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It may never happen, but I'd like to see Apple build a 36 and 40 inch combo IMac and TV

Whatever it is, Pariah will complain that it doesn't have the same functionality as OS 9's finder.

Colonel Panic wrote:

Whatever it is, Pariah will complain that it doesn't have the same functionality as OS 9's finder.

^^^Wishful thinking I think.

Light Speed wrote:

Apple will offer a new thin client server combo.

It's the family pack of hardware!™

You get 2-5 (depending on price) thin client terminals and a central server that runs the OS and stores your data.

This is the computing direction for the future.
Why spend so much money for redundant processing power and storage for each user with the current system of a complete computer for every user? The future is now!

I was thinking along those same lines quite awhile ago. That does strike me as a workable thing now that multi-core, vary multi-threaded capable CPUs have become cheap and plentiful.
The thing is my thought on that was based on Apple making gigabit networking standard on all Macs and assumed a wired, truly high speed networking environment. But Apple seems to be less interested in wired networking now.
Is wireless fast enough to enable a server client config like that? I don't really know the bandwidth requirements to make that work well. All the server client systems I have ever seen in my life were wired.
I think the big hitch in that idea is the question whether Apple would be interested in making clients cheap enough to make the system worthwhile. When you can get quad core stand alone systems for well under $1000 any client they came up with would have to be dirt cheap, like $300 or less, to be compelling.

Last edited by Pariah (2008-01-06 7:27 am)

something we missed here...

reece_james wrote:

Pariah wrote:

reece_james wrote:

• Expect Parah to be happy with the higher DPI.

Lets see how I do this year.

I think we are just a baby step away from RI. The foundation is already in place.

It's going to happen at some stage in Leopard, just a matter of when. Really going to make the computer in the lounge room setup a reality. As it is ATM, you can get away with it, just.

I hope its soon. My mom wants a new Mac and was just going to go order one but I cautioned her that she had better go look at one in person to see if she could read the screen comfortably.
A couple of days latter she called asking me why everything looked so small on Macs now. Fun times trying to explain pixel density to a 76 year old woman.
So a new Mac is out till RI gets done.

Czachorski wrote:

Pariah wrote:

reece_james wrote:

• Expect Parah to be happy with the higher DPI.

Lets see how I do this year.

i'm waiting for resolution independence to become a reality in that regard. That modern LCDs have increasing pixel densities is not the real problem. The problem is the software has not evolved at the same pace and is unable to compensate for those high densities.
All things considered high densities are good for image quality, there just needs to be a software solution to unshackle the display from the native resolution to solve accessibility issues.
The day RI gets implemented is the day all my objections to LCDs go away.
Apple already has the scaling engine in place. You can see that if you use the zoom feature. The quality of the enlarged image is really excellent. All they need to do is provide a way to implement that in the monitor setup and things will be golden.
I think we are just a baby step away from RI. The foundation is already in place.

Since we are bashing so hard in that other thread, I thought I would point out exactly when I do agree with you.  Excellent points here, and on the story with your Ma.  My mom-in-law has the exact same issue.

Thanks.
As someone who grew up with a handicapped sister accessibility is an issue close to my heart and I have been really disappointed that it has been such a low priority for Apple.
Really, Apple has barely made any progress in this area since OS8. A couple of things have improved but not much considering the amount of time basically nothing improved at all.
Microsoft has absolutely smoked Apple when it comes to serving the needs of people with special needs.

Pariah wrote:

I hope its soon. My mom wants a new Mac and was just going to go order one but I cautioned her that she had better go look at one in person to see if she could read the screen comfortably.
A couple of days latter she called asking me why everything looked so small on Macs now. Fun times trying to explain pixel density to a 76 year old woman.
So a new Mac is out till RI gets done.

Just putting it out there, but it's usually a mistake I make to think my parents want the same level of quality as I do.
Your mom might be perfectly happy with the look at a non-native (but supported) resolution. My mom is.

my wife's parents have their screen res set to 640x480. I thought my eyes where going to explode out of my head when I saw it. I avoid their computer like the plague.

Pariah wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

Pariah wrote:

I hope its soon. My mom wants a new Mac and was just going to go order one but I cautioned her that she had better go look at one in person to see if she could read the screen comfortably.
A couple of days latter she called asking me why everything looked so small on Macs now. Fun times trying to explain pixel density to a 76 year old woman.
So a new Mac is out till RI gets done.

Just putting it out there, but it's usually a mistake I make to think my parents want the same level of quality as I do.
Your mom might be perfectly happy with the look at a non-native (but supported) resolution. My mom is.

I am not going to tell my mom to buy something that might work.

I meant change the resolution and look but ok.

Black everything:

-Black iPod shuffle
-Black MacBook and MacBook Pro
-Black Keyboard
-Black Mouse
-Black Mac Pro

And anything else that Apple makes that's not already black will now come in black. SAME PRICE as the non-black versions.

Tallgeese wrote:

don't be such a racist

Hey, I didn't say black only.

Why does the black Macbook cost more? WHY!!??