New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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Spotify killing this, obv

― stet, Monday, June 10, 2013 2:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Any word yet on which features will make it to the iPhone 4?

the pro looks like a terrorist bomb from a missing season of 24

needs a chunky LED red countdown clock inside

apple stock basically flat (down less than 1%)

the pro is cool looking and I bet it will be a surprise hit. decline of the desktop is overstated.

Also there's 2-odd years of pent-up demand for this thing

if i had the throwaway income i'd definitely grab one

I mean it's probably more for recording engineers, filmmakers, animators, etc., but it seems like a badass machine.

how do you upgrade the ram in that mac pro?

the cover slides up and you put it in the central atrium

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

officially feeling this

new Mac Pro looks like those canisters of bioweapons from Prometheus #makesuthink

do wonder what the expansion options are going to be though

it's tiny!

Just thunderbolt. Apparently there's thunderbolt PCIe enclosures, so that covers that.

Any word yet on which features will make it to the iPhone 4?

http://gizmodo.com/all-the-new-ios-features-your-old-iphone-wont-get-512359950

looks like airdrop, mainly, as well as the siri/camera stuff that doesn't work already

sort of rmde at Apple making the Mac Pro a design statement. JFC, just give me a simple box desktop that I can add cheap, fast storage to and run OS X.

Not regretting a switch to Android via HTC One vs. iPhone 4s I had.

agreeing with the people on twitter who are eh about the icons

xp you don't want something quieter or cooler?

i can see the argument that it's not worth the marginal cost or whatever

that's a misuse of the term, i know

yeah the wieldiness of this thing vs. the complete unwieldiness of box pcs is hugely appealing to me

https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/344187253955907584

it's tiny!
--the late great

BLACK MINILITH

i think i meant marginal return

i would be interested to hear what some engineers think of cooling from the centre vs cooling down a flat plane

I'd like something quieter and cooler, sure. But I'll settle for noisy and boring if I can have an affordable desktop with 8TB of perfectly fast storage for ~$320 and a desktop GPU to aid Lightroom/PS.

so so tiny, yes. i expect i could actually lift one without doing my back in.

how much do you think this thing will cost?

2k maybe. who knows

not "~$320"

to clarify, storage for $320 - 4 x 2GB WD Green drives @ $80 apiece.
vs. USB 3 enclosures and all those hassles or paying for Thunderbolt

yeah price of thunderbolt is kinda nuts.

but i have all of my photos, films and music on external storage so i am willing to pay, even though that means i'm stuck with 2tb for now

just out of curiosity what do you think is a comparable affordable PC milo?

Absolutely comparable or good enough?

A good desktop doesn't have to be 12+ cores or anything like that. There are a ton of Core i7 desktops that slot in between iMac/Mac Mini-quality and this Mac Pro, for $900-1200.

It's been the complaint about Apple forever, of course, but the way they've gone with the Mac Pro and the 27" iMac and the laptop line just highlights their complete disdain for that desktop market.
More of a problem now because so many of the laptops they sell cap out at 256GB of HD space and you've got to pay mad dollars for more.

It's been the complaint about Apple forever, of course

^^

all I want is to be able to open playlists in their own windows in iTunes again. That's all.

It's not free, but this might help: http://dougscripts.com/apps/playlistassistapp.php

iWork on iCloud is actually pretty nice. That guy's presentation really didn't go down as well as it should've, probably because everyone was wondering wth they were doing this if we aren't going to get the APIs ourselves

"That guy's presentation really didn't go down as well as it should've"

he kept having to remind people 'this is in a browser, COME ON'

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looooooooool

so funny

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w309/huggie74/CokeCanRadio.jpg

there's no significant market (relative to the other businesses apple is in) for the mid-level desktop you're describing, milo. of course there's even less demand for the mac pro but obviously that's not why they make it.

markers' $2k guess feels optimistic to me

they start at 2.5 now

there's no significant market (relative to the other businesses apple is in) for the mid-level desktop you're describing, milo. of course there's even less demand for the mac pro but obviously that's not why they make it.

― caek, Monday, June 10, 2013 6:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, I would assume it's partly about flagship product coveted by People Who Matter in Creative Industries, which in turn is supposed to create some kind of brand-wide cascade effect.

yeah they're not a mac pro in the post-pc era to make money. they're doing it for prestige, to attract/retain pros who the consumer market follows, and perhaps most importantly, to drive uptake of thunderbolt, which is not an intrinsically expensive technology, just one suffering from poor economies of scale.

"not doing a mac pro", that should be