New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/27/apple-may-discontinue-the-ipod-shuffle-and-classic/

Just bought a 160 Gb classic to replace my 3yo 120 Gb classic. Fuck an ipod touch imo.

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:30 (6 hours ago)

I want to get a Classic to replace my old 8GB Nano as at the moment I find I'm just using my iPhone for music. However I've heard the latest build is a bit flaky and problems around 12 months are common. Plus here in the UK apparently they are volume restricted which means even on full volume they can sometimes be hard to hear if there's a lot of background noise around you

Are they volume restricted everywhere now? Used to be you could download the US firmware and flash an iPod to remove the volume limit, but that seems to have stopped.

My iPod classic is definitely quiet. iPhone seems better, interestingly.

I don't think we're restricted.

Think it's just a European Union thing after some French lawsuit

just one more reason to get a nice portable pre-amp

The screen on my first gen Intel Macbook finally bit the dust. The whole machine was on its last legs anyway.

So.... new computer! I think it's time for a desktop machine, since I actually moved my laptop probably three times total last year. I wish I could afford the Pros, but frankly I don't need the power.

Torn between iMac and Mini + monitor.

I love my Mini/monitor setup but I would.

I guess it comes down to.... what, connections?

imacs r rad machines fwiw

From what I understand the mini has an upgradeable HD (and room for two?)... so I could stick an SSD in there?

Any thoughts on Intel HD Graphics 3000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M?

apparently yes / radeon, intel graphics = poop

hmm

I'm not a desktop gamer and will probably only be driving a 21" monitor

that said I know the iMac displays are faaaaahbulous. (though I don't like the gloss!)

iMac owners are like the happiest people i know

my work loaned me an imac and love it

its a 2007 model and its run fantastically since i maxed out the ram for like $50

Basically my temptation is to get the bare-bones Mac Mini, take it apart and stuff it with RAM and an SSD, and get a cheap monitor to go with it..

yeah the intel graphics will do stuff that's not games w/o problems

my santa rosa 2.3 ghz MBP 15" has a scratched display, a full 120 GB HD, a busted optical drive and two missing keys (r and +).

still, i am wondering whether it would be more cost-effective to "rehabilitate it" vs getting a new MBP / macbook pro air (if and when that happens)

it seems like lion is built for a different machine, no matter what i try to do to tune it up lion just crawls.

lol i have just checked out the instrux for installing a second HD in the mini and..... fuck that

v4h1d i'd imagine your machine would be plenty fast. RAM maxed out? 10% free on HD? you could try getting a faster and bigger HD maybe..

i have 2x2 gb ... does this go up to 2x4 gb?

CS5 is actually really zippy, oddly what seems to crawl is the OS and stuff like iphoto and iwork. that would indicate i need more HD?

maybe i should get an SSD

^

I just want the bare bones mini with a goddamn SSD, why is the universe conspiring against me??

for what a mini with SSD costs i may as well just get an air!!

why not get an air and plug it into a cheap monitor?

yes, that's sort of what i'm thinking

my days of knowing where the "spudger" tool is in my house are behind me, i think

it seems like lion is built for a different machine, no matter what i try to do to tune it up lion just crawls.

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Friday, September 30, 2011 11:37 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

probably because of the full HD. you don't have enough virtual ram/swap space

a 500 gb hard drive is like $50 now, p cheap. if you have a unibody the swap is pretty easy to do, just need a torx mini screwdriver.

you can remove the optical drive while you're in there and swap in a drive caddy, carry around 2 HDs in yer mac.

use time machine or super duper to clone the old drive to the new. voila!

drive caddies are cheap now too [via ebay] like $20

vahid, if you need hard drive space and want reasonable performance increase (not ssd levels) get one of those momentus xt drives. I have that + 8GB in a MBP from... uh, 2009? Works great.

btw 8GB of memory is like $50

thinking abt putting a drive caddy w/an ssd drive in my mbp to run the system stuff and keeping all my files on the 1tb drive thats already in there, what i really want is an air tho

airs are pretty sweet def

maybe i am getting carried away... maybe i don't need all the razzmatazz. what if i don't get an SSD, am i gonna die? no. maybe i should just get a cheap mini + monitor. all the same, given my past form this is gonna be my computer for the next six years...

who wants to buy a 1 y/o mbp!

u should get an imac tracer serious

all this is reminding me of my freshman year roommate's advice, still sage today: "don't ask yourself what computer you want, find out how much you can spend, and then just buy that"

My new desktop PC at work has a SSD and since 90% of my work is doing stuff in an IDE that recompiles shit constantly... my life is about one million times better now.

I don't really notice a big diff between my air w/ the ssd and my mbp w/ a magnet drive, the only diff is in opening apps

It really depends what kind of apps you run! Also, if you reboot it's a lot faster with a SSD.

yeah but the point of having a mac is to NEVER REBOOT

most of my work consists of not doing any work and reading this one plain txt message bord, described as a percentage how much more efficient will i be w/a ssd

i keep oscillating. starting to come back around to the imac. and then my latent SSD-want kicks up, and i'm faced with shit like this, which makes me pull my hair out:

1TB Serial ATA Drive
2TB Serial ATA Drive [+ £112.80]
256GB Solid State Drive [+ £375.60]
1TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive [+ £451.20]
2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive [+ £564.00]

i mean i want SSD - i have even convinced myself i need it - but do i really want to spend the price of a 1999 Ford Fiesta on it?

honestly I don't think the SSD tradeoff is worth it unless you are a pro photoshop or final cut user

one pro of the mac mini is that everything, including the monitor, is discrete and replaceable should it breaks. imacs are all or nothing after applecare is over, yeah?

yep

well I guess a fried logic board (aka motherboard) is a fried logic board. but a ram/hd would be pretty swappable in a mini if you had a spudger. think you need like magnets and suction cups and a crowbar to get into an imac

by the way i have an Expresscard SSD drive for sale if anyone wants it. never used. it will work on any Macbook with an Expresscard slot (except the very first two Macbooks ever produced, i.e. 1.1 and 1.2, i.e. mine)