New Apple Lust Objects

d/l'ed Safari 4, tabs back on the bottom of the status bar in default.

What does tethering mean? Will my phone run away if I don't pay for tethering? Is it like a restraining bolt?

"These aren't the Palm Pres you're looking for."

So I'm now really torn on my next mac. 15", 13" or Air, I'm getting sick of lugging 15" around and I have a 20" external now anyways. 13" is certainly no slouch and the Air with SSD finally looks like a good deal.

Keith: You can use yr iPhone's data connection from yr Mac. Makes it a 3G modem, basically.

New Safari ugly compared to beta with tabs debug setting. Shame.

Air is really nice, but screen quality bugs me. Sounds like the MBPs finally have a nice one. I'd be likely to plump for the 13" as a good compromise.

But I've got boradband! Only joking by the way, I figured tethering out. Just wanted to make a shit joke.

I came here to say I'm using the new safari and tabs look like they always have. Or at least, are in the same place. yeah, it's a bit uglier. Faster, but it's also newly installed, so who knows. Remains to be seen if I'll ever use "top sites". Probably not. Though it'll make me feel like Veidt in Watchmen.

So I can move the tabs above like in the beta?

The new low-end Mac Book Pro is pretty exciting.

yeah, i've got an old-style MBP that i lug to school sometimes, and it's a pain. would rather have a souped up 13" and use an external monitor at home. tho, if i get an iphone, about 80% of what i use my laptop for at school is taken care of

lol Keith, I wanted to make that exact same joke

"top sites" is perfect for your batcave fantasies

lol xxp

Actually, the tabs in the beta annoyed me lots, so I didn't upgrade when I bought a new computer... It was difficult moving the window and not accidentally minimising it, I found. So I'm kind of glad if they've moved back to where they were.

It's pay as you go on O2 for £342.

The tabs are definitely different, even if you set them below in the beta: they're more rounded where they feed into the bookmarks bar, and are rounded at the bottom. There was a recessed rule betwn bookmarks and URL bar which is gone.

Nice gradient and "Loading" touches on the URL bar, tho.

I though I read that had been improved. I must say I am leaning towards the 13" because of RAM, because of lack of VB scripting in Mac Excel I need to run Windows excel fairly often and 2GB of RMA is not good for the virtualisation. (I like the ability of being able to go up to 8 as well).

ok the tab close buttons only appearing on mouseover are fucking annoying.

I'm just taking the risk and installing it.

The Javascript in ILX doesn't seem faster.

It is on the phone; bloody hell it's a lot faster.

Text handling's still quite mucky, though: carat too thick, leading too loose.

the tabs are too bevelled. I liked the way they looked before.

Hey guys? I'm in the US for a couple days and I want to get a $99 iPhone and take it back to Kenya with me. But I don't understand the whole AT&T thing. Are they impossible to buy without an AT&T contract? Would it need to be unlocked?

impossible to buy without opening a contract from the apple store, i believe?

Ok. Maybe I'll see if a friend wants to unload one.

it automatically orients any map to the direction you are facing.

hot

yeah that is dope

£900 mbp is great

oh ha no it's not

oh jesus i have just learned that iCal won't push calendar subscriptions to either the iPhone or MobileMe

what's the point

I refer the honourable gentleman once again to the blackberry as this seems to work just fine via google.

xpost there's a workaround using busysync. a few mins to set up but works like a charm after that. obv apple should fix this tho.

http://blog.busymac.com/blog/2008/09/how-to-sync-cal.html

it's not a deal breaker, but i just witched my school calendars over to subscriptions instead of "hard copies" cuz things are getting changed all the time.

xp yeah this seems like a real no-brainer feature

thanks for that, it syncs todos which caldev doesn't, which is a missing aspect.

busysync looks nice, tho it's a little infuriating that it's not standard.

i've already got all my cals over on gcal, so

I wish I could just get the Addressbook to Google Contacts sync to work.

xpost if you've already got everything on google, then this might be all you need: http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

oh that would be nice

at least Address Book ---> Mobile Me works

Spanning sync can fuck off with their $25 a year.

oh i'll look into that.

i've got everything on google, mostly as a backup (also gmail receives all the mail from my other accts)

OK so you can fix the Addressbook sync by adding

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gconsync --sync com.google.ContactSync

to your crontab

well this is cool, I'll be getting an iphone as soon as my verizon contract is up in August but was hoping they'd come out with one with more storage by then, and it looks like they will. Unfortunatley this will just make my wife covet my iphone more (and she just got hers). It's too bad they don't have an upgrade or trade-in program.

what features is the rest of the world getting before AT&T? tethering and mms it?

Reasonably priced upgrades.

Does the new phone do multi-tasking apps yet? I'm guessing not.

Am not very excited by the 3GS. Nicer hardware touches, but essentially same shape an same OS with some clunky cut and paste chucked in. Pre OS is much more exciting and better-looking; this doesn't feel competitive.

man, i'm already on sprint, what to do

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

Fantastic the 13" has firewire 800, that makes up my mind, all I need now is to get paid and I can get 1x13" with 500GB storage and a free iPod Nano.

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

and sadly way more expensive.

Pre-ordered two of the 32 gig iPhone 3Gs's today. It was a no brainer for me, since I was still on the 1st generation iPhone. I'd probably think twice if I already had the 3G version.

im still on 1st gen and seriously considering this too

trust me this is wrong. it was almost right but then wasnt.