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That link about the 12" MBP is here. I've never heard of this site, but most of the details it says are things that have been rumored bit-by-bit in more reliable places before.

Just got the iPod Hi-Fi, and although I figured it would sound decent, I'm very pleasantly surprised at how well it fills a room. It's also really clear at high volumes.

iphone ads are up http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

Can't they just release a new friggin Macbook Pro already? I need a new laptop and I'm not going to order right before a processor bump.

WWDC, dude.

Supposedly coming tomorrow, in time for the Education promos.

So if they're tomorrow, and iPhone is June 29, what's at WWDC? Touchscreen iMac?

I'm guessing an imac with an isight behind the screen

^^^ wha?

i think i am going to buy a new computer by the end of the summer. i will wait.

JW -- you have the big iMac, right?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/

^ timing of patent revelation seems right

I have a 1st gen 19 inch Intel iMac at the office. I am buying a 24 as soon as it gets bumped.

Do the iMacs not come with Garage Band anymore? I was looking at the site and it's not clear

yeah that's the one i want xp

this thread just makes me feel poor and sad.

Do the iMacs not come with Garage Band anymore? I was looking at the site and it's not clear

GB is part of iLife, so yes, they do.

I bet those image sensors aren't for video but for watching your hands, so you can touchscreen without actually touching the screen wit your greasy mitts. Microsoft, of all people, had a demo of something similar years ago, but fucked it up, typically.

Stet, there are better ways of doing multitouch ui

http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/05/wiimote.jpg

not that

I hope it doesn't turn out like the stupid bank of america atms where I am stuck there for twenty minutes punching the screen and all I want to do is check my balance.

There are better ways to do cameras for vid conf too -- and this is the company with the one-button mouse!

I can't believe they need a 24" camera, for anything. Maybe a sensor in the middle, aye, but the iChat cam in the top is pretty sound.

I likee the iSight camera. Solid, works great with iChat, boom.

static non adjustable camera in the top of the lid is not nearly as useful as it could be.

Although I've only really just started using it after having it for a year and I guess it's great that it's there or I would have had to go and buy one.

I had to work at a place w/touch screen monitors and then when I went home I would just prod at my monitor without even thinking.

This thredd is making me feel poor, too---I know when I see someone w/an iphone for the first time I am going to think 'douchebag', but out of jealousy or something else like it.

1) Apple store is down.
2) Today is 30th anniversary of Apple ][
3) OH SHIT SON

come on new macbooks, I wnat to have at least one prediction on this goddamn thread be right

ding ding ding at last. speedbump isn't very exciting, though.

wtf no new imacs? wwdc

LEDs

jealous

I have one of the new MBPs on my desk now. Purchased in record time!

What's the LED screen like? Does it shimmer if you drag this pic about?

http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/ghostly.png

that's a function of the TFT rather than the backlight, no?

Yeh, sorry, didn't mean to conflate the two there -- I meant a) is the screen nice and bright and b) does it still shimmer on scroll like my cheap-ass MacBook?

hint: laptop displays are not as good as desktop displays!!!!!

OTM. But my iBook only flickrs a touch on that pic, whereas MB/MBP screens I've seen go into full-on strobe-out freakout.

hm

stet, you might be interested to know that yon image flickers like a fucker on my PB12" when i scroll; never noticed that happening before, but now you come to mention it ... it doesn't annoy me at all :)

Compared to the Dell 19" on my desk, I really don't seem any flickering or shimmering at all. Just the slightest bit of a shimmer, a hell of a lot better than I've seen on other LCDs.

Thanks! That's bad news for my credit card.

I imagine a revamp of the displays is coming

Sadly the point at which I knew I'd upgrade was when I was at JavaOne and all these Sun people were using MacBook Pros, and they were all so much faster than my oldass 1.5GHz G4. The difference between that processor and dual core 2.4GHz Intel chips is pleasing.

I've got a Discover Card with $5000 in credit. Should I a) continue not spending money on stupid things, thus possibly improving my quality of life in the future or b) go blow $2500 and tax on the mid-range MBP, praying I can get paid back in the budget of the next big job or c) sell the Mac Pro and buy one of these?

Is anyone living with a notebook hooked up to an external monitor/keyboard/mouse + external HDs?

Is anyone living with a notebook hooked up to an external monitor/keyboard/mouse + external HDs?

Yep, me, and it rocks except for the latest OS X update makes speakers pop loudly before sounds (I think it's sending the sound channels to sleep when they're idle for a while). Also bluetooth kb/mouse U&K

Although something good is coming out at WWDC for sure, since they did the MacBook Pros today to clear the way. I'm still holding out for touchscreen jazz.

I hate docking my notebook

stet, I don't want to get all bitchy, but wtf is the point of touchscreen on a desktop

milo z, save the money. Or just get a cheaper PC. You can get a refurbished Thinkpad for about $400 online.

But it won't run OS X. ('twas a joke, though, sadly. I have a year-old Mac Pro that should last me forever and I'm not about to buy a notebook unless it's confirmed that I am getting reimbursed fully)

The point of a desktop touchscreen, as I noted, is to make you look like a complete ass when you go to poke a normal monitor.