New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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.

ha or just bring back the hourglass.

I bet this guy doesn't even know what ClarisWorks was.

I’m a larger guy (6' and built like a linebacker who retired and got a little fat)

striking imagery

i'm vincent d'onofrio in daredevil btw

Peripherally related but hilarious: http://gawker.com/adult-website-editor-throws-twitter-tantrum-over-his-br-1697459743

http://gawker.com/adult-website-editor-throws-twitter-tantrum-over-his-br-1697459743

This is amazing and in my mind entirely justifies the hundreds of millions of dollars Apple has spent on this watch so afr

I don't wear jewelry. i wear spiky bracelets.

he is now whining about sam biddle being mean on twitter

did it ever occur to anyone that he plans to fashion these tweets into a new bracelet that he can wear as a studied reminder that he does not want to ever be a publicly whining baby on twitter again?

That's not very Punk Rock.

Actually it kinda is.

lmao how can u get to be the editor of one of the biggest tech sites and not know how to avoid repeatedly owning yrself super hard on twitter

the medium is the pwnage

http://i.imgur.com/5RQJUjT.jpg

This avi is so good

lonely guy just thinking baout spikes

It's a classic tech nerd "this probably makes me look really, really cool" pic

"looking like GWAR's webmaster" - irl lols

http://i.imgur.com/FpKxu6T.png

this guy!

those days where you should just say "well, you got me there" instead of continuing to get got

His name is an anagram for "Tiny Paella."

yeah its easy to forget their are other parallel parts of the internet where ppl dont have training in not getting owned by wisenheimers

Nilay Patel is an American technology journalist and former copyright lawyer. After serving as managing editor of Engadget, he left in 2011 and went on to become managing editor of The Verge.[1] In 2014 he left The Verge to join sister site Vox, but later returned to become the new editor-in-chief of The Verge, replacing Joshua Topolsky. [2]

copyright lawyer > corporate blog management is not the typical internet person trial by fire

yeah but c'mon he left Engadget in 2011, meaning he'd already been in tech blogs by then. four years ago!

idk man he was in a zone where noone wld think to make fun of his bracelet

I like that after 15 years of wearing the spiky bracelet, he doesn't have a better term for it other than spiky bracelet

he prob really bought it like two weeks ago