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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.

If they don't arrive by tesla roadster or segway I will be sorely disappointed.

segway

Personal service by Woz?

looks like this tablet thing is gonna be real

?

they just annonuced a new media event on jan. 26th and all the rumor sites are pointing to it being the tablet

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_01/mosesHeston2703_468x611.jpg

# Analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray said he believed there was a 75 percent chance that Apple will hold a special event in January. However, he said, it is not guaranteed that such an event would be about the long-rumored tablet device.

hahahaha

when did these tablet rumours start? I feel like we've been hearing about it for years

http://mcneesofcrieff.co.uk/images/stories/11.jpg
yum

They started pretty quickly after the PC tablets came out. There were phone rumours for about three years before the launch tho and they turned out to be real.

What's left in the apple rumour pile if they do make a tablet? They've done everything else now

where's my FUCKING 11" MACBOOK PRO rumours?!

on the tablet, have there been credible rumours (from employees that have seen it and know jobs has approved) before? I refused to follow them because the idea of a tablet is so dumbheaded imo

I think these are the most credible yet. The previous believable ones ("they made a tablet, Jobs said he didn't see the point beyond reading the web on the bog and killed it") seemed otm to me as well.

Forgot about the 11" Macbook. Still want one pls

There's a bunch of patents, a bunch of talk from manufacturers etc. But nothing sure. This big announcement in january may just be an iPhone with a screen that can compete w/ the Droid and the new HTC phones. They could pull off a tablet though...i love my iPod touch...and sometimes wouldn't mind it a bit larger.

iPhones are refreshed in June normally

this is just going to be an announcement for something that's not coming out for a while, says the blogs.

if they had a tablet w/ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL handwriting recognition and some kinda killer note-taking app right out of the box, then i would be v v interested

just in time for me to be done with the academic portion of my training, ha

Onenote is a pretty killer notetaking app imo. Thing about writing is you don't want to rest yr hand on the screen, so it's weird and difficult. Newton had this prob too

i'm on a mac, tho. onenote = parallels + windows + onenote itself

its been clear the tablet is real for a while - and yeah people are totally going to fuck w/it and its gonna be a huge success casue a lot of people who have computers dont really need computers - they just need to get online watch movies download their digital photos and maybe play some simple games - witness the rise of the netbook - this is a netbook that because of its quality and simplicity is prob for most people better than any full featured computer

the biggest story imo isnt new devices but apples ongoing push to be a major media distributor w/the app store/itunes/iphone os platform - tv movies music books magazines software textbooks whatever - apple is trying to become the new cable/video store/book store etc

w/the tablet theyve got another device where they totally control the content distrobution - app store/iphone os is a mind boggling innovation - and w/the tablet theyll have yons more devices running it causing a virtuous feedback loop where people want to buy them cause they have the most apps and developers want to make apps cause they have the biggest installed base