New Apple Lust Objects

um, new iPhone, not a punch in the balls.

likely story

hang on, this is an unmitigated clusterfuck, isn't it?

O2's servers go tits-up as soon as the UK launch happens

NO FUCKING WAY, this cannot be real ... O2's web signup incompatible with safari?

er, and i can't post links properly. the first link should point to this page instead.

still. i'm not apple. or O2. so fuck it.

AT&T only had six units per store. They did tell me they'd be able to get me a white 16GB unit today. I suppose it'll look pretty good when I'm playing cricket.

white iPhone haters TO THE LEFT, my fey self will look fierce as hale with one in hand.

honestly though what makes the white iPhone that much more effeminate and undesirable?

the attached purse

honestly though what makes the white iPhone that much more effeminate and undesirable?

There was no sarcasm on my part. It will look good when wearing my cricket whites!

Dan Perry does not care about white phones!

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firmware 2.0 officially out, i see.

ok so could i use a japanese iphone here in belgium? (now that i passed my theoretical driving exam i think i am worthy of one. ahahahahaha)

Apple servers nationwide are crashed, all purchasing/activation is at a standstill NICE JOB JOBS

seems like today would've been the day to buy an iphone in-store and walk out without having to activate it
-> http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/11/in-store-iphone-3g-activation-only-a-myth/#comments

bummerz

AAPL has dropped about 2 and a quarter since activation woes hit Reuters. Funny stuff.

Bloomberg piece just hit the wire. Down another buck.

I just downloaded the iPod touch firmware from a link someone gleaned from an xml file and it appears to be working fine. Didn't even have to do the emergency restore crap, I just shoved it into the correct iPod touch firmware folder on my hard drive, which none of the people on macrumors seem to be able to figure out.

Of course, now I have to recopy all 14GB of my music back on, but that seems like a great use of my work computer's resources.

The stock market is full of idiots. So the reason it's dropping is because their servers weren't able to keep up with people trying to activate every new iPhone at once? That kind of ignores the fact that nearly every new iPhone is getting purchased, meaning the sales are through the roof.

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well i got in line at 4:15 am this morning at the AT&T store. i made a quick drive-by at 11:00 pm last night and saw there were about 5 people camped out. three morbidly obese teenagers wearing "gamer joke" t-shirts (one said "i rolled horde" (?!?)) and two sad looking grown men. i figured that this was the full contingent of crazies so i tried to figure out when the merely sub-normal would show up. i planned to get up at 4 am and be in line by 5, but i woke up at 3:30 am and so i was up and out the door quite early. by about 5:30 am the line had doubled, and by 6:30 doubled again.

at 7:30 there were about 200 people in line and it was wrapping around the parking lot. the staff came out and said they only had 50 phones, none of them black 16 gb. collective groan through the crowd (i wanted white, so i wasn't bothered). there are about six AT&T stores and one apple store in a 10 mile radius of where i live and the AT&T corporate ambassadors (they all had coiffed hair, like ice skaters) said the lines were even bigger at the other stores.

so they opened the store at 8:00 am. i was in the store - fifteenth in line - at about 9:00 am. there were two teenagers in front of me who had showed up with their parents. they sold their spaces for $60 apiece and let their parents go in to buy them iphones (strict one person per phone policy). some people further back in line were pretty enraged about that but i figured what can you do? it took 30 minutes to activate my AT&T account. most of that was the clerk hitting refresh. even the credit card interface was slow: it took around two minutes for the signature window to come up after i ran my card. i got so bored that i let one of the corporate ambassadors talk me into buying a "jawbone" bluetooth headset.

now i am sitting at home waiting for the itunes store to load so i can activate my phone. which is a lost cause, i take it?

Well yep, me too. Managed to get down to the DHL office and pick mine up. Have in im my hand etc etc...but now failing to log into the apple store to activate it, just like anyone else.

Trying hard to stop myself looking at the current ebay rate for un-activated 3G iphones, cos that's very tempting.

in im? it in.

mjtb pls take photo of white one in real life

with the phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh boy, yep, ebay auctions are currently at £450-650. (I couldn't resist looking).

All with a day or two still to go.

re: apple stock

Stocks fall sharply on Fannie, Freddie worries (AP)
AP - Wall Street sank further into a bear market Friday, as investors dumped stocks on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and oil's continuing climb into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials slid below the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years before paring their losses.

re: Fannie and Freddie

Yeah, that accounts for the first dip at open.

Activation is working!

So it is! Bonzer.

yes, working! can you make calendar do manual fetch?

i'm probably going to buy a new iMac next week (well: now i'm officially a grad student, i need something new and shiny to write all my essays and lab reports on, right? right? yeh, i do. definitely. no doubt about it.)

question: is it worth going for the 24"? work-wise, it'll be used for a lot of writing, quite a bit of spreadsheet work and maybe some statistical analysis (though i think i'll be doing most of that at the university, rather than shelling out for bloody SPSS). fun-wise it'll be web and music, mainly. i'm not even serious enough about photography to have a copy of photoshop.

there's a 200 quid difference between the 2.66 20" and the 2.88 24" -- those four inches and .22Ghz are the only differences between the models. part of me thinks that's a lot of cash for something i really don't need; part of me thinks ... if you're going to shell out and buy it, buy the bigger one.

any thoughts? anyone find the 20" too small? i'm 99% convinced it'll do me fine but i'd appreciate any thoughts.

I bought the 24" about six weeks ago and haven't had cause to regret that decision.
I came to my decision after spending some time with the different sizes in an apple store and for what I do with the machine the 24" has made perfect sense.

yeh, i need to tool about in the apple store for a while :)

Hmm, have to reformat my laptop and restore from bootcamp for the first time ever, because bootcamp won't make nice and parition. Worth doing a Carbon Copy Clone as well? (just in case).

does the iMac support a second monitor? Because then I'd get the smaller one and with the extra money buy a cheap LCD monitor to go next to it...you get much more screen real estate and as a staunch supporter of dual screen set-ups, there's this whole psychological thing about being able to split info onto two monitors, like having iTunes and email open on the side monitor while whatever I'm working on is on the front monitor, you really feel like you have two computers and you aren't constantly hiding windows to switch about. It's also great for copy and pasting things, for referencing other documents, etc.

Yes it does support an external monitor.

Yeah, dan OTM.

Ed I'm a fan of SuperDuper for copying a hard drive. But to each his or her own.

Never used it, but CCC has never done me wrong.

dan, that's a pearler of an idea. thank you.

using a shitty monitor with my apple display sucks for color stuff

that's why I do all my retouching on my 22" CRT and keep my email, iTunes, palattes, source material etc on the second monitor, a 17" Samsung LCD.

ew 17 inches?

i like this two monitor idea

Go for the 24', you won't regret it. Internet lore says the 20' monitors are inferior build quality. Plus you're stuck with the monitor for the life of the computer, so why not?

the 24" is awesome
when I got it I was like wtf my gmail is in IMAX

that's why I do all my retouching on my 22" CRT and keep my email, iTunes, palattes, source material etc on the second monitor, a 17" Samsung LCD

could a MBP do this, too?

MBP can drive only one external monitor, but you could use that with the onboard screen

Select your incoming mail server:

- POP3
- IMAP
- IMAX

i did a lot of video editing on my powerbook hooked up to an external. it's a good way to go, actually.

h'mmm. maybe i ought to do that.