New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

yeah, I feel like it was a calculated minor loss but with their stakes are higher and not tied to a second tier pc platform. You get the casuals,on consoles and hardcore gamers on pc rigs

Man etaeoe, I got excited just reading that post. But I was totally behind Be, NeXT and even had an SGI Indy, and we know how those stories turned out. Probably best you canned it.

The Federal Aviation Administration has capped the maximum allowable size of laptop batteries on flights to 100 watt-hours.

In the EU I checked and that limit is for external batteries. Batteries attached to devices can be 160 watt-hours. I'd be surprised if the two weren't in sync here

lol wait what etaeoe, that's you?

ya i’m the “friend”

nope xp

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_info/?hazmat=7

Size limits: Lithium metal (non-rechargeable) batteries are limited to 2 grams of lithium per battery. Lithium ion (rechargeable) batteries are limited to a rating of 100 watt hours (Wh) per battery. These limits allow for nearly all types of lithium batteries used by the average person in their electronic devices. With airline approval, passengers may also carry up to two spare larger lithium ion batteries (101-160 watt hours). This size covers the larger after-market extended-life laptop computer batteries and some larger batteries used in professional audio/visual equipment.

responding to my own post:

I just spec'd out a hackintosh:

Quad Core i7
32 Gigs of Ram
500 Gig SSD
Water Cooled
Good Grapchics Card
Compact Case

1219$

I just looked at the current Mac Mini again, and for 1599$ I'd get:

Dual Core i7
16 GB Ram
512 GB Flash
Intel Iris

so less cores, half the ram (but still respectable) and lesser graphics card for a few hundred more, but without the hassle of hackintosh.And that computer wouldn't be so terrible.

mac mini RAM is pretty easy to upgrade IIRC. and once you're in there you can install a SSD pretty easily too iirc.

Unfortunately that is no longer the case with the latest (>2014) Mini's

Thinking of a Mac Mini myself, would need a monitor though so maybe an iMac is the way to go

oh wow they went soldered RAM on the latest one? lame

looks like the SSD is still replaceable

I have monitors and may need better than iMac monitor so that's one of the main reasons I'm looking at the mini.

Intel Iris sucks if you do anything that could benefit from using your graphics processor (e.g. most stuff in 2016).

if we'd just stop coming up with all these uses for graphics other than just throwing an image on the screen they'd catch up one of these years

The iMac 5k monitor is P3 isn't it? That's probably the best monitor I'm going to need, so am pretty tempted by that.

yeah, graphics card is one thing that bugs me. I just want that mac mini pro.

The Mac Pro is a flop and too expensive for your average print people. Our in-house retoucher has the trashcan mac pro with an Eizo monitor. Photo pros, retouchers, printing professionals do not want glossy iMac screens. They want Eizo Color Edge or NEC PA monitors.

I already have two decent monitors, I don't want to buy an iMac.

Check out this company that sells 2010-2012 Mac Pro towers.

http://create.pro/

yeah it's P3 now - unfortunately i have the first gen 5K iMac. none of my apple devices are P3 though - gonna get an iphone 7 through work so curious to see the difference xp.

I alluded to it above but the way I ended up with a Mac Pro circa 2010ish (maybe earlier?) was a design/marketing company getting rid of all their current Mac Pro machines that designers were using, and they were going straight to iMacs.

I have one friend who quit a photo toning/retouching job at G4nnett four or five years ago and I could have sworn they were heading in that direction but I'm not sure. Just texted her to ask.

trying to track down someone who works at M3redith publishing too, I guess they're the in-town group that'd be the most stringent about print quality

benefits of working in a boring-ass paper publication city

been away for a couple of weeks

this is a useful summary http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/

also heh https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the_new_macbook_pro/

iMac/thunderbolt displays are GOOD monitors, as are Dell Ultrasharp and other IPS screens, and good enough for most work, but when you get to the highest level of color critical stuff, it's a problem.

Somehow the nicer IPS Dell displays were ordered for a while at work a few years ago and I managed to watch a few contractor offices like a vulture and did some strategic monitor swapping and I have dual 24" Ultrasharps ^_^

really wish they were retina pixel density, though

I may have *cough* played hooky from work *cough* yesterday afternoon for a while and was at the mall with the Apple store near here. They recently remodeled/expanded from a store that was way too small to a new one that is three storefronts wide. It's insane. There were at least three people in there asking about the new laptops, which aren't going to appear in stores for weeks.

I've been in some pretty big Apple stores and the triple-wide one still seemed a little ridiculous. Very pleasing to be able to move around without tripping over people.

I also checked out that huge Microsoft Surface desktop thing at their mall kiosk. 28" for a monitor seems reeeeally big when you're pivoting it to be close enough to touch. I would not be too sad if someone dropped one on my work desk.

btw guys I have sold out completely and own Powerbeats 3, betraying all of my internet audiophile forum nerdo credibility

The cloudy syncy bit didn't seem to work on my laptop but I think it's due to having iCloud turned off. But on iOS, the pairing was very good and they instantly showed up as an audio option on my iPad -- if you have iCloud sync turned on, they instantly get added to all your devices when they're on and in range. Was listening to music on my phone, picked up my iPad and told it to play music from that device and it instantly switched. Walked to my car listening to music off my phone, started the car and as soon as bluetooth paired, the music continued on my car stereo

o_O

btw i got a 7

i like it a lot

welcome

I have two Dell monitors, a 24" Dell Ultrasharp and a shittier 19" that i use as a secondary monitor and don't do photoshop/lightroom work in. I would like to upgrade to this:

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/desktop-monitors/pa272w-bk

My 2010 MacBook Pro has the anti-glare screen.

I'd probably do horrible things to replace my work monitors with one of those bigass LG deals that Apple is selling, not that I have any computers capable of driving it

I don't think this sucker has a glossy screen! Their own hardware might be taking a mediocre direction on professional image applications for the minute, but this thing looks very good
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-display

I'm sure it's beautiful but I'd go with the NEC or Eizo. They're built for it and include software to help the calibration process. The better Eizo monitos actually self-calibrate with a little meter that pops out of the bottome of the screen automatically.

I do think the Dell ultrasharps are actually LG panels anyway. I have a third monitor that's an LG, they make the eIPS panels that make IPS affordable and are why those Dell Ultrasharps are 300 bucks instead of 700 bucks. I'm sure this is a great monitor, esp for video, but with print I'd stick with the above.

price drops on all the dongles + the new LG displays - I guess apple is 'listening'? lol

That LG monitor looks pretty tasty after the price cut

Agreed. I think I want of those more than the new MBP. Gawd I'm getting such a "maybe you should wait until the second generation of these" sense here.

the inevitable price drop, the new cpus, the 32gb ram ceiling &c.

So what's the ideal point now, price-/general availability-wise, to buy the former MBP, ideally new and not refurbished? Do they get rotated out soon? I fear this question may be terribly obvious, but didn't follow the policy in recent years.

There's nothing that can drive the LG apart from the new MBP, is that right?

seems to be the case

you knew it was coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSC_UG5_kU&feature=youtu.be

still kind of dying at the startup sponsor dude earlier who was like "I ordered all my dongles" and he has all these dupes like he's never heard of a usb hub, then later tweets "btw my tech person told me I should have ordered this, apparently usb hubs exist"

idk if this will work forever since it's contingent on hooking to how Xcode can invoke the touchbar, but I was playing with this:
https://github.com/zats/TouchBarLauncher

touch bar is fine. sliding volume is nice, so far nothing else matters. i miss tactile feedback but not too much, the fact that it's at the top of the keyboard so accuracy is less important helps. i'm working on something where it would be sorta useful, showing context-sensitive shortcuts depending on what modifier keys you're holding down.

force touch, though. i spent a frustrating five minutes this morning just trying to drag things. i think i eventually figured out the right amount of pressure, but file management shouldn't require fine motor control.

i agree! i was having the exact same problem with force touch. so frustrating. and when i type i keep accidentally hitting the touch bar by accident. this must've happened with the function keys on the last MBP but with less force, so i never noticed. but you don't have to hit the touch bar with any real force to have it register your touch. and the arrow keys are annoyingly placed too.

not too happy with this

whoops that got garbled, i meant that i was hitting the function keys with the same amount of force but not enough force to get them to register a keystroke

oo! update: disabled "force touch and haptic feedback" under trackpad settings which helped a lot.

yeah new arrow keys, why

my 5s broke*, so i am getting a 64gb SE. i'm kind of excited about it. having that extra space will be nice. somehow it's cheaper too w/ my verizon plan, i don't really know why.

*i dropped in the toilet about a month ago, it still partially worked but the touchscreen functionality suffered a lot and would fail all the time, i kind of learned how to dictate texts to siri most of the time but eventually that stopped being reliable and became such a pain in the ass to even send a text message that in a fit of rage i threw the phone and the screen shattered. it was embarrassing but i should've gotten a new phone right after the water damage anyway.

my 6s is eligible under https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/. last time they did a minor repair on my phone they screwed up somehow and gave me a brand new one, which is fine with me.

Oh wow, I didn't realize that existed - my 6S has been randomly shutting down now at like 15 - 30% battery life and I just assumed it was shitty planned obsolescence in a phone over a year old. This is kind of amazing.

Wow, the support website is real I HATE APPLE territory. More "sorry try again later" and "an error has occurred" than MobileMe.