New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

think less in terms of the specs and more in terms of the form factor

― 乒乓, Monday, June 17, 2013 11:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. For something that you're going to touch, move, and use every day, it should be something you enjoy touching, moving, and using.

The Verge put out their review of the feature-bumped (and $100 price-dropped) 13" MacBook Airs

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/17/4436332/macbook-air-review-13-inch-2013

We’ve been recommending the MacBook Air for three years straight now, so this is pretty simple: if you’re a normal person shopping for a laptop, you should buy a MacBook Air.

otm

"a normal person" ;_;

i think it really comes down to whether you prefer the bigger screen of the 15" as opposed to a 13" mbp or mba and whether you'd be willing to put up with the extra 1-2 pounds of weight that entails

I think I'm totally cool with the 13" tbh, after looking them over in the store. At any rate, I'm convinced now that I don't need quad-core vs. dual-core, so the 13" is probably the way to go.

is it retina? that would be a big reason to go for the pro over the air

Yes. I wanted retina more for the SSD though.

I have a 15" MBP at work and it's bloody massive compared to the 11". Weighs about as much as a PowerBook 170.

Goes like stink, mind. Think the Retina one is lighter, too.

i hope by the time i'm ready to by a new laptop (knock on wood not for a long time), that macbook airs will be video-capable

dude... they can already display video. FYI.

even cartoons?

haven't checked mine yet. Will let you know

*waits*

I'm really more of a MBP level cartoon watcher than a MBA one.

I've had an MBA for a few years now. It's great. If we're going to nitpick :

- The keyboard feels better on the MBP somehow - having the weight of the machine under the keys makes a slight difference.

- No way of swapping out the hard drive for more storage. You'll be tied to 128 for as long as you own the machine.

Yeah, I made up my mind on this much: I'm not accepting anything less than 512 GB.

Well, actually I think I've made up my mind on a lot of other things by now tbh.

- No way of swapping out the hard drive for more storage. You'll be tied to 128 for as long as you own the machine.

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:09 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Macsales do an upgrade kit to take it up to 480GB, not cheap though

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Air_2012

yeah the mba's lack of storage can be a pain, otoh what do you really need it for? i put all my mp3s into itunes match and keep my aperture library on an external, works fine

also lack of ethernet port can be annoying

I take a lot of raw photos.

so do i, but i never need to deal w/ them in a situation where im not at my desk and able to plug in the hard drive

one of these guys http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005EWTL7C/

I have the ethernet dongle it's annoying to have to remember it but nbd.

yeah i havent been in a situation where ive absolutely needed to use the ethernet dongle either

I mainly use it at work the wireless isn't too hot.

Yeah, I made up my mind on this much: I'm not accepting anything less than 512 GB.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is a huge thing for me too, even just my itunes library

i dont trust externals either

i get by fine w/ 256 and all my music on it, have about 40 gigs perpetually open

It's not that I don't trust externals. They're just a chore.

http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/

i've been dongleless when it's mattered. i have several now. : (

my hdd use varies, but it was basically impossible until i signed up to itunes match, which i still don't really like.

all worth it though for the weight imo

(xp) LOL. Esp this:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/5eae1efe990e644cf20684eaa7d020a6/tumblr_mocl6tFibj1svn1xeo1_400.jpg

how is "aapl" one point on a line? wouldn't the whole line be appl?

you dont trust externals, sheesh

external hard drives are literally the same as internal hard drives, but external. You can convince yourself of this by buying a regular hard drive and slapping it in an enclosure.

I never said I was being rational.

I am, after all, buying an Apple product.

i have had so many external hard drives die on me, they are horrible

spinning disk hard drives in general are horrible, tho.

externals are fine. get one with a warranty and clone it/back it up to the cloud.

i dont know why im selling the mba so hard, ITS YOUR FUNERAL

i swapped out my optical drive for a spinny hard drive, feels great but it also feels like it might die on me at any moment

do you trust checkboxes or flush headphone jack

I'm pretty happy with iTunes match other than it has screwed up the artist list on the iPhone.

my biggest ITM complaint is that it doesnt play well w/ my ISP for some reason and gets stuck in an endless upload loop. otherwise works more or less entirely as advertised

my theory based on nothing but my guessing is that one of the things that kills external hard-drives is shittier electronics/power supply than whats in your computer. I've had external drives "die" that I've opened up, pulled the drive out of the enclosure and stuck it in my mac and gotten a few years out of it.

yeah it could be the usb interface in the enclosure itself

i think this is true, the USB interfaces die before the drive itself does. which makes it the more annoying when they glue the case shut or some such idiocy