New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

i'm going to hold out to see if i get a new work laptop in which case i'd maybe just go for a 27" imac

this mbp is perfect for music though so i wonder if i can just buy a semi busted one for parts

So IT arrived and I still stand by my earlier assessment - build quality on this is frighteningly good. I've been a strong advocate of the Never Get The First New Model Of Anything policy, and I still am for the most part but I considered it to be another midlife crisis.

Anyway, it feels completely atemporal - as if it fell back in time somehow from that 70s-era sci-fi future where featureless somethings could cause Cosmic changes without any moving parts at all.

does the imac not feel like that?

ipad doesn't imo

does the imac not feel like that?

Not really.

it's the best computer i've ever had, but it's still a computer

it's not a magical device that will change your life?

like google+

is it any faster than a macbook air

Depends in how hard you throw it

tbh, it WAS a magical device that did change my life

as someone who uses a computer all day every day, and being in IT for many years, the switch was like whooaaaaaaaa

just not like LIVIN' IN THE FUTUAH OVAH HERE magic

My new job is ordering one for me. Can't wait tbh.

is it any faster than a macbook air

Haven't tried any of the refreshed MBAs yet, but it certainly feels faster than the previous gen-MBA. My previous computer was a five-year-old Aluminum MBP (the very first Core 2 Duo one) and was relatively pokey these days (especially whenever I was working in Logic or GarageBand), so the jump to 4x the RAM and a SSD drive was an instant WHOA, THE FUTURE moment.

my MBA retina is ordered, estimated delivery between 8/3 and 8/9 right now but based on other people's experiences I'd expect it to come a bit sooner.

Apple Lusting p. hard right now

Diablo III... loaded!

Jesus, this game is super-playable now

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2012/07/17/ipad_mini/

good point about the purported ipad mini

I'd like BIGGER hand targets dammit

so, still pricing stuff out and

1) if i were to buy a last-generation macbook pro, would it be reasonable to expect that i could upgrade to a 256gb ssd for less than apple's bto price of ~ $500?

2) is it reasonable to say that if you're not going to get a 13" mbp (w/ integrated gfx and no geforce 650) that you might as well just get a mba?

i keep running into the fact that if i were to pimp out a new pre-retina mbp w/ an ssd i end up more or less at the same price as the cheaper retina mbp

I have the last gen i5 macbook pro with the hi-res antiglare 15" screen and discrete graphics. What I told myself is I'd just wait and wait and wait until it started feeling slow and then I'd put in the SSD. I haven't reached that point yet. And I'm still just using 4 gigs of RAM. It's not my main computer but I still do some decent "pro" work and it's been fine. Eventually I'll double the RAM and switch to SSD, but not yet, and the prices will keep coming down.

gah i fucked up #2

what i'm saying is since the 13" mbp and the mba are both missing the geforce they're going to feel pretty similar because the intel graphics are going to limit performance more than the clock speed

see i've reached that point with my santa rosa where i am reading to put in an ssd but at this point the monitor and motherboard are about to die. i have a medium binder clip on the bezel right now, without it the display goes nuts. if i bump the connector for my headphones it causes all sorts of weird and wonderful crashing, etc. another thing i'm wondering is whether ssd prices are going to come down faster than the requirements. like by the time i am going to start needing the ssd, am i going to need a 1tb ssd which is going to cost me $400.

the other complicating factor though is wondering whether to bto a retina w/ 16gb ram. can't imagine what you'd seriously need 16gb of ram for that wouldn't be bottlenecked by the video card.

help

how long until refurb retinas?

wish they had autocad on the demo rmbp

i asked if graphed was retina optimized and got a great blank look

grapher, duh

late great what did you do to your santa rosa?!?!?!

heavy daily use and lots of travel?

i think the headphone jack / motherboard issue is common on these, the cracked bezel i'm kind of unclear what happened but it started as a hairline i think and got worse and worse

it is still running though and i'm hoping to set something up with it, not sure what yet. maybe a meteorological station or a seismograph.

retina mbp now! text is very very pretty

:-)

yeah i ended up at 1650 for the mbp i picked and 2150 for the rmbp i picked

went in the store and every time i looked at the old mbp i was checking to see if there was shit on my glasses. it wasn't even about "eye popping detail", it just looked so much more natural, the glare issue is improved x 1000, the definition, contrast, clarity, etc etc

btw i noticed almost no speed difference between the base rmbp and base mbp.

i'm going to get the retina, applecare be damned

Just ordered a new air. 13" BTO with 8gigs ram and the 500gig ssd.

Was really tempted by the retina - the difference was something like 50 quid, although the ssd would have been smaller - but given that it would be bigger and not much lighter than my '06 macbook, and lugging this thing around on my shoulder is what tipped me over the edge, that seemed a bit silly.

I think this is the most I've ever spent on anything. Until it turns up I'll be going through a constant mix of excitement and buyer's remorse..

Mountain Lion out tomorrow, as expected.

ooh I guess that means my new Mac will ship to me with Mountain Lion on it

If not, new Macs will have a voucher for free update.

http://www.techspot.com/news/49519-free-mountain-lion-upgrades-for-macs-bought-after-june-10.html

Mine's somewhere in the air between shanghai and heathrow. I just keep refreshing the order tracking thing. It's embarrassing. I'm like a preposterous man-child.

I did that with my last one and it appeared to be going China - US - Cambodia - back to US - Germant - UK or something preposterous. Maybe the reported times weren't in synch or maybe Apple really does want to destroy the planet.

Blimey! Apparently when mine gets to London it then has to go to a distribution centre up north for them to put an itunes voucher in the box before it comes back down here, which seems weird - why not just email the code?

when did you order yours sktsh?

Early Friday evening (UK time) - it was built over the weekend and ready for shipping yesterday morning, but didn't get on a flight until this morning (according to apple and the shipping co, anyway - like alba said it might be that these things aren't always up to speed..)

daaang mine was ordered on July 9th and isn't even preparing for shipment yet :( :(

That's weird (and shit!) - did you order something exotic/multiple items..?

Safri 6.0 has removed the ability to set the default typeface for page display. You can still do it through a .css but it's annoying.

xp just the 16GB of ram on the upper end model; shipping estimates were still 3-4 weeks at the time of my order and it's BTO so I'm not too worried still. I'm just jealous that you got yours faster :P

jeez it's so hard to resist just running out and snagging the rmbp

I probably didn't really need 16GB of RAM but considering it's not user-serviceable I figured I might as well. Paying for it in days of waiting I suppose.

So yeah go buy one.

rmbp with Tbird display is a bit of a letdown just b/c the retina is so gorgeous...but it is super cool to see things so BIG! never had a monitor that big before. though I'm not yet really sure how best to use it for writing, since full screen is just silly in the writing apps I know/use (latex)

i can't imagine what's possibly going to need 16 gb of ram that's not going to bottleneck somewhere else

my 2008 mbp has 4gb and i feel like there's always at least a gb free even when i'm running indesign, illustrator and aperture at the same time