I have just seen Steve Jobs ( Apple ) 2008 keynote speech
The products his company comes up with are fantastic and each year they seem to make the products better with more features and easier to use. Thy do seem to be leading the field in just about every area of online entertainment. the only failure in the past few years has been Apple TV ( i wonder how badly he wanted to call it iTV :) ) but they seem to have now made that a piece of kit that lots of people, including me, would like. You can now, with a downloadable software update use it to download films DVD or HD quality and watch them without the use of a pc or mac . You have to hand it to him hes bloody good at running a computer company.
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/f27853y2/event/index.html?internal=fj2l3s9dm
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/f27853y2/event/index.html?internal=fj2l3s9dm
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( BTW When did they stop using the Macintosh name in favour of just Apple? )
I've never been much of a stylish person, so I don't think I'm part of Apple's demographic.,
I got the PowerBook in 2004 not just because of OS X, but when looking at comparable laptops - i.e. 10 to 12 inch screen, reasonably good CPU for the size of laptop, DVD burner, proper FireWire port) the PC competitors were actually more expensive. The only PC laptop competitors that weren't were these gigantic luggables with all the disadvantages of a desktop and all the disadvantages of a laptop, but the advantages of neither.
When I replace the laptop, it'll be with a MacBook Pro. However, I doubt it'll happen for a while - the G4 PowerBook has proven to be very robust (I don't have a fancy laptop case - it just gets thrown in my backpack when I travel along with shoes, clothes and other sundries and then unceremoniously carted around the place) and I really don't have the need for massive amounts of CPU power so the G4 is perfectly adequate.
I'm thoroughly unimpressed by it...woowoo its very thin...its still 15x12 in the other dimensions!
Give me a 1 inch thick one that was only 7x5 with one of those laser projector keyboards instead please!
Or even a 'pull out' flexible lcd display...can't wait for those to go into mainstream production....laptop in a tube.
Plus my Eee is in Sinclair Black. It feels like a Sinclair product too, just like the Nokia 770 that this is replacing did.
I'm tempted. I don't own a mobile because I hardly ever phone anyone. I loathe talking over the phone, so I avoid doing so. However, there are times when a mobile comes in useful. When I have had a mobile I either leave it at home, or find that its battery has discharged. An iPod on the other hand would get frequent use, so an iPhone with telephone ability would be nice. My wife has a Sony Walkman phone; IMO the UI is awful, so that isn't an alternative. The Nokias she looked at didn't impress either. You can get iPhones in India, but I would prefer an official release.
I think I would like this once the UK store is open. I have a UK credit card so I can buy stuff from the iTunes store. Even if most of the stuff is Hollywood it would be an improvement on what's on offer in the local DVD stores. Firstly, of course, Bollywood reigns supreme. Not my cup of tea. I like ogling the girls, but that encourages my wife to assault me. Secondly VCD is more popular here. Hollywood stuff does make it here, but usually only the most anodyne material. It would be nice to have (legal) access to more films.
I'll be keeping my MBP. I'm not sure what the market for this is. The MacBooks are cheaper, and pretty slim anyway. The MBP has proper graphics, not much more expensive and hardly bulky.
I'm happy with an external HDD and a FW800 cable. I use the MBP as a desktop, so cables don't bother me.
IN31
Owner of iPod Touch running v1.1.3 :lol:
Our teenage daughter dropped her week old iPod Classic today and killed the hard drive stone dead. Hoping Apple replace it without questioning the scuff marks. I was so mad at her. :evil:
So I was hoping that the MacBook Air would be the ideal replacement machine but I felt underwhelmed after the MacWorld presentation. I don't care about the lack of optical drives but to me the machine feels underpowered. I was also hoping that the battery would last longer but that's still only good for 5 hours.
Hows that going ? I nearly got one, i know you can put XP on an eee but i wanted one already done so i went for an Easynote XS, have a ton of emulators on it already, love the little machine ! So small !
They did in the 90's, with a console called the Pippin. It was an attempt to get into the crappy CDi-style machines that a few companies released around that time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
It bombed, big time.
It even made the list of the Worst 25 Tech Products Of All Time:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,6/article.html
I'd like to see them make another attempt though. After all M$ did with the Xbox and they're doing alright. I'd love to see another tech company release a console that blows away the competition, much like NEC did with it's PC Engine. Why the hell they didn't release that console in Europe and clean up is anyone's guess.
When you've gotten used to it, please post your thoughts on it, preferably in a new topic so it can begin an on topic discussion.
I'd be very interested to see what it's like, both as a portable workstation (for word processing and whatever), and also as a portable Spectrum and native games player (it might not be too powerful, but as long as it can run Linux ports of Doom and Duke Nukem then that's something).
It'd be interesting to see if it can work with Linux's DOS emulators too.
Edit: Should have said, I really wish Sir Clive had released this.