“At a special media event to be held on its campus next week, Apple Computer will unveil a new line of low-cost Intel-based Mac mini desktop computers but will not debut its next-generation iBook consumer notebooks,” AppleInsider reports. “According to reports from a variety of sources, Apple this week released the Intel Mac mini design to its manufacturing partners in the Far East, which are currently ramping production of the compact computers in an effort to build an initial inventory stockpile.”
“Based on this information, it would appear that there will be at least some availability of the systems immediately following their announcement [this] Tuesday,” AppleInsider reports.
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I still don’t believe it. we’re going to get “new” products… not upgraded products.
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I’m excited
If the Mac Mini comes with anything less than and Intel processor and something great like a TV tuner and/or DVR functionality, it will be a complete DUD! It’s way past due in realizing its full potential.
I’m going to keep sticking my neck out guarantee with absolute 100% certainty that Apple will sell some product on Tuesday.
Not keynote-worthy in and of itself, for sure. I think that EVERY special event will need something iPod (big, too). This hi-fi system is kind of iffy…
Let’s just wait for Kevin Rose to give us the scoop tomorrow. By the way, does anybody think that Kevin Rose might have a deal with Apple to advertise the company’s hardware and software (as he does on diggnation and twit) in exchange for the only reliable insider news? He’s hit the last few announcements hard.
the deals to get tv shows on itunes store and the restrictions in itunes to view your imported tv shows in the genre section on ipod and front row indicate no DVR in any new mac, just a thought.
There will be a new Mac mini announced, it will have an Intel Core Solo processor and Front Row with remote among other enhancements, but no DVR capability. That won’t be the day’s show stopper though, you’ll just have to wait another 48 hours to see what that will be…
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Kevin Rose is Steve Jobs nephew.
Seriously!
Remember MegaMe told you. Everybody will disbelieve it at first, then everybody will claim it as their own.
I predict the new Mac mini will come with a built-in flux capacitor. (And a can opener)
I’m here to proclaim the usual (with my customary poor spelling):
– Trusted Computing will be the deth of the Mac as we no it.
– Apple doesn’t make quality product anymmore.
– The iPod has scene its day. From hear on sales will decline preciputously.
– Mac minis have never lived up to potentiul and will be eclipsed by Windows Media Center.
– Steve Jobs can’t maintane the Reality Distorsian Field much longer. He won’t even make Tuesdays announcements.
– By a Powermac with G5s now to have control over you’re media.
All us Mac users should switch to Windows or Linux before its to late.
The news regarding this next show by Apple is scaring me.
I’m not interested in having fun, as the invite suggests. I want to see some serious business coming forth.
$1,500 for a MacBook sounds like the kiss of death to me.
Could it be that Steve’s attention has gone elsewhere lately?
Umm, MacDude, what is your primary language?
But seriously MacDude, please give it a rest, you have gotten a bit repetitive.
Oh, I forgot . . .
Blah, blah, blah, blah . . .
and
Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .
No matter WHAT happens Tuesday I’ll STILL like eggs!
I want a new ibook!
MacDude if you are going to try to convince people that you are making intelligent statements, you ought to go to grade school first and learn to spell you idiot.
“- Trusted Computing will be the deth of the Mac as we no it.”
DETH?
“- The iPod has scene its day. From hear on sales will decline preciputously.”
SCENE? HEAR ON? PRECIPUTOUSLY?
“- Mac minis have never lived up to potentiul and will be eclipsed by Windows Media Center.”
POTENTIUL?
“- Steve Jobs can’t maintane the Reality Distorsian Field much longer”
MAINTANE?
You’ve got to be kidding
Macromancer – You missed one! – “-Trusted Computing will be the deth of the Mac as we no it”
NO IT?
Oh and DISTORSION for Distortion!
What’s a Mac mni? Is that a typo or the laziest abbreviation ever?
sorry DISTORSIAN –
Sheesh!!!!
He’s frying my head!
A few months ago I read of a chip that was just being released that could encode h.264 in real time. I think that’s what Apple has been waiting on (among several things no doubt) before it could introduce a Mini as a TIVO-like device, cause even a Quad G5 can’t do it at high resolution in real time.
The cool thing to me is that this company can continually raise interest in its products, to the point where people argue over exactly HOW COOL they may be. Others, also seek to diminish the hopes for their own reasons. No one else gets this to happen like this.
There are higher order psychological factors involved in how this company operates. Good times, good times.
Oh, yeah, and to fit in (for those of you too sensitive to see this, turn away now):
Hate, hate, sarcasm… invective. Hate, sarcasm, blatant fabrication, dismissal. Ulterior motive, dismissal, invective, slur, projection, hate, attempt to placate, hate.
So there.
Special Announcement!
Steve will perform the Chicken Song in front of millions in a Bunny suit.
Roz Ho will pull a chicken out from her ass while listening to her iPod shuffle with iSight.
Madonna will phone in at the height of the show asking Steve where she left her bra from last night.
Unless ThinkSecret confirms this latest rumor, It’s just not credible.
“Madonna will phone in at the height of the show asking Steve where she left her bra from last night.”
Wouldn’t THAT make for an interesting iChat message when Steve’s on stage.
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Seriously, Cupertino City Works will be using it as a pair of traffic cones, to help direct cars around Apple HQ.
I’m here to proclaim the usual (with my customary poor spelling):
– Trusted Computing will be the deth of the Mac as we no it.
– Apple doesn’t make quality product anymmore.
– The iPod has scene its day. From hear on sales will decline pr….etc.
Oh GOD that was funny!
Actually MDN mispelled the headline
RUMOR: Low cost Intel based Mac mni coming this Tuesday, ‘MacBooks’ (iBooks) at later date
You see my influence is psreading, you cnt win, you will now degenerate, windows will be your master.
Begin.
Security Issue!
Adobe Create Suite 2, seems anything can alter the programs which run as root.
Remember, installing programs as root opens your Mac up to all the faults of these developers.
Part of the Trusted Computing conspiracy of course.
http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/3051
Isn’t it fantastic that Apple is coming out with new products? Wonder if Apple is going to fix some of the security problems that have been hitting virtually every day on existing ones? Now there is a IM kit that is infecting users that run iChat. While Mac fan boys continue to say nothing is wrong while Rome burns, we all know the users are getting hosed. Where is Apple? Where are the security announcements? Where is Steve Jobs, the fearless leader telling everyone how to secure their systems? Because there is no way to secure OSX. It is a security nightmare based on security through obscurity and every day that passes sees more malware coming out for every piece of software.
Time to switch to another operating system before these things eat your files. Don’t forget to short Apple stock while you are out purchasing a new Dell or HP.
$1,500 for a MacBook sounds like the kiss of death to me.
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iMac, iBook… consumer line has an i at the front. Got it?
MacDude – Give it a rest.
That SECURITY ISSUE applies to BOTH; your ugly PC and the Mac. And doesn’t even effect people that don’t share a computer with anyone.
Besides this is Adobe’s screw up not Apple’s.
>This condition presents a risk for shared, multi-user systems.
Quit whining in this forum.
twit sucks–John Dvorak??
The real MacDude!
Sorry folks, seems there’s a lot of impersonating going on.
Somebody is a little jealous of my 30″ and PowerMac I assume.
Oh well, what’s a name here anyway?
I’ll just change mine.
[Kim Jong Il voice]
“I’m rown-ree, oh so rown-ree . . . “
[/Kim Jong Il voice]
Mac Realist—pleeeeese
You want SECURITY?….buy a Mac
Um excuse me? So we sent the details of the design to our manufacturing partners last week, and they’re already going to ramp up production to have the new Mac Minis with Intels ready to sell immediately after the announcement?
What is this, some kind of Star Trek timeline anomoly?
Sheesh. What bozos.
S
The new mini will come equipped with a Cerenkov processor which generates a bluish light field that will enable anyone to travel faster than the speed of light. This will be useful for those quick trips to the store since one’s body will covert to pure thought in the luminous ether only to materialize again in the right store location, like an Apple store.
The REAL MacDude!
Will you pleeeeasssseee STOP! impersonating me!!
I just can’t stand having my name trolled!
By the way how many MacDude’s are there?
WE ARE ALL CLONES!
The ‘real time’ encoding chip is actually part of the ATI 1xxx series line of Graphics cards. There is an internal build application by ATI that demonstrates the card ripping the top of the line PCs 24 second time into 4 seconds for an encode. Think about the cards Apple deploys. 4 goes into 24 how many times? 6. So we’re talking a MINIMUM 6x encode speed. Considering you can rip and compress at an easy 18fps on a first gen iMac G5 w/o a dedicated transcoding chip, and NTSC film is 15 FPS, NTSC 29.97, Pal 25; you’re looking at not only doing faster than realtime encodes, but encoding HD content faster than real-time.
Now THAT is something I would pay for.
MDN MW=away
as in ‘stay the hell away from PC viruses’
Yeha, I don’t believe this whole business abou this macbook.
Kevin Rose can kiss my left ***.
MDN MW: “world” as in “The world does not revolve around Kevin Rose, what a wanker.”
Takes FOREVER to upload my files to a viPod with this lousy inferior USB 2 interface.
Why didn’t Apple just include a Firewire option for us Mac users?
Oh that’s right!
Mac’s are no longer Mac’s anymore, they are PC’s in disguise!!!
Frigging inferior slow, Intel based, pieces of garbage.
How do you like them Apples?
MacDude, you are @#$%ing amazing. You’re pro-Mac, yet you somehow manage to be a troll! Your unflappably pessimistic attitude toward your platform of choice, and your grumpy paranoid view of the company that makes your computer, make you the envy of every Win-troll ever to visit this board.
Tell me, are you this down on everything you claim to like? Must make it hard to keep a girlfriend.
Check this out MS is hosting a special media event on Tuesday also to talk about their innovative project,
Arstechnica now claims that Microsoft is hosting a surprise media presentation on Tuesday (Feb 28) night unveiling an “innovative concept in development”. Coincidentally, Apple is also hosting a media event on the same day but rumors have not suggested a similar product from Apple.
Goodness is coming on the 28th…
Apple will introduce fire.
It will be duo core fire. Burn real hot. Heard it here first.
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Like the MacWorld underwhelmed in the rumors vs. reality, so will this event.
This event will be very iPod-oriented (no video iPod though) and leave one with a “so what” feeling after its done.
An iPod boombox. Boombox – isn´t that like 1970s-80s?
And doesn´t it kind of defeat the purpose of the ipod as being portible carry around?
And hasn´t it already been done? By Bose and others.
And I can already plug my iPod into my Sony stereo system and listen to the music that way.
So new Apple-branded iPod audio gadgets….snore…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
To “colors” HAHA
Apple will be announcing.
1. This iPod Boombox
2. The red Aids relief iPod… possibly w/Bono.
It ain’t worth the bother.
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Let’s remember that the article on the non-pro “MacBook” that was quoted as saying ~$1500 was published in Britain.
What they really said was expected price, in England, of ~840 British pounds (can’t find the pound sign on Doze). Given the nonlinear relation of Apple prices here and Eurpoe, that might mean more like $999 here.
My take, unprofessional as it is, would be that prices for the updated MacBook, wouldn’t fluctuate more than about 5% more than current.
MacBook sounds so much better than “iBook.”