New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

now that you're all thoroughly discounting whatever I say, I'll note that I'm not seeing too much quality difference between the ipad 2 and ipad 3 screenshots

however

ipad 2 = 968 KB
ipad 3 = 3.20 MB

this is the type of stuff that has the potential to affect 16GB users, unless you're sir cloud or something

flagging all of your posts from now on, fyi

:)

Not seeing a diff in the iPads, or in the screenshots viewed on another device? You also have to realize you are scaling up the video on iPad 3 and scaling it down on iPad 2.

That is, assuming you downloaded a 1080p one. If it's off YouTube, you are probbably viewing a lower res.

Edward III is not to be trusted

lol

in the screenshots on a different device (to eliminate the display diff between the ipads)

the trailer was the same 1080 mp4 file loaded to both ipads, not youtube

I respect your testing methodology

btw if you're viewing them on a diff device then it completely negates the fact we're talking about whether the iPad screen looks good, not whether it can render things to static files better than iPad 2, sheesh

because I am insane I loaded the screenshots to both ipads, I can see a slight diff between the two (minor pixelation) if I zoom in on details (like on the thing that looks like an old pushmower on the left hand side of the capture)

and I'm not so much interested in the quality difference as in the potential for organic file bloat, just something to take into consideration if folks are trying to make the 16/32/64 decision

yeah I'm sort of terrified to see the file size of the first retina new yorker

yeah... I appreciate that file sizes relative to terrible -> good -> great -> excellent quality pix is not an equal distribution, high quality chews up disk space disproportionately... I'm not sure if apple does tho. too early to tell really, but the next iteration of ipad might need to support 32/64/128 if something like a native screenshot is going to increase 3x going from ipad 2 -> ipad 3... and what that means for app developers....

but that's kinda why I got the 16GB... I'll be yr guinea pig thx

thanks for the help ilxers, just ordered the refurb. woo hoo!

pdf rendering/drawing can be painfully slow, omfg

my annotation app is completely up the shithole

what were you using? been kinda wanting an annotation app, tho I guess if it's up the shithole the point is moot.

really pleased w/ battery life. not exactly nonstop use but have brought it to several hour+ meetings and done the odd netflixing (and screen capturing obv ha), still at 57% after two days.

So I'm going to have to buy a new laptop in the next month or two, and I was wondering if you guys know anything about the rumors that Apple might drop the cd/dvd drive from their laptop and make most of the the Air versions? Has any used a macbook air, what are the shortcomings? I can live without a dvd drive as long as I have plenty of storage. The processors seem smaller than the macbook pros and I'm wondering if they are slower? I'm wondering if they release a 15" macbook air will they increase the chips to quads and how will the price run?

I like the screen better, it's an old-style glossy screen rather than covered with a sheet of glass as Apple does with the MBPs.
No slower for most things than a MBP, but for design/photo/video work they're probably not as good.

If they drop the Superdrive from most MBPs, I'd expect the specs to remain similar to current MBPs, they'll just try to save some weight/thickness by going SSD and not having the SD.

Yeah I do miss those older screens.

I'll mainly use my computer for ripping records and scanning, and I saw the air comes with two usb ports and a headphone jack, so that's all I need but I'm should I worry about cpu capacity or shortcomings?

I... don't think so? I've never really pushed laptops, except when I was using a 15" MBP as my main computer with Lightroom and everything.

All new Apples come with a Thunderbolt port, which would make putting ripped records on external drives much faster (you'd have to get TBolt drives, though).

Thanks, I dread buying a new computer in the next month and then in the summer apple releases new laptops. But I can't wait around...

The 13" is pretty neat for using on the couch or w/e, but it can actually be a bit awkward for typing because it's so light (the screen half seems to weigh more). Carrying in a bag for school/work and then at home, I'd probably prefer the MBP line overall. The added weight is negligible IMO.

That's what I just had, but I lost it to coffee, my um forth mac to lose to liquids. I have no complaints aside from it getting hot on the bottom. Just thought I might try something new.

i just migrated from a ~2yr old top of the line MBP to a new top of the line MBA. for "normal use" (web, video, even lightroom), the MBA probably feels faster (via SSD). i take it to/from work every day, and travel a lot, and the weight/size difference is really noticable.

for "serious use" (which for me is number crunching) the MBP is slightly faster, but it's not a deal breaker.

the consensus seems to be that the MBP and MBA lines are about to merge (and effectively all become airs), probably some time in the next couple of months: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro.

maybe they'll keep around the 17". feel like they must keep something with a mechanical (i.e. v large) hard drive

also fwiw the 15" MBP and the 13" MBA have the same display resolution, so you don't feel much more cramped on the A.

We have an 11" MBA and I love it, but it's nowhere near to being a main computer (typing at a 20" iMac).

i have a 13" air and it feels like everything a laptop should be

my GF has a pro and the only noticeable difference is w/ photoshop stuff. i think she wishes shed gotten an air

can't belive how often I'm getting the beachball since a month or two on my 2y.o MBP

I want "getting the beachball" to be some kind of new sex slang

How much memory and hard disk space do you have in it? In my experience it's either low memory or low disk space that does that.

sort of been happening to me too ever since i upgraded to lion :( i have 8gb of memory and over 100gb of hard disk space. also got a couple of what appeared to be kernel panics (screen blacked out and computer was unresponsive)

:(

:(

:(

I had weird crap like that and it ended up being a weird mouse driver I'd installed previously? Not sure, stuff like that always seems to be old kernel extensions that the new OS doesn't get along with.

Didn't Michael Hutchence "get the beach ball" just before he croaked?

:(

this behaviour is nearly always the HD croaking ime

shut up.

are you serious???

*has panic attack*

I did get a lot of random beachball when my hard drive was dying! I have to admit that since the addition of the motion sensors and such I've not had that issue as much.

BACK UP NOW

tbh it hasn't been a TON of beachballing, but the system has been noticeably slower since i installed lion, which is super annoying cuz i was so happy with how smooth it was since upgrading to 8gb of ram a few months ago

flash?

how rude!

: (

I've become a big fan of Console. My computer had been slowing down over the last few months, more and more sluggish. I have a 2008 Mac Pro, Dual Quad Core with 10 gigs of ram and 5 hard drives in various states of fullness. On one hand, I figured it's a pretty powerful computer. On the other hand it's getting a little old. Tons of beach balls, and my iTunes, which was 498 gigs on a 500 gig drive was painfully slow.

First I noticed some of the RAM wasn't showing up, so I sent it back to OWC to get replaced. Without the bad ram it seemed to help. Then with Console I noticed some weird thing crashing every 40 seconds. I discovered it was from my Xrite monitor calibrator, buggy software checking my license. Lots of people complaining. I trashed that and it helped.

But still was kind of slow. I had been using SuperDuper to dupe my system drive nightly and it kept crashing. I emailed them about it and they said it was stopping because of certain files. Delete those files manually and try again. It kept crashing. SuperDuper tech guy says "sounds like the drive is failing".

I run Disk Warrior on the drive, it fixes a bunch of directory things, but SuperDuper still can't copy it.

I used Lion Restore to put Lion back on a different hard drive. It must use Time Machine because it wasn't like a clean install, it had all my extensions and everything, just had to re-enter a few serial numbers.

So I bought at 2 gig hard drive. Set it up as Time Machine. Moved all my music from a 500gig to a 1 TB and switched my system drive from what it was on (the original 320 gig that came with the computer) to a 500 gig drive.

Now everything feels like a brand new computer. iTunes is effortless scrolling through my almost 500 gig library (70,646 items).

System feels zippy, things run fast.

Looking at console and seeing weird things, googling them and seeing if they're cause for concern, and trashing things has been a huge help. I have a fare amount of little add-ons I didn't want to get rid of. Finding out which ones were buggy was crucial.

But yeah, in the end, the slow-downs were the hard-drive dying.

Try cloning the drive onto an external and boot from that and see if it's any different. If it's faster, it's the drive. If it's the same problem, it's what's on the drive.

It's looking like my secondhand yet tricked-out Mac Pro isn't going to be supported by Mountain Lion, unless they expand to a few older computers. Sad, since it runs like a dream.

omg, thank god I just make the cut. After all that work outlined above if they dropped support I'd lose my shit.