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So Whats Coming at the Paris Expo
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i'dd like to see prices on hardware (including lcd screens) to drop, ive been noticing that for the last 2-3 years, the powermac price has gone up bout $400 or so (CDN) in price for low end model
I would LOVE to see the iBook beefed up! I am waiting to purchase a new portable until I see what comes out at Paris and what debuts in January at Expo. I really wish they would give the iBook SUPER DRIVE so I can burn DVDs too.
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Can you imagine the amount of time it would take to go through and organize/edit that many pics. I don't think that is reasonable or useful. Now if it were a vid camera...
Why does this have to be the case?
They put the combo drive in the iBook way before they put them in the TiBook. That being said, I kinda think they'll put SuperDrives in both the i and the Ti simultaneously (plus a G4 in the iBook).
except they wouldnot put one in ANY portable...
first of all they have to make the drive small enough
second it can't get too hot
third it can't drain too much power
and fourth...they would have to make it slot-loading for the TI...and to make it slot and small enough is just not going to happen for a long time.
iCal & iSync
I agree with nemo - isn't this expo around the time iCal and iSync were slated to be available? I think Steve will announce that they are available or at least announce the date, and then do the usual Jag spiel. I don't expect a new digihub device; it doesn't seem likely that Apple would annouce something like that overseas. I don't mean to slight the non-US expos, but it seems to me that Steve would want to make such an annoucement where lots of US press could easily attend.
But who knows....
I agree with nemo - isn't this expo around the time iCal and iSync were slated to be available? I think Steve will announce that they are available or at least announce the date, and then do the usual Jag spiel. I don't expect a new digihub device; it doesn't seem likely that Apple would annouce something like that overseas. I don't mean to slight the non-US expos, but it seems to me that Steve would want to make such an annoucement where lots of US press could easily attend.
But who knows....
But what if this new Apple DC was a 5-6 mp camera, had the 5 gb storage and FW, and you use iPhoto? And the camera chunked up the mnay images into 'rolls' of like 30-50 images, then iPhoto could zip those in and they are already organized. Think if the camera allowed you to name the rolls at shooting? like' Rome 1' or 'Rollercoaster'.
Or better yet, rather than the 5 gb drive that would take up much space inthe body, and since the camera needs a little more space for the imaging electronics and optics than the iPod needs for sound [educated guessing], how about an internal 1 gb microdrive, like IBM has? 5 mp, 750-1000 pics, FW for speeedy downloads and iPhoto for organizing. Sounds great to me!!!!
Originally posted by primalman
But what if this new Apple DC was a 5-6 mp camera, had the 5 gb storage and FW, and you use iPhoto? And the camera chunked up the mnay images into 'rolls' of like 30-50 images, then iPhoto could zip those in and they are already organized. Think if the camera allowed you to name the rolls at shooting? like' Rome 1' or 'Rollercoaster'.
Or better yet, rather than the 5 gb drive that would take up much space inthe body, and since the camera needs a little more space for the imaging electronics and optics than the iPod needs for sound [educated guessing], how about an internal 1 gb microdrive, like IBM has? 5 mp, 750-1000 pics, FW for speeedy downloads and iPhoto for organizing. Sounds great to me!!!!
If they'd ever do a digital camera, I would place bets on them teaming up with minolta. Anyone who reads minolta boards knows the DiMage X is now offered by Apple Japan in "snow" colors to match iMacs and iBooks.
http://store.apple.com/0120-APPLE-1/WebObjects/japanstore.woa/874/wo/8Sj3w0rz3zu2MRDhbu/3.3.0.3.34.8
gosh, that pic stinks... alldimage.com has images if you so care.
I highly doubt apple will go into the 5-6MP prosumer camera range, and i think they'd be foolish to try and compete with nikon or canon for high end digital cameras.... so I think maybe another iteration of this DiMage X with firewire, and an update to the iPod where you can browse files would be the way to go.
Plus, iPhoto is in need of an update. Try iMediaViewPro and see how iPhoto should function. Man, get over 300 pics at 5mp and watch iPhoto cripple even a dual gig machine.
Yuck.
So i think there's MAJOR work for Apple to do if they're gonna jump into the digicam realm, and quite frankly, I think the market is saturated. Same as PDAs and cell phones. There are SO MANY good options out there, whereas in the mp3 realm, there were so many crappy options-- until iPod.
Just my .02.... they'll maybe brand a DiMage as the "preferred" apple cam... or nothing at all.
Some are not expecting much, since the expo is not in the USA, but I think there's a good chance something significant will be announced. It is a way of showing that the whole world is significant to Apple, not just the country when headquarters is located.
steve should do a switch ad in which he trys importing 300 pics into a PC version of iPhoto..."as you can see all we do is click import and, whoops! what's this blue screen doing here? I want my photos!!!"
"switch, it works"
"switch, it works"
Re: iCal & iSync
He won't spend two hours talking about iCal and iSync and Jaguar i mean it came out already and theres no need to make a big deal about an update mabye 10.2.1. He has to anounce something new. They might have also updated the tiBook it hasn't been updated for a while. Some web sites say it will and some say it won't?
He won't spend two hours talking about iCal and iSync and Jaguar i mean it came out already and theres no need to make a big deal about an update mabye 10.2.1. He has to anounce something new. They might have also updated the tiBook it hasn't been updated for a while. Some web sites say it will and some say it won't?
Re: Re: iCal & iSync
I wonder whether Steve Jobs usually does the keynote outside the US Macworld shows? If not, than it is significant that he is doing it in Paris. This would suggest an annoncement of something new. Someone else pointed out that there is a US conference with Apple keynote 10 hours after Steves. This is also interesting. Maybe something big, with followup 10 hours later? What might be big and have an impact on the second conference?
I wonder whether Steve Jobs usually does the keynote outside the US Macworld shows? If not, than it is significant that he is doing it in Paris. This would suggest an annoncement of something new. Someone else pointed out that there is a US conference with Apple keynote 10 hours after Steves. This is also interesting. Maybe something big, with followup 10 hours later? What might be big and have an impact on the second conference?
i agree
firewire on a digital camera would be big... my dad's minolta (5 mp) has pictures that are about 15-20 megs.
transferring that via usb is ass.. of course, that's the higher level cam, but still... i don't expect apple to make this camera, but in general, i'd like to see a digital cam with firewire
and a bigger capacity. 5 gb is a bit much perhaps... but if it also can operate as an external drive, no problems with me having some extra space
i'm kinda 50/50 on whether he's going to announce something big at the show in Paris. He's given the keynote there before, and I'm fairly certain that some new hardware has been unveiled there in the past (please correct if I'm wrong)...
Originally posted by tjwett
laptop. the word is laptop.
a german friend of mine, types laptop > this way too... "labtop"
maybe the guy is german...
be easy on him...
I have to disagree about the need for a still camera with a hard drive.
i hate shooting compressed images. Tiffs all the way.
I love the idea of a hard drive but it would spin in my hand whiling im trying to stay still!
Besides use actions to process all those images in photoshop
and with iphoto mangaing images is easy!
You all need to shoot more pictures
i hate shooting compressed images. Tiffs all the way.
I love the idea of a hard drive but it would spin in my hand whiling im trying to stay still!
Besides use actions to process all those images in photoshop
and with iphoto mangaing images is easy!
You all need to shoot more pictures