I HATE APPLE

Lithium Ion Batteries age irrespective of how often you discharge them, in fact it is worse to keep them fully charged than at ~40% state of charge than full if they are not cycled.

You should run them all the way dead a couple times a month.

Really, it sounds to me like one of the cells in your battery died around the same time you installed Lion.

and I could fry an egg on the base

also my iphone-ipad tethering is fucked in ios5, but I'll give them a chance to fix that

Yeah, it dropped like a stone the day I installed Lion and never came back. I don't use the battery enough for it to have deteriorated that quickly over 15 months.

maybe it wasn't lion, but re: how often you use your battery, as ed says, batteries do not work that way.

sigh

forget it

Buckled, ditched Firefuck for Chrome, installed ScriptNo + AdBlock Element Hiding Helper, closed Reeder, now reliably getting 5–7 hrs battery. Sliding between full-screen apps still hits the battery but it's better than the shit I was getting before.

I am guessing that I am somewhere between three and six days away from the birth of a long-lasting anti-Mozilla tirade

I've installed Chrome for everyone in our office. It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.

There are minor niggles but the trade-off is 40% less battery time so

It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.

as a recent convert to opera, might i suggest

developing on a ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad

that sounds a lot like he's just using the ipad as a monitor - all the work is being done on the remote server.

yup. "Look I replaced my MacBook with a VT220"

guys sometimes he swipes using his fingers, baby steps, lets all be cool

that article is actually about developing in the CLOUD, yall got misled by his shiny ipad

i really do think theres a meaningful ipad aspect to the story, like its ipadness

artisanal ipad meaningfully connecting u to a heritage brooklyn cloud

©

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/us/david-gelernter-discusses-patent-claim-against-apple.html

lol

Cloud fucking rules [/obvious]

Cloud will rule harder when iwork syncs to macs as well

I would think that'll be another major Mac OS revision in the future, when they figure out how to finally stop exposing the filesystem to users or something.

iWork already syncs to Macs, they just don't expose it in TW apps because the file formats arent compatible. You can find the files in yr Library folder, but they're useless.

*the

Somebody's having a go at replacing iTunes: http://www.enqueueapp.com/

I bet they hate apple

they must hate apple...they don't support playlist folders yet.

quick first experience...it's not choking on my library like iTunes does. It's fast. Light on features so far but a good start.

I take it back. Quick to scroll through my entire library, but slowish to load selected songs.

I have this conspiracy theory that apple encourages project/file bloat across the board, stuff like itunes, logic, pt, fcp etc so they can speed up people buying the next model w/greater hd capacity or attempt to sell that apple storage that only rich people can afford.

Eh, I think that iTunes just does a lot of shit and it's become a multi-purpose tool that's a little overblown.

Still, it actually runs pretty fast in the current 64 bit incarnation on my computers.

i have a theory, people fill their itunes with hundreds of thousands of stolen songs and then complain when it's not as fast as it was when they had fewer

lol

I have tons of legit files! I swear this.

very true.

that sounds a lot like he's just using the ipad as a monitor - all the work is being done on the remote server.

― koogs, Friday, November 4, 2011 9:59 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yup. "Look I replaced my MacBook with a VT220"

― stet, Friday, November 4, 2011 12:51 PM (6 days ago)

laugh, but I've been working in a similar fashion lately too, and it is kind of transformative (except I've been doing things like connecting back to a remote windows server and administering data loads on an oracle system). I just gave a couple of our sales reps ipads as a trial to see if they are suitable replacements for laptops. having a reliable, powerful, always-on mobile device that connects back to HQ to consume enterprise resources is a good thing.

there are still gaps and weaknesses on the ipad - the lack of a central file system gets frustrating when it comes to things like attaching multiple files to an email, not having file names or tags in the photo sorter makes it difficult to effectively use 100 or more product images, and the visible display of your password as you're typing it is beyond daft from a security standpoint - but I can see this increasingly becoming the way people work.

in the music app, when you're at the 'root' directory they replace the 'back' icon with the 'store' icon so you can really inadvertently click into the itunes store. fuck that

i am the root

5.0.1 really murders battery life on the ipad

curious to see if .0.2 fixes all the battery life issues or if this is something that's going to persist

I haven't noticed any battery issues on my iPad 2 with 5.0.1 & I've been using the fuck out of it on the road the last buncha weeks.

is yr ipad 3G or wifi?

was charging my ipad once every 2-3 days, now it's once a day or it's dead

3G w/ data plan enabled

though tbf I mostly have been using it for reading pdfs & have only used 100 megs of 3G data (a fair of wifi too though)

will keep eye open for this though

has been fab to use on flights I gotta say, I've never been able to be productive on flights until I got this thing b/c it's such a hassle to crack out a laptop, esp. on regional jets, but with this thing I can type just fine & take care of little tasks that don't warrant real time but still need to be done.

was 100% fully charged this morning when I left the house, it's been mostly sitting on my desk for a couple of hours (apart from 15 minutes of flipboard use) and already down to 88%

lol down to 87% while typing that

liveblogging my battery meter

I don't have mine with me right now but I'll check it tonight

Mine's doing all right on 5.0.1, no perceptible change