New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

had my first major irritation with apple tv, which was also my first experience renting a film from itunes (I should have learned not to try to do this on thanksgiving day when I desperately needed to keep my 4 year old occupied); downloading movies on my crappy connection takes like, the length of the movie; 1.5 hrs to download a 70 minute movie, for instance. Once it's downloaded, since apple tv has no real storage, you'd better watch it right then or NOT navigate away from it in appletv, or you will ahve to download the whole thing again. Granted this is probably better if you don't have a horrible DSL connection like I do (3mbps, although realistically it's more like 2 according to speedtest).

So, shouldn't I be able to rent films on the computer instead, and stream them to the appletv? It seems like I should, and yet, I can't find any of my films that are imported into itunes from appletv; the few short videos I can find I can't seem to play because "an error occurred". This might be because I haven't updated itunes beyond 10 yet (10.1 came out this week); does this fix that? then at least I could rent something earlier, have it stored on the machine for a few hours, and then when we watch it juts navigate to it and not have to wait another 2 hours for it to rebuffer.

netflix and torrenting work pretty well

true; I'm just surprised apple hasn't trumped netflix for movie streaming; i would have thought it would have started playing more instantly and downloaded while it played. (that said the hd quality off itunes was better than anything I stream off netflix which looks shitty due to my bandwidth problem)

This might be because I haven't updated itunes beyond 10 yet (10.1 came out this week); does this fix that?

According to this it doesn't matter, so I'm not going to do the annoying IT support thing of asking you to update to the latest version.

The way I would have done it is to rent a film, use the Apple TV to find it in your iTunes Library > Films and just start watching it (I've not rented a film yet), but if that's not working perhaps you can't do it after all. I agree that that's bloody ridiculous, though.

I reckon 2Mbps is pushing it for live HD streaming at Apple's demanded quality, but I agree that your Mac should have a way of taking care of that so you don't notice it.

can't decide between MBA 11.6 and MBP 13"; if only the 13" had an i3 it'd be a no-brainer. why are they still rocking the 30 year old C2D

i3 is too hot for the 13" shell. The MBA is a good second computer due to one USB, no SD card slot &c.

basically: already got a MB but only use for internet/youtube/email/itunes - want to upgrade to either be able to also maybe play games under boot camp (MBP) or just continue to do what I currently do but lighter/smaller (for new job which will include travel)

snagging points: C2D is old but RAM in MBA is unupgradeable and 11.6 is maybe /too/ small

Tyranny of choice. MBP at least has more than one USB slot so you can use wi-fi/3G as well as a memory thing. MBA is zone of suck imo especially at the current price, but the 13" MBP costs more again so I dunno.

fwiw I bought the current 15" MBP and love it to bits, but I don't know how I'd go with travel.

k this is pretty much a buying bible for Apple products. It recommends against buying an MBP now, probably because a spec bump is imminent.

yup, there is that too. i5 at £1500 is too much imo. i3 at £900 (on amazon) would just be about bearable. can suck up the C2D in the MBA due to the design

head says MBP, heart says MBA. don't really do much heavy lifting on my (2006) MB as it is and I could get by without upgrading at all probably but I'm restless

My god you guys are paying a lot for things atm.

I reckon wait for the MBP bump (January is my guess), there's a chance i3s will make it into the 13".

My god you guys are paying a lot for things atm.

aren't you from australia

I know, usually we're the ones being shafted. Base 15" MBP is $2100 inc. 10% sales tax, which is roughly £1300.

new rumor today says that MBP will receive a total redesign in april, with lightpeak technology, SSD, etc.

That kind of dated rumour is that kind I tend to have little faith in.

I mean, when there are pics from a Chinese factory or what have you, fine, the rumour's got legs, but leaks about what Apple will release in 5 months time ... how often does that happen?

I'd go for the MBA, or wait for an update - C2D is seriously outdated tech, also even a MBP 13" would suck to carry around. I dualboot on my MBP 15" but almost never play games nowadays so

spose i could look this up: but could a 11" MBA drive something like LR3 pretty easily (and with an external monitor)? i don't game much, and basically the only thing i need horsepower for is photo editings/management

I think all the perceptions of 'fastness' from the MBA just come from having the SSD in there

LR3 is faster than aperture but I'm not sure how objectively fast it is, the problem is that you'll probably have to store all your photos on an external disk-based HD, which means that when you are editing, you still have to wait for the files to be written from/to the HD etc. which might impact the performance

unless you're gangsta and keep all the files you're editing on the SSD itself

C2D is seriously outdated tech

it isn't really though is it

if you're paying $1100 it is

not a gangsta :-/

I'd go for the MBA, or wait for an update - C2D is seriously outdated tech

MBA is C2D

o fuc, that was my nerdiest post ever

yeah but it's so much ~lighter~

http://i55.tinypic.com/31310rq.jpg

how did you do that

slashed a lil water on there

hows the apple tv? im thinking of getting one for xmas.

how did you do that

― manic pixie dreamboat (s1ocki), Friday, December 10, 2010 8:25 AM

took an image from someone's Tumblr and uploaded it to Tinypic

in layman's terms please

hows the apple tv? im thinking of getting one for xmas.

― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Saturday, 11 December 2010 04:31 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Slightly better now that it does airplay. I think I'll take on caek's suggestion because I'm sick of it not playing stuff.

(read that as a btw; it probably won't affect you chrisv2010)

got my dad the apl tv, p sweet

needs aps tho

awesome

so get him some apps ffs

doesn't do apps

so i got a tv/monitor and im plugging in an inherited mac mini from i think 2006 to serve as a entertainment console thing... is boxee the way to go on this?

my previous media center attempt for my dad was that exact set up w/a 3rd party remote, it was too buggy and weird for him but tbf hes old and not best at computers also it was the prev vers of boxee - its workable 4 sure but i wasnt crazy abt boxee

what are the other options

btw i was spelling it boxxy at first and just getting that 4chan chick, the internet, lol

"plex"?

theres one called plex but that was worse than boxee imo - you could just not use any media center type software and just play moves thro vlc or whatevs

ha xp

Yeah Plex. Appaz the current version is shithouse though.

eh i guess http://grab.by/7Q57 is prob the way to go and the new vers is prob better

yeah i mean its not a huge pain to play vids thru vlc

WD TV Live is the best way to go for playing vids, it's a billion times cheaper than a Mac Mini and plays anything you chuck at it. Needs a wireless adapter though, if you want to go wireless.

well i already have the mac mini so