New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Sometimes it's for legacy support; like ancient code bases from days of yore, but basically, yes, it should all be in the bundle.

Tracer, I've been having the same argument with myself. I've been torn b/t a mini/imac/mpb/mba for over a year. My main concern is future-proofing. I've been using a Powerbook G4 12" for 6 yrs and I'd like to not think about buying another comp for at least that amount of time. Also, paying more than a grand for a comp is not feasible right now. My plan is to get the mid-range mini (for the radeon), bumping it up to an i7 (which is unfort only dual-core), then getting the regular stock of everything else. RAM is cheap and installing is easy. Installing an extra HD looks daunting but in my experience in taking apart my PB, it's just an hour's worth of focused work. So that'll set me up for a huge HD plus an SSD when the price comes down. MBP and iMac are too expensive for me, and the MBA will get old in 4 yrs. All this has been tumbling in brain for a long time. Hopefully I can lock it down this weekend.

Also, question for anyone: My idea in getting the i7 is that it won't be as sluggish as the i5 as it starts aging. True? I can't find anything that would indicate any other benefit since they both have Hyper Threading and Power Boost.

did you look up benchmarks between the i5 and i7? ime speed bumps are not worth it but getting a different architecture might help

The specs aren't that different. The i7 BTO option is only dual-core so the only difference b/t that and the stock i5 is an extra .2 GHz and 1MB of cache. I don't know much about how processor caches work. Will that extra 1MB make it more efficient by orders of magnitude? Or would just an extra meg work just like how it sounds (ie, meh)?

interesting stuff shaane

V4HID - I think I've sent u webmail but I'm not sure if it worked; I am tracerhand AT gmail

Has anyone mentioned the ups factor? If you get a mini or an imac you don't get a built-in battery, so one brief power cut and you're fucked.

http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/teardrop_skepticism

So, let me pull out my trusty old Magic 8-Ball to finish this off:

<3 gruber

this thing looks like the business -

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/382087-382087-64283-72270-3884471-5163686.html

21.5" matte screen
Displayport, HDMI
4-port USB hub
IPS with LED backlighting

etc

this plus a rock-bottom bone-simple mac mini on educational discount that i can tinker w/for years

jfc 8 GB of memory is.... less than £40? i love living in 2011!

mh, do you know if they fixed the 6 GB or w/e limitation of earlier MBPs?

No idea, my MBP has 8GB

Usually the limitations are just "this is the maximum memory size available in this form factor" or in the worst case it needs a firmware update or it's using a lame processor/motherboard chip that can't address that much memory

the apple page says mine only supports up to 4gb ;_;

http://support.apple.com/kb/sp499

people are saying that 8gb works now after 10.6

hmmmm

Yup, looks like you're good to go with that: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.53-aluminum-15-late-2008-unibody-specs.html

I still haven't upgraded to Lion yet. looks like that'll be pushed back

Should Assistant appear, it will only be available on Apple devices, to drive sales. Any external services it connects with will be carefully approved. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple gets a cut of anything sold through Assistant, whether movie tickets or restaurant bookings.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220474/IPhone_5_reportedly_a_Sprint_exclusive

uh, no

if it looks like bullshit and smells like bullshit...

btw since I've held out, the worst case scenario is that I get a new phone that has the processor speed and probably memory of the iPad 2, the screen size and resolution of the iPhone 4, a camera at least as good as the iPhone 4's, and the ability to run a bunch of software stuff that may be locked to iPhone 4+ due to processor speed that I currently wouldn't get with a 3gs.

New phone still sounds really good, even if it's just that. Oh yeah, and it'd have more gee bees!

alrighty! http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Apple_iPhone_5_event_live_blog

credit card: ready

1:01 pm What could the hidden meaning of all this retro rock be?

gripping stuff

4s already on the jp site

http://live.gdgt.com/live-apple-iphone-5-event-coverage/

This one seems good

here's another too: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-keynote-liveblog/

hey Tim Cook, I have a meeting in 45 minutes and should get there a little early, stop talking about success and get to the iPhones

cards!

random

Apple's demo skewing ancient.

Cards?

they're playing the Apple card!

from the gdgt liveblog:

New app today: Cards. “Create and mail beautiful cards right from your iPhone or iPod touch.”

“We’ll print it on high quality 100% cotton paper.” Nice! They’ll print it and mail it — push notification on mail delivery through USPS. “Very cool.” Applause. Hmm, paper. Okaaay.

“We’ll affix Apple designed postage to the card.” Of course you will! $2.99 in the US, $4.99 anywhere else. Oct 12th.

gtfo, Apple

thanks markers

Now I just need to set birthday reminders on my phone to a week prior and I'm set

xpost lol i don't know if you're being sarcastic, but i was posting that to answer ned's "Cards?"

i think ned's q was rhetorical

whatever

hey man i love your energy on these occasions

I diss you

did they announce pc free at wwdc?

hey man i love your energy on these occasions

― caek

lol

1:37PM Eddy's reminding that you can download and re-download your music or media anytime and on any device.

can't believe this wasn't standard since day 1

did they announce pc free at wwdc?

― caek, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 18:36 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yep. icloud got all the attention though.

is gdgt the only liveblog working now? this is my next and engadget seem to have died.

wait, this is my next has revived. liveblogging the liveblogs over here.

eddy cue looks like a charismatic dude

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/iphone5apple2011liveblogkeynote1301.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/iphone5apple2011liveblogkeynote1300.jpg
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