New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

how much faith do u have in acer

i can tell u tho from personal observation, contrarian switching back to windows tends to end in tears

otm

yup. it's a mistake.

does it really? i can see that, i tend to forget how much time i spent registries and dll files and whatnot, though i'm not sure i prefer "osx voodoo"

also i must admit the new android phones are starting to look real good compared to iphones, maybe not better but real good

they look great, but the touch action is still miles away. honestly, i don't get why they can't do this

also i must admit the new android phones are starting to look real good compared to iphones, maybe not better but real good

Samsung and HTC are breathing down Apple's neck atm. Apple wants to produce a decently advanced phone this year if it's to stay ahead.

this is such a 1998 question but does anybody have solid info on a good USB hub? i think i want something powered and the apple store appears to be selling an "ultra slim" 7-port belkin jobbie but i can't find any reviews of it anywhere

eh, get a cheap crap 7-port hub from ebay for like $10

right, i sort of don't want to do that if it's just going to break and/or take a day to charge my phone

YES

the whole industry is a sham, man. it'll work just as well as that $40 Belkin hub from Staples

http://www.amazon.com/7-Port-USB-2-0-Hub-Black/dp/B000KUQ8FG/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1333408623&sr=8-16

for some reason this generic one is the only one anyone recommends. It's powered, it's brandless, it's good. I bought one for my step-father, one for my mother and one for myself.

i've had this garbage one for years, hasn't given me any issues yet. and if it does *shrug*

http://www.amazon.com/USB-Highspeed-Port-Adapter-Silver/dp/B002FFZGCU

TRIXES High Speed 7 Port USB 2.0 HUB+UK AC Power Adapter Cable

Id give this item no stars, arrived, looked OK, plugged in and it became red hot started to smoke so quickly removed power, as i did the casing fell apart too, and i could see the circuits were all burnt out. if this happened while i wasnt looking it quite easily could of burnt my house down!!

dan i wish the one you recommend were sold in the UK :(

"by Generic"

A thing that's REALLY shitting me about the retina iPad is the lack of updates to apps that don't work properly on it. ADE pubs like The New Yorker look like arse, and my workflow is totally scuppered due to the amount of time it's taking to sort out stuff like Notes Plus and Paper. Starting to worry that pen/drawing fluidity is terminally fucked on this thing.

So far my favorite thing to do on NEW IPAD is look at maps. It's just made for them.

i use a mac for some design classes i'm taking and have sort of taken to it, but the mice wheels are fucking grating. i'm constantly switching, or on, new computers and they all seem to share trait of being able to scroll up but not functioning when it comes to scrolling down.

maybe wrong thread

There is a hate thread.

I assume you're talking about the old mice with the little trackball? It gets gummed up easy. Try pressing down hard and scrolling down over and over again, that usually cleans it up.

Or get a mouse you like and bring it with you. I use an old Kensington Trackball at home and a Wacom tablet w/ mouse at work.

yeah, that mighty mouse with the little scroll ball was awful, i've always hooked up a standard 2-button wheel mouse to my mac

I like that mouse and like the little trackball...you just have to be diligent about cleaning it.

the amount of time it's taking to sort out stuff like Notes Plus and Paper. Starting to worry that pen/drawing fluidity is terminally fucked on this thing.

Turns out most drawing apps are lazily relying on the CPU and need to be rebuilt. Apparently Procreate is GPU-centric and glides like silk.

I try hard not to procreate though

I'm considering taking up santeria so I can keep my old MacBook Pro alive for another month (five years old and subject to a lot of hard living) or so until the new model comes out.

i know right, this is nailbitingly tense, two of my keys just stopped working in the last week, the grounding prong fell off the AC power adaptor AND my hard drive has been making suspicious noises

;_; we are now officially an all-Mac household as my 5 year old PC died two nights ago

really hope I can salvage the hard drive (thank God I had my iTunes library on an external disk)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57413641-37/apple-to-unveil-revolutionary-product-this-year-says-designer/

yay get to recycle my "iBrator" joke

philippe-starck-is-full-of-shit-all-the-time-says-me

revoltionary product is just going to be an apple television thing, w/ gestural controls, i bet

philippe starck will not be the designer of whatever product it is

does lacie still sell those hard drives designed by the same guys who designed a porsche?

like, when I have people over at my house, that's the first thing I gesture to, my hard drive that looks like a porsche

then you should get the phone, the luggage, the sunglasses, the clothes....

http://www.porsche-design.com/international/en/

http://allthingsd.com/20120413/apple-we-dont-know-what-philippe-starck-is-talking-about/

there it is

He meant SNAPPLE.

porsche design != porsche car design, although they're related

macbook pro imminent death watch:

the keyboard / mouse suddenly stopped working until i rebooted. the mouse pointer was on the screen and the text cursor was blinking but i couldn't do anything, even the caps lock light wasn't coming on when i was tapping it.

i did a full cold power cycle and it fixed the keyboard/mouse thing but now my screen inverts the colors when i tap on it.

guess some wires are busted.

people who have the new ipad, what are the file sizes of new retina enabled apps like? I'm probably going to get one in the next few weeks and i'm debating 16 vs 32.

I would also like the answer to this question.

love the new rumors today about macbook pros at wwdc

"ok, well the april release rumors are proven false, which proves they're definitely going to release it at wwdc"

Am hoping for iPad mini at wwdc. Also a slim down non-fat format for apps because the retina ones are massive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Apple's fantastical tax-avoiding magic.

Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives. Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.

Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich

Have read this exact same story about Google I'm pretty sure. Dropping in the quote from the community college president blaming California's budget crisis on Apple's accounting is some classy journalism right there.

The magic of taxes are basically that states and the federal government have baked enough loopholes in that were there to encourage business of one sort or another that companies that are national or international can jump through them and get taxed less by expanding their financial web.

The size issue for Retina apps is basically another media invention. The reason Garageband and iMovie got so much larger in the last update was because of new features / themes, not because of the graphics.