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Steve Jobs is terrific at just that, Creating Desire. This is no surprise to us, for sure, but nothing drives it home as much as sitting in the audience and watching him speak. I could tell you how wonderful an orator he is, and how groovy his products are, but I really want to hear what the Slashdot user communtiy has to say about that. I want to talk about what Apple is doing technically.
First: The new iMac is very attractive. It's cool, it's neat. It will be a very popular machine. It's got a good price/feature spectrum and it looks like a pretty decent machine for the consumer. It isn't, in the end, a machine for the linux die-hard, but that's okay. It's slick, it ships with a bunch of very decent apps to manage your digital media. I want one, it's a cool machine. I don't know what I'd do with it (which is the problem), but it's cool looking. It's not particularly a good deal, I mean, you can pick up 200$ 15" tft displays at Fry's and lets get real, the G4 (Excepting the velocity engine stuff) isn't that fast of a chip at any available speed compared to the x86 world. But boy, this is one slick machine. But we know that already from the previous story. I do worry about it overheating, as I did flash back to the cube's cracking problems a bit.
Second: Photoshop for OS X will be coming out "soon". That was the big news. They had a very impressive working demo, I hope to learn more tomorrow on the expo floor.
Third: iPhoto is a decent cataloging program, and one designed to be used easily and generate more revenue streams for apple in the form of booklets and print costs. But it looks very polished and useful.
Superdrive: You'll see the superdrive in the new imac finally, which is nice. Note that this is not the superdrive that everyone remembers from the 80s' :-)
That's about all. The keynote was terrific, but in the end, not so outstanding. I'll post pictures soon. I'm sure a lot of /. regulars will be doing the same. More Tomorrow!
that's all i needs to say.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Here's hoping that with all the R&D and user testing involved, this one will finally come with a decent mouse...
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There where times when the Keynote really blue me away. After it was over I did feel a little cheated though. iPhoto looks like a great application. I downloaded it allready, but didn't have a chance to try it out yet. You can get it here. Download size is 13.4 MB.
The new iMac looks amazing and has great specs. It is "Flat out cool". A bigger screen iBook is another great addition to the apple product line. What worries me, is that there have been no changes to the professional line. The PowerBooks got a Combo drive just a couple of weeks ago so that is okay. But having PowerMacs and iMacs with the same processor and more or less identical clock speeds seems like a strange move to me.
This is beyond the rumour sites. All of them that I looked at swore that the gigahertz barrier was to be broken. At this Keynote it wasn't. And I don't think that Apple would just put faster PowerMacs in stores without having at least one Photoshop shootout on stage first.
It was an okay keynote I suppose. But after all that hype some people seem to have expected iTransporter, iEndofworldhunger with iWorldpeace thrown in. And all that running 3 ghz.
sebi
Hank! White!
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I keep expecting it to start hopping around like the Pixer desk lamp! ;)
it didn't turn out like this
On my birthday, a representitive of TimeCanada
stoped me as I was about to enter my apartment.
"Don't be alarmed" he said, "Your friends are in
there, awaiting to surprise you."
Until Apple makes a 1.5Ghz G5, they won't get me as part of thier market share.
You're going to be waiting a while, since Apple doesn't make CPUs of any speed -- that's Motorola and IBM's job.
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the answer should be obvious:
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ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
So if you play a DVD of This Is Spinal Tap on it, will the Stonehenge monument come out to be the right size?
And when you eject a disk - bluuurp, drop.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Is the fact that it, based on the pictures, it doesn't seem to require any form of input! No more clunky keyboards or mice.
:)
I'm guessing all that futuristic talk from Jobs was about the new telepathic interface.
Brian Ellenberger
Is it just me...?
(1) these things won't stack very well on the "bring out yer dead" carts wheeled about during downsizing...
(2) I afraid of the ($0.32 cost) $199.95 monitor arm after a few months and it gets a *little* loose, and *slowly* drifts down...slowly...like a glacier...
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Political discussion for a new world
So if you gather three of these on a store shelf and select a box, then the clerk opens one of the other two and shows you that it does NOT have a burner, should you buy the one you're holding or take the final box to the register?
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The REAL use for this baby would be to mount it upside down from the top of the shelf on my cubicle. Combined with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and my desk will be so incredibly CLEAN!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Well, given that the "designs" -- if you want to call them -- of Dell et al are very 10 years ago, I guess that means that Apple is 7 years ahead of the pack!
Can video be sent wirelessly?
Just imagine if this were possible! We could just put the screens in our living rooms, and people could broadcast all kinds of entertainment to us! It would be a sort of Radio but with moving pictures!
Ah, we can but dream of a time when such marvels might be possible!
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You bought a camera by trading your girlfriend??? /. people that actually has one you should know that they are worth a heck of a lot more than just $300.
Dude, if you are one of the
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Once: you're a philosopher. Twice: a pervert.
It's Volkswagen, d0rk. One 'g', and an 'e', not an 'o'. Jazz up your desk with a German dictionary, or something. Mumble.
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As a professional designer, I spell it like that intentionally to add character and individuality to my writing style :)
As a designer, I have this drive to constantly set myself apart from the rest and do things completely differently. For instance - black, square-framed glasses are an essential to giving off that "designer image". It's hard for people to take you seriously as a designer when you're looking at them with naked, square-frameless eyes.
You might be saying: "well if all designers are wearing these square-framed glasses, you aren't too different are you?", which is a valid point, but it's all about what makes YOU feel different and individual. If all designers want to drive the same 'volkswagen', compute on an apple, wear the same glasses, talk the same talk, etc - it doesn't mean they're trying to fit into one particular stereotype - it means they're trying to be individual at the group level - don't you get it - it's artistic that we all look the same, and therefore - it's different. duh.
my sig is so witty and fun - it tickles almost everyone who reads it.
Judging by its looks alone, I'm wagering that someone in Apple's marketing department MUST have suggested calling it the "iStalk"...
Pixar must be proud.
That's the real secret of this device, is that it was designed with mounting brackets to attach on top of the Ginger aka Segway scooter. Just think about what you want to compute, and it'll go do that, as well as displaying the output of your digital video camera so you can see where you're going on the screen.
Bill Stewart
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does the product's pic at apple.com remind anyone else of the south park episode, 'cartman gets an anal probe?' in particular, the scene in which a satellite portrudes from cartman's ass.
"cartman, there's a 15-inch active matrix lcd screen sticking out of your ass!"
"sure, you guys, whatever."
That is "Aqua," it is a hell of a way different than CDE.
I like how the Aqua bar "inflates" the icons on the bar whenever you put your mouse over it.
"Another activity that can't be performed, would be using a mouse with more than one button."
Uhh... Damnit, why's this Microsoft 4 button mouse here if I can't use it with Macs... Wtf!!! What's that printer doing too!?!? And the scanner, dot matrix printer, mp3 player, cd-burner, and hard drive dangling off my USB chain!?!? Or that TV screen mirroring my DVD movies... What's going on?!? Macs are supposed to be useless!
And oh crap! Look out! There's the webpages I've made, the magazine I run, the relational database I made for the magazine, or those apps I've written, or even the giant spreadsheets I've made!!! Look out! Well shit... Why do I have a 802.11 connection?!? And then there's the upgraded HD, the 4 hours of DVD watching on battery, my instant messengers, and... Games?!?! Deus Ex, Myth 3, Quake 3, UT, Oni, Survivor, Rogue Spear, The Sims, Tony Hawk, Baldur's Gate II, Red Faction, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, etc etc etc...
And darnit, why do I have UNIX under the hood!?!? With Apache serving some personal pages, I must be stupid! Damn Macs! They're useless!
Really, list ONE task that the Mac can perform. One useful task. Remember, Macs are useless.