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But it won't store the entire New York City phonebook! Useless.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i ordered my new mac this wknd :)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It does run Flash, apparently.

― stet (stet), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I'm going to buy a decked out 24" iMac soon to replace my aging powerbook 12" as my home desktop. Anyone want to convince me to get a MacPro? Will I feel the hurt with only 3 gigs of RAM in 3 years? Am I really going to miss having a 3ghz machine for some lameo dual boot gaming?

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

are you gonna do anything intense on it besides gaming?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a Mac Pro, but I already had a pair of 20" cinema displays and I don't like the iMac premium (laptop performance, no laptop perks, laptop priced). The Pro is nice enough and I appreciate the power and RAM when I run CS2 and Aperture together.

Extra bonus - $200 worth of HDs from NewEgg take care of any potential storage I might need for years.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

are you gonna do anything intense on it besides gaming?

Massive amounts of multitasking + software development + some dvd ripping / video stuff. I push my first gen intel iMac at work (with 2 gigs of ram) to the point of thrashing quite frequently

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i have been lusting over the 24" iMac at the bookstore for weeks now. jealous.

― attack all monsters (skowly), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Milo, yea, I figure I'll stick with external disk enclosures for my bulk storage, maybe go to a RAID eventually. It seems like to match or surpass the specs for the iMac I'm looking at in a MacPro, I'd need to spend an extra $400 before even considering a display.

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe you should go for a pro dude. you sound like a power user to me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the Xeon worth anything like that sort of premium? I know v. little about intel chips.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what Apple wants me to think!!! xpost

― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/26/35582395_55c764e4ec.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Xeon chip itself isn't that much superior to any other Core 2 processor (FSB, mostly), and what advantages it has are negated by the expensive FB-DIMMs... but you get twice as many cores.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got a 23" cinema display, so I've been assuming I'd get a Pro at the next bump (probably about a year from now), but the thought of a 17" or 20" iMac with a second display is interesting.

Anybody know the lifespan of an LCD? This one is about 3.5 years old.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

usually about 3.6 years?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 January 2007 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

opinions?!?!

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

iMac seems like a banker. If you're not going to fuck about with the internals/cards etc (and who does, really?) it's probably fast enough and has goodies like screen, camera and remote control (which I ended up using way more than I thought I would). Plus $400 cheaper.

Although 3 gig *is* probably going to seem cramped in three years, by then surely you'll be wanting a whole new Mac anyway, no?

― stet (stet), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not going to try to talk you out of the iMac. It's a sweet looking lil' piece.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yea I guess I can afford another computer in 3 years

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, work week

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That remote is great, isn't it!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

why hasnt tom posted?

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

about what? the ipod that holds about two albums' worth after all you put all your appointments and numbers and bookmarks in it, and then keeps fucking RINGING and BEEPING and VIBRATING at you when you're trying to listen? Oh and it comes out months and months from now, and you have to sign your life over to ~~Cingular~~ Das Neu AT&T for the next two years, and it still costs a Playstation3.

I'm over the hype dude! If they can keep people excited for 12-14months after it comes out and bring a hefty price drop and more competitive deals from different carriers then maybe it'll be something neat. Not for me or anybody I know, as it stands. OTOH as Steve said they only have to sell about thirty of these things to make money, and the stock price jumped appropriately, so by all accounts Apple could care less what 95% of the market needs or wants.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

So I guess I just said "the iPhone is not an iPod, it's more of a MacBook" in so many words. Marketshare is not the goal - yet. This thing is just a feeler.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you even read my last 300 posts about getting an iMac?

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

God, you can be a bit tedious!

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

when do we get the new airport base station? i am hungry for that shit.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Gah, I almost want to wait to WWDC

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

wait until yr laptop breaks, otherwise you'll waste money and hate yrself

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway once you've picked out a successor for them, consumer electronics have a way of giving out in short order

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

MILLAR'S PRINCIPLE.

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Newest rumour is that there's some new 12" mini MacBook Pro coming at WWDC.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

link?

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

If I have to move to Bumfuck for half a year, I get a new Macbook Pro and a Sprint cellular broadband plan so I can keep everyone here updated with photos. Should I try to work in a new DSLR as well, or is that pushing it?

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i just got black macbook it's so nice!

― surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

lol i also just sounded foreign...

― surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Newest rumour is that there's some new 12" mini MacBook Pro coming at WWDC.

-- stet (vmdnb900...), January 25th, 2007 3:15 PM. (stet) (later) (link)

!!!

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Thursday, 25 January 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't get to link from retarded IE 5 at work, will dig it out later. It was from some rumour site I've never heard of, but what they said chimes with loads of tidbits from the past year or so.

It also ties in with new Apple patent filing for CD tray on bottom of laptop. (That's Here)

― stet (stet), Thursday, 25 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

bullshit bullshit bullshit. maybe small mbp (unlikely) but apple would never release something so absolutely terrible in so many ways.

― five roses (Elliot), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

they'd sooner not include an optical drive, or have a small external one come with it, which would be great considering how little you need to use them these days.

― five roses (Elliot), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's just the drawing that's bullshit. Most of their other patent applications look pretty different from the end result, too.

That link about the 12" MBP is here. I've never heard of this site, but most of the details it says are things that have been rumored bit-by-bit in more reliable places before.

― stet (stet), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

mac book mini/tablet with multi touch interface plz. thx

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

Just got the iPod Hi-Fi, and although I figured it would sound decent, I'm very pleasantly surprised at how well it fills a room. It's also really clear at high volumes.

― j-rock, Monday, 4 June 2007 07:47 (sixteen years ago) link

iphone ads are up http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

― zappi, Monday, 4 June 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Can't they just release a new friggin Macbook Pro already? I need a new laptop and I'm not going to order right before a processor bump.

― mh, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link

WWDC, dude.

― libcrypt, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Supposedly coming tomorrow, in time for the Education promos.

― stet, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link

So if they're tomorrow, and iPhone is June 29, what's at WWDC? Touchscreen iMac?

― stet, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

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