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  • hyperpasta
    Aug 6, 09:20 PM
    Blah, it should read "Mac OS X Leopard, introducing Panter 2.0"


    ehhhhh? :confused:





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  • 7on
    Mar 25, 08:52 PM
    In addition to that, the education price is $1599 and if you remove the superdrive and 56k modem it's down to $1399.

    Crap, thats less than HALF that my 1Ghz TiBook costed, fully loaded of course.

    But you can get cheap G4s.
    G4 (http://www.powermax.com/cgi-global/generate_css_temp.cgi?p=c-u55002)
    Even cheaper if you buy from ebay.
    http://www.powermax.com/cgi-global/generate_css_temp.cgi?p=c-u55002
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2795923528&category=14912





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  • TheAnswer
    Jul 18, 11:41 AM
    I don't know if the rumor is true or not, especially since lately AI and TS seem to be at odds about all the hardware news at WWDC, but here is what I'd like to see:

    1. Streaming of movies now in theatres at least at DVD quality.
    2. Streaming rentals of movies out of DVD at a little better resolution than we have now.
    3. The option to purchase a DVD or HD quality version of a movie we have just watched the streaming rental of, with the ability to burn a copy.





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  • wmmk
    Jul 13, 11:38 PM
    Theres movies on Blu-Ray already.. and you can buy discs to burn too already... I think a BTO option is perfectly reasonable.
    there are what, about four movies on BluRay? how much do each cost? If there are barely any players, what's the point of blank media? BTW, don't tell me about storage. if you want storage, get a portable 30 GB HD.I'm not saying I don't think BluRay won't be really cool. it'll just be more reasonable come MWSF time.





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  • Fuzzputer
    Jan 3, 03:44 PM
    I for one don't. I think what the rumors are referring to is a "netboot" device over wi-max (and Edge or its replacement) in a handheld form factor.
    ...

    Rocketman

    Now this would be something REALLY NEW!!:eek:

    If it had GPS capabilities and an organizer and the stuff you find in a PDA, I think I could drool for it...





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  • KirkL
    Apr 3, 07:26 AM
    Stickies contents are now scrollable. I think this was the case in DP1 as well.

    This will be a lifesaver for me! I hate how I have to manually resize the stickies if there's more info in them. Nice to see Apple looked at nearly everything for refinement :D





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  • twoodcc
    Jan 29, 11:07 PM
    congrats to rwh202 for 3 million points!

    congrats to SteveMoody for 6 million points!

    and i was able to hit 5 million points recently! even though my production is down slightly, while my last power bill was up ($190). so my production might go down a lil more





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  • 0815
    May 2, 05:01 PM
    Great, but why use "Click and hold" when you can right click? Why implement the limitations of a small touch screen into a full computer that has the ability to do more? I hate things that require a delay. Click and hold sucks.

    They are going to re-introduce the one button mouse :eek:





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  • steve2112
    Feb 22, 09:25 PM
    The vexing part of that is that the cost is largely artificial - i.e. taxes. Popular pickups like the Ford F-250 have been available in a diesel for years, and because they are trucks they are allowed to use diesel engines that are far more polluting and sooty than they need to be, and are tuned for torque rather than economy - meanwhile Volkswagen has to jump through flaming hoops in order to certify a diesel in its passenger cars, meeting stringent emmissions standards. And yet how many huge displacement V6/V8 diesel trucks are sold in the US each year vs diesel VWs? It's all about arbitrary regulatory nonsense.

    It's a small thing, but also in diesel's favor is the increased range you get from a tank of fuel. So while the cost savings isn't much because of the fuel tax, you still get to go farther.




    The heavy duty pickups are generally exempt from light-duty emissions and noise standards, so that's how they get away with it. I agree that it is an unfair advantage. I'm not saying that heavy duty trucks should meet the same standards as cars or light duty trucks, but to have them largely exempt and not counted toward the manufacturer's CAFE standards is a bit extreme.

    Anyway, here is my point on the diesel vs. hybrids: After a quick glance around the web, I see the Toyota Prius stats at $23,050 and is rated at 51/48 MPG. The 4 door Golf TDI starts at $23,885 and is rated at 42/30 for the auto. Given the differences in mileage and difference in fuel prices, it is really hard for the average buyer to justify buying a diesel. Yes, I have read all over the internet about people getting insane mileage out of the diesels, but most people are just going to look at the ratings and compare that.





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  • ajkrause
    Sep 1, 01:29 PM
    Get some goddamned control man!

    LOL If only it were that easy.

    I bought the MBP because suspiciously my PB G4 decided to die on me right around that time and I, of course, rationalized and used it as an excuse with myaself... and now I kick myself in the butt for it too because 1 week after I bought my MBP, Apple released the 17" MBP for the same price I paid for my 15".**kick*





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  • AlphaDogg
    Feb 18, 05:07 PM
    I want that poster!!! Where did you get it?

    Which poster? The SJ poster?





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  • bigpics
    Mar 24, 12:57 PM
    Dude, I'm sorry to inform you that what you're saying is an outright lie, and there are guys from the Lossless Compression Clan, called "Apple Lossless codec", "FLAC", and "APE", standing with heavy cluebats in their hands, ready to perform a painful reality sync on anyone thinking compression ALWAYS degrades quality.

    Because it doesn't, full stop.You're (very probably) right. My comments were aimed at those who were saying the Classic is overkill because who could ever "need" anything more than 128 or even 256 kbps AAC's or mp3's. (Nobody even mentioned 320, at which many of my fave songs are ripped.)

    So as for the "lossless" CODECs, my reach exceeds my grasp. When it comes to photo files I pretty much understand the principles of ZFW lossless compression in TIFF files and have thousands of 'em. And in case anyone doesn't know, if you work on JPEG's and do multiple editing sessions on a photo, you do introduce new compression artifacts every time you re-save even at the highest settings. I've done tests for kicks and giggles - repeatedly opening and saving .jpg's and you reach a point where the image looks like a (very) bad xerox copy.

    Back to audio, I've plowed through a few articles on formats - years ago - and I've seen slightly differing conclusions about Apple Lossless and FLAC ('tho all felt that these were alternatives worth considering for at least the great majority of people serious about sound), but, frankly, I lack the chops to have an informed opinion of my own, and know nada about APE.

    And, no, while I can appreciate friends' systems that are tricked out with vacuum tube amps, "reference" speakers and high-end vinyl pressings, I'm hardly one of the hard-core audiophiles in practice. My files are mostly 256 and 320 kbps, my home speaker placements are wrong and I use preset ambiance settings that totally mess with the sound to produce surround effects from AAC's.

    Worse, the great majority of my listening is on the mid-level rig in my car at freeway speeds or in city traffic, meaning I and millions of others are constantly fighting like, what, 20-30 db of non-music noise that totally overwhelms delicate nuances in sound. And worst, some of my earliest pre-iPod rips (back when I had a massive 20 GB HDD) were done in RealPlayer at 96 or even 64 kbps - before I sold or traded those CDs - and yeah, in the car, some of those still sound "pretty good" to me (tho' some clearly don't).

    Add the (lack of) quality of most ear buds and headsets used by most people, and there's probably less than 5% of music listeners experiencing "true high-fidelity." To turn around an old ad campaign, no, our music listening today is "not live - it's Memorex."

    But my point was and is that there's no reason to champion lossy compression per se other than for the economies of storage space it provides, and for fungible uses like topical podcasts.

    As long as we have the space, "data fidelity" is desirable so that the files we produce which will be around for many years - and get spread to many people - don't discard signal for no real gain. No one would put up with "lossy" word processing compression that occasionally turned "i's" into "l's" after all.

    And those audio files will still be around in a future of better DAC's, speakers, active systems which routinely monitor and cancel out things like apartment, road and car noise (in quieter electric cars with better road noise supression in the first place), better mainstream headsets and who knows what other improvements.

    Compatibility between players (software or hardware) used to be another reason to choose, say, mp3's, but there's really no meaningful competition to Apple's portable sound wonders any more.

    So please keep those "cluebats" holstered! No offense intended. ;)





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  • tekmoe
    Oct 23, 07:03 PM
    I love reading the one off posts from a bitter MBP owner who's precious is on the verge of discontinue...ment...

    me too. i can easily picture them sitting behind the screen biting their nails while hoping new mbp's are not released. then they have the incredible urge to post totally useless comments because they can't bare the fact that their mbp is about to be outdated.

    haha! i love it!





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  • mattwolfmatt
    Sep 14, 10:17 AM
    ...my iPhone 4 still gets the best reception of any phone I've ever owned, regardless of how I hold it or whether or not it has a case on it...

    Ditto for me. I can't believe I waffled between 3GS, HTC Incredible, and iPhone 4. With 3GS 30% of my calls were dropped, with iPhone 4, 0%. Had it since July 5.





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  • robbieduncan
    Apr 9, 04:39 PM
    Maybe they are rare where you live. In the UK and the rest of Europe they are more common that automatics.





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  • firestarter
    Apr 12, 10:01 PM
    Don't know what the price will be but I'm nearly positive there will be no 'upgrade' price.

    Apple seems to be moving to the app-store model where you pay less at first but then you pay the same for every upgrade.

    iLife has done this for years and now Aperture is doing the same thing. Frankly, I prefer it to the old way.

    I don't know... Licensing terms seem more reasonable on the app store.

    I guess we'll just have to see (I'm hoping for upgrade price though, since I have FCP!)





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  • lordonuthin
    Dec 18, 05:43 PM
    i may add some more over the break

    Cool, you are getting away from me again... but that's a good thing! :p





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  • skunk
    Mar 21, 02:19 PM
    But the rebels are not in contact with the rest of the world through any official channels, and media access is poor.Twitter (http://twitter.com/ShababLibya) is informative, but after 42 years of impotence, normal service cannot be resumed instantaneously. The prospects seem remarkably good, though, that what emerges from this will be an unusually honest democracy.





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  • Bonsai1214
    Sep 19, 08:56 PM
    solid. probably going to go for that grip vue. got a question about it though. does it have direct access to the buttons, or does it have a button you press that presses on the button? i hope you guys understand. haha.





    iTravis
    Apr 12, 09:26 PM
    I found this audio stream of the keynote. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/foxtrotyankee

    It hiccups now and then but not awful.

    That hasn't worked for me in the past 10 Minutes.
    I guess the pictures will suffice for now.





    thejadedmonkey
    Aug 7, 06:11 AM
    For the sake of those who want to remain surprised until we see the video, there should be a page on MacRumors that says "will post link when video available" - so I can just check that page for the video to be uploaded later in the day. I plan to completely avoid all news until I see the video.

    Can somebody do this?
    This should help..
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/appleevents/





    AidenShaw
    Oct 23, 03:24 PM
    Not if you open it, load some stuff onto it and take it through customs in your carry-on. Get rid of the box and nobody can say that you didn't buy it in the UK and are just coming home.
    unless they look at the power brick and the keyboard ;)





    Doctor Q
    Jul 18, 01:58 AM
    I wouldn't rule out downloading a movie, even for limited use, but the price would have to make it worthwhile. It'll have to compete with Netflix, my local video rental store, cable TV, and going to the movie theater. A tough market but a good population of potential customers.





    liketom
    Jul 19, 05:03 PM
    The great numbers shown today just prove that this is the perfect moment to bury MS once and for all in the OS war...OS X is by far the best system, and Longsight is still more than 6 months away...Microsoft is doomed.
    Apple has had a better OS IMO for years and i wish i'd switched much sooner then i did -

    LongShight i think you mean Vista will be here next year and will be a big cash cow for Microsoft - will it work as well as Mac OS ? no,will it be better ? no ...but people will buy it and still get viruses and spyware

    and whilst there are doing that i will still keep buying Mac's and adding to there Quarterly Profits :D

    Well, he clearly dismissed all current MP3/Phone integration setups and said that they're not just sitting around. It's no outright admission, but I'd say that's pretty revealing -- if he was refering to iTunes on a phone, I feel like he would've had a talking point ready for it. This seemed more like a "er, I just backed myself into this sentence" type thing.
    true - after posting i thought this too - well maybe, but i'll not get my hopes up like the Powerbook G5 thing;)



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