MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 368
Stoobalou updates us on the various Apple rumors, saying, "Snaps of Apple's imminent update to the MacBook Pro range have been leaked, confirming most of the rumors doing the rounds." Light Peak looks like it will be called Thunderbolt. The 13" will feature 2.3ghz Dual Core i5s and 4 gigs of RAM. In addition to the MacBook Pro rumors, the iPad update rumors have been confirmed, with
invitations going out to the formal announcement on March 2.
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But...but...I need to know about everything Apple!!!
Oooooh. I just heard that Steve Jobs had a bowel movement! zOMG!!!!!1111eleventyone
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But...but...I need to know about everything Apple!!!
Oooooh. I just heard that Steve Jobs had a bowel movement! zOMG!!!!!1111eleventyone
I'm so sick of the Apple news posted around here! So I'm gonna keep bitching about it over and over again on every Apple thread so this ad supported site knows just how annoyed I am! When Apple stories often reach 200+ comments, they'll surely back down one day!
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Man all those people complaining about Apple news annoy the hell out of me. I will call them names and in that way display my superiority.
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Oooooh. I just heard that Steve Jobs had a bowel movement! zOMG!!!!!1111eleventyone
That's GREAT news! I'm buying Apple stock right now.
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I bet it's some marketing ploy from Apple also when we have photos of sick Steve Jobs in front of a cancer treatment facility.
It's also a marketing ploy when all the news site can't shut up about a smaller 6 inch iPad, and a "cloud iPhone that's half the size of iPhone" knowing full well it's bullshit.
And it's marketing ploy when random outlets report that iPad 2 will be late for months because of production issues.
Or maybe it's just that everyone can't stop reading about Apple, and therefore there's huge pressure for a leak to occur.
The reason leaks don't occur in Oracle or Computer Associates is, no one gives a damn. And leaks do occur at Microsoft and Adobe too, but again, no one gives a damn.
True, but Oracle is pretty hardassed (Score:3)
The reason leaks don't occur in Oracle or Computer Associates is, no one gives a damn. And leaks do occur at Microsoft and Adobe too, but again, no one gives a damn.
I agree with most of what you wrote about Apple, i.e., the idea of Steve "One More Thing, Leak And I'll Sue You" Jobs leaking is preposterous. I mean Jesus, he was just excoriated here for not giving more info on his health, and shareholders voted today on making their succession plans public (dumb idea, but it does tend to make my point). And there is so much speculation by the Apple blogosphere, somebody has to be right. And vendors and partners violate NDA's early.
But I can speak to Oracle. My GF work
Re:hmm (Score:5, Insightful)
What's interesting is that it seems Apple's product announcements are the only remaining tech that gets everyone talking, whether pro or against, people do talk about it. Dell might have released half a dozen new systems last week, but who'd know? I was in a tmobile store the other day and saw a number of Android-based handsets that I hadn't heard of. And even though I consider myself a geek, I have very little idea what the Xoom is, other than a Motorola tablet, and more to the point, why should I care?
I'm not saying that we should care about Apple product announcements, but Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
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I have a theory that this is why the Japanese automakers were so successful in North America too.
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Isn't it odd how Japanese cars have just a few trim levels and no stand-alone options besides what you can get installed at the dealership? That /is/ very much like how Apple does things.
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Isn't it odd how Japanese cars have just a few trim levels and no stand-alone options besides what you can get installed at the dealership? That /is/ very much like how Apple does things.
The "american car maker" way to sell electronics would be to sell the box for $100 and then mark up all the accessories, so the video cable and the gold plated cat seven ethernet cable each cost $75. Also they'd refuse to discuss prices and only talk how-much-a-month. And instead of spraying rustproofing they'd offer anti-virus installation. Actually that sounds very much like my last trip to Best Buy. Anyone know a good "Japanese style" place to buy electronics in the USA, other than apple?
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If you want a decent computer that you don't have to assemble yourself, you pretty much only have Apple left these days - they're about the same price as counterpart Dell's a little more expensive than the others but less bulky (Toshiba's power supplies are about as large as the laptop for example) and you won't gore yourself when attempting to replace user-serviceable parts (HP, Gateway). I only buy Apple at work even if it's for a Windows computer because of the cheap 3 year on-site service (compared to Dell or HP) and the generally good quality of products. I made the mistake once buying HP for cheap and I had to buy my own video cards because they didn't come with one (why'd you sell a desktop without even an on-board video card is beyond me).
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Feldenkrais was talking about physical movement but Apple applies it to their UI, products, and marketing.
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Why is it that you have to consider people idiots for not agreeing with your opinions? How is being a specwhore objectively smarter than liking clean design and a good experience?
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1. Because each one of us a human, and colour and various other aesthetic properties matters to nearly all humans. It might be fashionable in some parts of geek culture to outwardly reject such things but I suspect those who do are doing so against their nature.
2. A confident indivual doesn't care what choices in computing devices others make. Not even enough to compose a post deriding those choices.
3. "Worth the money" is entirely subjective. I won't argue that I have too much money, but most all of my friends prefer some Apple product over its competitors. Either the phone or the music player or one of the laptops. We all do this not for the reasons you believe, but with our eyes wide open to know exactly what it is we are buying, from the processor to memory to storage to colour. It isn't that we want or need to spend money to impress anyone. Quite the contrary: if there were something better we would simply buy it.
But regardless, your concern over how we spend our money falls on deaf ears. We didn't ask you before we made it and we certainly won't start now.
It's called industrial design (Score:5, Insightful)
We're not talking about color, we're talking about carrying half a kilo less than a similarly specced laptop, having a well thought out system of interchangeable plugs for the power adapter so you can easily bring it to another country, having a high quality LCD panel, having a backlit keyboard, having a solid aluminium enclosure that doesn't twist when you open the lid, having a computer that wakes from sleep in less than the time it takes to open the lid, having a power connector that automatically releases if you trip over the lead, having a nice wide trackpad that you can use gestures like two-finger tap for right click and two-finger drag to scroll. It's called industrial design. It's something people who have money are willing to pay for.
Re:It's called industrial design (Score:4, Insightful)
I think my macbook's backlit keyboard is pretty cool. Sometimes, like right now I'm in a dimly lit room and I don't feel like turning on a light. I've had many friends say that they wish their laptop's keyboard was backlight.
Each to their own.
Re:It's called industrial design (Score:4, Insightful)
No, he has confirmed that the feature is cool because it provides functionality, not because it's pretty. ABS in a car is pretty cool too, and it used to be something you had to pay extra for -- was it a status symbol, or a safety feature? Might it have been both?
I could argue that I have never needed the oxygen mask in an airplane. That doesn't mean that I don't think it's functional. A lighted keyboard would be cool -- not in a "Type R" kinda way, but in a "this is useful" kinda way.
Just because you have never had occasion to use a feature, doesn't make it a cosmetic feature.
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3. As a techwhore, I know enough about Apple's products to realise they're not worth the money being asked for them, unless it was important to me that an electronic gadget needed to match the outfit I was wearing on that particular day.
You're obviously trolling, but seriously, where does this idiotic meme come from? Macbooks are white or unpainted. Meanwhile, over at Sony [sonystyle.com], the Vaio Fall Collection (this is no joke) are available in black, gold, glossy carbon, bordeaux red, sangria red, striped, wavy black, wavy white, arabesque black, arabesque gold, crocodile black, and crocodile pink. FUCKING. CROCODILE. PINK. So you're clearly an asshat who doesn't know the first thing about accessorizing your computer to your wardrobe, since you should obviously be running Win7 if you have to match your PC to your boots. And by the way, you'll pay as much or more for a Vaio as you will for a Macbook.
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Bwahahahah! Okay, now I know you're a troll. The user experience of OS X vs. Ubuntu is like comparing a professional massage to a kick in the nuts. The aluminum case on the MacBook is just icing on an already delicious cake.
And yes, I've used a variety of linuxes (and Windows) boxes for my main workday computers. As someone who's actually worked hard with all three, my MacBook wins hands dow
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Also, people are under the impression that increased cost means better performance. You can get a better equipped laptop for 500-1000 cheaper than Apple provides.
No, people are under the impression that increased cost means a better laptop, this doesn't necessarily mean better performance, and for the most part, they are right. It means a better sturdier case. It good performance but still 5 times the battery life of your $500 craptop. It means a trackpad that actually works. It means a keyboard you can type on comfortably for hours at a time. It means much quieter cooling than your $500 craptop. It means being thinner and more portable. It means looking good
I really don't think that's it... (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't know a single Mac user who doesn't complain about Apple's high prices, but they pay them anyway. They must be getting some value for that extra cash.
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That makes total sense, if you're still living in 1995 and bitter about not being able to build your own clone.
In today's world, the iPad is somehow the cheapest game in town, the iPhone is competitively priced, and the computers are flying off the shelves because by now, everybody knows somebody who won't stop going on about how much easier his life got since he bought one. (I realize that the latter statement is one completely alien to the crowd here, as no /. would deign to waste his time on mere mortals
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I can get a nominally better-equipped laptop for cheaper, but it doesn't actually perform better. I've never found a Windows-based laptop yet that doesn't take at LEAST 30 seconds to wake up from sleep or hibernation, and it's usually a minute or more (especially after a system gets gunked up with all the usual crappy drivers at auto start programs). My MacBook Pro wakes up in the time it takes me to type my password. As soon as the screen appears (which is immediately after typing my password), it's ready to use. This fact alone has saved me hours of annoyance in the past year I've had it.
Also on Windows machines, I've had plenty of problems with little glitches here and there, unexplained slowdowns, screen freezes, you name it. With the Mac, those problems have been drastically reduced. Yeah, the Windows machine specs out nicer, but that doesn't mean much outside of test-bed environments, looking at performance from a clean install on a pristine new computer.
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Yeah, the Windows machine specs out nicer, but that doesn't mean much outside of test-bed environments, looking at performance from a clean install on a pristine new computer.
You cannot buy a pristine new windows laptop at this time. Only offered by Apple. Everything else is stuffed with bloatware by the manufacturer.
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Has it occurred to you that people don't necessarily buy it because it's a status symbol, or because they feel they're getting better 'performance'?
No, really. I know guys with Master's degrees in computer science, who a
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See, now you're actually speaking out of your ass. The guys that I know with Macs, are not going home and dropping to the UNIX command line. They're using the GUI. They're not going home in the evening and coding in PHP, they're looking up recipes and sending email.
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What's interesting is that it seems Apple's product announcements are the only remaining tech that gets everyone talking, whether pro or against, people do talk about it. Dell might have released half a dozen new systems last week, but who'd know? I was in a tmobile store the other day and saw a number of Android-based handsets that I hadn't heard of. And even though I consider myself a geek, I have very little idea what the Xoom is, other than a Motorola tablet, and more to the point, why should I care?
I'm not saying that we should care about Apple product announcements, but Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
Slashdot, as well as many other ad-supported tech news sites, make money from fanboyism. The people who truely dislike Apple news and products aren't doing themselves any favors by bitchbitchbitching.
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I'm not saying that we should care about Apple product announcements, but Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
The hype can get out of hand, but I think Apple more or less earns this exposure. The reason is Apple is one of the only companies that really puts effort into design.
Now, I say this despite not being much of a consumer of Apple products. My desktops (work and home) run Linux, though my laptop is a (4-year-old) Macbook Pro. But even though I have many reasons I don't like Apple products (lockin, etc.), I recognize the serious effort and skill they put into designing not just a product, but a successful user experience.
One of the reasons journalists and bloggers and design professionals and design enthusiasts all watch Apple closely is that they are one of the only companies that actually carries a design through to its full conclusion. Other manufacturers can, and do, come up with innovative ideas and the beginnings of a good design, but they all ultimately compromise on that design (usually for money). Think of something as simple as putting all those "Optimized for Windows" and "Intel inside" stickers on a laptop: I suspect those were not there in the original artist renderings; they are a corruption of the design. The crapware that is loaded is another corruption. Trying to get the price down to competitive levels requires all kinds of compromises in terms of build details, quality, etc. Edges don't meet quite flush because of some engineering or price constraint (not because it makes the device more pleasing to the user). UI elements are not very responsive because it would have taken too long to optimize that code. They don't worry about there being a subtle (but satisfying) 'click' when plugging-in a cable. And so on. (Note that I'm using "design" as shorthand for "design of the user experience"... obviously these companies have successfully engineered/designed products for a certain constraint-set.)
Apple makes its fair share of gaffes, and it's not obvious that all of their design choices are worth the premium costs. (Again, I mostly don't buy their stuff.) But as far as test cases to ponder, their products are the best around. One can really evaluate the pros and cons of a touch interface now that Apple put serious effort into designing a UI that is touch-centric (previously most touch interfaces were either crappy overlays on top of mousing UI (e.g. Windows tablets) or just terrible to begin win (e.g. a kiosk touch-UI)...).
So, in short, by having a focused vision and seeing it through to the end, they create products that are not ugly mixtures of compromises (where when things don't work you're left wondering if it's because it was a bad idea or poorly executed); their products are consistent and cohesive (so that you can evaluate a given design choice, and copy/improve/ignore it as needed in designing other products). Even if you don't like (and don't buy) their stuff, it's worth watching what they produce.
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- Looking for a laptop
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Who you kiddin? Anybody making that kinda comment wasn't going to buy Apple anyway and you know it.
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Apple makes its fair share of gaffes, and it's not obvious that all of their design choices are worth the premium costs.
While I agree with much of what you say I have to ask: What "premium costs"?
Why are we still hearing this even though it's been shown for YEARS now to be a fallacy - ie. other manufacturers aren't significantly less expensive when comparing similarly spec'd hardware, and often have horrid designs to boot?
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Actually, the comment by parent (somewhat) stands.
Yes, Apple will cost more than a similarly equipped PC.
On the ultra-low end...well, Apple doesn't have an "Ultra-low end" - so you can get a $400 PC vs a $1000 MacBook, and you scream "Look! CHEAPER!" - but the included parts in the PC are all, well, cheaper too. The plastic is cheaper, the screen is cheaper, just about everything is cheaper. THe PC will be loaded with bloatware and a ton of Intel Inside and other such design sticker bullshit. The body will be plastic, not Aluminum. The list goes on and on.
On the ultra-high end...without going to an OEM type build, I ran a fully equipped MBP vs everyone else's web stores when last year's MBP refresh hit. Apple came out $250 more than a similarly equipped Dell, and actually $23 LESS than a similarly equipped HP. (Granted, these are webstore prices and not Amazon/Newegg/etc which I know are better...but doing a direct-from-manufacturer compare here). Add in the fact that there is percisely NO bloatware on an Apple, no stickers, no other cost-cutting-for-PC-maker bullshit, and well...the Apple isn't that bloated price-wise. Throw in an Apple student discount (which is SO ungodly easy to get it may as well be available to everyone) and well...the build quality of the Apple makes up for the 10% or less increased cost.
Sure...you will ALWAYS be able to buy a cheapass PC, and said Cheapass PC will always be cheaper than the lowest of Apple's offerings. But for some of us quality is as important as the specifications, and no $400 Craptop will ever compare to the quality behind an Apple build. Period.
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Apple is silent, while other talk up nothing. (Score:5, Insightful)
When Apple talks, it actually means something, unlike the empty promises made my other technology companies.
It's because Apple doesn't announce products months or years before they are released. They only announce them when they are sure they'll have a product to ship. All you hear from other companies is hyped up initial announcements followed by delays and retracted features. From Apple you hear about new products that will actually ship as promised. It's not because Apple is better at shipping quality products on schedule (though they are). It's because they don't go on blabbing about every new technology they have in the works years before a working prototype has even seen the light of day.
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Absolutely right.
One of the reasons is probably their comparatively sparse product lineup. I was looking at Sony Vaio laptops, recently, and they have a 10", 11", 12"... everything up to 17" laptops. Apple has 3, 13", 15", and 17". There are a hundred android handsets with every imaginable combination of hardware, but there only 2 iphones, the gsm and cdma ones. When apple changes their product lineup people know what product they're talking about even if they don't own one. It's not "the 12" version o
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Not really. Remember the launch of Windows 7? tech event of the decade as far as I'm concerned, and those of the X360 or even the Kinect weren't so insignificant either.
The reason Apple launches are news is the same reason Microsoft or Google product launches are news: they're an insanely big corporation with more devoted followers than most companies have plain old customers.
Now, you could argue that other large corporations like IBM don't get that kind of media frenzy, but I'd say it's mostly due to their
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I was in a tmobile store the other day and saw a number of Android-based handsets .... Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
Other products sit on the shelves, people actually buy apple products. Thats why they're important. Quantity has a quality all its own.
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>>>leaks seem to work.
The slashvertisements sure work.
(hugs Apple G5) No I'm not upgrading yet! It still works! (pause) What do you mean the latest iTunes and safari require an Intel Mac? Oh crap.
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The slashvertisements sure work.
Yeah, Apple'll make big bucks when the iPad 2 without the retina display goes on sale.
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There is only so much time in the day to bring a product to market. I get what you are saying, but I fully understand why lots of companies, Apple included, leave out features that seem like they should be there from day one. If they had delayed the iPad 1 until every last obvious feature was complete, we would j
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Ever read the "Mythical Man Month"? Nine women can't have a baby in a month, and you can't put every possible feature into a new product.
If every product waited to release until they could include all technologies it would ever have, well, we'd never actually see products due to all of the new stuff that gets built.
Like them or not, Apple releases a product that people are free to buy or not. And then, quite predictably, the ones that sell get near-annual refreshes to add features to them -- smaller, better, faster, more storage, touch screen. I've lost count of how many generations of each of the kinds of iPods there are.
And, really, Microsoft has been bragging about coming out with an iPad killer since about two weeks before the product launched. To the best of my knowledge, that doesn't exist yet.
At least Apple actually released something.
Need to drop the 13" Pro (Score:3, Insightful)
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You might not, but I an 7 other people I know did. Some of us like laptops that actually fit in your lap but still have good specs.
You're right though, apple should drop the model because you don't personally want to buy it.
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The pro weighs less
The pro is smaller but has the same screen size and keyboard
The black border around the screen makes it look much better, and at night doesn't distract you from the actual screen.
The pro has an SD slot and firewire (though I don't care about the firewire)
The pro has a backlit keyboard (very important)
The pro can take a better chip, and more memory (important, since I need the 8GB of ram for my 2 virtual machines)
The pro has better sounding speakers (they may well be the same, it may just
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Huh? Base 13-in MBP is only $200 more, comes with 4G instead of 2G and SD reader, slightly smaller and weighs a few g less.
If you bring MB up to 4G, only $100 difference.
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There are always tradeoffs in the mobile world. Quad core processors use more power, period.
One of these days hardware Nazis will get it that MOST users would rather have more battery life than a quad core processor. MOST users will take more battery life over powerful graphics. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
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One of these days hardware Nazis will get it that MOST users would rather have more battery life than a quad core processor. MOST users will take more battery life over powerful graphics. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
Gamers still seriously believe that they're not a niche.
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Err, the MBPro has integrated Intel AND a 330M. not the fastest nVidia chip, but, it's certainly NOT a crappy integrated Intel GPU.
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OMG! It doesn't have a lit up apple picture on the back!
Oy (Score:4, Insightful)
Can we stop calling them leaks and start calling them press releases? Nobody is fooled by this anymore.
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Can we stop calling them leaks and start calling them press releases? Nobody is fooled by this anymore.
If Gizmodo is willing to pay several grand for a stolen phone, I don't think we can safely assume it's just marketing.
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No thats what you call successful marketing.
Yeah, for Gizmodo.
Leaks (Score:2)
No USB 3? (Score:4, Funny)
"Fuck them. Fuck them up their stupid asses."
- Steve Jobs (may have been Jason Mewes)
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It's got Light Peak on it (or Thunderbolt) so that's mostly irrelevant. eSATA, USB3, Firewire 1600 or whatever can all be hooked up through Thunderbolt which is really what makes this release interesting.
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It's got Light Peak on it (or Thunderbolt) so that's mostly irrelevant. eSATA, USB3, Firewire 1600 or whatever can all be hooked up through Thunderbolt which is really what makes this release interesting.
Where is this info about Light Peak being able to do eSATA or USB 3 or Firewire coming from?
"Thunderbolt"? Bleh... (Score:2)
Light Peak looks like it will be called Thunderbolt.
If that seriously is the final name for Light Peak, then I don't quite agree with their decision. What exactly does it have to do with thunder or bolts? "Thunderbolt port" sounds more like innuendo than an actual port you'd use, as opposed to "Light Peak port". At least "Light Peak" gave me a vague idea of how the tech works by the name alone, whereas Thunderbolt just sounds completely unrelated to the technology.
I swear, marketing comes up with the worst names for everything these days. "Xfinity" et al.
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...and now I just read the article and it seems that "Thunderbolt" is just a variant of Light Peak. Not the "final name", hopefully.
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...At least "Light Peak" gave me a vague idea of how the tech works by the name alone, whereas Thunderbolt just sounds completely unrelated to the technology.
It's worth bearing in mind that the version of Light Peak that we're likely to see tomorrow, is probably going to be copper-based rather than optical, so Light Peak would probably be just as unrelated as Thunderbolt
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I'd agree, but I'm trying to find the extinguisher. The firewire port on my MacBook is acting up again.
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Thunderbolt is apparently a copper interconnect, as opposed to Fibre, which the name Light Peak seems to imply. For that reason, I feel they made the right decision not making reference to light and the ties between thunderbolts and lightning does make some sense in this case.
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>What exactly does it have to do with thunder or bolts?
It's as new convenient way to zap your ram. :)
hawk
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Don't worry... they'll have an adapter / converter cable.... you'll have a Y cable and one part of the Y will be mini-display port and the other part will be LightPeak data transfer
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Apple has only one display, and that display has only a Mini DisplayPort connector.
Well, two if you count the 27" iMac, which can be used as a display, and that too has only MDP.
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I've not seen many that come with full-sized displayport and even the Apple ones don't use mini displayport... And, of course, none of these adaptors are standard anymore, they're all $20 extra...
The Apple Cinema Displays *do* use Mini DisplayPort, and it's been officially brought into the standard now, so isn't just an Apple only port. There's also quite a few laptops out there using it, from Dell, Toshiba HP... The Wikipedia page for Mini DisplayPort [wikipedia.org] has a list of a few.
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Monitors come with mini displayport? I've not seen many that come with full-sized displayport and even the Apple ones don't use mini displayport,
Displayport is showing up on lots of monitors (mainly higher end ones) including models from Dell and HP. This dealer [jigsaw24.com] lists 21 models. I have a HP with DisplayPort, and a (passive) MiniDP-to-full DP cable cost me £4.
Re:Not fiber? (Score:5, Insightful)
I have a box full of various adapters that Apple forces me to buy every time they change display interconnect to the 'next best thing'. Between the computers changing ports and the display manufacturers trying to keep up, the permutations can become large. Those adapters are $25 each from Apple.
On the other hand, I can still plug in the same USB devices I did from 1998.
People have a legitimate gripe here.
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Good. (Score:2)
Copper cables and connectors are cheap. Much cheaper than optical. The advantages of optical would only be used by a very tiny portion of the market.
I also wonder if the copper version carries power like USB does?
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Light Peak *is* only copper, right now. Light Peak over fiber is still at least a year off.
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There is a reason there are signs in a machine room that say, "Do not look down fiber optic cable with remaining eye."
I'm not sure if FDDI GBIC escon or any other "end user-ish" fiber system has ever been sold thats not eye safe.
Now telco gear, some of that is not to be fooled with, but then again you're probably violating several laws by messing with ma bells stuff.
Can anyone out there think of a non-eye safe end user-ish optical transport thats been commercially available (not vaporware?)
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Until you try to plug in one of those 2.5" external usb-only drives that comes with the "Y" dual-usb cable for more power, and find the cord is way too short to plug into the left and right USB ports at the same time. (an issue I have ran into repeatedly with my 15" mbp)
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If I was designing a laptop, thats what I would do. Maybe nobody but me sees the value in 4 USB ports in an age where just about every peripheral can be gotten with a USB interface (hard drives, cd/dvd, mouse, sound cards, headsets, compact fl
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This is a venture with Intel—and they're not the only two companies involved. Light Peak isn't going to be Apple specific for very long and it's as "proprietary" as USB.
This is all about "1 port to rule them all" and, for the life of me, I cannot figure out why anyone would have a problem with that. I'd like to have 6 ports on my laptop that could be hooked up to ANYTHING without compromise. Suddenly I can hook up a couple more monitors to my laptop or use a high speed external drive or whatever. Or e
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I thought Apple was working with Intel on this? At what point between "only one person has it" and "everyone has it" does it cease to be labelled "proprietary"? I thought that happened when it hit 2.
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*rolls eyes* Just because YOU think an optical drive is an "important extra" doesn't mean it is to everyone. I was hoping Apple would do away with those across the pro line and replace it with something that's ACTUALLY an important extra like additional mass storage or, I don't know, more battery. I don't even care.
For the once a month (if that) that I use my optical drive I can just use an external and use that space for something that matters on a day to day basis (like... more battery).
On top of that, Li
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The GPL just means you're getting software that's free, not software that doesn't suck.
I've had my fair share of iOS software crash, but, I don't think I've ever had a single piece of malware, rootkit, or nastygram come from the App Store. On mobile, I don't care, I don't want to tinker. I want the damn thing to work.
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Yet, that doesn't keep malware from stinking up the Android market place.
I'd rather not have to juggle around and make sure that my software is coming from trust sources or that I have to clean up my phone. I did tech support jobs when I was younger and the pay wasn't that great. What makes you think doing it for free on my own time is a better alternative?
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How can I filter out useless Apple fanboy fapping material without filtering out other potentially interesting Apple-related news?