New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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I'd go for the MBA, or wait for an update - C2D is seriously outdated tech, also even a MBP 13" would suck to carry around.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C2D is seriously outdated tech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I'd go for the MBA, or wait for an update - C2D is seriously outdated tech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

fuck sorry

hey here's an idea, why don't i read before posting

now that im thinking it thru im not even sure why i WANTED boxee or plex vs just using dam vlc or something... i feel like apple is giving me a hideous iOS disease where i want everything neatly arranged in libraries and what have u

Plex is designed for a TV screen, VLC not so much (unless I'm missing a plug-in)

cool thing w/using boxxee type shit is you can control totally via remote/ditch the keyboard

Yeah that's my thinking. If you want to use it properly through a telly you really want to be able to use it without a kb & mouse affair.

ya i wouldnt use vlc on my tv tbh!!

my friend colin has a really nicely-laid out program he uses, with a remote app on his iphone. shall i ask him what it is?

YES

yr 'friend colin' 'from canada'

wait tell me more about this vlc vs plex "designed for tv screen" stuff

remote-ness isnt a huge issue since i have that logitech mouse/kyb program on my iphone

but point taken... the problem is all these programs seem 2 suck

vlc

http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/VLC/rsrc/VideoDistribution/pvimages/vlc_mac_1.jpg

plex

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2009/07/imgTvBattleStar-w800.jpg

so basically navigating vlc with a remote control is too much effort iirc

and also impossible