{"id":1702,"date":"2006-09-07T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1961"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:40:41","slug":"re-happenings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/re-happenings-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that now, for the first time, all shipping Macs have at least two CPU cores. Amazing. It also leaves behind with the machines I have available for testing, namely, an iBook (G3) which can still boot 10.0, a PowerBook G4, an iMac G5, and an Intel mini (core solo). So I need a dual-core 64-bit machine to round things out&#8230; hm.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading over my own last and some other opinions on the net. Seems some people are expecting an Airport Express optimized for video&#8230; I&#8217;ve never used (or even seen from close-up) an Airport Express, but I&#8217;m not sure this would be all that interesting, or even possible within the current form factor. Wouldn&#8217;t it need a DVI or at least S-Video output, meaning a reasonable video card with all the DACs etc.?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there are two other products I&#8217;d like to see from Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The first might be a RAID network\/backup box, but done right. Think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/xsan\/\">Xsan<\/a> for the home&#8230; maybe stackable modules to add any reasonable number of drives.<\/p>\n<p>The second would be something in between an iPod nano and the Airport Express. An inexpensive (under $80) local controller, with a headphone jack, plugged into AC but with an iPod-like screen and controller to allow you to stream any playlist from a central music server. There are some boxes like that on the market, but they&#8217;re expensive and more geared towards connecting to an amplifier. Instead, think of something that could be mounted on a each threadmill in a gym, or at each table in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I think these are too likely to happen, but who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that now, for the first time, all shipping Macs have at least two CPU cores. Amazing. It also leaves behind with the machines I have available for testing, namely, an iBook (G3) which can still boot 10.0, a PowerBook G4, an iMac G5, and an Intel mini (core solo). So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}