You are supposed to watch DVDs on flights by downloading them via iTunes earlier. Part of Stevie's plan to conquer the world.
But doing away with an optical drive (if the rumors are true, and AppleInsider HAS been wrong before) is really an excellent idea. There is convenience in being able to burn a quick CD or DVD wherever, whenever, but many people are moving to external HDDs for all of their large storage needs besides backup, and there are many external DVD/CD burners of the same strain, so it wouldn't be too difficult.
I'm hoping, though, that this turns out to be the tablet Mac. Not in so many words, mind you. Knowing Stevie, there will be something revolutionary about the new ultraportable: something like - dare I say it - DS-style technology?
Apple has the patents to make a screen that is independently touch and pressure-sensitive. They also have a myriad of patents for tactile feedback mechanisms that would push little tiny frames through the screen that a person's fingers could feel and thus use to type. It would take some getting used to, but there would be no ultimate difference in typing speed compared to conventional laptops. And the good thing? The keyboard would be 100% reconfigurable.
But yeah - DS. Two screens with complete multi-touch technology (and if you don't give me stylus support, Stevie, I'll die) and the top screen has no bottom border and the bottom screen has no top border. The screen can be folded outwards flat, thus turning it into the Mac Tablet running Full OS X Leopard. So you have a 17-inch tablet Mac and a 13-inch ultraportable notebook. What more could you ask for?
Who needs an optical drive, anyway? With a little bit of high-powered bluetooth/wifi technology, they could easily release an external HDD/optical drive that would work perfectly within a 10-foot radius of the device.
I could not agree more. I admit watching DVDs in flight is nice but I've always used Mac which = 1 movie tops and then battery goes kaput... other than that, I cannot remember the last time I used my optical drive on my iMac... it is dusty! Wait, a few months ago I did rip a CD, but that's it! Almost all content is downloadable now so one really doesn't need to carry the drive at all times. You could have a slim USB one at home, load the movies you want to watch and travel super light and with (hopefully) a loooooooong battery life.
It reminds me of what folks were saying when the first iMac had no floppy drive. Everyone was going nuts. "What will we do?!" And yet it was fine, just fine. Jobs is pretty good at predicting the curve. I think it is spot on.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
The most commented posts on Engadget over the past 24 hours.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
You are supposed to watch DVDs on flights by downloading them via iTunes earlier. Part of Stevie's plan to conquer the world.
But doing away with an optical drive (if the rumors are true, and AppleInsider HAS been wrong before) is really an excellent idea. There is convenience in being able to burn a quick CD or DVD wherever, whenever, but many people are moving to external HDDs for all of their large storage needs besides backup, and there are many external DVD/CD burners of the same strain, so it wouldn't be too difficult.
I'm hoping, though, that this turns out to be the tablet Mac. Not in so many words, mind you. Knowing Stevie, there will be something revolutionary about the new ultraportable: something like - dare I say it - DS-style technology?
Apple has the patents to make a screen that is independently touch and pressure-sensitive. They also have a myriad of patents for tactile feedback mechanisms that would push little tiny frames through the screen that a person's fingers could feel and thus use to type. It would take some getting used to, but there would be no ultimate difference in typing speed compared to conventional laptops. And the good thing? The keyboard would be 100% reconfigurable.
But yeah - DS. Two screens with complete multi-touch technology (and if you don't give me stylus support, Stevie, I'll die) and the top screen has no bottom border and the bottom screen has no top border. The screen can be folded outwards flat, thus turning it into the Mac Tablet running Full OS X Leopard. So you have a 17-inch tablet Mac and a 13-inch ultraportable notebook. What more could you ask for?
Who needs an optical drive, anyway? With a little bit of high-powered bluetooth/wifi technology, they could easily release an external HDD/optical drive that would work perfectly within a 10-foot radius of the device.
I could not agree more. I admit watching DVDs in flight is nice but I've always used Mac which = 1 movie tops and then battery goes kaput... other than that, I cannot remember the last time I used my optical drive on my iMac... it is dusty! Wait, a few months ago I did rip a CD, but that's it! Almost all content is downloadable now so one really doesn't need to carry the drive at all times. You could have a slim USB one at home, load the movies you want to watch and travel super light and with (hopefully) a loooooooong battery life.
It reminds me of what folks were saying when the first iMac had no floppy drive. Everyone was going nuts. "What will we do?!" And yet it was fine, just fine. Jobs is pretty good at predicting the curve. I think it is spot on.
It disturbs me that you are calling Jobs "Stevie"