New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

a thought, if you're feeling crafty:
http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1cvoet/how_would_i_go_about_making_a_portable_mp3_player/

a raspberry pi mp3 player should fit nicely inside of a large briefcase

i mean you could get an ipod touch for about the same cash of course

The X3 looks a bit interesting
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E9O6C96/ref=pd_aw_sbs_e_1?refRID=0WNAMCPR8VFVXTHNJHB0

really worried apple seems to be transitioning away from optical media :(

they are kind of already out of it, although the software will support it indefinitely due to video use, I think

thank goodness, would hate to see apple transition away from optical media

:)

you're a tricky one, caek

that nytimes fashion piece quoting Mercola (!) on the possible dangers of wearable computing is some next-level horribleness

but I wondered -- what if it's really crazy stealth marketing? you may not want this apple watch because it's for fitness weirdos and health nuts but what if wearable computing was a little dangerous, kind of like cigarettes?

that nytimes fashion piece...is some next-level horribleness

since i am still pretty new to having an iphone i still say dumb shit to siri all the time, it is funny for now

it is a very weird experience though, i feel strangely self-conscious about it

i still use Siri just to set alarms and make appts, feel like there's still a lot of untapped potential there - but it needs to react a lot faster than it does

only use it for those things you mentioned but its worthless for everything else, and def slow yeah

i've just got an iphone 6 after years with a 3gs. mainly i use siri to send unexpectedly cryptic texts to my wife since siri struggles to understand my accent

just upgraded to Yosemite, looking great so far. loving the dark mode.

at this point it's almost morbid curiosity to see how far I can push it, but I have that 2006/2007 Mac Pro I have now using a relatively modern graphics card, with two four core xeons (8 cores total), and in another week or so it'll have Bluetooth 4 and 802.11ac with Handoff! Not bad for a machine the OS doesn't technically support.

I'm still using a mid-2007 iMac with 3gb of RAM. It's still going strong, with the only weakness being that it takes 5 minutes to fully load Spotify

we still have our 2007 white macbook, it is pretty slow so we don't use it for much though. we also have a 2013 13-inch macbook pro that is only nominally faster than the 2007 one tbh

there is no way it is only nominally faster, and if so, something is really wrong

yea it's been a while since I used the 2007 one so i could just be forgetting how slow it really was

I've got a 2011 MBP with 16gb of ram and I recently replaced the optical drive with an SSD and it feels pretty good overall other than the keyboard deciding that the r, h, and a couple of other keys need to be pressed super hard to work. SSD was an incredibly dramatic and noticeable improvement in speed.

my 2008 white macbook has multiple dead keys but I still use it to rip CDs. The keys were because of a spill.

http://i.imgur.com/g2QamZk.jpg

*I destroy every Apple product that I own*

Lee considers himself a trendy guy

Yes wear an expensive watch to work while you serve drinks and food all day, great idea.

Can you set it to display how many seconds you've got left to live? I think a waiter would appreciate that.

hilarious training materials aside, the in-store watch rollout is basically what Angela Ahrendts was hired for, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

I mean, interesting to me. And markers.

i wonder if i could custom-order one that could be used as a belt

Hmm, I wonder if anyone's had the idea to put together –

http://i.imgur.com/1pwvkBL.jpg

WELL OF COURSE THEY DID, PROBABLY THE FIRST MEME THAT WAS MADE AFTER THAT ANNOUNCEMENT.

I mean, interesting to me. And markers.

I’m interested too! And I suspect it’ll go poorly. It’s a difficult problem.

* Watches have limited demand.
* Watches steal space from Apple’s profitable Macintosh and iPhone businesses.
* Customers won’t accept fashion advice from Apple employees.
* Existing Apple Store employees won’t upsell.
* …?

I bet John Sculley helped write that training manual.

Meanwhile:

It's also been reported that Trent Reznor is playing a significant role in redesigning the iPhone's music app.

LOL

beats is actually a pretty good service, I keep saying that, maybe somebody will believe me eventually

btw I am Trent Reznor

I've been using it, I never could bring myself to pay for spotify b/c they had two price tiers and I was angry about that

hey Trent, "Sin" rules

Can I make the ticking sound like the "Closer" beat?

I am glad to hear you think so, DJP. It's something I did really early in my career, but I feel we really bring something different to the old material on tour.

beats is actually a pretty good service, I keep saying that, maybe somebody will believe me eventually

It certainly has far better networking code than RDIO or Spotify.

their first release of the iPhone app was glitchy and crash-prone but they really stepped it up quickly

Lee should stick with the watching he's already wearing.

er, watch

"I'm gonna give the gold one to Harris since he's been on the force for 30 years, but Nelson should get this athletic one after that case he solved last year."

"Oh, you're always watching the detectives, aren't you?"

I had a spilled coffee scare yesterday that made me realize that someday I'm going to have to replace my 2011 Macbook pro but going through Apple's configurator for laptops is kind of bumming me out.

I've got a 128gb SSD for the OS and a 500gb HDD for storage in this thing, with 16gb of ram. But getting anything close to this starts getting astronomically expensive and you basically have to max stuff out at purchase time now because every single thing is permanently soldered in, right? Can you replace stuff in the standard, non-retina Macbook Pro? I don't want to pay an extra $600 for a 1TB SSD from apple if I can wait a year and buy one for $200 elsewhere.

i'm in the same boat. it almost makes me want to get a PC so i can do basic modifications by myself.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/08/dell_dude.jpg

lol