New Apple Lust Objects

You also have to keep in mind that Jobs often likes to save the coolest product announcements for himself, usually at Macworld.

the rumors seem pretty reliable. i've checked macrumors a bunch, and the release would coincide with the end of the back to school promotion they're running right now (ends sept 15).

still, i'd be saving a ton of money....h'mmm.

good point, lib. like, i doubt they're dropping touch screen laptops on us, but something similar to my old 12" but faster would be dope. this 15" i'm using (dad's) is really nice, but maybe just a hair big? but gift horses, etc.

Dude, 4Gb RAM and 2.4GHz processor. You'd be nuts if you didn't take it.

As a side-note: With Vista being the train wreck that it is, Apple would be bonkers if it didn't exploit the opportunity it has right now by being a bit more aggressive in its Macbook pricing. Just a bit, but enough to really get people thinking.

rumor is a $200 price drop on the new macbooks. I killed mine a week ago and am borrowing a friend's old barely functioning powerbook just hoping that they push out the new ones in the next month or so.

yeah i think i'm gonna go for it

holy shit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/bloomberg-accidentally-pu_n_122044.html

woops

Imagine the millions of Apple fanboys actually crying when it happens though. Oh my god.

lol those fanboys

explain to me: why oh why oh why would ANYONE want a "macbook touch"?

I'd take one if it was eee sized and the screen flipped around like a tablet, even if only for scrolling really long documents. overpriced ebook reader, basically.

^this plus ability to hand annotate documents and some handwriting recognition that worked.

this is all I want

http://img.skitch.com/20080911-dhhynmssew6iwujmhjyq5pdc.jpg

11" and beautiful

10" even; anything less and you're into oh-so-cramped EEE territory

I am looking more for this:

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/gallery/iphone-buzz-gallery/apple_tablet.jpg

that possibly does this:

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/gallery/iphone-buzz-gallery/0512_imac_tablet_inset_450.jpg

When the heck is Apple going to add native Blu-Ray drives in their laptops & desktops? They're on the Blu-Ray board of directors, for pete's sake, and they're behind Sony, Dell and HP on this. Come on, already!

where are those mockups from?

http://macbooktouch.com/

The people on that site seem like a very special breed of Apple nutter.

those guys are crazy

http://cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/apple-invite2.jp
Oct 14, finally.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/applenotebookevent081009.jpg

this is a new strategy for apple. telling the customer that something specific is coming.

probably because laptops are huge for the back-to-school market, and they missed it this year

Yea, I'm going NUTS waiting for this one

this is a new strategy for apple. telling the customer that something specific is coming.

Not really. This is a press invite to the launch. They often have these quite explicit teaser lines for events in the next week or so. The one for new iPods last time said "Let's rock" or something.

Yea, I'm going NUTS waiting for this one

ya rly - finally time to retire the PBG4...

I'm STILL waiting for a 12" PB-esque thing. If they don't make one this time I'm gonna turn one of those Dell Mini things into a hackintosh

this one's supposed to have a 13" mbp

http://images.appleinsider.com/mb13possible-081009.gif

oops, just macbook, not pro my bad

gah that gruber guy really does my nut in; why do I keep reading his site?

His last "essay" was embarrassing beyond even the fanboi pale. 300000 words to say "oooh the iPhone 3G what came out months ago is awes <3 <3 <3 <3 ... <3 <3 <3 <3"

<3 <3 <3

I didn’t find John Gruber to be completely embarrassing till I found out that being a “technology pundit” was his full time job.

Let’s just say it up front: the iPhone is the greatest piece of consumer electronics that has ever been made.

is there a tech improvement here or just a different price point?

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/4/f/e/4fee878415fe7502e099e2c256e79cd6.gif

is there a tech improvement here or just a different price point?

rumors:
- new housing
- new chipset
- new price spread
- glossy screen only (boo)
- chiclet keyboard (boo)

This will be my new computer whatever it turns out to be so it better be good.

I know new Mac Pros are expected 1st quarter of 2009 but my old-school G5 had a meltdown and I couldn't wait, so now I've got a 2.8 8 Core Mac Pro with 6 gigs of ram.

I've had a week of troubleshooting and working out issues as I've reinstalled software and whatnot, and there's still some stuff going on that may not be kosher, but you know what?

It's really really fast.

Boo on the chiclet keyboard? Man, these things feel great! I agree with the glossy screen though, seems like a bad idea for a portable.

gruber is angry

Anticipate away:

http://www.macrumors.com/

if gruber is saying it that means Apple OKd the leaks. Which hopefully means there's something interesting coming. Not yet another aluminium warmup. Be cool if the touchpad had a screen in it too, but actually I'd settle for a battery life that approached, yknow, life.

Be cool if the touchpad had a screen in it too

that would heave.

photos:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/mr-blurrycam-reveals-the-updated-macbook-pro-899-laptop-model/

Want: multitouch gestures, battery life, graphics in the macbook to make it a serious option, a pony
might want: docking station, 8 inch tablet
do not want: screen on the trackpad

Never gonna get the hate for touchscreens. You could do awesome shit with a touchscreen there, all sorts of custom controls.