as I could tell, all your links that discussed the motherboard design either cited or plagiarized an article at http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1431 . That article seems to say that Apple designed its own motherboards for the iMac, MacBook and forthcoming iBook and Mac Mini, and contracted with Intel to develop a custom motherboard for the Power Mac.

It seams as if they won't even do that:

"Even with the buyout, Disney films produced by Pixar's animation studios and staff will continued to be marketed under the dual "Disney Pixar" brand. "It would be foolish to throw any of [the successful brand] away," the company said."

Says AppleInsider quoting a CNBC interview.

It's interesting to note that the new iMacs are using a standard Intel 945 Series chipset, and an Intel 82801GBM southbridge, as well as other standard Intel chipsets and features:

Other interesting hardware features can be discovered by browsing the output of system_profiler, kextstat, and ioreg .

Of note:

- Full 802.11a support is present, though unadvertised, as well as 802.11b/g
- Intel High Definition Audio is used
- the iMac's optical drive does have dual layer support, unlike the ultra slimline 9mm drive used in the MacBook Pro
- the iSight is USB
- a TPM entry is present in ioreg
- com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X is an active kernel extension

Interestingly, there already seems to be a bit of friction between Apple's and Intel's marketing departments.

Our other customers aren't boring
New Apple ad catches Intel by surprise

AppleWorks spreadsheet *ahem*

Perhaps most surprisingly though, AppleInsider was exceedingly accurate back in November. And yesterday (day before keynote), several blogs such as the one by Kevin Rose did post about the name MacBook Pro and the updates, but with less than 24 hours before unveiling, Apple did do a good job of being secretive.

If they offered FairPlay up for licensing, I guarantee you Microsoft would be interested.

You guarantee that do you? (Is that you Bill?)

Microsoft doesn't license anything - they developed wmv rather then licensing quicktime and so on.

It is simply not in their nature to pay royalties to another company - especially Apple who've been a thorn in their side all these years.

I suspect Microsoft are waiting to see what happens Real's Harmony before embracing and extending fairplay.