New Apple Lust Objects

I can't imagine ever getting burned by my MacBook, but it does get toasty enough for it to make me worry that it's not good for the computer/my fertility. I tend to use it on a tray in bed.

Yes, it is patented by Apple. PCs have a similar side-scroll feature with their trackpads, but it's inferior.

I can't imagine ever getting burned by my MacBook, but it does get toasty enough for it to make me worry that it's not good for the computer/my fertility.

It can get warm, but my gf's old Dell laptop used to routinely overheat and crash. Her MacBook never does that.

Also, I have noticed that the first gen G5 iMac I had at my old job would get worrisomely hot (but never crash), but the iMac I have now at home doesn't get near as hot, even running as much stuff at the same time.

yeah, the touchpad scrolling is an amazing feature.

I think my macbook caused my infertility. it's noisy when hot and sometimes gets hot when noisy (cause effect goes both ways here) but I still love it.

another thing: it gets absolutely manky, more so than my old ibook did : /

my touchpad has a wee line to the right that you can can scroll w/ by stroking

I think that would give me a sore finger and probably make me infertile.

rather a macbook than a vasectomy

fertility is not the greatest freakin' virtue in the world.

How hot is it? Like, hot enough to be a bit uncomfortable, or too hot to keep on your lap? I read somewhere some dude got 1st degree burns from his (!!)

The silver one you can never ever put on your lap, it gets madHOTT. Hers? She told me that she'd never put it on her lap, but then I don't know how she "grades" hottness. :-) I think it's less so than her previous one but still hot enough never to put it on your lap.She doesn't mind that much. The silver one's keyboard even gets hot at times!

on an itouch feeling fat-fingered

Get used to it though. Really gotta watch the keyboard

How's the error correction working out for you? Trust the machine.

Is it true that the iPhone keyboard only goes horizontal (and usefully
bigger) when you're in Safari and not when you're texting? That seems mental.

That's true on the iPod Touch, where it's slightly less mental given that you only really enter text when using Safari.

There's no way you can do it 'blind' (as you would with a normal phone) and I don't even think haptics would resolve that tbh.

I don't think the iPhone is for me. I'm quite a tactile person.

couldn't work out how to select the different guesses it was having at what I was trying to type. they appear in a wee balloon w/ an X in it and you finger it and it Xs off. the keyboard was vertical--dunno how you make it switch if you can. all seemed a bit too...fiddly

You can make it switch by turning it on its side and press space to accept its suggestions. Like quicksilver, it learns as it goes. It's an auto-correct function more than an auto-complete and so doesn't kick in till you're almost near the end of the word. Also you can't scroll through a list of suggestions, like you can on a normal phone.

I have a silver one and it does get too hot to put on your lap, but it doesn't start off that way, it makes no noise, and i just put a book under it to keep it on my lap when it heats up. i don't see this as a big deal, my old dell used to get very warm too.

i have a very early macbook pro and it would definitely be possible to get burnt off it, so when it's on my lap i tend to turn the fan way up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7017660.stm

I am dubious about the claim of permanent inoperability. I bet there's a way to return an unlocked phone to factory state even if it's complex.

I thoguht carriers were under a legal duty in both the US and Europe to unlock phones for a reasonable fee on request?

This stinks either way and I'm not entirely convinced it's all AT&T's fault.

This has been happening with the Sony PSP from the launch of the device way back when. Hackers hacked it and Sony patched the firmware, permanently bricking loads of the consoles. It's only just recently that people have released a hoonja-doonja that (and I think it is as-yet unverified by a third party) restores bricked PSP by digging into it and reinstating pre-destruction firmware.

£3.99 a month for unlimited Wifi with the Cloud for Touch
http://www.thecloud.co.uk/page/3615
(doesn't say anyhwere "unlimited*" or "unlimited (fair use)" or "unlimited (limited)" but I'm guessing it is, anyway.)

Yeah, I think I read Cloud it was going to have a 2GB a month limit with the O2 iPhone deal. Sounds OK really.

I hate all telephones.

That's not too shabby. At GPRS speedes that'd take all month anyway.

stet otm -- I've had my phone about 2 months and have only recv'd 2.28 gigs despite it being my main internet connection.

I think I may have dreamed the 2GB figure actually. Looking it up, it's actually a temporal limit on fair use -- 60 hours a month.

Oh that's a bit close for comfort. Only two hours a day?

yuck

Alba where do you see those figures? O2's new "unlimited" data plan is 200MB a month (wtf!) but I can't see one for iPhone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.apple

The 200MB is for Edge downloads, yeah.

I can't see myself browsing on a mobile device for longer than two hours a day, personally. It's just bus time.

And, y'know, there are books to read.

The Mail app checks in the background though, so that'll add up. 60 hours of Wifi is probably all right, actually, but only 200MB of data a month? Jesus.

so: i had a dick about with an iPod touch in the apple store today.

really, really liked it. took less than five minutes to feel utterly familiar with it -- although i'm now realising i didn't think to turn it on its side for a bigger keyboard. hmm. i actually found that after 15 minutes (heh) i could batter away typing pretty swiftly ... i don't think i'd want to be writing a novel on it, but i reckon i could handle it just fine.

the one thing that perturbed me slightly was how s l o o o o w videos were to load in the youtube app ... other not-the-fastest web pages (eg twitter) zipped along happily in safari, so i don't think i can blame the connection speed. i'd need to know more about how it works, i guess.

my plan still stands, anyway: wait till after xmas, get an iPhone. probably.

saw one last night and played with the maps - ooh la la

google map integration + nazivon add-on = a godsend for the directionally challenged

had a quick play with touch ipod last week. SO THIN! lovely scrolly swipe thing too. just great.

i have powerbook g4 (1.5 ghz, 1.25 gb ram)

i keep mail, ical, pages, numbers, omnioutliner, newsfire, soho notes, camino, iphoto, iweb and a firewire external HD all going at the same time

this thing has gotten hella slow and takes about a minute to go to sleep

is it already obsolete?

no.

and, er, "obsolete" is a state of mind, isn't it? it's not like yr mac goes: "shit, i'm old! better slow down to a crawl" :)

run tiger cache cleaner or something over it. i've got pretty much the same setup and mine runs great. how much HD space have you got free? that could be a key issue, ie for swapfiles and the like.

26 gigs free on the HD!

(and i might want to take iPhoto out of the mix if it's not needed all the time -- isn't it a total waste of resources?)

xpost: right, that's not it, then ;)

seriously: tiger cache cleaner, restart, whoosh.

google map integration + nazivon add-on = a godsend for the directionally challenged

Proper GPS is better though.

grimly otm, I have no idea why you'd run iPhoto all the time on a system with 1GB of memory when it eats memory.

That said, when I upgraded from a Powerbook 1.5GHz to one of the new Macbook Pros (and then a friend sent me a link to a deal with 4GB of memory for like $150) it was the most startling leap in speed I've seen in a long time.

tiger cache cleaner

waht is it ^

xpost, yea Ed I don't understand why they didn't put a proper GPS in?

i just tried it out. eliminated about 1.5 GB of cache, feels SLIGHTLY snappier, but I've only got 3 gigs left anyway, so everything will always be slow.

and i don't have an external HD, nor can i afford one, and the CD drive don't work.

P.O.S.

What "cache" does it clean up? Aren't there freeware things that do this?

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

might want to look at this too if you're short on space^