Take this for what's worth...
The perceived picture quality depends somewhat on where the displays were setup.
I've noticed that many retail stores that have HDTVs on display, take no time whatsoever to configure them properly.
Half the time they are not even showing HD content - Just stretched SD content (which usually does look horrible)
The media is complicit in all of this (the same with the reporting on how much music money is "lost" to piracy) - They want us to feel bad for giant corporations that are making money hand over fist while the consumer is shit on.
At the same time, very little is done to expose these and other lousy business practices.
1) The Mac mini uses a standard 3.5" (laptop) Ultra ATA hard drive
2) The Mac mini uses standard PC2700 DDR SDRAM
3) You need to use and Apple Airport Extreme Card
HOWEVER -- None of these items are considered user installable upgrades. You need to configure these upgrades when you buy the machine or risk voiding your warranty.
Apple's iSight is the "eyes and ears" of iChat AV. It offers full motion video at 30 fps at 640x480 at 24-bit color. It offers auto-focus with a F/2.8 aperture, a built-in microphone, single FireWire connection for video/audio as well as power. iSight has a better lens, better sensor, and very high quality imaging. Jobs then compares it ot the iPod. The iSight has a very convenient mounting system, with different mounts for each computer model, including 3 stands for top of screen mounting. It is shaped like a small grey cylinder with a lens shutter and integrated tilt/rotate functions.
# Apple has added over 100 major new features. Mac OS X is the No. 1 Unix OS.
He lists many of the Unix features of Mac OS X, including the latest version of
Samba, which can be browsed in the Finder. Other features include IPSec-based
VPN, better Active Directory support, a new Finder that is User-centric. All the
user stuff is on the left (i.e., much like bookmarks).
# Jobs moves on to Mac OS X. He says that there are 7 million active users
of Mac OS X with over 6,000 native applications. He says that Apple is over
the crest in the Mac OS X X transition. Jobs thanks developers, but says
that Jaguar is over. Cheeta, Puma, and Jaguar.
# Safari 1.0 goes GM (golden master) today. Apple will release it
on the Web in a few hours. Apple is also releasking an SDK to embed Safari funtionality
in other applications. In the past 6 months of beta, Apple has had over 5 million
downloads.
# Apple says that later today Apple will sell the millionth iPod and that as
of last Saturday, it has sold over 5 million songs. He demos a Jay Leno bit
showing Osama in iPod advertisement.
# Jobs then talks about rtail stores, noting that Apple has 58 sores with over
17 million visitors. He shoed Apple SoHo and Grove. He notes that Chicago store
is opening this week and San Francisco is opening next spring.
# Apple was the first to ship 802.11g in the industry. He provides an overview
of AirPort Extreme.
# Apple has 300,000 registered Apple developers, which has tripled since Mac
OS X introduced. Apple has also has many Unix and Java developers.
# Jobs on Stage. [1:03 pm]
# 12:31: Reporting from Apple Store SoHo. Roughly 300 people present even an
hour before the keynote is scheduled to begin. Store employees showing random
video clips as well as old Apple commercials.
# Keynote begins at 1 PM ET.
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Take this for what's worth... The perceived picture quality depends somewhat on where the displays were setup. I've noticed that many retail stores that have HDTVs on display, take no time whatsoever to configure them properly.
Half the time they are not even showing HD content - Just stretched SD content (which usually does look horrible)
Excellent post.
The media is complicit in all of this (the same with the reporting on how much music money is "lost" to piracy) - They want us to feel bad for giant corporations that are making money hand over fist while the consumer is shit on.
At the same time, very little is done to expose these and other lousy business practices.
Apple does something like this with OS X.
For $199 (A single user license is $129), you can get a 5 license copy of OS X - They call it the Family Pack.
No activation required!
No...
The government only uses Access for unimportant things...like voting machines.
In the Keynote, Jobs mentioned that you can rent a P4 in an Apple case as part of the Development Kit.
Not to defend them but ChoicePoint has voluntarily agreed to notify everyone that was involved inthis issue.
I actually think that there should be Federal legistlation for disclosure of this type of crime.
Actually, AMD is losing money with their flash business. They may be looking at dumping those products...
AMD Without the flash?
Or maybe Uwe Boll?
Learn punctuation, troll.
Unlike your Linux PC, my PowerMac's keyboard does include a shift key.
1) The Mac mini uses a standard 3.5" (laptop) Ultra ATA hard drive
2) The Mac mini uses standard PC2700 DDR SDRAM
3) You need to use and Apple Airport Extreme Card
HOWEVER -- None of these items are considered user installable upgrades. You need to configure these upgrades when you buy the machine or risk voiding your warranty.
And you point would be? I would assume that 99.99% of personal computers (i.e. computers sold to individuals) have only one ethernet port?
It does include OS X (10.3) and the iLife 2005 suite. Also included is AppleWorks, Quicken 2005...
GarageBand isn't bundled with OS X.
It's bundled with the iLife suite of applications...
OS X has had a journaled file system since 10.2 and it is "on" by default in 10.3
I think I saw this once...as an Apple Newton.
Still available?
Michael Karpinski
mkarpinski @ mac . com
I just had this same experience at a Home Depot in Austin, TX.
I watched the operator key in the 1-2-3-4 password sequence and all I could think of was the safe combination scene in Spaceballs...
You might be interested in this system from Hush Technologies in the UK:
Hush Mini-ITX
The entire case acts as the heat sink.
It's a pretty sweet machine (albeit slightly expensive) for a media-PC solution.
Except for this:
Apple's iSight is the "eyes and ears" of iChat AV. It offers full motion video at 30 fps at 640x480 at 24-bit color. It offers auto-focus with a F/2.8 aperture, a built-in microphone, single FireWire connection for video/audio as well as power. iSight has a better lens, better sensor, and very high quality imaging. Jobs then compares it ot the iPod. The iSight has a very convenient mounting system, with different mounts for each computer model, including 3 stands for top of screen mounting. It is shaped like a small grey cylinder with a lens shutter and integrated tilt/rotate functions.
# Apple has added over 100 major new features. Mac OS X is the No. 1 Unix OS. He lists many of the Unix features of Mac OS X, including the latest version of Samba, which can be browsed in the Finder. Other features include IPSec-based VPN, better Active Directory support, a new Finder that is User-centric. All the user stuff is on the left (i.e., much like bookmarks).
# Jobs moves on to Mac OS X. He says that there are 7 million active users of Mac OS X with over 6,000 native applications. He says that Apple is over the crest in the Mac OS X X transition. Jobs thanks developers, but says that Jaguar is over. Cheeta, Puma, and Jaguar.
# Apple says that later today Apple will sell the millionth iPod and that as of last Saturday, it has sold over 5 million songs. He demos a Jay Leno bit showing Osama in iPod advertisement.
# Jobs then talks about rtail stores, noting that Apple has 58 sores with over 17 million visitors. He shoed Apple SoHo and Grove. He notes that Chicago store is opening this week and San Francisco is opening next spring.
# Apple was the first to ship 802.11g in the industry. He provides an overview of AirPort Extreme.
# Apple has 300,000 registered Apple developers, which has tripled since Mac OS X introduced. Apple has also has many Unix and Java developers.
# Jobs on Stage. [1:03 pm]
# 12:31: Reporting from Apple Store SoHo. Roughly 300 people present even an hour before the keynote is scheduled to begin. Store employees showing random video clips as well as old Apple commercials.
# Keynote begins at 1 PM ET.
macnn.com is doing a running description.
So is macrumors.com
Nothing I know of online...
That will not be a live broadcast.
Apple will run a loop of the broadcast starting a few hours after the live presention is over.
A Sea Monkey Tank!