VisorCentral.com - Apple's new mystery product

Pages (6): [1] 2 3 4 5 6 »
Show 20 posts from this thread on one page

VisorCentral.com (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/index.php)
- Off Topic (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=6)
-- Apple's new mystery product (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/showthread.php?threadid=19011)

Posted by homer on 10-18-2001 05:45 AM:

Apple's new mystery product

For the Mac geeks out there:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7556055.html

It doesn't really say anything in particular, but it gives us something to look forward too...

__________________
We're all naked if you turn us inside out.
-David Byrne

Posted by lennonhead on 10-19-2001 12:24 PM:

I'm glad Apple is expanding their product line, I've often thought they would benefit a great deal by applying their computer design skills to other products. It doesn't sound like it will be a PDA though, too bad.

__________________
<A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_69783.html"TARGET=_BLANK><IMG SRC="http://members.aol.com/lenn0nhead/hvcslogo181x75.jpg"BORDER=1></A>

Posted by Potus on 10-19-2001 12:32 PM:

Rumor has it that it's an MP3 player.

__________________
When I get a little money I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Posted by recordond on 10-19-2001 03:26 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Potus
Rumor has it that it's an MP3 player.

That connects to your stereo and your computer. Hopefully with Airport or firewire.

--David

Posted by BEN on 10-20-2001 04:51 AM:

I have heard many rumors that it's going to be an MP3. This is coming from people inside the tech market.

BEN

Posted by homer on 10-20-2001 03:41 PM:

Of all the things they could be developing, an MP3 player seems to be the least exciting product.

Maybe this is the start of something bigger though. With their stores, perhaps they are pushing into more consumer product devices ala Sony...that'd be exciting.

__________________
We're all naked if you turn us inside out.
-David Byrne

Posted by JHromadka on 10-21-2001 04:05 AM:

What I want is something that plugs into our (cheap) stereo and uses Airport to talk to my Mac. I can then select songs to play off my Mac which are then played through my Home stereo's speakers.

Better yet, add Quicktime functionality so that I can view trailers etc on the television. That would be awesome to watch movie trailers etc on my 51" TV!

All will be revealed Tuesday.

__________________
James Hromadka
Old Friend

Posted by septimus on 10-23-2001 03:42 PM:

Spymac seems to think it is an uber PDA!

http://www.spymac.com/

aya!

__________________
Don't like somebody? Click "Profile" on a post and then click "Ignore "so and so's" posts". Voila!

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-23-2001 04:12 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dietrichbohn
Spymac seems to think it is an uber PDA!

http://www.spymac.com/

aya!

Impressive!

__________________
-Joshua
Abortion: Darwinism at its finest.

Posted by homer on 10-23-2001 04:42 PM:

Hmm...if it's real, then THAT'S my next PDA.

However, it seems incredibly small for the the feature set the rumor page is claiming to have. It has a modem + Airport card in the size of a flattened cigarrete package?

Well, we'll see...

__________________
We're all naked if you turn us inside out.
-David Byrne

Posted by foo fighter on 10-23-2001 04:47 PM:

LOL! That's obviously a Photoshop job of a scanner made to look like...well, whatever the hell it's supposed to look like. And Apple would never give a product such as stupid name as "iWalk".

And what's with the DELL coctail napkin under the pack of cigs?

__________________
My blog: Pocketfactory

Posted by homer on 10-23-2001 05:21 PM:

hehe...I totally missed the bullet points:

TFT-Display (512x256 resolution, 65k colors)
memory of 128 MB for low-end-version, 256 MB high-end
one firewire IEE 1394 FireWire-port
one 56k MoDem
OS X (scaled-down "newtonlike"-version)
LiIon-battery (20 h / approx. 9 days standby)

Some of these are plausible, but the resolution + memory are just ridiculous!

__________________
We're all naked if you turn us inside out.
-David Byrne

Posted by septimus on 10-23-2001 05:45 PM:

Here's the official debunk from Slashdot

__________________
Don't like somebody? Click "Profile" on a post and then click "Ignore "so and so's" posts". Voila!

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-23-2001 06:41 PM:

I believe.

__________________
-Joshua
Abortion: Darwinism at its finest.

Posted by septimus on 10-23-2001 06:43 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dick-richardson
I believe.

lets not have this devolve into religion again..

...all the mac sites are deluged, I can't find anything. Is the press conference happening now?

__________________
Don't like somebody? Click "Profile" on a post and then click "Ignore "so and so's" posts". Voila!

Posted by foo fighter on 10-23-2001 06:46 PM:

Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge. Size of a deck of cards: 2.4" wide, 4" tall, 3/4" thick.[13:25-13:30]

__________________
My blog: Pocketfactory

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-23-2001 06:48 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dietrichbohn

lets not have this devolve into religion again..

...all the mac sites are deluged, I can't find anything. Is the press conference happening now?

check out http://store.apple.com/

__________________
-Joshua
Abortion: Darwinism at its finest.

Posted by septimus on 10-23-2001 06:49 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by foo fighter
Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge. Size of a deck of cards: 2.4" wide, 4" tall, 3/4" thick.[13:25-13:30]

So it's a big-storage MP3 player. Cool. good...

revolutionary?

well.. I'm glad to see Apple diversifying!

Links that aren't slashdotted?

Thanks, foo!

__________________
Don't like somebody? Click "Profile" on a post and then click "Ignore "so and so's" posts". Voila!

Posted by foo fighter on 10-23-2001 06:52 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dietrichbohn
So it's a big-storage MP3 player.

Uh, read the dimensions...it's only the size of a deck of cards!

__________________
My blog: Pocketfactory

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-23-2001 06:55 PM:

And available immediately, apparently.

__________________
-Joshua
Abortion: Darwinism at its finest.

All times are GMT. The time now is 10:18 PM.

Pages (6): [1] 2 3 4 5 6 »
Show 20 posts from this thread on one page