I’ll promise this will be the last set of rumours about His Steveness’ MacWorld keynote tomorrow. “With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple’s anticipated announcements.”
hmm…let me guess: how about iBox or iPox.
Any chance he would launch OSX for 486?
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Yes, if it is an x86 Apple machine.
The code will never be ported to generic white-box x86’s. This argument has been beaten to death on this site.
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The code will never be ported to generic white-box x86’s. This argument has been beaten to death on this site.
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Yeah, it’s been as beaten to death as the “Apple will never switch to Intel” and “Apple will never release a headless budget mac” debates :p
I am not going to argue with you about whether Apple will or will not release a version of OSX to run on 3rd party hardware. What I am concerned about is the term generic white-boxes. I think you might have meant this as a figure of speech. Have you seen a white or beige box in recent memory?
To the best of my knowledge Mac computers are white and silver, while Windows/Others are generally black or black and silver. This is likely why the new theme for Vista is black. It sort of reminds one of the whole 1984 concept.
Summary of my ramblings: PCs are black when not Apples.
Apple rumors are boring to me now.
they are going to start selling peelers, scratch-n-sniff stickers and seedlings.
I’m very, very, very excited!!
With all this Intel buzz, if Apple were not to release an Intel based Mac, they’d end up with serious egg on their faces.
It would be very odd if the iBook were to be released with a much faster CPU and Powerbooks were to remain PPC. Perhaps the big surprise would be that Photoshop and the other Adobe Pro apps will be released as native Intel apps tomorrow along with the announcement of the Intel based Powerbooks.
Jobs is mad into his big surprises. It’d be a bit of a let down if something new that no one had anticipated at all weren’t to be announced tomorrow.
>if Apple were not to release an Intel based Mac, they’d
>end up with serious egg on their faces.
Well, the way I look at it. The general public and heck even the general apple user population is not all that much into the hype.
I figure they could come out and if nothing else give “announcements” for the new products and not actually have anything to ship.
If they just gave a presentation on a fully flushed out roadmap with shipping dates on new models that would be fine too.
They tend to get more and more vivid as MacWorld draws nearer and nearer…. about 25 hours to go for the keynote!!!
I can hardly wait!
(please, pretty please! I need an ATSC mac mini with front row enhanced
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I think rumors are grand, but I would prefer to be in the Apple secret laboratories where prototypes and mockups are built 🙂 That stuff is more cool than rumors
I would love to see them announce a deal with Sirius… not to add the functionality to the ipod, but to be able to download shows as podcasts from the store for a small fee. I would love to be able to listen to Howards show on demand on my iPod.
>generic white-boxes
FYI, term “white box” does not come from the actual color of the product you knucklehead, it comes from the box it comes in.
For instance, the difference between say a “white box” video card and a retail card would be the white box version would just have the card in a plastic bag stuck in a white cardboard box with the name “video card” on the top and nothing else in the box. But the retail version would come in a glassy printed box like you see at the store and would include cables, documentation, adapters, some software cd’s, a couple of offers for free video games etc..
Here is the computer jargon dictionary definition:
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# When referring to computer hardware, white box refers to a standard box that contains just the hardware and not a box similar to what would be purchased from a standard retailer with the hardware, documentation, and software. A white box product is commonly cheaper then the standard product purchased from a retailer and is commonly only made available to an OEM.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/whitebox.htm
You might want to actually read my post again. It was meant to be sarcastic and not a literal translation. It was mostly centered on Windows Vista and the black theme of paranoia. I guess you missed that. Next time I’ll try to be more precise. Whatever…
The bug thing will be an anti-piracy dongle called the “i-Matey”. It will look like a parrot with a USB 2 port.