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I went for a Duo, yeah. Went for a gig of RAM; would have liked to gone for 2 GB but money wasn't quite allowing for it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 September 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would I want that on my mp3s?

It's something that the classical music fans have been wanting for years

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 24 September 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

a shower?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 September 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i know that joke makes no sense

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 September 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

They've updated Aperture so among other things, it works on any intel-based Mac, and lets you store your images anywhere. Whee.

― stet (stet), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i got a DSLR this weekend so: awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well that was handy -- mentioned idly to some of my coworkers in library computer systems about my purchase and selling the old Cube and one of 'em's interested. Nice! We agreed on a general price based on what I'm seeing on eBay and hopefully it'll all come through.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i'm thinking of selling my PB to a friend and going for a new MB/MBP so as to better do video/photo stuff on the fly and such.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Aperture 1.5 is so much better than previous versions, It is finally has the snappy. Still can't be trusted to auto set exposure, but I think it has finally hit beta grade. It might be a half decent product by the time lightroom ships.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I would go as far to say that 10.4.8 has improved a lot of things on Intel macs, Safari, finder and rosetta apps all seem to respond faster.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

new macbook pro core 2 duo superwang http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

can't decide whether to buy now or to wait for santa rosa/leopard

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

if you can't decide, wait. prices will always get lower and tech will always get better. the only reason to ever buy a computer is because you absolutely have to have it right then.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

He's quite right. I was waiting on my own upgrade for a long while until my Cube's CDR drive finally died, and as it happens I'm glad I waited!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i need a serious upgrade....12" is slower than shit now that I've maxed the hard drive

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, has anyone here every done the monthly payments deal on a mac, or have you always bought outright?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

always leave at least 10% free! sheesh, you kids!!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Always outright, leasing has its attractions though.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

always leave at least 10% free! sheesh, you kids!!!

I know, I know, but how am I supposed to fit all this Justin Timberlake??

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Due to a lag in some back pay I went monthly, but in a two-year plan via my local federal credit union so I was able to get a good loan rate (hell of a lot better than on a credit card), and it comes out of a regular monthly deposit I make to them anyway. As it is once the back pay hash gets settled I'll just pay the whole thing off, and since I went for AppleCare I'm covered for three years regardless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

my advice: ALWAYS go for edu discount. even if you're not exactly uh entitled to it. they never check.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway i may actually wait, though that'll mean i'll get a worse price for my current powerbook... and it is running kinda slow these days.

i wish i had bought more ram at the outset :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i get an educational discount, for REAL!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I just pulled the trigger on the middle 15" model with a 200GB drive.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

you shot a really expensive computer?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i woulda gone for the 200gb drive but 4200rpm = oh no you didn't

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

my advice: ALWAYS go for edu discount.

Heheh, yes. (I forgot to mention that the credit union is the teachers' one here in OC, with an office handily on the campus. And since I do work for a university...)

i wish i had bought more ram at the outset :(

I'm fine with the 1 GB now but we'll see what the future brings.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ya, 4200 is stupid slow.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

How many platters, though? 4200 rpm seems damn slow, but when the data density is a lot greater it's not so bad since one rotation is picking up a lot more data than you were on, say, a 60GB drive.

Seek time can be a bitch, though.

― mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

ya, 4200 is stupid slow.

Don't care. I have an external FW800 drive that's 7200.

You did notice that the new PowerBooks have onboard FW800, right?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to say that the new core 2 duo 24" imac is sore tempting me towards a purchase (despite paying UK price I also get the edu discount so makes it a bit sweeter). I recently bought in a load of (whisper it) C2D Dell Precision 390s for academics at my workplace and they are stupidly fast, prompting good comments from even notorious grumblers - can anyone confirm if the imacs also have this real, perceptible feeling of "money well spent" in terms of speed?

― Bill A (Bill A), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't care. I have an external FW800 drive that's 7200.

Chris, don't be a dunce... you know that perceived slowness in normal operations will come from the having a slow disk with the OS on it. 7200 rpm on an external is only going to help you for copying those 4 gig hentai mpgs

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

This isn't the I Hate Apple thread, but my Mac Pro resonates and it's driving me nuts. The hard-drive sled design looks nifty-cool, but apparently transfers every rattle and hum of the drives onto removable side of the case. I can either sit with my foot against the side or fund a piece of rubber to fit somewhere.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

now that they've switched to intel chips will there finally be microsoft access for OSX??

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the educational pricing thing always bums me out. only 12.5% off? i get a better discount at the bookstore!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you know that perceived slowness in normal operations will come from the having a slow disk with the OS on it.

Dumb question then. Is the SATA internal drive bus speed all that more awesome on the Mac Books than on previous models? I switched out the internal 4200 on my PowerBook G4 with a 5400 and noticed zero performance difference. Yeah yeah I know, the PBG4 has Ultra ATA and all that...

The 4GB hentai mpgs have been superseded by full res images from the LA Library archives.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

now that they've switched to intel chips will there finally be microsoft access for OSX??

if you run windows on it, yes. i don't think the chip is the hinderance to this.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

well the old risc chips couldn't handle 32-bit ODBC

or so claimed the local "genius"

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

a more commonsense explanation that appeals better to me was that nobody was willing to write drivers for it. not sure which.

i'd sure like MS access for OSX, though. fuck a dual OS!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

well the old risc chips couldn't handle 32-bit ODBC

It was more a case of there not being enough demand on the Apple platform (for good reason, Access is only really useful for the PC-dominated office world anyway). Don't expect it to be ported to OS X any time soon. Just install Parallels or something.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

well the old risc chips couldn't handle 32-bit ODBC

I've spent entire days setting up database drivers and I have no idea what the hell this means, other than throwing "risc," "32-bit," and "ODBC" into the same sentence makes you sound really technical.

― mh. (mike h.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd sure like MS access for OSX, though. fuck a dual OS!

B-b-b-but FIleMaker!

(posted only because I make my living as a FileMaker developer)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha you would.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

New laptop was waiting for me when I arrived back home. Took a couple hours to migrate over and now I have all my usual apps running and am barely using up 8% processor capacity.

Er, wow!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

By way of a speed test, I fired up BOINC and timed how long it took to process a SETI@Home work unit: 21 minutes...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

what does it usually take? and what are your usual apps?

I WANTS.

you have the c2d mbp right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

what does it usually take?

10 hours on my old PB G4 1.5

and what are your usual apps?

Mail, Safari, NetNewsWire, iCal, iTunes, Xtorrent, FileMaker, BluePhoneElite, Skype

you have the c2d mbp right?

Yeah

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

how much RAM?

that's all kind of exciting... i'm running a 1ghz PB now and that bump sounds WAY worth it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

how much RAM?

2GB. I ended up succumbing to the peer pressure upthread and got the 160GB/5400 drive

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

did you go for the 2.16 or the 2.33?

way i see it the 2.33 isn't THAT much more if you're going to go for 2gb/160gb anyway

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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