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[SlowRevolution]

Tim's a Danielle Steel fan.

 

[.GqueB.]

Tell me what else I love Tim...tell me

This is actually very big...

 

[CrankyJay]

I've never seen them wait so long to announce a new product...I bet it doesn't exist

 

[pswii60]

Pointless to have such a thin desktop, you don't carry it!
Much better to get something like this:

This is very much aimed at the Bang and Olufsen market though. Rich people who live in expensive inner-city minimalistic designer apartments. For them, the new iMac will look glorious on a glass computer table in the corner. For me, it will just make me feel sick with buyer's remorse when I check my bank balance and realise the powerful PC I could have made myself for a tenth of the price.

 

[FStop7]

lol @ $500+ devices as education tools

God bless them. I wouldn't be where I am today without them.

 

[RevDM]

BS i've been using macs at school since I was in Kindergarten and I was a public school kid

He's talking about ipads.

 

[Dany]

firmware updating books.

the future is here.

 

[tmdorsey]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00691WMJG/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Same thing, no?

It has hasn't it?

It has.

No, the momentus hybrids had a a cache, like 4GB (new ones 8 or 16 or something).

Apple's fusion drive has a proper 128GB SSD, it seems. Or at least magnitude larger.

Ok, ok jacklegs sorry old people like me don't have time to keep up with the latest tech anymore.

Either way cool concept. I need one of these type drives for my work desktops.

 

[Mudkips]

I'm pretty sure iMacs haven't been fixable by users for a while now.

You just need tiny screwdrivers, a flat piece of plastic, and an empty egg carton to sort the dozen different sizes of screws.

 

[entremet]

lol @ $500+ devices as education tools

As opposed to pricier laptops? I know some districts that gave students Macbooks.

 

[Baconsammy]

Tim, if you have to tell people, "This is actually really big.", it probably isn't.

 

[Dead Prince]

God bless them. I wouldn't be where I am today without them.

oh god. love that game.

 

[JackEtc]

I have to keep refreshing the stream because it keeps freezing -_-

 

[smr00]

Umm...when I was in school, $500 was pretty close to what I paid for books per semester. I wish I went to school when these things existed.

You paid $500 for books per semester in middle/high school?

 

[KingKong]

Umm...when I was in school, $500 was pretty close to what I paid for books per semester. I wish I went to school when these things existed.

the iTextbooks arent free..., and high school once again

 

[flyover]

I honestly think that DVD drives are like scanners to me now, only pull out the external one for the one time in a blue moon that I need it. Forcing optical drives upon everyone is a waste. External optical drives are hardly a huge hassle

That's how it is for me, too. I do need one, but not frequently. I prefer having it socked away, out of sight.

 

[twofold]

Yeah, thank god they only sacrificed functionality that people use to make a desktop that isn't mobile thinner and lighter.

Just get an external drive. They're so cheap. It's not like you're going to be moving a desktop around often anyway.

This isn't going to be a dealbreaker for anyone who was genuinely interested in buying an imac.

Same with the Retina Macbook Pro. Buy a slimline DVD drive and get a Macbook Pro sleeve that allows you to carry it with your laptop. Problem solved.

 

[MThanded]

WE ABOUT TO HAM EGGS AND CHEESE

 

[Phoenix]

For the people saying the fusion drive is different from the flash cache on hybrid drives: Using a large SSD to optimise HDD space - in exactly the same way that Apple are doing it - has already been done.

To their credit at least Apple aren't saying they invented the concept.

Until they start suing hardware drive manufacturers for doing it

 

[pswii60]

God bless them. I wouldn't be where I am today without them.

That's not a BBC Micro.

 

[Chinner]

any other streams? the ustraem one is beginning to choke.

 

[Dany]

I have class in a few, get to it TIM

 

[.GqueB.]

They're dragging the fuck out of this...

 

[acheron_xl]

I think Tim did the gallon of milk challenge before the keynote to psyche himself up.

 

[Vano]

Hell yes, go away tim with your numbers, bring it on Phil

 

[sikkinixx]

dragggggggging it out

 

[AlphaTwo00]

That guy on a ship using an iPad for maps navigation? Hmmm… seems like he's asking to get lost…

 

[Anticitizen One]

He's talking about ipads.

and? instead of macs they are letting kids use ipads now. Its the same thing.

 

[deadhorse32]

its built into the intel chipsets. Just pair an SSD and a HDD and it'll do the same thing on 7 and 8 (probably Vista and XP too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost since Vista

 

[flyover]

Tim, if you have to tell people, "This is actually really big.", it probably isn't.

In many cases, you'd be right. But in this case, it actually is.

 

[polyh3dron]

HERE WE GOOOOOO

 

[coldfoot]

Oh man you must be from the future

Also having the system drive as it's own partition is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, I think.

I've also been using it on a laptop all this time, whereas Apple just introduced it for its desktops.

 

[Brinbe]

here we go?

 

[Aiii]

Figures my stream would cut out now.

 

[lunarworks]

God bless them. I wouldn't be where I am today without them.

Number Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, and The Motherfucking Print Shop.

 

[noah111]

Custom fonts in books is actually going to be pretty awesome for certain stuff.

 

[SlowRevolution]

This stream's terrible.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

IPAD 4?!?!?!


THE FUCK!

 

[KingKong]

oh shit ipad 4???

lol so many people are going to be maaaaaad

 

[CrankyJay]

here we go!

 

[JackEtc]

I like Phil a lot more.

 

[Technosteve]

How do i arrange my windows 7 install like that fusion arrangement? i have a 128 ssd and 2 tb HDs.

 

[grimshawish]

You know for everything it seems to be conquering...100 million seems a bit low when their adding all 3 models. Just saying.

Oh has he stopped wanking, great.

 

[Bowser]

4th gen iPad?! wtf

 

[Majine]

Jesus, they really are gonna update the OG iPad after just 7 months.

 

[rinse82]

Wait what, new iPad?

 

[golem]

WTF

 

[djplaeskool]

Already onto the iPad4? Jesus.

 

[xxracerxx]

You paid $500 for books per semester in middle/high school?

I am talking college, or are we not doing that yet?

the iTextbooks arent free..., and high school once again

I know they aren't free, but they are cheaper if I am not mistaken? At least that is why my buddy reports.

 

[LyleLanley]

4th generation iPad? Didn't see that one coming.