New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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I guess this means the Macbook Air is getting phased out?

Flopped, didn't it?

Is Plants vs Zombies actually fun? I was looking at that @ the Mac store last week.

I guess this means the Macbook Air is getting phased out?

It's difficult to say. The MBA was always kind of a nichey machine that Apple-watchers never seemed to appreciate deriding it with a "it's so expensive compared with a $999 full-featured MacBook" without acknowledging the subset of people who travel a lot and need a lightweight laptop. Case in point, a friend of mine who travels back and forth from NY to CA all the time and works as a proofreader/researcher. She got a MacBook Air and loves it. An iPad isn't functional enough for that - you can't sync a phone, iPod, dump pictures out of a camera, etc. with one.

Potentially, parts of the MBA hardware development could trickle down into the standard MacBook but Apple is pretty adamant about keeping consumer/professional lines separate. If it's any example, everyone was predicting the death of the Mac Mini for years until it found life as a low-impact server (and a really fantastic one too!). I hope the MBA sticks around, but it does need a price drop. I'd say $1199. It's not going to cut into MBP sales (MBP purchasers need the ports/screensize).

Flopped, didn't it?

Nobody has agreed on a set of yardsticks to measure if it's a flop or not.

FWIW, the 64GB 3G iPad is in the price neighborhood of a MacBook anyway.

Is Plants vs Zombies actually fun? I was looking at that @ the Mac store last week.

Insanely addictive.

FWIW, the title they wanted to use was "Lawn of the Dead," but Romero said no.

This is going to need some rethinking http://www.ilxor.com/~stet/img/ZingiPad.png

you can't sync a phone, iPod, dump pictures out of a camera, etc. with one.

you can dump pictures!

but ya... syncing an iphone/ipod would seem to be a necc. feature

I remember reading the iPad will have some sort of 'shared file system' with your Mac, for putting Pages docs and pdfs etc. so maybe you can still download sendspaces on the fly?

otherwise crytime

It's not really a filesystem: apps can say they want to share, then when you connect the iPad it appears on desktop like a USB stick, w/ a folder for each app that's registered. Apps can put files in there, you can put files in for app.

I bet I could add sendspace etc to zing w/out too much trouble, if the new version of webkit allows devs to save files (current one doesn't)

Can't wait to play "Plants vs. Zombies" on it.

Is Plants vs Zombies actually fun?

Insanely addictive.

Oh dear god. AND HOW. Now I want an iPad just for PvZ.

^^^^^this

My dad was emailing me WATCH THE VIDEO AW MAN THIS IS AWESOME!
I replied I didn't care much for it... until I came to the bit about ebooks. That and movies. Well AWESOME. I want one cause I can knit 'n' use the ipad (urgh what a horrid name) in my bed that way.
Crap, I'll need to "lose" my kindle now. lolol. My husband said:"It's about the same size." I said it wasn't.
Now I notice it is. Well, crap crap. I think I'll get it once our laptop (mac pro laptop) gives up. It's nearing the end of its life anyway.

liked the piano rendition of 'in between days' in the video! its use seems to be limited to sitting down with it resting in your raw denim-coated lap. disappointed to see no, cool, apple-designed note-taking app, which I assume some app store developer will have out soon. ibook app seems kinda bland. the home button placement makes sense to me, as it'll be under either thumb in landscape mode. like that it has an IPS screen - true 8 bit color! - when they can't even be bothered to put one in their macbook pros.

what sucks though is that it uses a micro-sim, so you can't just swap your current sim card into it - fuck paying for another data plan when I've already got an unlimited data plan going on my iphone. so far everybody on the internets is calling this the 'third device' which is otm; at first I thought, hey I can sell my iphone and just get a really cheap caller/texter - but then I realized there will be times when I'm gonna go out without my bag or whatever but will still need to check google maps or yelp.

NYT/other content looked kind of...boring? looked just like website.

wondering what major changes iphone OS 4.0 is going to bring w/r/t iPad.

also, fuck this if I'm gonna need to transcode everything with handbrake just to get it to play/VLC needs to release an iphone app.

I'm also getting a kind of 'nintendo wii' vibe from this where people are quick to dismiss it, but within 5 minutes of playing with it they'll be bowled over. I dunno - can't wait for this thing to make it to the stores to have a play with it

#ipadfail

I wish I was in school again to see how this would slot in to academic life. but you'd probably need to carry around an external keyboard to use with it. and I'd feel stupid and would probably make fun of myself for it, like I used to make fun of the kids who would bring palm pilots and then connect them to lol heug folding keyboards which looked really painful to type on.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/miniuiccappleevent.jpg

what the fuck is this shit - hoping there'll be a $10 sim card cloner out of hong kong within a week

I reckon landscape with virtual keyboard and the folding case will be fine.

As already mentionned by some, I'm not entirely sure whether this would fit in my life btw my macbook and my iphone. I'm ready to believe, but as someone who has no desire to read ebooks, I can't really see the need right now.

new Spoon album all over again

Same here, I prefer realbooks and realtunes; the web browsing looks really incredible, I'm surprised Jobs didn't go more into all the finger gestures used for web browsing, it's very intuitive and a huge selling point. That said, not sure if it's worth getting as I'm still going to use my MacBook Pro for more demanding tasks.

Also, this is OTM:

I'm also getting a kind of 'nintendo wii' vibe from this where people are quick to dismiss it, but within 5 minutes of playing with it they'll be bowled over.

(xpost)

Surely the curved back means it'll move about when you try to put it down on a table and use it?

It's pretty much flat, isn't it? Just bevelled at the edges? And there'll be SO MANY PRODUCTS SO FAST that angle it 'just so'...

We've got an iMac and 2 iPhones; I think this would fit perfectly in with that.

I also keep thinking that this would absolutely be the perfect web browser experience / games machine for my mum.

You can also, when not using it, stick it on it's dock on your mantlepiece and hey presto, best ever digital photo frame.

best != most expensive

Best = it'd fit with my decor.

you've designed your house to look like an Apple store????

I make my bed in the genius bar

nick's bedroom:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/images/6/6e/2001_Space_Odyssesy.jpg

thing at foot of bed is iBoard, due 2013

You asked for it.

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VLC needs to release an iphone app

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

after removing shoes, guests are given turquoise t-shirts and lanyards

btw i am getting one, just still having mixed emotions. i can see where it would be useful in my life. just don't know if 3G is necessary?

/VLC needs to release an iphone app/

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

presumably it would be allowed to sync a la the way stet described above?

I don't like how this thing will require a standing case if you take it on an airplane

3g will be useful to read ilxnyt on the subway

like, if i'm out and about and really need to use the internet, that's what my iphone is for, right?

there is no service on NYC subways

oh, hah; hk has 3g in subways/tunnels </braggin>

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

right now, itunes will import anything quicktime will read (which is a lot if you install perian), and it will sync that to any device. question is whether that device can play it.

you live in hk dyao?

yeah, munich too xxp

dyao does the thread of crazy hong kong t-shirts, right?

yerp

just occurrd to me that if bolted to the dashboard of your car this would be an awesome gps nav system/way to watch pr0n on the highway