New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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

no the SSD drive in new macbooks is not a drive in the standard sense (i.e. it's not a standard form factor). it's chips soldered on the motherboard.

kind of impressed they just bypassed serial ATA completely and it's straight PCI express bus

I got the last of the 15" non-retinas, and was able to drop a TB SSD into it for a couple hundred bucks.

Basically I'm mad because I can't get a Macbook Air with a 1TB SSD, 16GB of ram, and a retina display for $1000

a faster processor/graphics card wouldn't hurt, either

Picked up one of those bluetooth Logitech keyboards for my iPad mini and it's... a shockingly respectable ultra-portable? Was getting worked up about the weight of the 15" MBP that's been home base, but this setup just might do it.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/8/24/1314226759625/Steve-Jobs-007.jpg

Spent about 30 mins with a few of the watches today. MI REVIEW:

* It's really light and tiny. The small one is way too small (and I don't have big wrists). Compared to my G-Shock it's much smaller and feels much lighter. They could have had a bigger-batteried and heavier one without worrying, I think
* It's a bit uncomfortable: to feel the taptic engine or for it to pick it your heartrate it needs to be tightly strapped to you, but that feels awkward to me; I wear my watches quite loose.
* It's pretty slow and laggy at quite a lot of things. Anything that talks to the phone brings up a spinner
* It's quite hard to tap the right things on the screen
* It really doesn't know what it wants to be - they've flung all the possible uses they can think of at it, and it really does feel a bit unfocused as a result. * There's also six different interaction models, and none feels quite right.
* Siri seems *way* better than it is on the phone, dictation worked pretty well.
* The rubber strap is pretty cheap feeling
* The Milanese loop is nice but thinner and lighter than you expect
* The leather loop is lovely
* Having used it, I'm not at left with the "NEED IT NOW" sense you get with the other big hits. I could wait a while for this, poss even v2. The idea of getting one of the very expensive ones seems risible.

Anything that talks to the phone brings up a spinner

omg spinning beachball on my phone. that's what my life has been lacking.

i mean my watch lol

I would buy an Apple Watch if you could set it to just permanently display the spinning beachball

just keep talking to it

Flyosity thinking much the same as me about the WATCH https://medium.com/@flyosity/inconvenient-truths-about-the-apple-watch-11bafa44551b

oh god, that final pic of the screen.

yeah jeez - we're done here

I know it's SOP for apple stuff but I always lol that these pieces start out with the writer establishing their cred like "I have have owned over 50 iPhones. I own a pair of New Balances that Steve Jobs wore that I got off of eBay"

I’ve been using a Mac since 1996.

gtfo noob

Who would want a leather strap

Can you get the beach ball to spin exactly once per minute? Make it functional while it's not working right.