New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

true...but oh god the re-design for Yosemite is ghastly.

(Hi Tracer!)

I finally got tired of my (reasonably well-performing) old macbook pro and pulled the trigger on a 13" MBP with that new force touch thingy. I was a hardware generation behind being able to have Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11ac, and video Airplay so this sucker is pretty damn nice.

Yeah, the iPod's audio subsystem was solid. IIRC, Classic was using a Wolfson DAC and a custom headphone amp. Moreover, they improved the audio components with each revision. I bet there was an internal Classic advocate who was also moonlighting the engineering work who left the company. I don't know that for sure, but that's the typical story for for the stranger Apple products.

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My MacBook Pro has been kernel panicking daily. I think the VMWare kernel extension is responsible. It sucks. I feel like I'm using Windows 98.

lol I was going to reinstall VMWare a bit ago but they (probably like Parallels) are really into selling you a whole new version every time you upgrade Mac OS/Windows so I'm a bit out of date

after yesterday afternoon with the new MBP I must say
- the battery life is insaaaane. I mean, I went from a 2010 15" MBP that probably was starting to get a little lower on battery life, but I was using this sucker for most of the afternoon without plugging it in, and it still had a few hours left
- I went full Apple on the login/filesystem. I'll probably regret linking my login to my Apple ID, but on a machine that supports the encryption in hardware, FileVault is a no-brainer
- I also installed a new Airport Extreme at the same time, and apparently setting the same access point name and password was enough for the majority of my devices to auto-find it, even the non-apple ones? weird. also the antennas in that sucker are huuuge to the point where when it was doing a scan to find local wifi APs (presumably for the next step when it asked if I wanted to bridge to one), I saw the name of a restaurant that is over a mile away

lol i went into an apple store for the first time in years this weekend, when did they stop having optical drives in all their computers?

btw (and not just saying this since i just bought a 5s) i strongly prefer the design on the 5s to the 6, the 6's round edges look very bizarre and kind of bulge out from the sides. despite being thicker i think the 5s looks a little more slick.

and 5c in person is really not that bad!! i kind of dug them tbh, the plastic looked good! but after having a 32gb iphone for a week which i filled up in about 2 seconds i can totally see how 8gb is complete bullshit though.

oh marcos

I did make the "omg how to I rip a CD?!?" joke to a friend yesterday, though

haha

it is on my mind though, i have about 800 cds or so and maybe have of them are actually on my computer. and having a car without an aux port i still find myself burning cds :(

I was considering upgrading my iMac but I do not want to give up the internal optical drive

signed, a dude who still buys 5-10 CD/month

eh, third party external burner should do the trick?

I do not want to pay extra money for an external optical drive.

Retina display >>>> internal CD drive xp

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$30, done

cd drive on a laptop does seem dumb as hell, apple's external drive is $79, get over it

I do not want to pay extra money for an external floppy drive

note that I am an Apple defier who attached a blu-ray drive to my desktop mac where I rip blu-ray discs

that sounds exhausting

cd drive on a laptop does seem dumb as hell, apple's external drive is $79, get over it

Since when is an iMac a laptop?

I do not want to pay extra money for an external floppy drive

This was also true when most of my media was on floppy drives.

looks like you can get an external floppy drive for about 15 bucks, i think you should drop your objection to them.

lol

Apple's plan is pretty much to make all of their systems laptoppish, except for the mac pro, which is still nearly laptop-compact due to all the custom stuff! an iMac is basically a laptop with a really big screen.

I'm not saying that isn't their plan, I'm saying I find their plan annoying.

there should be a redbox for external optical drives. rent an optical driver $1.62 per day. pick it up and drop it off where you get your groceries.

driver = drive for

the optical driver is the golf invention we've been waiting for

tough titty, I say. the future has to start somewhere. try getting a good 8-track player installed in a recent car.

anyway, people buy vinyl with little download cards these days, so I would recommend a usb turntable.

I would buy CDs if they just came with liner notes and download codes inside the digipacks and no worthless CDs.

the CD is the cheapest part of that package to actually produce

try getting a good 8-track player installed in a recent car.

What if you have a good 8-track player in your car, it plays just fine, and then one day, you start the car up and the 8-track no longer works because the car's software no longer recognizes it.

What if.

that would explain why this mitch ryder and the detroit wheels cassette just isn't working

what if progress is actually a myth makes u think

Progress doesn't do much when shit doesn't work anymore.

How about I take your car to the shop right now, get it hooked up to where it runs on pixie dust, but oh yeah, your stereo, tires and power steering won't work anymore.

Because you're just in luck, my company sells the updated versions of those products.

^xp lost woody guthrie classic

I have to admit, I stole that example from my dad who really did have an 8-track player in his truck and drove around listening to mitch ryder

Wow, I had no idea that Apple had snowed people into accepting the lack of an optical drive in a laptop as a totally cool and acceptible attribute. But I guess snowing people is one of their strongest suits.

at least they don't do mixed metaphors.

When was the last time you used an optical drive xp

Saturday

I will be using it again tonight

TMI

Yeah, all the freakin' time. I know there's been a push to rid the world of physical media, but some (possibly many) of us are a little slower to adapt.

Congratulations on not being snowed in by Apple's strongest suit

keep your hobbyist/specialist optical drives out of my laptop

As a rule, I won't buy a new laptop unless it has a crystal radio.