Mindblowing new stuff from Apple
 

http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2006/01/exclusive_apple_plasma_displays_to_rock_mwsf.html

Tuesday is the big day for announcements of new products at MacWorld. I'm loading up on AAPL. Should be interesting :)

Re: Mindblowing new stuff from Apple
 

I meant to go to MacWorld last year, my last chance while in the Bay Area, but didn't.

Every Mac user should attend at least once in his or her lifetime; I managed three.

Mac since 1984.

Re: Mindblowing new stuff from Apple
 

how many shares are you thinking about?

I've read Jason D. O'Grady's Mac pages off and on for ten or more years. I've always wondered: who pays him?

Plasma displays....yes...those are ground breaking...like sliced bread.

I am looking forward to the new Mac powerbooks with Intel processors.

Aurel

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Me too. I was at the Mac introduction 1/17/84... and held out for all of 2 weeks afterward.

At the time, my largest client was Microsoft and they had shown me one of their development Macs in December '83. They had dedicated 1/2 their software development resources to Mac apps. They didn't think anyone in their right minds would want a PC after seeing a Mac.

They overestimated their audience.

In 1983, that was true. When a highschool friend got a Mac I was in awe. They really had something there for a short time.

But when did PCs eclipse Macs completely (except for the black turtleneck crowd and little kids/old ladies)? We found that the application gap really opened up in the early '90s, switched to PCs and never looked back.

I tried playing around with my 71 year old mother-in-law (ideal Mac user)'s new iMac and I have to say it's beautiful, but they really dropped the ball on the interface. She loves it though.

In terms of over/underestimating. Apple's computer division has always overestimated the market's desire for shiny stuff, and underestimated the market's need for forwards and backwards compatibility and the market's demand for a wide variety of applications.

Now that their business model is 90% shiny stuff, they seem to be doing much better.

I'm hoping for an Intel-based PB or iBook, but I'm *really* hoping for an Intel-based Mac Mini. I'm itching to build my own PVR but I don't want to base it on a G4 Mini or (heaven forfend) a Shuttle chassis-based Linux box.

re: HardDrive, why'd you even bother posting? Go drive your Beetle or something.

Can you read? No, guess not...

"Walking over to the prepared foods area he mumbles that the new plasma displays are powered by Intel's newly announced Viiv multimedia technology as he pretends to re-organize the salads"

Ummmm....yeah. Plasma displays. New, advanced Plasma displays. So?

I'm also interested in the Mac-Intel powerbooks. Anyone know the latest on these? When will they be out?

Again: who pays O'Grady to write his columns? Apple?

What I like is the reference to WAWA. I am telling you the rest of the country really misses out not having one of these in their area. If there was WAWA stock avaliable it would kill AAPL! Exspecially when aaple is trading at 50 times trailing and 34 times forward earnings. If you are ever in Philly go to wawa and see how it ought to be. Also if everyone likes the apple / intel mix. Why don't you buy intel it is a heck of a lot cheaper than apple on a valuation basis.

Rich

that's ok...its not like they've done anything new or interesting in the last couple of years...

If I had a lot of 'gambling money' handy now, I'd be buying AAPL puts.

Not that I don't like Apple as a company, it's just that I'm not delusional enough to pay that kind of premium. I bailed at $52.

I am an idiot. I read the article and still don't understand - despite being a professional programmer by trade. I got the WAWA reference since I am a Jersey native. But the rest is lost on me. So can anyone decode the bottom line for me? My best guess is that it is a 42"/50" plasma monitor for Apple computers and will cost just $25.99/$32.99. Am I reading that correctly?

Digital convergence - Intel has pushed it for a long time, MS tried it (HomePC anyone?) and now Apple's going to give it a shot. An Apple plasma in your living room, powered by Apple technology (licensed from Intel in part, from the looks of it) controlling your TV, stereo, Intenet, etc.

We'll see.

I think its 42"/50" plasma monitors that run an OS for $2599 & $3299.

They have definitely become great innovators. Wow, their stock price is a little over $76 a share. I need to save a little more before I can buy in.

When I saw this thread, a particular movie came to mind, "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing. "

Thanks for the info, Richard.

Ahhhhh...thanks...:D

Apple is going to invade your living room with the Mac Mini, Front Row software, DVR, iPod docking and the intelligent plasma display. The quality will be top-notch; their LCDs are already known to be the very best in the industry.

I hope this really happens.

Meanwhile, HardDrive reboots his machine to install the latest MSFT WMF patch that would've been sent out tomorrow, but popular uproar forced MSFT to release early...

Actually XP installs silently and reboots on its own. If you're working on the computer, it gives you a five minute warning.

An excellent policy for servers!!! :rolleyes:

XP servers?

yeah, and some of our sys admins here are reporting BSODs after the patch.

Excuse me, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition...aka, "XP".

Nostatic: ROFL! Typical.

Bush hates BSOD. So does Bill.

Apple isn't going to invade anyone's anything if all those anyones don't choose to give Apple their money. all this talk about digital convergence is pretty neat from a techie perspective, but the reality is that companies have been pursuing this angle for some time now with no real results. I wouldn't mind a bit better connectivity between my pc and audio system (mainly for playing streaming audio) but am I going to go gaga over all that Apple has to offer? not hardly

Whatever happened to BEOS? Anyone remember that operating system?

BeOS was the fastest f*cking thing I ever used.

Yeah, it was.

I hear it's just server software now. No real-world apps are available for it. I don't know. I haven't looked into BeOS for a very long time.

www.yellowtab.com

www.bebits.com

True, this is probably not a problem for Apple servers. Perhaps we should locate all 12 of them and find out. :p

No Intel Mini or plasma displays :( Guess we'll have to wait a few more months. The new products and software look great, though. All in all a nice event with great surprises. I predict great things for Apple this year. Had a little fun with the stock this morning. Made more %-wise in one hour buying and selling than I could expect annually on most real estate investments these days.

I'm taking my 15 year old son to MacWorld tomorrow. Our first time. He got a new Powerbook this Christmas - amazing OS. I had the first FatMac when I was in College. Nothing but windoze since then though.

The new iMac is going to smoke the rest of the desktop line...Apple better get in gear and move the rest of the lineup over to Intel.

I cover AAPL for my firm. We started buying at $7 split-adjusted, and have made 10X. I am wrestling with holding on for more vs taking the profit. It is a tough call, made tougher by the difference between short-term and long-term. The company is doing great and has the chance to be a real leader in consumer electronics, but the valuation reflects that. At $80 it is not the kind of stock that I usually win on, so I'm looking for the "next AAPL".

I highly recommend BlueSkyJaunte Corp. ;)

Yeah, I bought in the Winter of '82 or 83 and sold in the Summer. IIRC, it went from $10.XX to $62 in 6 months.

I've been in & out, but it's become much tougher since the institutions discovered it about 12-13 years ago.

Last Fall, I got in at $36 and sold at $52/54 -- don't recall exactly. To me $50 is an okay price to accumulate.

AAPL has always been an emotional buy to some players in the market, and right now, they're ignoring potential saturation of the $200+ player market; low margins on music sales and Apple's long history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. YMMV