New Apple Lust Objects

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

yeah, not healthy looking at all. Still, operation was barely 6 months ago or something.

Home sharing: at last. Wonder what the price of Genius Mix is.

Is this the Cocktail shit?

Dave fucking Matthews.

gonna buy me an ipod so this better be good

Ha, I wasn't even paying attention, bought an iPod Touch yesterday.

I mean, it was free with rebate (new MacBook Pro w/ education discount) and bought with the sole purpose of selling, but still.

LP is the cocktail shit.

Sorry - yeah, I was following the Engadget coverage and commenting on here.

One last thing - we are going to sell your crappy games to play on your phone.

video camera?!

IPod Happy slap

nano has FM radio

A fucking FM radio. A fucking FM radio, for fuck's sake.

2009

THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF AN FM RADIO STOMPING ON A HIPSTER'S FACE FOREVER.

Norah Jones!

Can I buy a remastered boxset of all her crappy songs?

With bonus video!

Man, now I can carry around an FM radio and all my favourite Norah Jones songs... on one device! And only pay $150 for the privilege.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2835/jobsyt.jpg

OMG the FM radio has a DVR-style capability so you can rewind songs. It'll be kind of like having some kind of mp3 player on your iPod.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

oh god i remember that one