New Apple Lust Objects

I'm saving for a 12"!!!!

There was a leak/hack/fuckup on the apple store last night. see here for a screengrab. However basically the top spec was a dual processor 2Ghz G5 with up to 8Gb memory and a 1Ghz systembus, USB2, FW400, FW800, serial ATA HDs and PCI-X slots.

Also there are rumours of the 15" Powerbooks being G5 and that the whole range going G5 by christmas, I find this a little harder to belive. Also the best speculatuion is that the 17" powerbook will become dual processor, something taht is more possible with the G5 as it consumes less power than the G4 but still not that believable.

apple's desktop (ie. powermac, imac) sales have gone down the toilet. yes, part of this is due to lagging hardware, but i think a bigger reason is that more and more people are going portable (as evidenced by apple's Q1 and Q2 sales).

apple knows it will be wise to re-ignite interest in the desktop range first. after all, there are still G3-based portables that fly off of shelves.

Ed doesn't mention that the leaked screen grab (which I'm not entirely convinced of ) also mentions that the new G5s will also have optical audio in/out ports in additon to the analog one. Of possible great importance to a lot of the audio folks here.

Personally, I'm more interested in the Panther announcements.

Anyway, I'm ignoring the rumors for now - however I WILL be at my local AppleStore to watch the keynote Monday morning.

OPTICAL AUDIO = dammit another $1000 in the hole

OPTICAL AUDIO = Pointless, unless you have a cable travelling hundreds of miles. Once it goes into the computer it has to be converted into electrical signal anyway, so why not just have a digital SPDIF copper cable for the few metres the signal is going to travel from your audio equipment without having an unnecessary conversion stage?

they need to chill with all this hooha and just write the new freakin win ipod software (goddammit) ;-)

ron, they just did, iPod 2.0.1 came out a couple of days ago.

"OPTICAL AUDIO = Pointless, unless you have a cable travelling hundreds of miles. Once it goes into the computer it has to be converted into electrical signal anyway, so why not just have a digital SPDIF copper cable for the few metres the signal is going to travel from your audio equipment without having an unnecessary conversion stage?"

But it's what a most of consumer digital audio devices have for digital input/output (and some pro ones for that matter). The question is will it be plain s/pdif or will it support ADAT lightpipe as well?

that's for new style pods only. 1.3 is the latest for wheel pods, and still no windows version. i'm not even that interested in 1.3 software anyways, i'm looking forward to being able to cue up songs. but thanks anyway *sigh*

Optical SPDIF solves nearly all of my issues and makes the money I spent on hot-rodding my RS7000 that much more worthwhile (though cheap copper cables would be nicer, true)

I'm kind of scared about the possibility of having to go back to desktop, I haven't had to worry about electrical blackouts in years and years

(Ed look at the boring computer qns thread, pls).

Oh my god, who else has iChatAV?

I do I do! This is the greatest thing ever!

Was experimenting with iChat AV earlier and was running into some odd sound problems and found this article which seemed to improve things...

Key paragraph:

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Last night, while experimenting with the new iChat AV and speaking with a friend in Montreal (we both have cable modems), we were both experiencing very "muffled" sounding audio. We could hear each other, but it was hardly clear. After some experimentation, we found a couple of things that really help.

The first is probably obvious -- headphones made a big difference. Still, though, things sounded quite muddled. We then took a look at iChat -> Preferences -> Video, and found the real key to success. In the "Bandwidth Limit" drop-down, the initial setting is "none." When we lowered it to 100K, audio quality went up dramatically, but, of course, video quality suffered. After some epxerimentation, it seems that (between two cable modem connections, anyway), the 500K rate gives the best balance between video and audio quality. Your experience may differ, of course, but it's worth trying the different bandwidth limits to find one that strikes a good balance between audio and video quality.
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I thought this would be about the Illuminatus! Trilogy.

WHERE'S MY NEW LAPTOP YOU UTTER BASTARDS *bleeds from places*

I must see if iChatAV works with my DVCam. ILEChat will never be the same again.

Sorry, Millar, looks like laptops will be G4 for a while (Apple, you just put back my next computer purchase from you, I hope you're happy)

I reallly like the G5 case design and its a great computer but quite simply I am not a desktop person.

How much is Mac OSX.3 (Panther) going to cost me then?

I'm happy with the G4 Titanium laptop I'm using, but I see no reason to get iChatAV/iSight.

Currently my Apple lust object is a G5 laptop, but Im guess I'm going to have to wait. I'm also lusting after an airport hub (a fairly simple lust) and a machine i can use as a webserver.

Oooh, Airport is so amazing. iLxing from your toilet: classic!

ILXing from wireless bar/pub/wherever: classic!

finally a new 15" G4 laptop

I'm using it right now.

Safari rocks.

I'm getting my 12" on Monday!

Hooray!

congrats tom, I'm waiting for my liquid cooled G5 before I upgrade.

I'm getting my 12" on Monday!
hm this isn't the penis attachment thread, now is it?

penis attachment. apple lust object. what's the difference?

http://www.macspeech.com/images/resellers/apple_logo.gif

YAY

actually I intend to attach the computer to my penis, if that's what you mean

it's a LAPtop after all! HAW HAW HAW

Last night I was in da club and the COMPLETE dj setup was two ipods. He had everything at 320 so the high end was still really crisp...just plugged them into the board and crossfaded btwn songs. (obv this was just a dance dj, not a mix dj)

dance dj vs. mix dj seems a weird distinction.

not well put but you know what I mean...beatmixing vs just playing the songs.

Final cut express 2.0

1U G5 Xserves

3.5 TB XServe RAID, also Windows XP Pro/2003 server and linux certified

New audio recoding sequencing app: Garage band, 64 track recording, virtual instruments, effects, midi etc. Not free to dl, booo. free with new macs.

Also Apple usb keyboard and music expansion pack.

4Gig credit card sized iPod mini, availible in Gold, Silver, Blue, Pink and Green

Wooooo. Ivan and I are watching news and awaiting dinner conferenceing, as E's b-day is off, 'downgraded' to dinner w/her boyf, which is just as well.

Do you get commission, Eduardo?

I bloody well ought to.

Garage Band free with new macs. I bought mine in September. I hate life.

Okay seriously this Garage Band shit is making me not want to come to work ever again, just the concept of it

I think my girlfriend is going to be mad at Apple

that garage band demo was the biggest joke ever. jobs was acting like all this technology (guitar amps, softsynths, etc) were apple's innovations!!

and the mini ipod thing is a HUGE bust. $249 for 4 gigs or $299 for 15? well duh. you didn't need to make it SMALLER apple, you needed to make it CHEAPER. $149 for a 1 gig model would've broken the market wide open.

hugely disappointing.

biggest joke ever for how much money again with total integration in OS X? I was seriously about to go plunk down the cash for SoundTrack about two weeks ago. Thank goodness I ordered a microwave instead. I'm excited.

oooh is that garage band thing good?

I am going to be finding out and will get back to you with an album or two

1) I one day will have a tiny blue ipod so I can complete my transformation into totally gay trustfund ivy leaguer.
2) I swear to god if that goddamned computer shows up at my apartment this weekend, it's going out the same window the soup went out.

Ally, the first step of turning yourself into a robot is to carry around a computer everywhere.

step two: jay-z as your boyfriend

Dude, black people are AUTOMATICALLY robots! No wonder all the cool kids want to be us!