New Apple Lust Objects

mine goes randomly nuts -- becomes sluggish, stops listening to clicks, and you have to cycle bluetooth to get it to behave again. It's my second one, so I don't think it's just the model.

hmm at .mac 'overhaul' so far generally :-/

new iMacs are fugly based on the engadget pics

yr kooky

fuck me this new iMac is basically everything I wanted when I sprang for a Mac Pro

i am tempted to cut this short i'm working on in the new imovie just to see how it works.. if i can get my hands on it soon

this new iMovie seems pretty rad, i think? esp if you're just trying to comp something together.

does it seem so different from the current one? i've only done a couple of simple ops on it, so don't know it well but it doesn't sound so different.

oo "Magic" garageband. pff

.Mac needs shot in the head

or dropped down to $20 a year

WHY IS .MAC STILL SO VERY SHIT. they get everything else so much righter than anyone else, but not this. WHY?

It has to be some insane unfirable manager who got put on it to keep him from spoiling up important shit.

i like that theory

ok, so the AJAX web gallery does look slick

http://a1408.g.akamai.net/7/1408/7780/20060628/www.mac.com/st/1/learningcenter20060607/gettingstarted/Web-Gallery.mov

is this numbers spreadsheet entirely new??

what app is that umbrella icon in the gallery mov for?

photomatix??

thats not a Goscinny & Uderzo character i've heard of before

what app is that umbrella icon in the gallery mov for?

It's the current Apple Backup app.

http://images.apple.com/home/2007/images/imac_hero_20070807.jpg

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/dsc_1375.jpg

NURK

apple has the weirdest idea of feature prioritization in their iWork apps.
like, no, actually, what I really want is formula editing that makes some vague amount of sense, and names of operations that I can remember from one week to the next besides "SUM."

my ibook is dead. i turn it on and get a blank gray screen. nothing'll load, battery's dead, i can't get it to charge, when i do get it to -- begin -- charging the little orange/yellow-green tally light flickers color-to-color and then the whole mess shuts off. all of my work and résumés and stuff are on there and i can't access boo. anybody help?

go to apple store and force a genius to remove the drive for you before he sends it in for a $300 power management unit replacement.

next time at least back up all your shit on a gmail account as attachments sent to yourself.

alternatively try having a regular old mom & pop shop try to backup your personal documents onto DVDs by booting the drive as a slave.

okay, looking at selling my Mac Pro for one of these (basically a straight trade). Between the 24" models the only significant difference is a 320GB HD vs. a 500GB (I'd upgrade the RAM on either).

320 is plenty for OS X+ apps+some storage - but I have 60GB in iTunes and probably another 20GB if I finished ripping everything.

Anyone run iTunes solely from an external drive? Does it screw everything up if I forget to turn on the drive before starting up my computer?

I run mine from a Lacie and it runs fine. I have about 160 GB on the external. iTunes usually takes a minute to load the library, but I think that's an iTunes/library size problem and not necessarily my setup.

I can power on/off my Lacie at any time. You'd have to turn it on before starting iTunes, of course.

Yeah, it doesn't screw anything up. If you forget to turn on the drive, it just starts noticing that it can't find tracks and puts up a box that says something like "iTunes was unable to locate some of the tracks in the library, including x. Would you like to try to locate them yourself?" and puts exclamation marks next to them. Just say cancel that, turn on the external drive and restart iTunes.

If the drive's turned off, it will also automatically default to adding new tracks (inc. autodownloaded podcasts) into your otherwise empty home directory's Music|ITunes folder. I always seem to end up with a few things in there by accident. You can still play them fine, but for neatness I tend to delete them and reimport them.

xposts!

Nah, for one, you only have to turn on the drive before starting up itunes. If you don't, however, it's no big deal--obviously your music won't play, but the new itunes doesn't fuck up like it used to in this situation. Used to be, you'd have to close itunes, turn on yr drive, open itunes again, and then make the default location for your library the external again. Itunes would then take about 15 minutes confirming(?) that everything was in the same place or something.

Now, if you forget to turn on the drive, you just close itunes, turn on the drive, open itunes again and it works like normal. For me, at least.

Thank you, good to know.

Looks like it doesn't matter anyway, the new ones only come with glossy screens.

You can't be too thin. Or too powerful.

Anyone run iTunes solely from an external drive? Does it screw everything up if I forget to turn on the drive before starting up my computer?

My iTunes Library is local, but the iTunes Music folder is an alias to a network drive. Works a treat -- even automounts the volume if I've forgotten.

christ, only 800 quid for the lowest spec. refurb prices are going to be very tempting.

New 6G iPods w/ touch, wifi and widescreen, widescreen iPod Nanos, iPhone update, iTunes 8, remastered Beatles on iTunes.

Remastered Beatles would be the sweeeeeeet. Where did you hear this rumour James?

I heard it at Best Buy, I went with my mom to try to get my brother an ipod for his birthday and the salesperson said, "Sorry, we're out, everyone's out. We heard Apple's making an announcement of some sort tomorrow, maybe they're coming out with a new model." Okay, that is not a confirmation of any sort, but it's apparently affecting stock of old ipods in stores.

Oh yeah, they're definitely bringing out new iPods, just hadn't heard the Beatles remastering rumours before.

The invitations for the event said "The Beat Goes On...", which was the last line in the Beatles' final press release.

so the question is when are they available? birthday party on saturday, damn it!

Should be from today, after 10am PST

Yellow Submarine iPod. Preloaded with Beatles catalogue.

http://techdigest.tv/beatles-ipod.jpg

That started as a joke "I'm going to start a rumour" from Merlin Mann on the MacBreak Weekly podcast. I think it would actually sell pretty well, with or without the pre-loading. I don't really understand how pre-loaded iPods work - how do they circumvent Apple's model of iTunes Library->iPod being one-way traffic? They did it for U2, right?

I don't think they were preloaded -- you had to download them from iTunes. Same with the Harry Potter ones.

$1 to make a ringtone? Jesus.

so stupid

phat nanos:

http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/500/IMG_7719.jpg

goddamn that's small.

Quick! Throw a hammer at that screen!!!

i don't really like it, but then i never like the style of the new ipods initially