[killer_735]

Not the G6, or the 21" Powerbook, but what peripherals? New speakers? Gaming gear? New Monitors?

Personally, I'd like to see Apple foray into the digital camera market. (the iSight may indeed be the start of something) They have the appreciation for the medium, and with most of the design and photography world working on Macs, they could make a killing.

What would be REEAALLY cool would be an Apple digital camera that uses a short firewire cable to write to an ipod. With 10 and 13-Megapixel cameras kicking around at the high end, 512 MB of smartmedia is getting smaller and smaller. What if you could wear an iPod on your belt and shoot away, knowing that you could shoot thousands of pictures (or hours of video) before you had to unload. Please, Steve. You know it'd work.

I read recently that Kodak* was courting some developers to work on digicams that would send to a laptop HD via wi-fi or bluetooth...but I'd trust something from Apple a lot more than something from Kodak.


*I hate them. Not only are they the biggest polluters in NY, but I went to RIT in Rochester, where Kodak and the school administration are, shall we say, very friendly...and they're absolute dicks...but I digress...

[Grrr]

I voted 'other'..
Cos I think an Apple cell phone could be seriously cool..
Squeaze in a still cam maybe.. ipod style micro HD to play a few MP3's and some data storage..
Might not be the smallest, but could sure as hell be the coolest.

[SupahCoolX]

4 words:
Affordable. Thin. Color. Newton.

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
4 words:
Affordable. Thin. Color. Newton.

second that

EDIT: whoa postcount is at 666

[maxintosh]

I would be soooooooooooooooooooooo happy if Apple released a PDA.

Flash RAM for efficient program storage, hard-drive for music & media storage, Bluetooth, and AirPort and a FireWire cradle. Video-out for presentations. It could sync up iPhoto, iTunes, and movies -- maybe import DVDs for the road. PlainTalk 2 speech recognition.

Apple would release developer tools to help port Cocoa apps to Cocoa Lite apps. Hot peripherals like a car cradle, folding Bluetooth keyboard & trackpad.

Static sensors so it could recognize hand gestures, like scrolling, just by waving the stylus at the screen.

About the size of an h2210/2215 -- except less border, more screen (OLED). An integrated flip lid.

*drool*

[MoparSteve]

I'd like to see Apple do a TV tuner/capture/PVR device capable of full screen/480 lines of resolution. External (firewire), so that it will work with my iMac or iBook. I know Formac has such a device, but $400!, plus, I hear that its software isn't all that good. The Televio sounds good, but you need a tower w/card slot to use it. There's good reviews of the eyetv, but it doesn't have full resolution. I would think Apple would want to have this built in as part of their digital hub.

[maxintosh]

Originally posted by MoparSteve:
I'd like to see Apple do a TV tuner/capture/PVR device capable of full screen/480 lines of resolution. External (firewire), so that it will work with my iMac or iBook. I know Formac has such a device, but $400!, plus, I hear that its software isn't all that good. The Televio sounds good, but you need a tower w/card slot to use it. There's good reviews of the eyetv, but it doesn't have full resolution. I would think Apple would want to have this built in as part of their digital hub.

[JHromadka]

I'd be all over an Apple PDA.