New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

this sounds real cool & i would like one but i think an era in which you go to someone's place & their kitchen is ~lit in blue light~ is gonna seem like one of those opulent-70s-interior-design-w-woodpanels phases, after the fact. like we will look back on the celebration of new colour opportunities with great shame. you see some movies that came out just post-technicolour & the guys'll be wearing a tuxedo with a red shirt & it is just too much.

I'm going to order one to play around w/ it and see how fine grained the colors and dimming are. I don't care about broad spectrum color changing but as an architect it would be really nice to specify a relatively cheap automated system to dim and shift from a daylight white to a warmer glow as the sun went down.

reasonably fine-grained, and you can basically drag the individual lights around on a color gradient

I said 'scott forstall' to siri, and it came back with

http://a2.img.mobypicture.com/4e2d6966ec5317b91420bf28ddc33e51_large.jpg

I bought the new earbuds and they are nice

rip

gotta laugh at the apple ads for the earbuds where they posit that they have reinvented the in-ear headphone when practically no-company had been making the old style round earphones for the last 5 years.

They are a major step up from the last ones (not saying much).

Again apps get stuck while updating and I have to reset and on occasion still delete the app and re-install it. I thought this was fixed. Annoying.

iPad mini is really nice. Pity screen isn't retina, but it's miles better than the OG iPad

Had a play with the mini in the Apple store earlier - really surprised at how much I liked it, even with a non-retina screen. If my iPad 3 wasn't a work machine, and if I didn't need the full sized screen (and retina display) for reading academic papers, I would probably be selling it and buying one of these.

Also had a play with the rMBP 13" - seemed very nice, a little bulkier/heavier than I would like, but probably I will get one anyway, rather than a 13" MBA; I already have the 11" MBA, so that's always going to win out when I want something truly portable, and the rMBP seems light enough to carry around some of the time.

The early reviews of the 13 rmbp aren't good, T: seems the gfx card is seriously underpowered, and it's laggy and stuttery as a consequence.

i will have a real crisis when the day comes to buy a retina mbp, as i do most my work on a big dell monitor pluggedi nto my laptop. what will i do??

get an apple monitor

27" apple monitor so nice

The early reviews of the 13 rmbp aren't good, T: seems the gfx card is seriously underpowered, and it's laggy and stuttery as a consequence.

Interesting - thanks. The ones I saw a few days ago seemed pretty positive, e.g.:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/apple-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review-13-inch/

Are you thinking more of this:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3585082/13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review

? That's definitely giving me pause. Actually, it's making me wonder about the 15" rmbp... the same weight as the 13" mbp I'm using right now, I guess (which I usually think is too heavy, admittedly).

I guess I'm just not going to be happy until they bring out a 13" retina mba, really.

This said, I thought everyone complained that the 15" retina stuttered when it came out? Do those complaints still exist?

mine doesn't stutter

would you recommend it?

mine doesn't stutter either. Do recommend!

Another butthurt Apple fanboy checks out:

http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-2012-11

I love mine; the only irritating thing about it is the lack of optical drive, which doesn't actually matter if I'm at home because I can access the DVD-ROM drive on my iMac via wireless as if it was a local drive.

what do you still use an optical drive for??

playing CDs and DVDs??

Do you want to know the beginning of the end of our relationship? It was when you decided to include an SD slot in your MacBooks.

...

i'm one of the outliers who needs an optical drive still :(

Yes, looks like it's the Verge one I had in mind. There was a similar one I read elsewhere -- Wired, maybe? will hunt

yeah, I haven't used an optical drive in maybe 3 years? and I think I've only used the mba ethernet adapter once in the last year.

what do you still use an optical drive for??

I bought the laptop because I was working on writing vocal arrangements in Sibelius and I was going to be traveling for an extended period of time right before they were due. I bought the application 18 months ago and still have the installation disks. The Avid website, as far as I can tell, no longer offers the version I own as a download and multiple people have warned me off of upgrading, plus it would be ridiculous to have to torrent a 600GB program I ALREADY OWN THE INSTALLATION DISKS FOR.

Also, whenever possible I still purchase physical media when buying music, because it is much more likely that my hard drive will die (in fact, it's a certainty; the question is "when" and it's a fact of life of all mechanical devices) than it is that my house will burn down. Also, the recordings of my performances with our church choir are all released on CD-R. I don't keep that music on the MBP because the hard drive is tiny, but it would be nice to be able to listen to something that isn't yet in my iTunes library but might be in the bag I carry the laptop around in, particularly if it's a CD-R of something I'm listening to so I can memorize the piece for a show.

dang

but yeah, literally the first thing I needed to do when I took the thing out of the box was put installation disks in it, which I couldn't do because there was no optical drive, and I was intensely furious for about three minutes because I was literally flying out of town the next day before I noticed the "remote devices" link in the Finder window and solved all of my problems

(I had a similar minifit with VMWare Fusion, which was for whatever reason incompatible with the iteration of MacOS X the machine came pre-installed with; I had to update my OS, register my VMWare Fusion serial number on the VMWare website, then download an updated installer, which made me wonder why I even bothered buying the software at the store in the first place and also what exactly the big difference between dealing with a Mac and a PC was supposed to be.)

I always download from the developer if that option is available (which it sounds like it wasn't w/r/t sibelius)

Sure, but why should I waste 30 minutes downloading from the developer if I already have the installation disks?

because those installation disks were out of date and all software should be purchased and downloaded online

tbh it always takes me 45 minutes to find the discs, and then they're outdated anyway, and downloading vmware seriously took me five minutes

All I'm getting from this is DJP is more organized than me, has a slow internet connection, and likes old software

It is a more efficient use of network bandwidth and usually faster to install locally from a disk and then contact a server for incremental updates, which often will have a smaller footprint than the original install package; plus, you have no guarantee that the installer you're downloading is actually up to date. The VMWare situation was the first time I'd run into a situation where a brand new out-of-the-box application wouldn't even install on my brand new computer, but I can tell you as a developer who deals a lot with Microsoft technologies that the idea that their downloaded installers are "up to date" is totally laughable; same with the Blizzard games I've downloaded onto my iMac which still required 90 minutes of downloading after the initial install to get up to the most recent patch level.

DOWNLOAD THE INSTALLER I SAY

*Sandy arrives, power goes out for both of you, winner is person who has hard copy instruction manuals to read about installation even though there's no way to do so*

kind of think vmware lives in a different realm and doesn't give a fuck, true

i have to burn DVDs for festival entries etc & other professional reasons, plus i still DJ off CD-Rs, so opty for me!

FTR I'm on a decent high-speed cable broadband connection and 90 minutes is an exaggeration for VMWare but not for WoW

I confess that I have a $30 external DVD drive for ripping DVDs I borrow from my library

but the App Store kind of guarantees you'll always get the 'latest' installer doesn' it?

I have just enough need for DVD burning (work backups) and DVD watching (entertainment) that I'll have to get an optical drive with the new iMac next month.

If I didn't have the iMac, I couldn't have ripped the tour de force performance of jjj's high school band at our senior year talent show and shared it with ILX.

xp: the only things I have purchased from the App Store are OS- or iLife-related

I have a blu-ray drive in a mac pro for ripping blu-ray films

surely VMware is on the App Store

oh I guess not