murrays 0 #1 January 12, 2005 Quite a few photography/video related announcements today from Apple at MacWorld San Francisco.... Final Cut Express HD - Now includes Livetype and Soundtrack as well as the capability to edit HD (how long before skydiving videos are shot in HD?) iMovie 5 HD - HD and wide aspect capability iDVD 5 - Now allows burning to DVD+R and RW media if your Superdrive / DVD drive is supported iPhoto - Now allows photo books to be put together in softcover versions and three different sizes of book. the Mac Mini computer -----it's just the cutest little thing...I want one just to look at it. 2" thick and 6.5" square...$499 US. The Shuffle - flash based 512 mb and 1 gb iPods. PS - Nearly forgot....Yes Lori, I will be your iMovie beta tester -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #2 January 12, 2005 QuotePS - Nearly forgot....Yes Lori, I will be your iMovie beta tester Thanks Murray! Sounds like they're having alot of fun up there. ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #3 January 12, 2005 Quotethe Mac Mini computer -----it's just the cutest little thing...I want one just to look at it. 2" thick and 6.5" square...$499 US Sort of like a Newton? Newtons were some of the coolest things that Apple ever dreamed up...too bad they were expensive and a couple of years before tablet PCs/Palm Pilots became socially acceptable and desirable. Newtons kicked ass.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #4 January 12, 2005 QuoteQuotethe Mac Mini computer -----it's just the cutest little thing...I want one just to look at it. 2" thick and 6.5" square...$499 US Sort of like a Newton? Newtons were some of the coolest things that Apple ever dreamed up...too bad they were expensive and a couple of years before tablet PCs/Palm Pilots became socially acceptable and desirable. Newtons kicked ass. hehe...My Mac dealer in town is still lamenting the discontinuance of the Newton. He really gets worked up over it...which cracks me up. I think that the Palm's briliant idea was Graffiti. Instead of trying to teach the device to recognize your handwriting you had to learn how to write in the fashion required by the device....hey we are smarter than machines aren't we? I remember seeing one of the first Newtons. I wrote my name on the screen (Murray) It translated it as "Murky" and my girlfriend, now wife, still calls me that. I just thought..."Well, that doesn't work." The first time I saw a Palm and how it recognized handwriting I was amazed and blown away. My Mac dealer insists that the Newton handwriting ability got much better but I never saw another Newton. It's going to be interesting to see how the Mac Mini is received. It is an inexpensive way for PC users to pick up a Mac and use it with their existing monitors, keyboards and mouse. Firewire, USB2, all the iLife and other iApps included...ready to edit video, etc, etc. It's tempting for me to buy one "for my kids" but I think I'll save up some bucks for a new G5 iMac and let them have my old 15" Flatpanel iMac.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #5 January 12, 2005 A sub 500 buck Mac may even tempt some of us die hard PC folks to see what we have been missing.Especially those of us who already have a pile of Firewire accesories. I think this may be something that Steve Jobs has considered, I recall an article discussing this strategy.-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eUrNiCc 0 #6 January 12, 2005 Ohh come on now... the Simon was so far ahead of the Newton... Somebody here must've owned a Simon.Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #7 January 12, 2005 QuoteA sub 500 buck Mac may even tempt some of us die hard PC folks to see what we have been missing.Especially those of us who already have a pile of Firewire accesories. I think this may be something that Steve Jobs has considered, I recall an article discussing this strategy. Definitely what they are shooting for imo. The thing is so small you can just set it on top of your PC, unplug the keyboard and mouse, plug them into the mac and maybe have a box to allow you to switch the monitor between systems. Apple has always stayed away from the low-margin cutthroat system pricing so this is quite a new direction for them. It will be very interesting to see how it pans out.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdhill 0 #8 January 12, 2005 QuoteIt will be very interesting to see how it pans out. I hope it does better than the "Cube". JAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #9 January 13, 2005 I think that Steve Jobs is going to keep producing Cubes until one is a smash hit! Before the Apple Cube there was the NeXt Cube.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #10 January 13, 2005 Crap, I remember that. It ran BeOS right?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #11 January 13, 2005 QuoteCrap, I remember that. It ran BeOS right? Nope. It ran NeXT-Step OS, a UNIX variant. And the cases were made of magnesium. There was a webiste I saw where they got one of the cases burning with some liquid O2 to get it started. It was....impressive.Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #12 January 13, 2005 QuoteIt ran NeXT-Step OS, a UNIX variant. And the cases were made of magnesium. Ahhhhhhhh...that's right. Man how long ago was that? It seems like a life time ago I was reading /. about NeXT...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #13 January 13, 2005 QuoteQuoteIt ran NeXT-Step OS, a UNIX variant. And the cases were made of magnesium. Ahhhhhhhh...that's right. Man how long ago was that? It seems like a life time ago I was reading /. about NeXT... And the NeXT OS is the basis of OS X.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #14 January 13, 2005 QuoteAhhhhhhhh...that's right. Man how long ago was that? It seems like a life time ago I was reading /. about NeXT... It was probably before slashdot. They stopped making the NeXT Cube in '93 or '94, and they ported NeXTSTEP to the 486 around the same time. A few years later (95/96) Apple bought NeXT (ironically, NeXT had been founded by Steve Jobs after he lost a power struggle and left Apple) and began turning it into what eventually became OS X. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
