Apple Keynote today!

[*DAMN Mauti]

Hi,

already excited about the keynote? Only half an hour until it starts. What will it bring for us gamers? ATI recently released the X800 graphic card, yeah, but otherwise I don't see much coming new for us gamers. But I'm very interested to the see the new cheap Mac. If it's true 10 great new things will be presented tonight.

I'm thrilled.

See ya,

Mauti

[BFG]

• Headless iMac
• Powerbook updates
• Software inlucuding iLife upadate, Keynote2, garaband2 and iWork?
• Breakout box (I can't wait for this one)

Im guessing Aspyr will be showing of Doom3 Runninig on G5's at the Expo... Would be nice to hear some news that someone is porting the Havok game engine to Mac and then brining us GhR2, HL2 and RainbowSix 4!

Hopfully a good indepth look at Tiger... if anything i think tiger could be the biggest thing we see in regards to Gaming - expect for the Healess iMacs capability to be a dedicated Server?!?! 

[Toxic::Joka]

What? A cheap mac 18 hours after I bought a PC, boy do I feel stupid.

[*DAMN Mauti]

I don't think it will be useable for gaming, so don't worry.

Bye,

Mauti

[spike]

• Headless iMac
• Powerbook updates
• Software inlucuding iLife upadate, Keynote2, garaband2 and iWork?
• Breakout box (I can't wait for this one)

Whats a headless imac, or for that matter, a breakout box?

[*DAMN Mauti]

The breakout box will probably be used to plugin easily instruments to your Mac and use them in Garageband or other more professional apps.

Bye,

Mauti

[BFG]

Headless imac.... Very small mac low end specs - no Monitor : Goal to tempt pc users who love ipods but won't bye macs because they are 'too expensive'

breakout box... what mauti said -  Giving you a whole range of inputting and outputting sound to and from the mac fire firewire... should be sexy - ie plugging speakers, soundsystems, amps, decks,  keyboards or guitars, mics etc etc into your mac,

People wouldn't pick a Cube as a perfect server machine, but i remember the MP server on a cube running a 36 player room for GhR without question exteamly well...  I guess it depends on the Specs but if we're looking at a 1Ghz ish G4 processor with a 64MB graphics card, and  at least the option to upgrade the amount of ram (im guessing default will be 256)  then it would be very nice indeed.... Ok not my prefered gaming machine.. but we'll see

[BFG]

So the Mini 'headless' mac.

including a slot-load Combo optical drive, FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.o, both DVI/VGA output. It [lays DVDs, burn CDs, and is very quiet and tiny. Its height is half the size of an iPod mini. Jobs calls it "BYODKM" -- Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse. Will come in two models: 1.25GHz 256MB/40GB for $499. A second model with a 1.4GHz, more memory and larger hard drive will sell for $599. Mac mini will ship on January 22. Ships in a box smaller than the regular iPod box.

[Civrock]

[Civrock]

Flash iPod: Shuffle




feck, the first pics of the Mac mini got taken offline.

[*DAMN Mauti]

Anything about the build in graphic card? Hell this thing is tiny! I guess they have built in a mobil one.

Bye,

Mauti

[Civrock]

damn, that thing is tiny!



http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle

[Civrock]

Mauti: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support

kinda lame... but heh, for that price.

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

[*DAMN Mauti]

Damn it. Well the price is heiß, hehe. Unfortunaly this way it won't play RvS, but else this thing is genious. The size, the design, the box it is delivered. WOW. This machine will sell itself.

About the Flash iPod - Nothing new Philips already presented an allround USB Stick with 512MB, MP3 player, radio, and still working as normal USB player, so this is nothing special for me. May the handling of the iPod is superior but that's it.

Bye,

Mauti

[*DAMN Mauti]

Yes now also Apple realizes what we gamer and protool user need:

And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard. Just plug them in.

 

[*DAMN Elandrion]

but thats a OS feature, not a hardware feature

[Civrock]

lol, why cant Apple make a two-button mouse themselves finally?! jeez...

[*DAMN Mauti]

Elandrion I wasn't talking about the plug in and play feature I was talking that Apple uses the word two-button mouse 

However damn this thing is weights 700gramm less than my powerbook. I love this thing. Damn that's what I call a true BareBone PC ;-)

Elandrion couldnt you fly to CA, 3 weeks later. The 1.25 only costs 360Euro, crazy!

Mauti

So sweet 

[:MoD:Shade]

Bahhhh, I'm disapointed. 

No Dual 3 GhZ Powermac G5's.
No upgraded Powerbooks.
No eMac G5's.

What a bunch of crap it all is!

[Civrock]

lol, i expect 3ghz g5s in the first half of 2005 and g5 powerbooks not before the second half of 2005.

g5 emacs... never. especially now that there is the cheap Mac mini. g5 mac minis would be something very interesting for the future, tho!