The Apple thread

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:43 pm 0

I'm interested in the xMac but only if it's a sensible price (relative to the rest of the Apple range, as opposed to the rest of reality

).

skip · Post by **skip** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:48 pm 0

I'll bet a hell of a lot that xMac won't happen. Ever.

If it does, I bet that...that...I'll buy one immediately - okay?

Post by **RiK** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:24 pm 0

Store's back up, prices aren't too bad either..

Looks like an 8-core 3ghz for me then.

The only pisser is that it's 5 days delivery with the std gfx, or 5 WEEKS with the 8800 in. Gnnf.

Post by **RiK** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:25 pm 0

'Course, if they bring out a sub-notebook at macworld too my bank is going to hate me...

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:25 pm 0

I guess they're waiting for enough customer orders for the 8800 before they put their order in, then...

Post by **RiK** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:34 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:I guess they're waiting for enough customer orders for the 8800 before they put their order in, then...

Looks like it doesn't it. You can put as many 2600s in as you like without affecting delivery, bit they clearly haven't got any 8800s which is a bugger as for the extra Â£130 I deffo want one of them.

skip · Post by **skip** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:22 pm 0

Looking at the configuration options, two things come to mind:

1. The single 4 core 2.8 option becomes almost affordable (esp. with education discount). As close to the xMac as we'll get?
2. No HD reading/writing capability or options. Can one bung a 3rd party BR reader/writer in there and will it work for reading/writing/playing movies?

Are the graphics options good/reasonable? I'm so far out of the loop wrt that sort of thing.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:25 pm 0

I'm guessing that, as the BR technology is a bit more 'wow' and possibly consumer-oriented, it will be announced next week instead. If they do, tho, it's obviously gonna piss off everyone who buys a Mac Pro between now and then.

Post by **RiK** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:55 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:I'm guessing that, as the BR technology is a bit more 'wow' and possibly consumer-oriented, it will be announced next week instead. If they do, tho, it's obviously gonna piss off everyone who buys a Mac Pro between now and then.

I very much doubt they are going to announce anything which will affect the mac pro at macworld now. They've clearly got something special up their sleeves though given that they have released the pro a week earlier.

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:36 pm 0

Note how the price has increased slightly, I think that leaves a possible gap for this "xMac". More likely that they'll just be releasing the ultra small MBP though - if there was anything else we'd have heard it by now.

matt · Post by **matt** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:45 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:I'm guessing that, as the BR technology is a bit more 'wow' and possibly consumer-oriented, it will be announced next week instead. If they do, tho, it's obviously gonna piss off everyone who buys a Mac Pro between now and then.

They could always bee building and shipping the units with BR and just change the product info after MWSF.

matt

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:05 pm 0

matt wrote: They could always bee building and shipping the units with BR and just change the product info after MWSF.

That would make sense, but I can't see BR being a default option on Macs. Remember, we're talking about the company that was still shipping the 'Superdrive' as the standard option until very recently when every other manufacturer was shipping DL-DVDRWs.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:16 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:
matt wrote: They could always bee building and shipping the units with BR and just change the product info after MWSF.
That would make sense, but I can't see BR being a default option on Macs. Remember, we're talking about the company that was still shipping the 'Superdrive' as the standard option until very recently when every other manufacturer was shipping DL-DVDRWs.

Superdrive? Luxury, don't forget they still have a Mac with a combo drive.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:59 pm 0

Some good news for UK Macwankers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7178651.stm

Apple has announced that it will cut the price it charges for music downloads in the UK from its iTunes music store within the next six months.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:23 pm 0

So are these rumours of an dock for the new laptops that make it look like an iMac true?

That'd be the best of both worlds for me.