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I came across this interesting article which says that Amazon is also planning to offer movies online in its store and that it has almost finalized deals with at least 3 of the big studios.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-movies6sep06,0,6420529.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Love the style and miniaturization being tested out in the Air line. I'd never seriously consider one though unless they made a 15" version. I've been buying mid-size Mac laptops forever, going back to the 14" Wallstreet.

With my need for real estate (graphics and video editing) and limited use of optical drives and lots of I/O ports on a daily basis, that thin form factor and big screen would be just perfect for me.

Think it over Apple - thinner is better, but so is bigger!

Yep, my dream machine would be a redesigned MBP with a .75 inch thick body, no optical drive, dual storage drives (SSD BLADE + HDD), Ivy bridge, HD 6950m (equivalent) 2GB VRAM, and a 1200p 16:10 screen @ 15inches. Of course with all the standard Apple hoo ha (TB, HD Facetime...etc). And the battery life of R2D2.

As I stated in a few posts up I'm not that happy with the pricing of the iTunes Movies, but, if I were to buy any I would quickly run into a huge problem - STORAGE! I have an iBook with 60 GB drive and it's almost full from other stuff.

Apple should come out with a home storage network server with RAID, etc.

Err, buy an external HD or upgrade your iBook HD!

I have a 1Ghz iBook with a 80GB HD (upgraded it myself) and 2 160GB firewire HD's so what was your point?

Apple is the copyright holder of those images and they provide the right to use those images in Applications running on macs via the API on a Mac running OS X.

So why can't you use an official Apple API on the iPhone? That's crazy.

Come on Apple... open the doors. Let's not be too far behind, here...

I hope Apple is at least somewhat prepared for the demand... :)

This whole situation reminds me of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft).

something to do with the magna carte

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain!

...sorry, couldn't resist.:)

Aperture update.
Possible MacBook Pro update. Keeping the MacBooks the same as they are.

That's all I see.

I'm thinking of an Apple/Canon merger? I was hoping for a buyout of leica or kodak, but I think a Canon merger might work. We haven't seen any large mergers buyouts since HP/Compaq and something is going to happen soon. Though I don't know if this is true or not Steve Jobs and Canon have had close ties for nearly 15 years and I've noticed this recently with the Canon products being given first priority in there digital/video store. At one time Canon even invested something like $10 million into NEXT. Snapping(excuse the pun) Canon would help with a huge amount of patents and might be easier then starting from scratch with a camera or camcorder.

Please explain to me how a computer company would benefit from aquiring a camera company because I just don't see it.

And SJ knows soon WHAT you listen WHERE and WHEN and HOW OFTEN. I'm sure there is marketing to be done. At least when iPhone or iPad are used.

He'll be dead by then.

I bought a movie (Good Will Hunting) to try out the whole shabang and see the quality for myself. The 1.5Gb download took 6+ hours on my crappy adelphia cable modem (it feels slower every day, what am I paying 50 bucks a month for again?). I was satisfied with the image quality on my 20" Dell widescreen, but sitting at my desk to watch a movie instead of my couch isn't the movie experience I'm going for. Sadly, I probably won't be buying another iTunes movie.

Not that anyone cares.

oppps my bad.

OK then early in the morning so will be evening in Paris. Frenchs anyway like it better in the evening. :p

So I have read a lot of these posts, but not all, sorry if this has been dicussed.

Is it weird to have a special event in SF on the day the Paris Expo starts?

Do you think this is pointing towards an iPod/iTunes announcement (movie rentals or whatever)?

If there is no keynote in Paris and a special event on the 12th that has something to do with iPod/Tunes, does this give further evidence that C2C will be in on the 5th?

sad, as the app store is 99% junk.

They say EVERY YEAR that apple is under attack from more threats.

Is the story even plausible?

http://tapatalk.com/mu/2e0fe4ce-153e-aadb.jpg

Well it's old but it still surpasses an awful lot of modern games. Plus the worlds are open, more beautiful and more demanding than all this Call of Duty stuff that's popular at the moment.


I agree, far better looking and beautiful, however not as cpu/gpu demanding

it's not just new tv downloads, but also old tv show downloads that were bumped up.

Yeah, I said Thunderbolt would take over the world when I said that USB and Thunderbolt were complimentary. :rolleyes: Thunderbolt for high bandwidth, USB for low bandwidth.

Yeah, super complex high speed adapters that we've seen done time and time again in an affordable manner. :rolleyes:

Glad you're done arguing. Clearly you only had two points to try and refute and it would be embarrassing for you to just leave the rest of my previous post with no replies.

No, it's more like I'd get banned if I really said what I thought. I'm clearly dealing with someone that knows very little about USB.

More Thunderbolt the better!

Because that huge base of thunderbolt based devices is overwhelming! :p

wow thats pretty cool with the option of the trackpad. I think its a must on any iMac. I couldn't live without it. :)

Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed that the i7 is slower than the i5, and that the Radeon HD 6970M is slower than the 6750M.

Whaaaaa? :confused:

I'd seen that. Confused, also...

now is the Xeon processor faster than the core 2 duo?

That is a rather pointless question since the Xeon processor in the MacPro _is_ a Core 2 Duo processor.

Gotta say, the option to get a touchpad instead of a mouse is a huge step forward. I was eyeing up one of those just for fun but the price turned me away (esp. after spending �400 on a Wacom). And since I already have a really good Razer mouse... it's win win! No second mouse to clutter up my drawer.

Apple needs to be more revolutionary than just offer this rather lame iPod update... but I'm sure that is coming. Most of it is just software - except for the brighter screen and larger resolution.

Does the updated iPod software for old 5G also give the search function - that would be very useful.

What are the games like?