New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

haha for a sec i was like is that some 3rd party client

mail *finally* replies to the recipient not the sender if you were the sender. when did this happen?

im having trouble figuring out the usefulness of notifications--are any of you guys finding them helpful or useful at all yet?

like right now i keep my dock permanently on the right side, which lets me keep an eye on the app icons to let me know if i have new mail, new IMs, new tweets. notifications seems kinda redundant.

i guess theyre kinda useful for calendar events/reminders, though my phone will also buzz.

and if i use full screen mode, which i do on my laptop but not usually on my work computer

the twitter notifications are really slow

yeah i think that's basically it. they're much less necessary than on ios because you can see more than one thing at once.

My lust object should be here today sometime…

Hey mine too, silby! I had it delivered to work, got all excited and took the afternoon off. Going from an original core duo macbook to this is a real culture shock..

Oooh immediate massive improvement: scrolling through long ilx threads to get back to bookmarks is a breeze!

Meantime on another front:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-now-available-on-apple-tv/

I like the mail notifications because I get a flash of what the message is, & I can know immediately if I need to read it all or respond right away without having to click away from what I'm doing. before I'd get a ping or see that I have new mail, but wouldn't know what the mail was without jumping over to mail to read it.

wait, basically you guys are describing Outlook notifications, right

I've been using growl for that style of notifications for years.

i have never ever felt so impatient about receiving a package in my life

i thought i posted this somewhere else but i ended up going for the 2.6 / 16 / 256 retina, unbelievably super-excited for this shit to get here

also: mt lion is surprisingly zippy and cool on this 2008 santa rosa, if anything it's running faster than lion. i'm not sure why but one thing i notice is that it seems to do much less file indexing?

much happier since I destroyed notification centre

my RMBP will be ready to go in ... about 56 minutes!!!!

I'm wondering if I should be using time machine on my work computer. I've never used it with any of my machines; all my external hard drives are backed up offsite, and all my work is in multiple version-controlled places, but I have some amount of money for computer stuff, and I wonder if it might make life less painful in e.g. the event of total computer failure, or me doing something really stupid to the OS.

Does using it mean that there is an external drive constantly spinning? I'm kinda sensitive to computer noise when I'm working, and my current ssd-based iMac is essentially silent, so I don't like the idea of that - but maybe it can just run at night, if that's not defeating the point of it?

I hated the idea is time machine updating hourly, especially when dealing with huge scratch files that are immediately trashed. Theresa free little utility called time machine editor that lets you change the frequency. I have mine set to every morning at 5 am.

whether hourly is a problem depends on your usage. scratch files are obviously a problem. they can be excluded manually. if the app is well-behaved (i.e. not adobe?) then it should exclude them automatically. for me, the update each hour takes maybe 2 minutes. i almost never notice it.

why not exclude the scratch file folders?

yeah, definitely the easiest solution

yep.

I was typing on my iphone and using scratch files as a shorthand. I'm not talking about specific scratch files. I'll often have a huge file, like a gig, and maybe save a version to the desktop as a safety or something. Just generally moving stuff around. Plus huge stuff going in and out of dropbox. I don't want this stuff not backed up. I just don't need everything backed up every hour.

upon examination, if you're only backing up once a day, maybe you should physically just turn the drive on and off that one time, rather than allowing the automatic hr backups. it'll extend the life of your drive too, as it won't be accessing/spinning all day

why not do an SSD time capsule?

nhex NO, turning the drive on and off is the most mechanically stressful operation possible!

but maybe it can just run at night, if that's not defeating the point of it?

that is defeating the point of it

but the real point of it is that it's not updating everything in real time, it's doing it at efficient intervals, so even w/ something crazy like adobe happening it should not be constantly running the drive

ime when it does run though it can be a painfully slow process, so i am switching from a very old fw400 magnetic drive to the wireless ssd time capsule myself

which will not necessarily speed things up but at least it will run quietly in the background instead of clanking away on my desk like a circa-2004 g-drive

imo though this cloud document thing is about to change the game

I wish some new iMacs would come out. Mine is feeling clunky.

So if I've only got a Macbook at home with a 500gb, what's my best backup / Time Machine option? A small external drive with the same capacity and plug it in a couple times a week? Buy a cheap PC and run a drive as a network share?

I like Time Capsule

No way am I turning the drive on and off. Firstly, my time caspule is a 2tb internal drive, so that solves that. But I never turn my computer off. Ever. Only during really bad thunderstorms. Twice I've lost hard-drives while on summer vacation when I've turned my computer off. I think it got too hot. Now I leave my computer on at all times and have had many less problems. I reboot now and again to clean out the cobwebs.

I don't think running it once a night is a bad idea at all. It's still easier than cloning once a night, with the fancy interface and everything. I can only think of one time where I've been like "oh man, what happened to that file from 2 hours ago" but I can think of a few times where there was something from a week or a month ago that I couldn't find and Time Machine saved me.

where there was something from a week or a month ago that I couldn't find and Time Machine saved me

yes

dropbox is also great for that

btw this retina MBP is easily as good as a laptop as the aluminum macbook pro or the top of the line ibm thinkpad (ie one of the three best i've ever seen), the build quality is amazing and w 2.6/16 *it just works*

it is a disgustingly good laptop

Yah, I'm really happy with the MBPR too.

u guys are hurting my resolve not to buy a new laptop

also i'm not sure if it's because i *just* got it instead of a couple months ago, but the complaining about resolution makes no sense to me. i've been dicking around w/ cs6 and office and iwork constantly and everything seems hunky-dory. stuff that looks like shit kinda always looked like shit and everything else looks like it's on paper instead of a tv screen.

well, u guys basically sold me on the retina so now i've got one. gotta figure out what to do w/ excess music files i can't store on laptop anymore (will probably either external hd them or look into other storage options) and whether to do full transfer or pick + choose what files i want to bring over.

i'm interested in advice u guys may have on either of those questions

ssd external w/ your itunes on it

256gb lacie little big disk

also - i heard that notes is better than the microsoft word for mac suite (which is what i've been using for years) and cheaper too. truth?

Hyperbole

it's not as "full featured". many people will see that as a plus but i would say it's hyperbolic to call it a complete replacement solution for word.

wait, what is word for mac suite? you mean office x?

yeah office x which has always slowed down my macbook considerably. what kind of features is notes missing? maybe i should just google up a comparison

templates, excel integration

as a note-taking program? it's about as good as the notetaking format in word.

as a word processor, i would think it's not impossible to use notes + textedit? i think pages is a very good substitute for getting indesign-level results in a few minutes. word is mostly an issue of compatibility for me (depending on whether i'm working in excel or numbers, keynote or powerpoint) and also whether i'm trying to format a book-length thing (for which word is pretty much the defacto standard)

for short-page length, info light fancy things things then iwork

for basic word processing like letters to the court or unemployment or college (or all three) you could use textedit and notes.