New Apple Lust Objects

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
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$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)

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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.

and then, only if makes entourage not such a big piece of shit like it is now

fuck an entourage

Pretty bummed about the conservative iPhone update. I guess I'll put it off again.

TBH I should probably spend my savings on redoing my bathroom. the glossy screen really is the deal breaker.

you should build an ultra-thin bathroom!

I focusing on building one that doesn't leak on to the pool table of the pub downstairs. Also I have no job and a new IT purchase would be foolish unless it had a Matte screen.

FYI - Office 2008 removes all VBA, including Excel macros. :(

i agree fuck an entourage, except my workplace mandates it's use

It costs nearly twice as much as a more powerful machine, isn't best-in-class by any measure, and is crippled in odd ways. It's worse than the mini, it's:
http://www.powermacg4.com/page3/files/page3_1.jpg

My workplace mandating its use is precisely why I say fuck entourage!

What are the cripplings in your opinion?

minis are good :(

the cube we had here at work had massive problems we could never resolve. I don't know if it overheated all the time or what. but it crashed all the time

i want a mini....i was hoping they'd lower the price though

yeh, WTF @ mini-slagging? they do the job and do it fucking well.

1.6ghz processor, no wired networking (you can use a thin converter, c'mon), mono speaker, no line in, no firewire. And I don't like glossy screens, but I suppose that's not "crippled".

xpost I wasn't slagging the mini! I have one.

o no memory expansion either.

Minis are great. That's my home computer and it does the job damn well.

remember when the imac came out and everyone was shocked that it didnt have a floppy drive?

Anyone running Leopard on an AppleTV?