New Apple Lust Objects

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p.s. i heard our support trolls referring to the strategy of emailing your thesis to a gmail account as a "girl's backup", which sounds like something out of the profanisaurus.

i fully subscribe to the i) approach. 250GB laptop drives are cheap as chips these days.

i back up everything nightly to a NAS with SuperDuper

i don't really care about Time Machine since the only diff is that it keeps historical version of files, or files I've since deleted, and.. I don't really delete anything now that i've got a honkin 250GB drive

all my music exists only on the NAS which is kind of sketchy but it's a 2-disk RAID 1 array and the chances of both drives failing at once are pretty slim - however this does not help in the event of, say, a house fire

I have one 750 gig external that I time machine too. Then I have another external that I back up media and important docs to periodically and keep at work. I also keep the important documents that I have in drop box.

iii) troll around the internet to see if it's possible to time machine from two source drives to a single time machine disk. i don't think so, but maybe.

I think I'm already doing this. Time Machine backs up everything connected to the computer unless you tell it not to.

I don't think it does so by default (at least I don't remember manually excluding my external pre-TM data drives, USB sticks, etc.), but it certainly looks like you can ask it to include external disks on a per-disk basis, yeah. Score.

there's a company which sells a swapin hard drive bay for MacBooks, so you can have 2 disks in yer laptop , optibay I think it's called. so you could nominally have 1.5tb in yer loltop

don't seem to support the new macbook pro 13" for some reason? Anyway, that's really awesome. They just replace the CD player with a second hard-drive.

Yeah, got a friend who did that. He's happy, but battery life took a hit and the machine runs hotter and a bit noiser

makes sense. What else can they put in there?

A toaster? Professional audio converters?

Leave the space empty to make the computer lighter?

An iPod/iPhone dock?

on the G3 Powerbooks you could take out the entire CD unit and replace it with a battery.

time machine fucking cripples my mac mini. not sure what the problem is. I run it once every two weeks now because if I leave it on, the machine slows to an unusable crawl.

there's some way to edit the rate at which it backs up, I can't remember if it was via terminal or editing some pref file, but I did it so it only backs up once a day, around 3:30 am or something.

http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

personally i hate leaving the external HD plugged in and on all the time (even if it does hibernate) so i just plug it in every two or so weeks

lol my internal hard drive is doing the death rattle. i give it a week at most.

new 500GB drive due in the mail on tuesday.

i am torn over whether to get external hard drive or whole new computer first. it's time for both really.

Ok, how long until we get an iPhone with a higher res screen? I played with a Droid and that was the only feature I really envied.

I'm a pretty heavy Coda user and all rumors (and by this I mean chatter on the Coda discussion list) point to Coda 2 having both of these.

Yeah, heard the same thing. There are a bunch of plugins that duplicate a lot of useful stuff that BBEdit/Textmate does, but the lack of folding and sorting is a pain in the ass in the meantime. Still, Coda's a great piece of work.

p.s. i heard our support trolls referring to the strategy of emailing your thesis to a gmail account as a "girl's backup"

Ahhh ha ha ha, excellent

New 27" iMac (the i5) is freaking huge and is quite awesome (upgrading from first-gen G5 so anything would seem awesome). Wasn't expecting it to come with the tiny keyboard so swapped that out right away.

yeah, i don't dig that they took the numpad out of those

Ordered a Magic Mouse on the 6th and it still hasn't shipped. Fuckers!

Are they gonna be charging for the Coda upgrade?

Mouse is really good. First impression was totally wrong.

Are they gonna be charging for the Coda upgrade?

Last rumor I saw was that yeah, version 2 would require cash. I don't mind that myself as the program's vital for what I do and I like the way it's come along so far.

Last rumor I saw was that yeah, version 2 would require cash. I don't mind that myself as the program's vital for what I do and I like the way it's come along so far.

What you said. It's a tax write-off anyway and the Panic guys are v. cool.

Got my magic mouse today, first few minutes of playing with it. I've never used bluetooth input devices before now, and I'm noticing a little lag time compared to wired devices. Not a lot, but enough to have to get used to.

They get worse if they're too far away from the Mac, that might be a factor. There's a deliberate lag before scrolling starts, too.

gnaaaaaaagh, this is fucking pissing me off!!!! the mouse is 14 inches away from the computer! I have the tower turned with the side, not the front, facing me -- does the bluetooth antenna need for the tower to be facing me?

I'm thinking of getting the 8GB iPod touch for Christmas. Is it worth it? Should I wait, save up for the 16-32GB one?

My mouse is basically directly above the tower, which is under the desk. It works fine there, but if it's on the other side of the desk it starts juddering.

Cunga: The 32Gb and 64GB ones are better: they have a faster processor, better graphics card and come with/can support a microphone. Games work on them all, but some, like the new Star Wars one, has better textures and effects on a 3Gs and the larger iPods.

What is your desk made of?

So apparently others are suffering from this, some say updating to 10.6.2 fixes others say that macpros sometimes get sent out with the various antennas incorrectly connected and that the magic mouse is sensitive to this

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2220046&start=15&tstart=90

http://www.thelocale.org/files/howtos/mac-pro-bluetooth-howto.pdf

I've been happy with my 8 gig ipod touch. For music and what games I have.

i have a 16g iphone and im happier than dan, so

you're not happy.

thanks for the insights, if I can save up for the bigger ones I will, but I might just have to settle for the 8GB. The trouble is that I know that as soon as I buy it Apple will announce an iPod that scratches your back and pirates media for you etc.

starving peasants in war-torn countries with no electricity are happier than me, so that's not really a good gauge of gadget satisfaction.

Apple always releases new iPods in September so get the 32/64gb cause those are the new ones.

After being irritated for a couple of days about the lag, I decided to go under the hood and switch around the antenna wiring per the chart Ed posted above, only to discover that the wire that's supposed to be moved from the Airport antenna to the bluetooth antenna has been cut! No wonder the reception is so crappy. I've added hard drives over the years, but I'm pretty sure I didn't cut any wires while I was in there.

The machine is still under Applecare, but would I be able to make an appointment for the Memphis genius bar and get the wire replaced while I wait? I can't afford to be without the machine for more than a couple of days.

looks like the new i5 and i7 iMacs out-bench even the Mac Pros:

Top-of-the-line iMac takes the crown as fastest stock Mac model ever

so HI DERE you can get a spiffy i7 outfitted iMac for around $2200 that will be just as fast as a Mac Pro...that will also double as a 27" HDTV

for the HDTV part... unfortunately no. you can't plug in anything besides a Macbook -- unfortunately that mini-DisplayPort-in doesn't work on anything else

yeah but the mini display port was ISO'd recently wasn't it? so there'll probably converter boxes out soon

Yeah, it's part of the official VESA standard now. Only a matter of time. The connector size is really nice for small devices.

i don't totally understand it, but
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/26/tests_confirm_apples_27_imac_only_supports_displayport_input.html

triple-click to middle-click on Mighty Mouse and new MacBooks: http://clement.beffa.org/labs/projects/middleclick/

It's a little bit buggy, that. It drives XCode nuts, for one thing.

Apple Support may make a house call here about the cut wire issue! O_O

This is blowing my mind. Apple service tech is coming out today to work on this.