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Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors
AppleLurker writes "In a recent interview with DVD newsroom an Apple employee talks WWDC rumors including the iPhone, Blu-ray, MacPro and the Apple Tablet. More realistic about what not to expect next week when Steve Jobs hits the stage." Apple's next move is always a hotbed of debate leading up to a product release and with all the rumors flying this year all bets are off until we see the checkered flag, so take with the requisite grain of salt.
fuck apple
i'm buying a macbook pro though
I hear that Steve Jobs has agreed to make a dildo in his own form. This way all the apple fags can delight in being fucked up the ass by the plastic Job's penis. It will come in an assortment of colors, just like the apple.
Barring getting the smaller screen version - there is an important niche for it that the article downplays. Moving videos to the tv - or more importantly to another tv. Previously, I'd record a tv show and take the tape to a friends and watch it there. Now, I'm downloading shows on iTunes (I don't watch much tv - and they have Monk) but they're locked to the desktop. I'd like to transfer them to the video iPod, watch it during a rail-commute, or plug it into a friends tv for playback.
We need mobile (handheld) solutions like we had with VHS. Plus my co-worker's portable media player is so - damn - cool.
For some of us, going to work means hauling our underwear-clad ass from the bedroom to the den. No mass transit involved, though I suppose I could stand to lose a few pounds.
That pretty much confirms the rumours about Mac OS W. Windows's superior threading has long been a feature of it in comparison to Unix-based systems like OS X, and the rumours about Mac OS W all pretty much relied upon the notion that Apple will be releasing, very soon, open versions of Cocoa and Carbon for Windows (an out of date version of Cocoa called Yellow Box is available for Windows from some sources, and Quicktime for Windows actually includes the original version of Carbon - that is, OS X's and Mac OS 9's Carbon implementations are based on the Q4W code. The key thing is we're now talking about open, up-to-date versions.)
I think it's absolutely certain now that the next real release of Mac OS X will be based on Vista. And I think that's a great thing. Microsoft may have won, but for once they've won with a superior technology. They bet the farm on multithreading, and the multicore future of ix86 has turned out to justify that bet.
That, coupled with the large number of Microsoft employees who'll be leading some of the seminars, will certainly make for an interesting WWDC.
How is this a troll?
Could that have anything to do with their choice in OS for their webserver? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /macosrumors.com
"All those moments, will be lost in time...like tears in rain..."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.