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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals

Apple’s always enjoyed patenting the near-absurd, just to get us speculating in the wrong direction or to give its thousands of patent lawyers something to do during a slow design cycle. We can’t really imagine Apple has this pair of “products” prepped and waiting in the wings of Macworld, but it’s still fun to look. First off we have a MacBook dock that conveniently looks just like an iMac. Not much explanation is needed, you just slide the laptop into the side of the iMac and start desktoping away on the big screen. The second patent deals with a quite familiar keyboard concept: OLED screens in every key. It’s not the first time an Apple patent has overlapped with a Lebedev design, but who knows how it’ll go down if Apple tries to build one of these Lebedev-ish ideas — Apple patented this keyboard concept about a year after the Maxiumus concept was first shown off.

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Source: Paul Miller

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Media PCs

Currently, there’s just not a whole lot of options when you’re scouting a pre-fabricated rig that does both HD DVD and Blu-ray on a single optical drive, but adding one more to mix certainly helps. Enter Inteset, which has just announced that an HD DVD / Blu-ray combo drive will be an option in the firm’s Maximus and Denzel media server systems. The machines will reportedly come loaded with CyberLink’s PowerDVD Ultra software, support 7.1-channel surround sound, and sport an array of ports including audio in / out, DVI / VGA / component / S-Video, USB, FireWire, and antenna inputs for the TV tuners. ‘Course, since the company recommends that you “contact a dealer for pricing,” you should assume that this here HTPC won’t run you cheap.

 

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Source: Darren Murph

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