but ya, dont know if u can play them
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
get a 13" macbook pro and a 21"+ Dell monitor. Once you go dual monitor, you never go back, you get the benefit of big screen(s) at home and having a laptop. win-win.― dan selzer, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 12:21 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― dan selzer, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 12:21 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OTM --- this is what i want.
― and Watt (gbx), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got a 17" MBP (no external, my 20" ACD isn't large enough to bother) and I don't like it. I thought I could live with my iTunes directory on a separate HD, but since that runs video from there too it's kind of a pain. Maybe when I can stick a 2TB disc in my laptop it would be okay, but for right now the space limitations and having to use an external aren't worth it for me.
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like it being my only computer, that is. The MBP itself has been fantastic.
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, suck it suckstsky!
― cozen, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
totally gonna get a PS3 soon anyway so it's academic
― cozen, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
this thing gruber linked works so much better on my macbook than any flash ;_;http://jilion.com/sublime/video
― cozen, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
it's jerky and maxes out one of my cores on my macbook ;_;
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
you can enter the youtube html5 beta here if you use safari or chrome:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
my cpu temps stay below 60 (80+ for flash) but the browsing bar doesn't always keep up with the video. also a lot fewer jerks/freezes in the video
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oooh dyao - i will try that link on my aging G4 when i get home
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i should just say "aged" at this point
dog years are x7.. my g4 is what, 5 years old at this point so we could say that computer years are.. x14?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I kinda wish I hadn't sold my 12" powerbook...
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I have a friend who's a hardcore 12" PB loyalist.
What's wrong with the 13" MBP?
― scratch paper (lukas), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing! the 13" is great. just nostalgic, that's all.
meanwhile, my 15" MBP unibody seems to be a victim of a pretty common screen flickering problem. no idea what's causing it but I think I will buy applecare in case there's some big nVidia reveal later down the road.
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
how do u kno if the yt vid ur watching is displaying in html5 and not flash?
― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
widgets look a little bit different and http://www.youtube.com/html5 gives you the chance to leave (rather than join) the html5 beta
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I've opted in but it says it doesn't cover all vids; I want to know when it is and isn't in effect so I can guage difference in performance seems dumb tht it doesn't say somewhere on a vids page tht it's showing w/html5
― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ah right. dunno. the widgets do look subtly different i think.
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
d'oh! there's a little pause before the vid starts and it says html5 right in the centre
― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
it is SOME BULLSHIT that I can't just easily redownload all of the itunes content I've paid for in one click
― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
any...second....nowor a few months.I'd like one as well. Get rid of the optical drive alltogether. There's a company that will replace it with another hard-drive but it's a battery hog and heat generator. I basically would like a macbook air pro.― dan selzer, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 1:26 PM (Yesterday)
or a few months.
I'd like one as well. Get rid of the optical drive alltogether. There's a company that will replace it with another hard-drive but it's a battery hog and heat generator. I basically would like a macbook air pro.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 1:26 PM (Yesterday)
OTM. I wonder how long it'll be before Apple stops shipping all their laptops with optical drives. It might take a while, but it'll happen.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
*without, obv
http://i50.tinypic.com/2mpfmzc.gif
― cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly can't get the idea of plants vs. zombies ON IPAD out of my mind
― cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the more I think about the iPad the more I can see how I can integrate it into my homelife. like, having your entire recipe collection ON IPAD while in the kitchen. or using it as a giant universal remote.
― dyao, Thursday, 4 February 2010 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think CDs or DVDs are going to go out of regular use for at least some time dudes. it'll happen eventually, but there's still plenty of them out there and selling in the mainstream, so people can rip their Taylor Swift CDs.
so true. amazon pulls this crap too, and it's not like they don't have the bandwidth to spare, they're in the damn business
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 February 2010 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
^that's not even the worst thing, as I discovered last night from some quick googling. it's not only tht u can't easily/quickly redownload itunes purchases but tht in the case of music you can't redownload the files at all, without going through some at-the-discretion-of-apple laborious process
wtf
― cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I'm ditching the 27-inch iMac. There are too many problems with reported on it swimming around the net, it's waaaaaaaay to big for where I want to put it, it's power overkill for how I'm going to be using the machine (at least initially) and it's more money than I actually want to spend.
Tracking down performance stats on the 3.06 processer vs the 3.33 processor seems to be harder than it should be.
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
What are you going to use it for? Have trouble imagining that 3.06 + a bunch of RAM is going to feel slow to you.
― scratch paper (lukas), Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Home studio, mostly. I am pretty sure I'll be fine with 3.06 but I'm a processor/RAM whore.
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
in terms of raw performance, splitting hairs over the difference between 3.06/3.33 will be nowhere near as effective as swapping out the hard drive for a SSD (admittedly, they are $$$ and you will lose a lot of storage space.)
― dyao, Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Just finished setting up the 27" i7 - daaaaaaaaamn
Screen looks excellent, no flickering issues (yet), fast.
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Friday, 5 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Trying to finagle my way into getting one 'for work' - "look, I can keep track of everything that happens day to day in iCal" "um, isn't that on your current computer?"
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Friday, 5 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread is making me want a 2nd monitor. And hey, it's a business expense!
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Friday, 5 February 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
3.0 is plenty fast enough for a home studio. my 'real' studio still uses a g5 and even that is alright for the most part.
― akm, Friday, 5 February 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
So, reformatting my iMac. I've noticed that much older computers than mine perform better than mine in rendering time, snappiness, etc, so I thought I'd get it set up so that I keep my Final Cut/video stuff as separate from the rest of my computer stuff as possible. Is it insane/unnecessary to create two Snow Leopard disks? Or would I get the same benefits from just having two users?
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Older computers that are kept as clean workstations, I mean.
http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php
well shit
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the moral
buy their stock not their computers?
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.yourprops.com/norm-492d0bb2e8c7b-Back+To+The+Future+2+%281989%29.jpeg
― caek, Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Ow, that's sobering - are they likely to increase another forty times in the next six years, does anyone know?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
wouldn't put it past them
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
bought aapl in late 2005, cashed out around late 2007 when i decided i didn't understand wtf was going on in the global economy shitbin enough to be investing. ~2.5x profit, but hindsight a bitch.
― caek, Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
27" iMac design was supposed to have been fixed earlier in the year. However, a Mac technician I know is still seeing an inordinate number of these coming back, I think even ones built after the supposed fix. That said a friend of mine has one definitely built after the fix and it's fine.
― fields of salmon, Sunday, 25 April 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The mindblowingest thing about that page imo is that Apple ever sold a $5700 laptop!
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Sunday, 25 April 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Do they have a model that's that $$$$ today? Also, what is the most expensive thing they've ever sold to the general public? According to Wikipedia, the Lisa was "$9,995 US ($21,693.67 in 2009 dollars)."
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Sunday, 25 April 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
my new macbook pro is just travelled from shanghai to anchorage to newark and should be on it's way to maspeth soon...
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
the mac pro can get pretty expensive (5-6000) if you deck it out with upgrades
― dyªº (dyao), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i have options but i'm out of the loop:
13" core 2 duo 2.4ghz + 10 hours + NVIDIA 320M built-in = £104013" core 2 duo 2.66ghz + 10 hours + NVIDIA 320M built-in = £122515" i5 2.4gz + 8-9 hours + NVIDIA 330M+256MB built-in = £1450
all are with 4GB + 500GB + applecare + display adapters and the prices are UK education. i don't actually care about the display size that much (certainly not to justify the cost), but how much difference is the i5 going to make? i am currently rocking a macbook with 2ghz C2D + 2GB, so i wonder if the 13" options would be noticeably faster at all.
your thoughts?
― caek, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i5 is definitely a step-up from c2d in terms of processor architecture/future proofing. go for the i5
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link