New Apple Lust Objects

release date 25 july:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-15-korg-70-2nlo.html

this might need a slot-2 RAM pack btw = no ROMzz

guys, is it only worth getting the 16GB iphone if you plan to load up with music or is something else going to take up space? the apps cant grab too much HD can they?

i got a 16GB for exactly that reason. i don't want to be sitting there going: "woah, look at all these apps! fuck, they won't fit on my phone."

instead i'll be going: "woah, look at all these apps! fuck, they're all cool GPS shit and they won't work on my first-generation phone."

why no 32 gig?

"packaging"

Much interest in SPROUTCORE?

Yo my new Apple lust object is the G4 tower that someone is giving me for free. I don't think it's coming with anything else, though -- a monitor or any cables or etc etc. Will know more once I pick it up.

Do I need a Mac-specific monitor of some kind? Or can I just pick up any used one of recent vintage?

any monitor will do!

any monitor will do but depending on the vintage of G4 you may need an adapator, any USB keyboard and mouse will do.

If it has an ADC type port the tech restore will be able to sell you an adaptor, apple store will not IIRC. For VGA or DVI most monitors have both of these and it should be trivial to convert from DVI to VGA and any computer store can sell you a converter.

ADC looks like this:

http://www.vgator.com/img/adc.jpg

DVI looks very similar but has square ends rather than round.

Hey so the 24" Apple Cinema Display I want to attach to my matching nu-iMac has usb and firewire ports. Are those connected via DVI port (which I will connect with a mini-dvi plug)?

no, separate cables. The ADC was a great idea putting USB, firewire and power down the cable but it put the price of graphics cards up by at least $100. Died a death some time in the G5 years.

Brilliant -- thanks, Ed! I will figure all of this out over the weekend (plus how to get online ie wireless thingy vs running cable).

If it hasn't got a wireless thingy built in then you will be stuck with wired, the wireless cards for that generation of Macs are as rare as hens teeth and beside, wired is more reliable and faster.

yeah i'm slowly realizing that wireless connectivity at home is super-dumm

so the "2 usb and 2 firewire" ports don't include the ones to connect to the computer. Comes with Cables i hope

I'm not even going to use my homewireless except for guests, my cell phone (lol imap is fast over 802.11 v edge), my iphone and my future macbook air

So glad i pulled cat-5 when I had the floors up a few years back.

wireless @ home = internet in bath yo

...on bog

... in kitchen (for radio4 widget)

... in living room (zattoo the football, while spendaholics is on)

... iplayer in bed

BBC iPlayer most popular:

Page Three Teens

I use wireless as well, for many of these things kitchen especially. CAT-5 runs to the bedrooms.

yeah, i mean as the main way to connect, i.e. torrents. it's like driving a lamborghini in first gear.

oh... I do torrents over wireless and max out at 200Kbps on a 2Mbps connection

if I connected over ethernet, would that rise significantly?

no

unless yr sitting next to a microwave or something

sproutcore is really pretty nice.

trace - i don't get yr wireless comments, esp wrt torrents. i've got airport extreme which should do 20Mbps at worst (50ish at best i think), and my ADSL download is 8Mbps at best. i used to be wired up, and have never noticed any slow down going wired.

(actually i DO put up with a slow down, but that's on my cheap NAS thing that only does 100baseT to the router)

(d'oh - sry, that 100baseT isn't relevant of course - the slowdown i'm thinking of there is cos i'm comparing it to direct connec to the USB2 HD.)

retransmits on wireless might introduce some latency but i think the tcp windowing should take care of it

I am sick of waiting for this so-called iphone.

Oh well if you're on 802.11n then that's different Mr. La-di-dah.

Australia officially has three providers now.

If the new iPhone doesn't have a "compilation" button for the fucking iPod part, I'm going to throw it across the room.

uh you can have a compilations button now, just drag it onto the bar at the bottom after hitting More --> Edit

Suddenly as of this morning I have 3G service in my small town in the middle of nowhere. Is this something that AT&T is rolling out to more places before the iphone comes out, or only this particular place to avoid having thousands of lol college students pissed off when they come back in August and their shiny new iphones are slow?

No coverage is the main reason I completely talked myself out of wanting one of these but I don't have that excuse anymore.

AT&T has been rolling out HSPA rather frantically this year, so probably.

actually looks... ok

rolando:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8wGj1txvI&eurl=http://www.tuaw.com/

kinda like locoroco + lemmings + mario Vs. donkey kong

How does Apple manage to find the most annoying-sounding Americans on the planet to conduct its guided tour videos?

Optus's moderately shit plans released.

uh you can have a compilations button now, just drag it onto the bar at the bottom after hitting More --> Edit

-- HI DERE, Monday, June 30, 2008 6:23 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Don't "uh" me.

I mean a button that organizes your compilations like compilations--a function that comes standard with iTunes and every iPod ever made--as opposed to spreading them into 20 separate sections of your "Artists" lists, thus organizing your music collection in a completely retarded, counterintuitive way that no one outside of a 12-year-old girl who has never owned a single CD would find even remotely useful.

iphone doesn't support compilations?? that stinks

not that i will ever have the luxury of complaining about that

thank you rogers

compilations like compilations--a function that comes standard with iTunes and every iPod ever made

Not every one. I lost my 1 year old ipod and started reusing my super flaky 4 year buttons one again and sorely miss this and several other features.

I've never even heard of this feature.