New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

...and there are plenty of demonstrations of installing ram on youtube...I probably wouldn't have had the confidence to go ahead on my iMAC from the written instructions alone.

newegg is where I've gotten hard-drives for my mac pro...really cheap boxless OEM drives that have worked great.

yeah the wd scorpio "blue" drive I got is great and was cheap.

installing ram on an iMac is simple.

Dude needs a blog:

Conclusions.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

Steve Jobs
April, 2010

loooooooooooool at Steve Jobs espousing an open standard

so...

if i'm primarily doing video work (making clips, editing video, watching hi-res video...) -- will the 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M really be much better than the 256 MB? (likewise the i7 vs. the i5.) not sure if it's worth the $150 difference.....

I would say it is worth it, particularly as Grand Central and OpenCL get more widely used. FCP should make decent use of that extra graphics RAM .

ok, i'll go for it. damn, this is adding up to like $2600. bastards.

not to mention photoshop, premiere, etc. licenses. ack.

loooooooooooool at Steve Jobs espousing an open standard

yeah the cheek of it! i'd be more outraged if i didn't 100% support making flash obsolete haha

i still can't use my iPod on linux thanks steve!

hey dudes. do you have a preferred nice-lookin' sleeve for your macbook?

here are some options:

http://www.colcasac.com/

http://foofshop.com/

http://www.fabrixcases.com/v2/shop/laptop/

I have one of these and I love it

http://www.etsy.com/shop/byrdandbelle

http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.142423110.jpg

nice, but very expensive...

i'm digging this one: http://www.colcasac.com/red.html

have a foof one my brother gave me. it's great

I'm looking for a sleeve for a MBP 13 too. Most of them seem pretty soft (one reviewer called them beer cozy's), so I'm looking at this one: http://www.booqbags.com/laptop-backpacks-laptop-bags/13-inch-macbook-bags/Vyper-XS3-macbook-sleeve

i'm on my second vyper fwiw

(clarification: not because they wear out but because I like them and the one for my Powerbook G4 doesn't fit the unibody MBP)

I just bought a boring incase neoprene one, didn't see some of these fancier ones, though I don't know if I'd want them...though a little pocket for power would've been nice.

i'm going to keep the computer in a bigger bag most of the time i'm out, i just want something nice to keep it in and then to put between it and some cruddy table.

in that case get something that you won't mind dirtyin up

i always say Spire USA - waterproof, durable, well-made, well thought out -

http://www.spireusa.com/products/laptop-sleeves.htm

when they make a new nano? or a ipod touch that gots a frickin video camera in HD

hello Hanle y !!!!!

Hallo!

£429 for ipad then

ooft

damn i was just thinking 'yeah i could really go for one of these'

tempting

lol

Please educate yourself. UK prices must by law include VAT, which is around 18%. US prices do not include tax.

amateurist you don't need serious graphics card horsepower to edit/watch video. only if you're rendering graphics and doing tons of 3d and transitions and stuff.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/green-day-rip-this-joint
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron

ladies and gentlemen, mr john gruber.

this guy

haha

he has reliably terrible conservative yuppie ones

what do you mean?

― ksh, Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:10 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this.

amateurist you don't need serious graphics card horsepower to edit/watch video. only if you're rendering graphics and doing tons of 3d and transitions and stuff.

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Sunday, May 9, 2010 10:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thanks! i might get the middle-of-the-road 15" model, then, and use the $150 difference on some software.

i mean there is a small difference in the processor speed, 2.53 versus 2.66. will i really notice that though?

no...you will notice more of a difference switching between the various architectures I think? anyway you don't want to play starcraft 2 with all of us ? :(

i don't even know what starcraft 2 is

"switching between architectures"

what does this mean?

walkin from the house to the gazebo

http://lauramcwilliams.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/confused-monkey1.jpg

difference between i5 and i7, i7's are supposed to be on some giant killing shit.

my philosophy has always been to buy the best available @ the time, as you'll be using the thing for 4-5 years and you want to futureproof yourself as much as possible. unless you're the kind of guy who likes to upgrade all the time

congratulations to the tories

xp especially with macs - the only thing you can generally upgrade is the RAM (often cheaper from other stores) and sometimes the internal HD, otherwise you WILL be stuck with whatever you have

true, but I've never noticed a huge difference in processor speed, not enough to be worth the price. If you can afford it, great, but if you're looking to save money, getting the slightly slower processor but maxing out the ram/getting an SSD, will make more of a difference.

that is true - looking at the benchmarks it looks like the i7s have about a 10% edge over the i5s, but even the i5 is leaps and bounds over the last generation.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/04/15/core.i5.more.than.sufficient/

however I still think the i7 option is worth it for the doubling of graphics card memory - iirc one of the moves apple is making for future revisions of the OS is to dump more processing onto the GPU.

you bastards are confusing me.