New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

my ipad is so much faster and it's a first gen mini

I am guessing you're running Mavericks, right? That would alleviate memory congestion but you're going to see some pauses when it's retiring things in the background as you do more in the foreground.

How many gee bees are in it now?

def mavericks since the day it was out.

and i got 4.

which is whatever it came with. the second question would be whether to go with apple ram or 3rd party shit, right? i don't know much about the hardware specifics and have never finished an anandtech review.

yeah, 4gb is sufficient but far from optimal

buy third-party memory

sounds good. thank you. that's what i've spoken to my father about. i'll have to bring it up again.

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=iMac%20(21.5-inch%2C%20Late%202011)&Cat=RAM

Argh, sorry. Just go to there and select Apple -> iMac -> 27" late 2011 and it'll give you a fancy list

oh shit i've never bought anything off this. thank you though. *looks*

You can easily buy from other sites, too. They're just nice for exchanges/etc since it's the actual memory company.

ok i'm not sure where we went to last time but i bookmarked them. thanks!

lol remember when u cld add memory to yr mac if u wanted too

use crucial to figure out the specs. use newegg to buy "generic laptop" memory with the same specs for half the price

eh, I'd spend a couple extra bucks for a name brand of some sort, although I don't think newegg carries that many actual generics these days

i don't mean literally generic, i mean like g-skill, but even kingston and other bands will often be cheaper than buying direct from crucial. or even buying crucial memory from third parties!

sure

this is not too complicated, but it's not uncomplicated. thanks again guys.

Have you got SSD in there? That makes a really dramatic difference

nope. this was pre-fusion drive too.

Ho do you install an SSD on a MacBook? Will I have to sacrifice my optical drive?

u cld just replace the regular drive or u can replace the optical then u have 2

luckily all of the new ones have one, minus the 13th inch old pro, which is going away soon

if i had a lot of money, which i don't, i'd go to wwdc

they should start coming to macworld again and bring back macworld boston

basically i wish it were 1997

i recall that shit

Sudden flashbacks to when my job sent me around the trade show circuit: both Macworlds, Comdex, etc.

did you see any jobs keynotes? what were they like?

I'd already left that job by '94, but I did get to see a few Stevenotes around the critical 97-2001 era. My fave was WWDC 2000 - the intro of OS X dp4 with the new UI a few months after he became iCEO. When the reality distortion field was running at full power it was unstoppable. Even during moments of pure bulldada when he was trying to fob off the Motorola Rokr on us. We knew he was bullshitting us, but you just went along with it. The charisma was never Joe Cool Bill Clinton, but more like a Charlie Manson - you just believed.

The funeral for OS 9 was great.

"One more thing..." introduction of the G5 is also great. Introduction of the first iPhone is a master class in something...

oh god, the motorola rokr collaboration

I guess people wanted to listen to music on their phones, so this one syncs with iTunes, and it's... really... great

ah i wish i had been at any of those events, elvis.

"i'm sick of working with these stupid companies like motorola" - steve jobs (that quote should be close at least -- it's off the top of my head)

http://everystevejobsvideo.com has pretty much everything.

LOL at "premature specification" during G5 introduction... "I am here to tell you today that it was a mistake, and it's true"

i'm subscribed to that in feedbin iirc!

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6042224/underwhelming-start-to-itunes-radio-lights-fire-under

I don't know why Apple would even consider doing anything subscription-based around music. Apple has failed at every subscription-based service going back to, uh, .Mac. I think they have to understand that, deep down, consumers feel like they're already paying Apple a ton of money and it's really hard to justify a subscription to anything Apple-related.

Aside from pockets of vinyl diehards, music is pretty much finished as a consumer commodity. The only solution would be to make all music in iTunes store free and on-demand, then generate revenue through ads, but YouTube pretty much got that already.

I think they have to understand that, deep down, consumers feel like they're already paying Apple a ton of money and it's really hard to justify a subscription to anything Apple-related.

I'm not sure this is a thing. People give money Apple for other things (eg downloads) if they're done well. The problem with Apple's web services is just that they haven't been done well. The world is shifting from downloads to streaming but it doesn't have to be free streaming (20% of Spotify users pay for premium service). I'm not especially optimistic Apple will get it right this time, but I don't think it's because people don't like giving Apple money. I agree that paid music is less of a thing than video these days but I don't think it's dead.

otm apple cloud stuff's almost always half baked

happy enough with itunes match though

icloud has been sufficiently useful for me.

icloud as a backup/restore strategy works well for me, and the photo accessibility similarly so

icloud as storage for application data is, as one ilxor put it, booty

im still annoyed that i get bugged about my icloud storage being almost full every time i plu gin my ipad

delete some old backups, man

why should i have to

it should really delete those for you :/

would like icloud to offer full iPhoto backup storage

yeah. for now dropbox does some interesting things.

they have that new carousel thing which i'd be a little hesitant to use until i was sure they wouldn't axe it a few months from now.

gonna put this here too to give it a little more chance of getting clicked on than it might get in the jobs thread itself: http://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/

i know slocki likes links.

there's a good story about a keynote practice in there.

mmm nice link.