New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FC375LL/A?mco=MTgxMzM0Mjg <--- $400 off list, i.e.

iPad pretty fab for web & decent for email / IOC posting à la this post; I need a laptop too bc I travel a bunch & right now can't really Tex on this puppy but maybe soon?

If Apple manages to slap an A5 chip into a cheap Air and doesn't sacrifice the ability to run multiple apps at once, bam, winnar.

Air is like the definition of snappy. Screen is pretty great too: not too glossy and as much res on the 11 as the old 13 had. (13 is equivalent to the old 15" MBP)

can't wait for the new upgrades

guy i know is a senior engineer for seagate and can't say enough bad things about the long-term reliability of SSDs

hah maybe he's just looking out for his own job?

was gonna say. they can't really be any worse than HDDs.

Big difference is apptly that when HDs die there's a reasonable chance a lot of the data is intact on the platter and can be rescued (for £££) while failing SSDs often fail hard and are unrecoverable.

well £££ is just it. hdd failures are, de facto, unrecoverable. i have never recovered data from a hdd with a mechanical failure.

had two fail in may btw.

yeah but regardless of whether you use SSD or magnets, you ought to practice good backup hygiene

dayo otm, a dead drive is a dead drive, you all should be backing up like your life depends on it anyway

what is "backup"?

caek iirc you never backup any of your ish, shame on you

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2011/06/03/Teen%2Bsells%2Bkidney%2Bfor%2Blatest%2BiPad%2B2/

grim

AA, Apple grains little by switching to an A5 in a mba -- a little bit of battery life -- and loses any apps that differentiate the air from an iPad. Unless there's a really good economic reason, like Intel goes insane and screws up the mass volume discount Apple gets, so not gonna happen.

the whole development chain for OS X is cpu agnostic these days, so they would be unlikely to lose any apps (and for those they do, there's lol rosetta).

Yeah, I was just thinking about the fact you'd be getting a less capable processor and the whole reason people get a small Mac like that is so that they can still run Photoshop, Aperture, etc.

that is true

So what I'm basically saying is AA probably isn't going to be taking over for Steve Jobs any time soon

haha

couldn't bear for the one more thing to be about check boxes

https://www.egpchecks.com/images/143042m.gif

There's a market for computers with keyboards. I've no doubt that Jobs is pursuing ways to make the low-end laptops more affordable, especially after recent comments made by Schiller/Cook/whomever indicating the intent to dull the perception that Apple only makes products for rich people. The ipad is just the company's first grand gesture toward cheap home computing imo.

what comments?

i think you're making a mistake thinking in terms of apple as something that responds to/thinks relative to PC market price brackets/hardware paradigms.

iPhones used to be "rich-ppl only", but now that they're subsidized heavily by AT&T and available on Verizon, and it seems like people are more willing to accept a monthly cell bill with a data plan (I'm still not) regardless of their income, I see it really everywhere in the last year

iPad really is a great breakthrough for Apple though, whenever I see people with it, especially older folks, they really get into it. Facetime too. Once my father saw an iPad that a friend brought over (he's in his late 60s), he more or less decided that day that he'd rather have an iPad than a new desktop to replace his aging computer... makes sense since 90% of what he does is web browse anyway. I'm sure there are a lot of anecdotes like this

i think you're making a mistake thinking in terms of apple as something that responds to/thinks relative to PC market price brackets/hardware paradigms.

― caek, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:58 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

uh I didn't. btw I can't find that comment about Apple intending to take the edge off its reputation for making exclusive products, which is weird because tech blogs made a big deal of it. I'm probably searching for the wrong keywords.

(iirc it came out of the q&a following the most recent earnings call)

I think the deal used to be (and still is) that all PCs used to be really expensive, and now commodity hardware is cheap as hell, but they still would prefer to sell you a laptop for a few hundred more and possibly a service plan than the race to the bottom the entire PC market became. People will complain about lack of expansion, modifiability or customization, but when it comes down to it, Apple jettisons that stuff in lieu of a solid market position.

So yeah, they may have some lower price things, but they'd still rather sell you a $1k laptop that has vetted parts and their own OS than crank out netbooks at $500

Yeah. I don't think Apple dude (jeezus I wish I could find the quote now) was saying they would compete with netbooks or anything, just that they want to bring Apple's perceived price aloofness down a peg. I assume that could well mean – perhaps as soon as this year – an underpowered ipad-a-like (let's call it an iPissweak) that integrates heavily with the icloud (c.f. chromebook, but nowhere near as reliant on connectivity) with no true multitasking support, a keyboard and a 10-hour battery for US$600. Cheap as chips to produce and wouldn't necessarily poke a big hole in the existing product categories. You know, so the MBPs remain in place for ~real~ computing tasks but yer average nanna could pick up an iPissweak to check emails and play solitaire. I'm just thinking aloud here.

they want to bring Apple's perceived price aloofness down a peg

i'd be very surprised if that was the stated/actual goal, and there is no way they will release the computer you're talking about when they have ipads for sale.

1) it's a bad idea in an absolute sense for any big company (there's no mass market for it and profit margins would be terrible) 2) it's a bad idea for a company making ipads (which are clearly where it sees its future) and MBAs

1) not necessarily terrible if (a) it's megacheap to produce and (b) they sell
2) MBPs will most likely shrink to the size of the current MBAs over time

1) it's not megacheap to produce and they wouldn't sell. there is no mass market for netbooks.
2) so? why does that mean apple should make a netbook?

what part of "I'm just thinking aloud here" are you struggling with

i'm just thinking out loud that your thinking is lol

http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iOS-5-home-screen-leak.jpg

Doing the rounds, probably made-up, potentially not, potentially nice.

(also potentially like three years too late)

tweetstreams? in MY statusbar? hahaha HOW'S THE WEATHER IN 2010, CAVEMAN

i'm facebooking my tumblr reblogs SO HARD IN YOUR FACE, iOS

i want to COMMENT on the CLOCK

I suspect it's more notifications being up and out of the way than tweets being in the status bar. That's if the screenshot is even real.

Ha, it's like a crap Android notification tray.

https://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/76618122366431232

Oops, wrong link (that one above was to the original Tweet)
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/03/more-claims-of-deep-twitter-integration-in-ios-5/

Is it just me or is deep Twitter integration the most boring rumour ever?

i don't know, it sounds a bit erotic

there have been more boring rumours, but that's up there. depressing if true.

i'm intrigued by the nonexistent concept of "deep Twitter"

afaict (if true) it means you get an "Open in Twitter..." button above the "Open in iBooks..." one, plus those notifications with a birdy logo