Wonder what B&O will do with regard to the Beosound 8 and the change in the dock connector in the new Ipad.

 

Sandy

The Beosound 8 is not on the catalogue any longer, so I doubt they'll do something. Apple has an adapter that could do the job, although it would look a bit awkward.

The Beoplay A8 can easily be adapted as the connector is detachable... but being an Airplay product, you do not even need to dock your iThing on it.

I have an A8 and I must admit I use the dock system over AirPlay about 80% of the time. Better sound, more stable and hey it charges the device your using!

elephant wrote:

I think it is amazing, and so my mind immediately turned to "what's coming over the next 6 months ?"

 Looks like you're not the only one... See

PhilLondon wrote:

elephant wrote:

I think it is amazing, and so my mind immediately turned to "what's coming over the next 6 months ?"

 Looks like you're not the only one... See link

I hope the Apple TV (whether the one we already know, or the TV set to come) gets an App Store...

Thanks Phil !

Isn't the new Mac Pro 6 months away with a whole new direction? I think they said 2013 is the year of the pro.

Paul I nearly wet myself when I saw the iMac. But then I dried up when I saw it doesn't have hdmi input so you can use it as a monitor for your work laptop. Yes I know it has thunderbolt. I would have liked a new stand though. Perhaps this one will finally look good on a wall.

The drive options are great however I think that the ram upgrade options may be limited. This is something I upgrade from time to time. I also like blu ray and physical media and when I sold my Mac mini sans optical drive it was also because its something I take advantage of.

iPad mini is probably good for commuting, but nothing ground breaking.

Paul, and Ed what did you like and dislike of today's announcements

Paul W wrote:

I think that I can hear Moxxey, Elephant and the two Michael's screaming with excitement!

Christ, I'm not that keen!

Actually, I was quite indifferent to most of the announcements:

Mac Mini - no better than our 2011 quad-core Mac Mini's with discrete graphics.

iMac. Thinner? Sure, but only because they ditched the optical drive. Nothing with the new iMac makes it a compelling upgrade.

4th generation iPad? More like a 3S iPad. Apart from a faster CPU, not much there that would get me excited.

iPad Mini? Not bad if you want a smaller iPad, but no retina screen.

13" retina MBP? We all knew it was coming, but it was "when". It's £450 more expensive, lacks quad-core and is slightly thicker than my 15" retina MBP. Although I'd have preferred the 13", glad I bought the 15"

 

Very little in the announcement was either a surprise or compelled me to consider a purchase.

moxxey wrote:

Paul W wrote:

I think that I can hear Moxxey, Elephant and the two Michael's screaming with excitement!

Christ, I'm not that keen!

Actually, I was quite indifferent to most of the announcements:

Mac Mini - no better than our 2011 quad-core Mac Mini's with discrete graphics.

iMac. Thinner? Sure, but only because they ditched the optical drive. Nothing with the new iMac makes it a compelling upgrade.

4th generation iPad? More like a 3S iPad. Apart from a faster CPU, not much there that would get me excited.

iPad Mini? Not bad if you want a smaller iPad, but no retina screen.

13" retina MBP? We all knew it was coming, but it was "when". It's £450 more expensive, lacks quad-core and is slightly thicker than my 15" retina MBP. Although I'd have preferred the 13", glad I bought the 15"

 

Very little in the announcement was either a surprise or compelled me to consider a purchase.

Rumours says that the upcoming Apple products will be marketed as MOTS. ('MoreOfTheSame') 👍

Hi Michael!

I liked everything at yesterdays launch. The new iMac was the surprise due to its 5mm thinness - I'm thinking design cues for their Apple TV on this one! Even though I don't do desktops, I think that this is incredible.

The one for me has to be the 13" MacBook Pro with Retina. Horrified with the UK price but you've got to remember that this is probably the world's BEST laptop here (and 12 years ago, we were paying over 2k for our PowerBooks with I believe 6gb :) :) :)

I also loved the iPad Mini - as Moxxey pointed out, a real shame that it is Retina - something for next year perhaps. 

I really thought that Moxxey would have loved the design of the new iMac :'(

Michael, I hope that you are having fun with all of your new toys :)

By MOTS you obviously mean outgrowing the market by 28%+ , massive profits , increasing innovation , beautifully designed and made products that lead the world and being copied by samsung etc

Thx Steffen for clearing that up.

😁