New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I still feel all ;_; that my old mac pro that I bought used just over a year ago (and pimped out) will not get snow leopard

I can play Diablo 3 on it, Apple, please take that as a sign it is worth supporting

feel like the jump from MBP display -> MBP retina display will feel like jump from ipad 2 -> ipad 3, i.e. not all that stunning

YOU'RE not all that stunning

Was having some last-minute angst about the lack of a matte screen option on the MBP Retina, but then I realized whenever I used my GF's new MBA the glossy didn't bother me too much.

Pulled trigger on maxed-out MBP Retina. At least I can take in the screen while I eat ramen for the next year to pay for this thing.

whoa

dont forget applecare

iPad 2 > 3 jump is pretty stunning for me. Text is infinitely improved. Not sure that's a big deal on a MBP screen tho.
Most photos online being 1024 on the long side @ 72dpi limits Retina usefulness, IMO.

I'm sure stet can cook up a retina.css stylesheet for ILX

ipad 2 -> 3 jump is day and night ffs

Pulled trigger on maxed-out MBP Retina. At least I can take in the screen while I eat ramen for the next year to pay for this thing.

$3750?

At least I can take in the screen play crysis at 40 fps while I eat ramen for the next year to pay for this thing.

$3750?

Nope. As a member of a printing industry consortium, I get a discount direct from the source (so to speak).

At least I can play crysis at 40 fps while I eat ramen for the next year to pay for this thing.

OH COME ON. The retina-optimized Diablo 3 please!

dont forget applecare

I never do.

If anything, since I make my living as a developer I can take the business expense write-off.

You don't need "retina optimized" you sillies, it just runs in Hi-DPI mode in Safari and in Diablo 3 it'd run at full resolution instead of half

If it's as good as the Display PostScript resolution on my old old old NeXT slab I'll be happy.

my education pricing only knocks off like $200 ... still 2k doesn't seem that bad for a retina 15"

srsly though why is the 512gb ssd not an option for the 2.3 ghz machine?!? slower processor takes up more room? idgi.

You can run the screen in Hi-DPI retina mode (effectively low-res) or there are various super hi-res modes available in settings.

Gotta think that native pixels will be more or less unreadable, though.

You could be like my crazy coworker and just sit with your face four inches from the screen

I was more referring to the fact that default ilx stylesheet limits pictures to 800 pix of wide or something like that

it was a joek

ipad 2 -> 3 jump is day and night ffs

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, June 11, 2012 7:32 PM (Yesterday)

hasn't been a huge change for me, then again I'm working in email/pages/safari and not heavily in graphics

had to use an ipad 2 recently and didn't notice a difference - it wasn't instantly like GOD look at this crappy display, tho if I laid them side-by-side I'd prolly see something

saw the iOS 6 maps app in person, it's pretty f'n insane. the 16 year old who showed it to me was complaining about "lag", i wanted to tell him about when i was his age and it took 3ds max roughly 10 minutes to render a sphere with a reflection.

so i took my mbp in AGAIN, it keeps doing that thing where it won't turn on. the apple genius could not figure it out and for the third time took it in to check it out. hoping i end up with a new one.

can't believe they accidentally replaced s1ockis mbp with a retina mbp :>

guess someone needs to get their retina checked amirite

i have no illusions they'll give me a ret haha

"a ret" is the new "purple lanyard"

you're getting the clam.

purple lanyard?

CLAM!

so i think the mbp retina is more money than i'm willing to spend on a new computer, but i do need to get a new laptop this year. my current one is slow as hell and on its last legs i think (applecare hasn't quite run out yet... but imminently). does diablo 3 + civ 5 (my two PC gaming lusts) run okay on the 13" air? and is there any reason i wouldn't be more than happy with one? (and is there any reason to wait until my current laptop completely dies before upgrading?)

well, the reason is that you get the most out of the money you spent on the old laptop? and if you can make it until the next upgrade you will get a better computer for the same price? i think the first reason is compelling, the second i guess is more or less always true.

after researching the new rmbp - and getting pissed about the lack of upgradability and greedy pricing scheme and also concerned that it doesn't have enough cpu/gpu to handle graphic intensive apps at the higher display resolution - i am going to try to eke another year out of this beat-up santa rosa w/ its busted ODD, cracked bezel, scratched monitor, noisy fan, almost-full HDD and missing keys.

Wait isn't AppleCare 2 years past the original purchase date at most? I guess a plain old MacBook or whatever won't play D3, buuuut....

3 years i think? 1 year warranty plus 2 more years from the applecare?

(playing D3 on an upgraded Mac pro from 2006 that is probably a 2008 proc-wise, 2010 gpu-wise)

Ooh, duh you are right.

hmmm, maybe i should give it a try. i did try to run Europa Universallis 3 on it and that was a complete non-starter

2 years total for ios devices, 3 years total for macs

lol safari 6 beta has this ridiculous bug where if you type " followed by anything into the location bar, it crashes

What I actually want is one of these MBP retina displays as an external 15" monitor. Get to it, Apple

http://www.mobileusers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/iOS-6-banner-WWDC2012.jpg

turned out to be a lie

are these new retina mbp bad boys in apple stores yet? I want to go to one and gawk

Odd that the Apple UK website, which mostly clones the US site appearance, takes care to differentiate for the British market in some places but not in others. The new Macbook Pro for example gives the size in centimetres rather than inches and avoids American spellings, but the iOS 6 page, which shows off Siri's new ability to fetch sports scores, has the White Sox playing the Angels and notes "Siri knows baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and hockey." Got that? Not only football, but soccer too!

same here, utterly confounding

they didn't have the ret in the glasgow apple store yesterday fwiw

isn't there usually a lag of a few weeks after a new product announcement before it appears in stores? If they had to ship out the boxes and stock the stores so the new products would be there the day after the unveiling, there's no way Apple could prevent someone in the shipping chain leaking the details in advance, which Apple in known not to like.

asked in Oxford Street today; they should have them on display by the end of the week, but it's going to be a few weeks until they're on sale

Our pro customers are really important to us...don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year.

Tim Cook

and yes that's a statement from this week and yes he really seems to mean 2013.

because really if they were that important to you you might have focussed some of the energies you used in your second ipad update into the mac pro, just saying.