Well, you're obviously part of the minority; the Air has been Apple's best-selling product since it came out, and the standard MacBook has been switching between second and third since the holidays.
I would conjecture that they would go for a display under the trackpad. That, however, strikes me as odd from an ergonomics point of view: You'd have to move your head back and forth between the display and the pad, which sounds stupid.
There may be a small TFT LCD behind the glass of the trackpad, but it isn't likely. The reason the trackpad would be glass (and probably black below) would be because the MacBook lines will be all aluminum with black keyboards and glass-on-black details, including the power button and Apple logo. I'm pretty sure they've got Jonathan Ive ironing out the details.
What makes this "eco-friendly"? The glass trackpad? The "manufactured out of one piece of aluminum"?
1. All of Apple's products are RoHS compliant, and if not, the only shortcomings are the graphics cards. I think. 2. The aluminum is recycled soda cans.
I think Apple would still be a good company if they had a monopoly. Although prices would rise and innovation would lower, overall change would be no greater than 15%. If Apple took too much advantage of a monopoly like Microsoft is doing with Office 2007, people would altogether abandon computers. After all, there would still be phones to go to if you don't like the iPhone in the future (Hint: Android).
A conventional desktop with expansion slots. All Macs are expandable, although some require a bit of work.
A laptop with a two-button trackpad and a decent keyboard. All MacBook models have two-button trackpads, despite the deceiving button cover (sarcasm).
A laptop with a swappable drive bay. Or multiple hard drives. MacBook Pros will likely have a swappable HD bay, and if you mod your MacBook with some SSDs you'll be able to fit in a few.
A compact Mac with a high performance hard drive and a real GPU. iMac + Radeon HD 2600 PRO = 1337. OpenGL can do a lot more than DirectX, wit a lot less.
Or, Apple could just quit being so damn insistent on making everything subservient to "style", and cut the market out from under the would-be clone makers by adding a couple of products to their product line... a "Mac mini Pro" for the desktop (it could even be cubical!) and a ThinkPad-equivalent laptop. By Mac mini Pro, you're pretty much imagining a Cube; The G4 Cube was introduced in 2004 and flopped. Also, the MacBook Air will probably take advantage of Atom and up it's specs to better compete with the ThinkPad, even though it's been Apple's best-selling product since it launched, up until July 11th at about 8AM.
As a side note, I found something in your argument rather contradictory of itself. You ask for a conventional, average-specced desktop, then you ask for, essentially, a tiny Mac Pro. Does that make any sense?
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Well, you're obviously part of the minority; the Air has been Apple's best-selling product since it came out, and the standard MacBook has been switching between second and third since the holidays.
D= I love the stickers, though! What else can I sabotage Dell kiosks with?
Yes, air filled with CO2.
Q;Why do they make macs so big?
A: So mac users cant put them up their asses.
Q: Why do macs have round corners?
A: Just in case they manage the above!
EPIC FAIL. Not cool.
I would conjecture that they would go for a display under the trackpad. That, however, strikes me as odd from an ergonomics point of view: You'd have to move your head back and forth between the display and the pad, which sounds stupid.
There may be a small TFT LCD behind the glass of the trackpad, but it isn't likely. The reason the trackpad would be glass (and probably black below) would be because the MacBook lines will be all aluminum with black keyboards and glass-on-black details, including the power button and Apple logo. I'm pretty sure they've got Jonathan Ive ironing out the details.
so the wifi range can be shorter O_o
In my experience, the range with 802.11g on my aluminum iMac is better than the 802.11g range with my PS3.
What makes this "eco-friendly"? The glass trackpad? The "manufactured out of one piece of aluminum"?
1. All of Apple's products are RoHS compliant, and if not, the only shortcomings are the graphics cards. I think.
2. The aluminum is recycled soda cans.
How about "PowerPC corrupts, x86 corrupts absolutely"?
I suppose Apple would then move their gaze to AMD.
I think Apple would still be a good company if they had a monopoly. Although prices would rise and innovation would lower, overall change would be no greater than 15%. If Apple took too much advantage of a monopoly like Microsoft is doing with Office 2007, people would altogether abandon computers. After all, there would still be phones to go to if you don't like the iPhone in the future (Hint: Android).
Heck, why don't they just make a case for the actual iMac motherboard to lower R&D costs?
I hope that was sarcasm right there.
A conventional desktop with expansion slots.
All Macs are expandable, although some require a bit of work.
A laptop with a two-button trackpad and a decent keyboard.
All MacBook models have two-button trackpads, despite the deceiving button cover (sarcasm).
A laptop with a swappable drive bay. Or multiple hard drives.
MacBook Pros will likely have a swappable HD bay, and if you mod your MacBook with some SSDs you'll be able to fit in a few.
A compact Mac with a high performance hard drive and a real GPU.
iMac + Radeon HD 2600 PRO = 1337. OpenGL can do a lot more than DirectX, wit a lot less.
Or, Apple could just quit being so damn insistent on making everything subservient to "style", and cut the market out from under the would-be clone makers by adding a couple of products to their product line... a "Mac mini Pro" for the desktop (it could even be cubical!) and a ThinkPad-equivalent laptop.
By Mac mini Pro, you're pretty much imagining a Cube; The G4 Cube was introduced in 2004 and flopped. Also, the MacBook Air will probably take advantage of Atom and up it's specs to better compete with the ThinkPad, even though it's been Apple's best-selling product since it launched, up until July 11th at about 8AM.
As a side note, I found something in your argument rather contradictory of itself. You ask for a conventional, average-specced desktop, then you ask for, essentially, a tiny Mac Pro. Does that make any sense?