Should I buy an Apple laptop?

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.

how do u kno if the yt vid ur watching is displaying in html5 and not flash?

widgets look a little bit different and http://www.youtube.com/html5 gives you the chance to leave (rather than join) the html5 beta

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

ah right. dunno. the widgets do look subtly different i think.

d'oh! there's a little pause before the vid starts and it says html5 right in the centre

it is SOME BULLSHIT that I can't just easily redownload all of the itunes content I've paid for in one click

any...second....now

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.

*without, obv

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srsly can't get the idea of plants vs. zombies ON IPAD out of my mind

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.

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.

it is SOME BULLSHIT that I can't just easily redownload all of the itunes content I've paid for in one click

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

^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

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.

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.

Home studio, mostly. I am pretty sure I'll be fine with 3.06 but I'm a processor/RAM whore.

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.)

Just finished setting up the 27" i7 - daaaaaaaaamn

Screen looks excellent, no flickering issues (yet), fast.

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?"

This thread is making me want a 2nd monitor. And hey, it's a business expense!

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.

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?

Older computers that are kept as clean workstations, I mean.

http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php

well shit

what's the moral

buy their stock not their computers?

http://www.yourprops.com/norm-492d0bb2e8c7b-Back+To+The+Future+2+%281989%29.jpeg

Ow, that's sobering - are they likely to increase another forty times in the next six years, does anyone know?

wouldn't put it past them

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.

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.

The mindblowingest thing about that page imo is that Apple ever sold a $5700 laptop!

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)."

my new macbook pro is just travelled from shanghai to anchorage to newark and should be on it's way to maspeth soon...

the mac pro can get pretty expensive (5-6000) if you deck it out with upgrades

i have options but i'm out of the loop:

13" core 2 duo 2.4ghz + 10 hours + NVIDIA 320M built-in = £1040
13" core 2 duo 2.66ghz + 10 hours + NVIDIA 320M built-in = £1225
15" 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?

i5 is definitely a step-up from c2d in terms of processor architecture/future proofing. go for the i5

not really about the clockspeed - the i5 spanks the previous gen c2d, even the 2.8, in just about every test:

http://www.macworld.com/article/147273/2010/04/benchmarks_corei5mbp_15in240ghz.html

I have the first on your list, it's a nice piece of kit but I don't do anything that pushes the processor so I can't comment on that. I did some reading around when the new MBPs were released, I think the consensus was there isn't really any point upgrading from a recent 13" to the new ones.

my 13" is late-2006, so already pretty old, but i dropped it a couple of weeks ago and smashed the screen and broke wifi and the CD drive, so whatever i get will be a considerable upgrade in the sense that it works.

If money's a factor there are some good refurbs on the store right now (as of yestdy anyway)

just bought the 15" i5 2.53Ghz. lol.

good job yo

^^ but I also feel it is my duty to inform you that i5/i7s apparently have a freezing issue?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=912218

dunno how widespread it is or if you will be affected (should have linked to this yesterday :/)

you'll note that isn't even on my list of options. i see numbers i get excited.

and it came with a free (with rebate) ipod touch, which i can give to my mum, who has wanted one for ages but is a bit weird about me spending money on her, but totally deserves it : )))

haha, i'm used to far worse. those kids don't know they're born.

u r a good son

haha okay, so long as you're going in with both eyes open

ordered a tube of thermal paste today, will likely be opening up my mbp and reapplying thermal grease next week.

you have this freezing problem yourself?

no, I have the previous gen, which has a screen flickering problem