New Apple Lust Objects

I thought flash drives were super-slow to write to still?

Yeh, MacPro is my next mac

I want one. A good excuse to come back to the states, methinks, JW OTM about the SSD

Randy newman ranting and singing a political song

Jobs for Prenzit?

Ars guy thinks songs odd

is an ssd drive that much faster then a regular hard drive? I imagine they fail less, no?

I thought flash drives were super-slow to write to still?

-- milo z, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:33 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Most I/O can be done asynchronously and appear synchronous using a RAM cache.

still not really a UPNC -- this should have been the new macbook

SSDs based on volatile memory such as SDRAM are categorized by fast data access, less than 0.01 milliseconds (over 250 times faster than the fastest hard drives in 2004) and are used primarily to accelerate applications that would otherwise be held back by the latency of disk drives.

SSD and HDD the same price?

Want to know what the SSD upgrade price will be, a lot but apple probably get's the cheapest flash of anyone.

Tracer, I kinda see this as a gradual phase out of physical disks on the portables.

Can't wait to see the battery life on the SSD. SSD will also be killer for music and stuff -- no noise!

SSD version costs 3098

It's on the store now.

Includes 1.8 c2D

$3100 ?!?!?!?!

SSD option is extra $1000, so same as Dell

HOLY SHIT

uk apple store completely fucked

DO. NOT. WANT.

can also get USB ethernet for $29

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* Intel Core 2 Duo processor
* 2GB memory
* 64GB solid-state hard drive1
* Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Ships: 2-3 weeks
Free Shipping
$3,098.00
or as low as $74 a month

and no option for the screen, so yep, glossy only

o_o

REVENGE OF THE "THIN CLIENT"!

the "thin client" was 10 years ahead of its time -- it's obvious that in 5 years or so everyone will have big honking drives at home, hooked up to killer processors and fast networking, managing everything -- your walk-around computer will be like some kind of mega-ipod

/(O.O)\

Randy newman is back to ranting now

[18:40:17] <Clint|irssi> Now he's talking about how he likes to watch Jim Kramer's mad money on CNBC

and still using a keyboard layout designed to minimize metal type getting stuck to itself

they keyboard is really the limiting factor here

xposts

Fuck a glossy screen.

frogpad is the future, xpost.

It's actually wider AND deeper than Macbook.

And fuck $1000 for SSD, when you can get eight hours out of a HD-equipped core2 thinkpad that's smaller in every way except thickness

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Is also the case with US education store, (want to know how much SSD willl cost my Phd studyin' GF)

500 internal server error

Ed, don't buy it

^ OTM. It only encourages them.

at least this isn't as bad as the new iMac

£2028 for SSD!

are they dropping the prices on anything else?

MacBook (faster, only 2lb heavier, slightly smaller footprint) is £699

XANADU!
<3<3<3

updates a'plenty

itunes, quicktime and front row

Macbook gives you the option of dropping in a cheap 160GB-200GB HD as well. LED backlighting is a plus for the wee one, but not a big plus.

Boring. The air should've been tablet style, with an iphone-type multi-touch screen. Then I would've been excited.

Hope the new itunes lets me tag video properly.

£100 more gets you a macbook pro!

i'm sure the tablet thing is on its way when it's ready.

i'm sure the tablet thing is on its way when it's ready everyone has given up and bought an iPhone/iPod touch.

the only really interesting thing in all of this to me was the Office update.