New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

the new 15" and 17" ones have amd/ati chips

Lion beta is out. Has new Mail.

they're listed on the right, under 'class 2' xp

intel graphics, hmph

Thunderbolt sounds good, even if I have SCSI daisy chain horror flashbacks.

Battery life is way down on the new MBPs, isn't it? 7 hours even on the 17 inch?

"Apple is using a new, more rigorous battery test that measures the results you can expect in the real world", apparently.

wonder if there's any market for a 'desktop' version of the macbook pro - remove the battery, fill with a bigger graphix card/more cooling etc.

smaller and more portable than an iMac

Wow, the entire MacBook Pro line is up to one hundred times as fast as the previous generation.*

* Actual speed increase 10%.

new mail looks bollocks

holy shit, Lion is going to be great:

"Auto Save, which automatically saves your documents as you work"

crazy

£2100 for the 17"!

Seems to have OS X Server built in. That'll be sweet.

"Auto Save, which automatically saves your documents as you work"

i suspect this is actually a marketing way of describing pretty fundamental changes that makes it sound like much less of a deal than it really is

prolly but it still sounds hilarious

Like the sound of versions, too.

auto-save is probably gonna be like instant time machine right

i assume itll be like google docs

Man, I thought my MBP from last year was pretty friggin awesome but these are next-level

wonder if Versions will have a k00l diff view for programming

if this is implemented at the file system level, which that guy who reviews each major revision for ars technica has been going on about since ~10.3, then it's a massive change.

need to go 15" to get grafix right?

yes you need to spend at least £1500 to get a mediocre card rising to £1850 for a slightly less mediocre card

apple really need to sort this shit out :(

could the 15" handle bejewelled on facebook tho

lots of page outs probably

Finally, after all this time of documents not saving themselves, Apple comes to the rescue in 2011 with Auto Save. Where would we be without Steve Jobs?

if they can make it so that the concept of saving becomes obsolete then that will be a huge and long overdue achievement

I'm happy about that but a little confused. I like how it works when I use google docs, but I never use google docs for important work. With real work, I'm constantly saving out different versions and "revert to saved" is pretty essential. I guess if it's autosaving you just have to look at the clock and "revert to 3:30 version" or something. I also worry about storage. Files that are several hundred megs, several gigs, can we handle multiple versions of everything?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

Scroll down to 'Versions'

hmm, Mail 5 better give me my folders as a sidebar or there's going to be trouble.

So Airdrop isn't exactly the Dropbox killer everyone's been waiting for?

Generally, Apple is a pretty smart company. This is just halo-effect smartness...they're even changing the scrolling to match iPhone/iPad. People like my mother and step-father, longtime PC users. Buy an iPad because it's a consumer device. They love it. Then they wonder, are the computers like this? And now they will be.

Yeah. It's always been pretty clear that Apple would pull its iOS features across to the Macs in some form (be daft not to, frankly). iOS is in no conceivable way perfect but it's very easy to learn and use without manuals etc.

Oh and the first release of Lion will be hilariously buggy. Can't wait for the fallout.

We have told you there's an apple hate thread, right?

ahahahaha. I'm probably not expressing how pleased I am that OS X is adopting some sensible UI conventions and (hopefully) gutting out that god-awful finder.

dan I'd be way happier with the concept of snapshots. even if it amounts to the same thing as saving. the prospect that you could lose 2hrs of work because you got a power cut or forgot a magic keystroke should just. not. ever. happen. but yeah I want to know more details.

(aa here) yeah I've got to say that after looking into how autosave and versions actually work I'm quite impressed. It makes perfect sense to take the whole time machine design principle and apply it to everything that requires saving.

(of course the worst thing about it is that Microsoft won't support it until Office 2017)

somehow I think this autosave function is gonna lead to a lot of corrupted files

idk

also I can foresee 50 years now, authors will release 'track changes' version of their epic books, so you can see the progress starting from the genesis

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors

yr resolution independence is in there ^ stet btw

yah I saw that, pretty dope

I was watching one of my students play smurfs farmville or w/e on her iphone4 and it was amazing how detailed the 1mm high smurf was

somehow I think this autosave function is gonna lead to a lot of corrupted files

Especially when working off a server. Or will this just not work when working off a server?

I'd hope the auto save thingo would be designed well enough (at file system level) that one corrupted file doesn't kill every revision.

Where do you all stand on the new backwards scrolling mechanic? I think it's brilliant.

so I had to restore my iPhone and iPad and redownload a bunch of apps, and it charged me again for a bunch of them. it ended up being like $100+ since I redownloaded both 1password and Logmein to both devices plus a bunch of other apps, so I'm obviously going to have to contest the charges with Apple. has anyone ever had to deal with this?

Depending on the pricing, thunderbolt portable HDs could be a huge fucking deal for me. I was on a shoot the other day that had hours of downtime because we were using a USB HD.

At least use FW, man!

I know, right? No one had the right cables (I was not in charge here), and the eSata drive wouldn't work for whatever reason.

I had the same thing happen with apps on my phone last year when I had to do a restore, but since I only paid for 2 apps it wasn't much money, and I didn't bother contesting it. But yeah, it can happen