Here’s a thought: Apple does an unlimited rentals for $15-17/month but you can only have 2 movies “rented” at a time. Think this would work? Think apple would do it? It would be their answer to Netflix’s download service, which to be honest isn’t that great (and doesn’t work on my mac!)
I think I know a few people who would pay $15/month for unlimited movies. Are we really moving to a society whereby we own nothing and rent everything?
Well since I’ve got a long history of posting mac stuff (shoot, 12+ years of it! wow…), I figured I would post what I think we’ll see next week at Macworld.
Yeah, if you want more predictions check out ThinkSecret oops. hmmm ok AppleInsider or TheMacObserver.
So I caved and replaced my beloved powerbook g4 last night, after nearly 4 years of service, with a shiny new Macbook. Why did I grab a macbook and not a macbook pro? Well I figured I use my powerbook primarily for writing, emailing, surfing the web, html coding, and the occasional photoshop work. So I decided, was it really worth $600 to get a slight bump in CPU speed (ignoring the fact the graphics card on the entry level MBpro is far better)?
Now mind you this is definitely not a desktop replacement for me (already have an iMac at home and a MacPro at work), but rather a work aide. So I figured my factors of things it needed to be able to do: travel well (lighter than the powerbook), surf the web (wifi- check), run intel native apps (CS3 - Check), and have reasonably long battery life (we’ll see about this one). All that aside though, my favorite feature is the built in iSight camera. I think this is one of the smartest feature’s Apple has added in a while. Paired with iMovie 08, and vimeo, and I can video podcast from anywhere, and record podcasts too (need to start doing that soon).
Full review coming in a week or two, once I get my apps and such transferred. So the question is, what do I call this one? The last one was called Bender (Futurama reference there). So I turn to you all for suggestions on this. Post them in the comments.
So I decided there was no reason for me to keep my 4 year old Dell that I have in my house, as it was on its last legs, and has probably gone through 3 hard drives, and a half dozen reformats over the last few years. So as I evaluated my choices, I realized that PCs always invariably look cheaper on the surface, but somehow I never end up getting one of those dirt cheap PCs. By the time I am done customizing my systems and building them, or buying them from Dell, the machine ends up costing close to 2 grand. So I thought, why not switch back to a mac after all these years of being 80% PC and 20% mac.
I used to be a mac fanatic and used them exclusively till around 2000.
Now I was looking at computers, and saw the iMac had all the things I need on a computer, including the ability to run Windows (still have to use it for a number of reasons). But with my new iMac (which seems to be running faster than I expected) I can just toggle between the two, and right there is an amazing selling point. I wish Apple would highlight this more.
I’m most excited about being able to organize everything in a future-oriented way.
