Rumor Mill: "Absolutely Different" Apple Product Coming

[haikuman]

macphanatic wrote:
[quote=New Guy]
If it's going to be "Absolutely Different" how about a spouse who doesn't nag, snore as loud as me or complain to put the toilet seat down? The "iSpouse"...

New Guy

Only if it can be jailbroken! :wink: <~~~~~:damnyou: thats where she belongs *(>*

Vote to remove ~!~ :devil:

Huge violation to hu"Man"ity :jest:

[gabester]

I'm going to go in a completely different direction.

How about this - a very high density computing cluster / appliance for the home or scaled up for the datacenter. It'll use Thunderbolt interconnects at 10+ GB a second to connect iOS or Mac OS X devices in a form factor akin to a blade server... only much more dense (think about how many iPhones sans battery, screen, and case you could fit into just a 1U rack mount). With solid state storage and that many clustered cores (variants will be either ARM or Intel depending on the need, with mixture of the CPU supported within the iFrame.)

Why the push back to mainframe-style computing? Because studies have shown that consumers are confused about what the cloud is; this will essentially allow any consumer to set up iCloud-in-a-box that they can own without needing to rely on some faceless company.

It'll probably never happen... but it would be cool.
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[silvarios]

anonymouse1 wrote:
Speculations:

1. In-house CPUs--all-ARM line.

3. iPhone for the masses--new, unlocked iPhone for $199

Sign me up for either or both.

[mrbigstuff]

davester wrote:
One thing's for sure...it will be described as absolutely magical and amazing.

yup. and it probably wont' have Firewire, either.

my hope is a detachable, touchscreen MacBook Air that will convert to a tablet when detached.

[silvarios]

tenders wrote:
>1. In-house CPUs--all-ARM line.

Interesting though I don't think even Apple can out-Intel Intel on chip scale.

I would hazard a guess that ARM chips far out sell x86 PC chips (not a fair comparison of course since there are multiple companies designing and fabbing chips).

[michaelb]

I'd like a media center device that worked simply and across lots of options and platforms, ideally running the tv as a monitor, so it could display anything on the main screen. The apple tv just doesn't do enought for me, since I get little or no content from itunes. I continue to think this is the next big thing and that no one is close right now to getting it right.

I used to like plex (since I use my mini as a media center), but it has become an exercise is frustration at times, and no way could the average person use plex readily and without problems, hangups or bugs.

[vision63]

Well, let's look at the recent "different" products. They took an iPod and turned it into a cell phone with apps and such and such. They also made a non-phone version of it called a Touch. THEN, they took an iPod Touch and enlarged it, calling it an iPad. So the only logical new "different" product has to be an even larger iPad. A bigass Apple LED TV. (michaelb) Maybe they can call it the WallPad.

[onthedownlow]

HP's PC Division coming to Apple.

...or a new touch iMac design (for all of your iOS needs) along the lines of Wacom's Centiq21ux:

[pRICE cUBE]

You guys are all way off. My sources tell me it is a butt massager.

[martin]

Tiny desk-top oven, just big enough to bake slugs.