of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Only in Apple land can "adding HDMI" be considered news.
Hell, I've even got HDMI on my Netbook. But for some reason, Apple feels comfortable ignoring the standard as long as they can.
I suspect 2012 will be the year Apple announced a magical new disc medium called "Blu-Ray"
@scoobydooby more like 2012 will be the year that Apple announces movies on high speed SD cards.
oh and i find it amusing that Appleinsider has people in the know that have seen this prototype but none got a photo of it. cause that's totally photoshopped. tap the levels and you can see the bad paste job.
i mean if you want to be seen as reliable wouldn't you get a photo to back yourself up
@scoobydooby
Seriously ... welcome to 2006 Apple. Your point about Blu Ray is spot on. Apple TV or the Mini can't be considered viable alternatives to Windows based HTPC's until they adopt (without needing a an expensive adapter) HDMI and include Blu Ray disc playback.
This isn't new tech. Most HTPC's have had this capability for several years now.
@Charlik You don't even need Photoshop. Just angle your monitor or position your head very low and look up... the white surrounding the photoshop'd HDMI port is not the same as the white on the Mac mini... you can clearly see the "box" of the false image.
@gan7114 Very true, even with MS Paint and a little zoom you can see this is a fake. Well I'm off to half-ass photoshop a Blu-Ray logo on to a MBP and see how far that rumor can go!
@scoobydooby
You'll get a kick out of this part, from the article.
"Apple's move to ax Blu-ray from the iMac line (and several other Macs that were undergoing Q&A testing) was reportedly due to a number of factors. One issue, according to people familiar with the matter, was that Apple management -- including Jobs -- felt Blu-ray licensing fees were too steep for the length of time they believed the technology would remain relevant in the market place. There were also reportedly both software and hardware related issues that would have demanded too much engineer effort to overcome."
Evidently Jobs and co think that Blu-ray doesn't have much self live left in it. Add to that its to hard to engineer what PC's have been doing for years and stand alone players can do for around $150.
@KAL326
The main reason i think that apple is not putting blu-ray in their computers is the actual size of the drive. If you look at how thin a macbook pro with its slot loading drive compared to a blu-ray drive in say, a sony laptop its pretty big.
Apple never puts anything in their stuff till they can get it to "apple standards" so until a slot loading blu-ray drive is as thin or thinner than the current slot loading dvd drives in the computers now, you probably wont see it. Another reason I would attribute to the lack of blu-ray drives is iTunes, why would apple make it where you could buy HD movies on blue ray instead of the iTunes store?
And to be honest, not many "average" consumers are going to make the jump to blu-ray for a while. The engadget reader slice of the market pie is very small, but we all want the best because of our gadget geekness!
just my apple fan, but general tech lover 2 cents
@gan7114
Dude, I just submitted your post to XKCD for a cartoon! I can so see you with your head on your desk looking slantways at your tilted monitor right now.
@ArhcAngel My new hobby: Insisting real life images are photoshopped.
They already did one along those lines.