New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Hoping for new iMacs today; I've got that new 27" smell in my nose, retina display or no.

Figured after some hesitation I will go for the 5 if only because while I love my 3Gs it's probably about time. However I want to see what prices are before definitely deciding.

3gs only worth sticking with if your time is worth nothing or you use no apps made post-2010

My wife got a 3GS a month ago and loves it. She was hardcore Blackberry til then. She only uses it for calls, email, maps and the web so it's basically perfect for her.

And I have to say it feels much nicer in the hand than the current crop of 90-degree angle iPhones.

I've been using my dad's 1G iphone for the last nine months (w/o a data plan, lol @ my dad) & I'm gonna be sad to lose its curved form factor for the blockier form that seems likely to emerge today.

BLOCKY 4 LYFE

CURVY PHONES CAN SUCK IT

C'mon even Lego people have curved hands.

gis for "i like curves" not advisable at work

we are men
we are not Lego

The nice thing about 3Gs is that it'll run iOS6, and while it can be a bit slow it's been doing nicely for me all this time. Including with new apps, so. Also agreed on design vs. blockiness.

I bet you all pine for the old iBooks that looked like dayglo waffle irons, too

http://niche-macworld-production.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/3ibooks-538x269.jpg

here's hoping the battery life improvements in iOS6 to support LTE will trickle down to the pre-5 phones

maybe the new iPhone and any future iPad revision will use batteries that don't double as bread warmers

who am I kidding, how will I warm my bread?

those ibooks are dope, could use them thinner though

TiBook still the most dope laptop, if they could stop that paint peeling

retina mbp seems pretty dope imo

you could carve a turkey with an MBA

have we linked the the nut who filed down the edge on his aluminum MBP so that it wouldn't be as sharp and it just looked like total shit?

Saw the turquoise iBook in a stats class yesterday.

what's a turquoise ibook?

oh shit a g3?!?

sorry, i am on iphone and did not see pics

i'm in love with my retina macbook pro, if only it had an optical drive

j/k

excited that i CAN add a 400 gb second SSD if i want now, thanks OWC

after 5 minutes of shock I'm amazed that I don't actually miss the optical drive at all, esp. since I can install disk-based things over home wifi

if your computer is shocking you for 5 minutes you should probably take it back or ground yourself

I did stop licking the USB ports

wait can you connect the superdrive to airport extreme?

somebody who said upthread the superdrive is designed to make you hate optical media and they're right

the cord is so short you end up with the thing basically stuck to the side of your RMBP like this huge ugly tumor, it's like they're trying to make a point here about how unwieldy it is. i have no idea why they didn't make the cord long enough to be able to put the superdrive in a corner of your desk and then pull out the cord when you need it.

i just upgraded to 8gb iphone 4 after throwing my 3gs and breaking it and it seems plenty for my needs, esp as far as speed goes, there's no lag on anything (granted i don't do gaming on my phone, except for alphabetical which seems to run faster and so is a little tougher to play)

i'm not sure what 4s stands for but it seems to be 4 siri afaict

wait can you connect the superdrive to airport extreme?

No idea. I can, however, access my iMac's optical drive as an external device over wifi.

speedy, just like 3gs was 3g + speedy

http://www.cartype.com/pics/362/small/speedy_gonzales.jpg

the cord is so short you end up with the thing basically stuck to the side of your RMBP like this huge ugly tumor, it's like they're trying to make a point here about how unwieldy it is. i have no idea why they didn't make the cord long enough to be able to put the superdrive in a corner of your desk and then pull out the cord when you need it.

idk seems like a superdrive needs more power than usual and maybe there wouldn't be enough juice w/ a long cord

they need a dock connector to keep all the juice in

idk seems like a superdrive needs more power than usual and maybe there wouldn't be enough juice w/ a long cord

you're joking?

idk how physics works

I do remember reading that the superdrive only works w/ the mbair's usb port because it was specially designed to provide more juice or something

looks like apple tricked us!! http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111107064435227

the on-paper physics works like this: for a certain voltage, the current is inversely proportional to the resistance, and the resistance is directly proportional to the length of the wire. but have you ever connected an appliance to an extension cord and had it not work because of not enough current?!

can't you just use a different cord?

I've had external hard drives that wouldn't work with a long USB cord but would work w/ a short one xp

like with a long one you could just hear the head go click click click click, the lights would be on and everything but it couldn't spin up

hm! i had no idea. i guess USB stuff must be underpowered.

if a cord has a wider cross-section the resistance drops, but you know apple's not going to make anything thicker at this point

i am getting to the very limits of my understanding of this stuff, i only know this stuff in physics context and not engineering context, maybe stet or someone can jump in here

I think that is more a function of something other than the cord length.

whatever man leave it to the scientists

hey exciting news from apple today, they have a store in barcelona

that's pronounced barthelona btw

it's somewhere in spain I think, this tim cook really knows his geography, obv he was the right man for the jobs er job

many xposts to lg - yep. Touted by a Moldovan senior citizen

eugh