New Apple Lust Objects

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.

I ordered my iphone through the only provider which offered a decent deal. The provider which offered the WORST deals, e.g. 50Mb of data per month on an expensive plan, bought literally thousands of them from Apple.

So, what this means is I've got to wait weeks for a phone I've already bought whilst the rip-off provider hoards crates of them just to be pricks.

I am REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY pissed off about this.

who is the decent deal provider, and what is the deal?

Optus offers 700Mb data and included calls for say $59/mth. Vodafone offers less for twice the cost.

Telstra is the one hoarding literally thousands of iphones and selling them on plans that would make your nose bleed. A $100 plan gets you 5Mb of data per month. Yes, that's megabytes. An extra 200Mb of data sold as a 'value' pack costs $59. You would want to be receiving very good oral sex on a daily basis for that price.

sooooooo my pb 12" shat the bed the other day. the HD failed. in a funny bit of irony, the reason it failed was because i backed it up to a new external hard drive i got to protect against such an eventuality. that is, according to the service dude, the act of doing a 30gb iTunes backup in one shot overworked my ailing little HD and it crapped its pants. like having a cardiac patient run a marathon. oops!

anyway: rumor is that new macbooks are coming out next month, in a new AL case. supposedly there will be an overhaul of the Pro line as well. here's my pickle: wait a month and lay out cash for what might be first gen hardware OR snap up the really, really good deal my dad is offering me on his "old" MBPro (2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM) and wait a year or two and spend my cash on a few peripherals (Dell monitor, keyboard, etc). i mean, this is a stupid question, isn't it?

also i m dum and bought a drive that only supports FW400 and not FW800 >:(

Don't rely on those rumours.

This is what MacRumors thinks.

I would go with your dad's machine. And if you buy the macbook, they only support fw400.

You also have to keep in mind that Jobs often likes to save the coolest product announcements for himself, usually at Macworld.

the rumors seem pretty reliable. i've checked macrumors a bunch, and the release would coincide with the end of the back to school promotion they're running right now (ends sept 15).

still, i'd be saving a ton of money....h'mmm.

good point, lib. like, i doubt they're dropping touch screen laptops on us, but something similar to my old 12" but faster would be dope. this 15" i'm using (dad's) is really nice, but maybe just a hair big? but gift horses, etc.

Dude, 4Gb RAM and 2.4GHz processor. You'd be nuts if you didn't take it.

As a side-note: With Vista being the train wreck that it is, Apple would be bonkers if it didn't exploit the opportunity it has right now by being a bit more aggressive in its Macbook pricing. Just a bit, but enough to really get people thinking.

rumor is a $200 price drop on the new macbooks. I killed mine a week ago and am borrowing a friend's old barely functioning powerbook just hoping that they push out the new ones in the next month or so.

yeah i think i'm gonna go for it

holy shit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/bloomberg-accidentally-pu_n_122044.html

woops

Imagine the millions of Apple fanboys actually crying when it happens though. Oh my god.

lol those fanboys

explain to me: why oh why oh why would ANYONE want a "macbook touch"?

I'd take one if it was eee sized and the screen flipped around like a tablet, even if only for scrolling really long documents. overpriced ebook reader, basically.

^this plus ability to hand annotate documents and some handwriting recognition that worked.

this is all I want

http://img.skitch.com/20080911-dhhynmssew6iwujmhjyq5pdc.jpg

11" and beautiful

10" even; anything less and you're into oh-so-cramped EEE territory

I am looking more for this:

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/gallery/iphone-buzz-gallery/apple_tablet.jpg

that possibly does this:

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wp-content/gallery/iphone-buzz-gallery/0512_imac_tablet_inset_450.jpg

When the heck is Apple going to add native Blu-Ray drives in their laptops & desktops? They're on the Blu-Ray board of directors, for pete's sake, and they're behind Sony, Dell and HP on this. Come on, already!

where are those mockups from?

http://macbooktouch.com/

The people on that site seem like a very special breed of Apple nutter.

those guys are crazy

http://cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/apple-invite2.jp
Oct 14, finally.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/applenotebookevent081009.jpg

this is a new strategy for apple. telling the customer that something specific is coming.

probably because laptops are huge for the back-to-school market, and they missed it this year

Yea, I'm going NUTS waiting for this one

this is a new strategy for apple. telling the customer that something specific is coming.

Not really. This is a press invite to the launch. They often have these quite explicit teaser lines for events in the next week or so. The one for new iPods last time said "Let's rock" or something.

Yea, I'm going NUTS waiting for this one

ya rly - finally time to retire the PBG4...

I'm STILL waiting for a 12" PB-esque thing. If they don't make one this time I'm gonna turn one of those Dell Mini things into a hackintosh

this one's supposed to have a 13" mbp

http://images.appleinsider.com/mb13possible-081009.gif

oops, just macbook, not pro my bad

gah that gruber guy really does my nut in; why do I keep reading his site?

His last "essay" was embarrassing beyond even the fanboi pale. 300000 words to say "oooh the iPhone 3G what came out months ago is awes <3 <3 <3 <3 ... <3 <3 <3 <3"

<3 <3 <3

I didn’t find John Gruber to be completely embarrassing till I found out that being a “technology pundit” was his full time job.