Apple Event 8/7 - New Macs, not iPods

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hmm I might pick up a new imac. What sucks is that we just had tax free weekend here in TN where computers could be bought tax free is under $1500. It ended last night a midnight, poor timing.
 
sportzhead said:
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I think the new iMac looks nice.
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it looks almost exactly the same doesn't it?

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am I taking crazy pills here?
 
pxleyes said:
Well if you are mixing sticks then you will have problems. In the end it is probably cheaper to buy the lowest ram possible in the mac itself and buy a 2 stick package from a reliable manufacturer and just replace the stick the mac comes with.
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yeah... I've just been unlucky, But that was in the G5 power PC days. These days I just buy the expensive sticks. I do not want to go thru again what I went thru after my ram escapades!
 
It's just thinner and has a black border. And is brushed metal. That's cool. Nothing earth shattering.


You kind of expect that after Old Apple used to pull out ****ing nutso design after nutso design on everything they did, but oh well.
 
lil smoke said:
yeah... I've just been unlucky, But that was in the G5 power PC days. These days I just buy the expensive sticks. I do not want to go thru again what I went thru after my ram escapades!
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well you don't have to go expensive to get quality ram. While it may be more than Kingston ram, get Corsair (lifetime warrenty) or Mushkin (my personal favorite) and you cant go wrong.
 
it is certainly less subtle than apple products tend to be. I agree with the comment about the black logo. Too in-your-face.
 
lil smoke said:
it is certainly less subtle than apple products tend to be. I agree with the comment about the black logo. Too in-your-face.
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Steve Jobs is going to make you his bitch.... suck it down...
 
lil smoke said:
it is certainly less subtle than apple products tend to be. I agree with the comment about the black logo. Too in-your-face.
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It isn't just that. I think it is the first time Apple has used a color of the Apple logo outside of white since the old rainbow color version.
 
Laurent said:
Wow... Engadget fails! Gizmodo is providing us with muuuuch more pictures and updates!
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Gizmodo's liveblog is no longer working for me. :\ Engadget, however, is workin' splendidly.
 
SuperPac said:
Gizmodo's liveblog is no longer working for me. :\ Engadget, however, is workin' splendidly.
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Quite the opposite here. Engadget provides us with tons and tons and tons of text, but Gizmodo gives alot more pictures! Try again perhaps? Where at iMovie now...
 
pxleyes said:
well you don't have to go expensive to get quality ram. While it may be more than Kingston ram, get Corsair (lifetime warrenty) or Mushkin (my personal favorite) and you cant go wrong.
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I'll keep that in mind next time, but I'm not buying a new mac until maybe 2 more years. I need my Macs stable as they are for work and music... I haven't gone intel yet!
 
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Ugh. First the GUI change when iTunes hit 7, now this? I really don't know how I feel about it. I definitely don't think it's better than the iMac G5 design, but I don't think i find it ugly either. It's just.....eh. Too much black for me. They're trying too hard to make it look like a Mac Pro IMO.
 
New iMovie?? Glory be to God. I love the simplicity of the current iMovie, but unless you're outputting back to video tape, all of the export options are total crap. Hopefully that won't be the case anymore.
 
this is the problem with apples simplistic styling, after a while white is no longer that hot and your stuck making dell-like products.

this new imac isnt bad looking, but its nothing new.
 
I think the new iMac looks cool. Anyway, que 20 to 30 people jumping into the thread saying "Sold! Sold! Sold!" just because it's, well, a new Apple product.
 
MaX_PL said:
this is the problem with apples simplistic styling, after a while white is no longer that hot and your stuck making dell-like products.

this new imac isnt bad looking, but its nothing new.
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I disagree. White is still working tremeandously well IMO. And it's not even the color choice that made their products so aesthetically appealing, it was their simplicity. The one-tone color of white just accentuated that.

The new iMac with all the silver and black works against it IMO. There are some PCs that don't look much worse than it now.
 
Souldriver said:
Still the coolest computer design ever!
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Meh, too heavy... I like the latest one introduced today; the black / greyish alluminum is what's next, seems Apple is implementing this design everywhere...
 
Can you mount it on a wall? I fancy a new computer for the lounge for web/email basic stuff and was thinking a white MacBook. But with wireless keyboard the iMac would be another option. Does it come with a remote for movies etc?
 
mrklaw said:
Can you mount it on a wall? I fancy a new computer for the lounge for web/email basic stuff and was thinking a white MacBook. But with wireless keyboard the iMac would be another option. Does it come with a remote for movies etc?
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I've always wanted to put a huge apple monitor on the wall and run simcity all day!
 
shidoshi said:
New iMovie?? Glory be to God. I love the simplicity of the current iMovie, but unless you're outputting back to video tape, all of the export options are total crap. Hopefully that won't be the case anymore.
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Outputting to video tape?
 
Personal domains are now supported on .Mac, so with that and the new cool photo/video sharing I think Steve will have my $99.
 
bionic77 said:
Outputting to video tape?
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DV. Even when you output a video you've made to a digital video file, instead of sending it back to DV, even iMovie '06 still treats it like it's going back to an interlaced source, resulting in some nasty looking text compared to how things looked when putting the movie together in iMovie. Doesn't matter what you told iMovie the original video source was, it doesn't properly handle exporting.
 
gigapower said:
Personal domains are now supported on .Mac, so with that and the new cool photo/video sharing I think Steve will have my $99.
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WHAT?! .Mac is now compatible with personnal domain names? To me, that's huge...

EDIT: Yeah, no MySQL nor PHP makes Laurent a dull boy, forget it...
 
.Mac now has 10GB of online storage.

I could have read it wrong, it might just be iWeb supporting personal domains, which now that I've re-read it is more likely. Damn.
 
gigapower said:
.Mac now has 10GB of online storage.

I could have read it wrong, it might just be iWeb supporting personal domains, which now that I've re-read it is more likely. Damn.
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Yeah, .Mac always has been a iWeb thingy... Before it allowed you to choose a theme directly on their website, but yeah they won't provide you with Pro functionality (MySQL, PHP, etc.)...
 
I just dug this out of the AVS forums.

It looks like Apple is pushing hard in the BDA to be able to author full length BD-R videos in the future.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/printthread.php?t=851221&p=11239362

Originally Posted by paidgeek
Blu-ray players were never supposed to support BDMV authored content using ordinary data type BD-R or BD-RE media. An exemption was made for a number of months so that available blank discs could be used for testing and other promotional activities; this exemption expired recently.

Consumers will be able to record their own authored movies using recorded media designed for this purpose (as specified by AACS). This media is designed to stop copies of copies of copyrighted material, something we can't prevent right now with the current media and drives.

Rest assured that Apple and other companies have been very vocal in the BDA to insure that consumers will have the ability to take full advantage of the movie specifications to make full featured discs if they so desire.
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So hopefully iMove will be updated in the future with Blu-ray authoring. A hint for built-in Blu-ray mac pros?
 
Not to ask a dumb question, but how does updating iLife and iWork go on a Mac? Do you need to drag the old ones out of the Applications folder first, or just install the new ones to replace the old ones?
 
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