New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Curious to see if there will even be a Mac Pro configuration with an old-fashioned spinning HD.

there's nowhere to put it right? it's all pcie flash memory?

I guess I'm just part of a small minority of users who need a ton of storage, but work from home and don't want a bunch of flaky external drives sitting around. and also I'm not tech savvy enough (plus too cheap and lazy) to get some kind of external raid thing going. so the fact that the mac pro had 4 empty drive slots that you can fill up with terabytes for a couple hundred bucks was really nice.

Curious to see if there will even be a Mac Pro configuration with an old-fashioned spinning HD.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, June 10, 2013 4:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, duh

wk if you wfh and your work takes up multiple TBs of storage I'd hope you have a bunch of external drives anyway for your incremental and nightly backups, not to mention your off-site backups.

You still get that problem with internal disks, milo. My boot is an SSD, and my pictures are on the other internal HDs, and you still have to wait for them to spin up (tho you can disable that in prefs, I think)

IOS 7: overall feeling I get here is of Forstall going "harder than it looks, isn't it?" Going back to 6 is a relief.

wk if you wfh and your work takes up multiple TBs of storage I'd hope you have a bunch of external drives anyway for your incremental and nightly backups, not to mention your off-site backups.

I just use an online backup service. had too many bad experiences with external drives dying.

spin up of external drives totally a software/firmware issue.

anyway yeah clearly Apple's answer to the expandability needs of Mac Pro customers is "use thunderbolt"; this is built in to their marketing messaging: "The most expandable mac ever" and it's not about drive bays.

You can swap out ram yrself though and avoid the most egregious Apple tax.

I'm still using a 2008 Mac Pro, dual Quad Core. I've got FIVE hard drives in it, 10 gigs or ram and it's still a pretty good computer. Sometimes gets funky probably more on the software side, and not the zippiest thing around, but I got a fair amount of life out of it.

Raids and NAS are getting more common and easier to use. Drobos and whatnot. This thing will do well. With video people and recording studios especially. Though those PCIe enclosure companies will benefit.

IOS 7: overall feeling I get here is of Forstall going "harder than it looks, isn't it?" Going back to 6 is a relief.

otm. this page sits somewhere between a turgid manifesto and a conga line of excuses: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/design/

from apple's point of view I guess it makes sense. I'm sure there are a lot of mac pro users who basically paid for those extra drive slots to just sit there empty taking up space. might as well shave a few bucks off the cost, make the box smaller, and let the third party peripheral companies deal with that.

I'm still using a 2008 Mac Pro, dual Quad Core. I've got FIVE hard drives in it, 10 gigs or ram and it's still a pretty good computer. Sometimes gets funky probably more on the software side, and not the zippiest thing around, but I got a fair amount of life out of it.

yeah, that's exactly my situation too. I wish I could just have this exact thing but a little faster!

Me too. This thing, but faster, and a bit smaller (don't need the card space, would like internal drives). I wonder if there's going to be any way to hook a Retina screen off this thing (even a little one!) though I suspect not.

hook it meaning mounting it directly onto the computer's chassis?

oh you mean the current Mac Pro.

they mentioned that the new Mac Pro will drive 4k screens, but Apple don't sell 4k screens, wonder if we can expect those at the time they launch the Pro.

apple released a new massive mavericks wallpaper for such screens iirc

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/10/apple-posts-27-retina-imac-sized-os-x-mavericks-background/

Drool

i will miss the cats, i must say

also 'mavericks' is a dumb name for anyone who doesn't know about american surfing beaches

locals only n00b

it sounds dumb that it is plural

Mac OS X Lions, iOS Sevens.

"windows"

it's possessive not plural.

anyway it's actually intended as possessive

what he said

didn't you hear, apple is phasing out apostrophes. don't need em anymore

reminder's

mavericks is an okay effort but how are they going to continue the theme? trestles? swamis? blacks?

those are all ca surfing beaches

next one is gonna be Mac OS X Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

cowells in santa cruz and that's it for possessives

OSX Icemen, OSX Geese.

next one is gonna be Mac OS X Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Monday, June 10, 2013 10:13 PM

i can confirm that this is true

speaking of "next": http://next.com

http://next.com/ipad/

http://next.com/itunes/

who'da guessed, markers is Tim Cook!

xps

http://elpoderdelosnumeros.gamol.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/iphone-5-tim-cook-.jpg

ios 7.0 jelly bean

The new features and textures in iOS7 are all nice, but will Apple ever get around to doing something about these two annoying throwbacks:

1: The keyboard. There's only three rows of keys. That made sense on the original iPhone with its 3-1/2" screen, leaving over half the screen available for context. But it's much less necessary to lack a dedicated numbers or symbols row with the iPhone 5's taller 4" screen, and it makes no sense at all on the roomy iPad. Apple, can we please have an option for four- or five-row keyboards? Having to frequently toggle to a second keyboard for numbers, and a third keyboard for symbols, is getting old fast.

2. iOS has a privacy problem. Some of us work in environments where we don't want anyone who can access my phone to be able to read all of my recent emails, which the Apple mail client allows. An option to enter a password before using the mail app is essential for business use. Likewise, notifications arrive with the name, contact info, and first line of incoming messages, which I don't always want anyone seeing. And the contacts list should allow for protected names and numbers too.

The only privacy option of note is the optional 4-digit access code for using anything on the phone, but most of the iPhone/iPad features I don't want password protection on (and 4 digits is insufficient security for those that do need encryption) - I'm fine with anyone using the camera, listening to music, watching videos, getting news, stocks, and scores, playing games. I just want my work email, some notifications, and some personal documents protected from prying eyes.

why is anyone you don't trust using your phone??

Likewise, notifications arrive with the name, contact info, and first line of incoming messages, which I don't always want anyone seeing.

settings > notifications >messages > show preview (slide to off)

That turns off the preview line of text. Very important for me as a DVR'ing sports fan who has friends that text during games that I havent watched yet.

thx, I had that set to on.

s1ocki, like nearly everyone else, I sometimes have my phone on the table or a charging stand when others are nearby, and may not want saucy texts from my friends appearing unexpectedly when in a business setting (but do the rest of the time).

obv a full user model would be ott, but i do think there is a case for a kind of phone equivalent of OS X guest mode, i.e. activate it, hand your friend your phone, and they get basically a new iphone, all other data is invisible and all the data they create is wiped when they hand it back.

this may be too intricate for the ultrasimple iphone UI though. could imagine it being easy from a UI POV with fingerprint technology tho.

slocki, the problem is not with ppl using your phone, which is perhaps an edge case like sharing underwear, but with people sharing ipads.