New Apple Lust Objects

The only drawback to the Mac Pro are RAM costs, which have gotten more reasonable since I bought mine (from $400+ to ~$250 for 2GB) but are still high. Dunno if Intel has made any chip advances that would make Apple update soon.

Speaking of brushed metal, ever see this or this?

Okay, I R impulsive. I just ordered the Mac Pro. I'm thinking another 8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB onboard. You guys recommend Crucial, OWC, or someone else?

Crucial is overpriced. Prior to this MP I always bought my Mac RAM from OWC (they didn't have it in stock when I ordered this stuff from somewhere else long forgotten) and never had a problem.

"8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB"

that's seriously overboard. wtf u do with all that?

more and better shit than you

8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB

You could give some of it to ILX! That's 4.5 times what it has!

You think 5 (4 + 1) would be plenty? I tend to have Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat all running at once, plus Word, Firefox, Mail, Thunderbird, SSX, iTunes and a couple of other little things. Also, I don't know what kind of hog Leopard is going to be when I move up to it.

Finally, a reasonable subversion client (say folks in on the alphas)
http://www.versionsapp.com/

Fuck it, this is a work investment. Why shouldn't I have 9GB?

What does it come with, 2x512MB still? If so, I would say 2x2GB to fill all four channels without the latency of multiple sticks.

An entire CS2 suite+Word through Rosetta will eat up a shit-ton of memory, so you might find yourself wanting more in the future, but I'd start out with that.

latency of more sticks, I mean.

CS3, but still.

Hmmm.

No point having more than 4GB until leopard ships, IIRC.

I don't know any serious coders who use a GUI front end for any version control. I don't think this is because the GUIs are shit either.

Version control's not just for coders! I know a little team of writers who will be delighted by this.

I like a visual client for merge conflicts and browsing the history. For most stuff I use the command line.

I really want an IPhone. Anyone know how much they're going to retail for?

$599, I think

Aren't there two versions (or some shit)?

4GB and 8GB. I think $599 is the cheaper one.

i lobbied unsuccessfully for my old ad firm to use version control for copywriting

awww shit, too rich for my blood.

if you think of it as a wifi "macbook nano" it's really not too bad

I wish they would just bring out a flash-memory MacBook.

it's $499 for the 4gig model and $599 for the 8 gig.

The voice/data monthly fees are actually very competitive, although the EDGE network SHOULD be cheaper since it sux.

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wow, the iphone adds instant lame-osity to all your posts!

i bet you're stoked though

I wish the rumours would settle down a bit - latest claim is an announcement on Monday of a 3G model in Europe, presumably also to be in the US by the end of the year. I do find it hard to believe they'd try to scupper their first week sales like that, though.

They're going to be sold out of their whole stock today, though. haha

I wonder how the browser's going to handle mouseovers. Those webpage menus that popup when you mouse over them often do different things when you click.

No one should design *requiring* mouseovers. I worked at a touch screen company for a few years and learned this. ;)

i don't think sanskrit has one

RW otm

I like all the people asking me (since I am apparently TECH GURU FRIEND OMG):
1. If I'm getting one
2. If I think it's the greatest thing ever
3. If I think it will totally suck
4. If I really think Apple fucked up by not making 'business apps' work with it (wtf does this mean, cryptic non-techie friend)

I also enjoy just saying that I think it looks like a pretty good product and will do fairly well.

On the other side, I look forward to managers understanding why cross-platform, standards and accessibility-capable webpages are a good idea now. I already had someone ask if one of our contract bid websites will work on an iPhone.

it is amusing to imagine that apple would steal the obnoxious blackberry e-mail signature line wholesale, though.

I totally wish I could short sell a few hundred shares of AAPL now at $122.

1) maybe, but not first gen
2) better than anything so far
3) no unless you're not good at things
4) no

it is amusing to imagine that apple would steal the obnoxious blackberry e-mail signature line wholesale, though.

They *are* doing this.

they are? even in message board text boxes??

in the US nobody even knows what "3g" means; i doubt an announcement of some future "3g" version would change anyone's mind

Suddenly everyone knows that "3g" is somehow faster than the iphone, though. That is all they know, but oh man, do they know it.

So, the blackberry crap relies on something that has to be installed in front of your corporate email server, right? Because even the woman at the AT&T store I dropped by was saying something about how it won't do "business email" which I find pretty stupid. Hey admins, turn on Exchange's shitty imap support.

Uh, and my blackberry namedrop was meant to reference the fact that there's a proprietary infrastructure in place for other shit to work, the iphone isn't lacking key functionality or anything.

They *are* doing this.

I meant the "blah blah blah tm wireless handheld" dit dit dit dit dit crap. It just says "sent using my iPhone" which is better copy. Of course on either device it's supposedly trivial to turn that off.

and yeah blackberry requires that your company interface with RIM's datacenters in Canada and/or wherever they keep them for overseas (ireland? bangkok?) so RIM can push without your company having to know their proprietary crypto keys

of course some folks don't like this and go and buy their own rim servers to stick in the basement, but in-housing is strictly for the paranoid and rich, you know?

has anybody come up with a 0-day for Safari iPhone yet?

Not yet, they are all trying to hack the firmware to get it to work with t-mobile.

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

I wish I'd read the iphone PR shit though, somehow I missed that the lcd is 160 dpi, that little screen looks pretty sweet.

whoa, i had no idea either

that's actually the most exciting thing about the iphone by far