New Apple Lust Objects

Fuck - XGestures is now broken. I need my mouse gestures!

when you boot into boot camp, there are updated Boot camp drivers, and some weird options about remoting into a macbook air or something

Since the MBA doesn't have a disc drive, it's used to install Snow Leopard over the network onto it. What's surprising is that you can do it from Windows now instead of having to do it from a networked Mac.

XGestures updated and SL friendly!

I have a new 3GS.

snow leopard has definitely made my machine faster: apps load faster, wakes up from sleep quicker, boots up and shuts down quicker too

hate how it has to quit and re-open prefs. for some of the pref panes tho

Right, that's to load 32-bit prefs, apparently. It seems like a lame implementation but maybe it's the best available.

Shutdown is really damn quick, yeah.

I've been switching between the 3GS and the OG iPhone for testing and the difference in speed there is nuts. OG really crawls along sometimes.

hey dudes, I don't think you are actually getting 7GB back...are you?

Understanding storage drive capacity in Mac OS X v10.6 and later

In Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, storage capacity is displayed as per product specifications (base 10). A 200 GB drive show 200 GB capacity (for example, if you select the hard drive's icon and choose Get Info from the Finder's File menu, then look at the Capacity line). This means that, for example, if you upgrade from an earlier version of Mac OS X, your drive may show more capacity than in the earlier Mac OS X version.

The storage drive in your Apple product, like all storage drives, uses some capacity for formatting, so actual storage available for applications will be less. In addition, other factors, such as pre-installed systems or other software and media, will also use part of the available storage capacity on the drive.

fresh installs are quite a lot smaller because it no longer installs all printer drivers (downloads them as needed, saving 2-3GB), but the base-10 thing is apparently the the main factor in 'i have 10GB more space after upgrades.

who cares whether 7GB is 7GB dyao!!! 7GB is 7GB!!!!

lol

sorry I ws drunk when I wrote tht I think

anyway, new quicktime > old quicktime, for the lack of chrome alone

Do I still need flip4mac? It seemed to be doing some crazy looping to generate previews when I went to a directory of .wmvs.

I removed it for that reason. I use QT's editing, but never with WMVs, and when I do need to just play one I use VLC or mplayer.

There's a new beta out that works with Quicktime X but it's very slow

why does os x only ship w/8 or 9 solid colour desktop backgrounds and no colour-selector wheel??

Does anyone know how to make the Quicktime 7 player the default over that Quicktime X hot mess?

Get Info on a movie.

i installed this on the Lovely Emma B's first-gen Macbook Pro (yes, I found a copy of Leopard) and the performance increase is VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE.

i think it's mostly down to much faster loading and quitting times for Mail and Safari, but the Finder is MUCH more responsive, and Spotlight too. given the fact that the Lovely Emma B spends about 75% of her time with these applications this is very pleasant!

i mean, Safari opens in less than a bounce. this is a three-year-old, non-64-bit computer.

party time: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars

the performance boost in spotlight from tiger to leopard was unholy; I ditched quicksilver

gah, this pisses me off:

"(As an aside to non-Mac users, note that the non-server version of Mac OS X has no per-user serial number and no activation scheme of any kind, and never has. "Registration" with Apple during the Mac OS X install process is entirely optional and is only used to collect demographic information. Failing to register (or entering entirely bogus registration information) has no effect on your ability to run the OS. This is considered a genuine advantage of Mac OS X, but it also means that Apple has no reliable record of who, exactly, is a "legitimate" owner of Leopard.)"

because mac store doof insisted I needed the 'family pack' version which was $49 if I wanted to install it on two machines. This is the sort of shit these doofs are supposed to let you in on!

My £8 Snowy upgrade may or may not have serviced three computers already, and may or may not be lent to a friend who bought a Mac a week before the £8 cut off date too.

The Mac dude in the store who sold me my iPhone also suggested that Snowy would install absolutely fine on older versions of the OS, it just wont work with PowerPC chips.

Dear Snow Leopard:

I love how you have made my almost 3-year-old computer fast again and how you don't fuck around.

Big ups,

N

"snowy"

Yeah, no more PowerPC, at least not in new OS versions. I had to think about it a while when I read that PPC-based Macs haven't been released in almost four years. It really hasn't seemed like that long.

New Mac, new snow leopard, lovely.

SUPERCHUNK

haha wrong thread

It is never the wrong thread for Superchunk.

You know what is great about snow leopard, different desktop background for different monitors.

leopard does that too

Perhaps the "rock and roll" bit of the tease for this Wednesday's event is about rocking and rolling as new control mechanisms for iPods.

i really can't tell any difference in speed in either of the computers I installed this on (2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo macbook pro, and a slower mac mini), but the increased hard drive storage is nice, I guess.

Aperture and Mail open astonishingly quickly on my home computer. But it is brand new and has 4gb of RAM etc etc.

32GB iPod Touch down from $399 to $279.
16GB version down from $299 to $249.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/the-incredible-shrinking-ipod-prices-undercut-the-zune-hd/

Only $30 difference between 32GB and 16GB now - you'd be silly not to pay the extra.

No equivalent cuts in UK store, I note.

Oooh, finally got around to installing Snow Leopard. Enjoying the extra space, is noticeably more speed for me as well and I'm on a new comp

Have opted for the actual snow leopard bckgr as feels appropriate. Also pretty.

got my 32 gb less than a month ago, wonder if apple will adjust the price for me.

hell no they won't

Jobs is tablet-crazy, says the WSJ, which does seem to have the inside track on Apple these days.

iTunes getting "Genius mixes" which am guessing is like Spotify playlists only you pay for them and they'll be shit
http://emberapp.com/sophia/images/itunes-9-1

“I’m very happy to be here with you all. As some of you might know, I had a liver transplant.” He said he now has the liver of a 20 year old who died in a car crash, and he thanks him for his generosity.

That...reads weird.

http://alexanderpetrov.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/seven-pounds-will-smith2.jpg

"I have the heart of an 18-year-old! He will be sorely missed."

iLiver

steve looking really really skinny now

he looked thin before, but he's positively gaunt now