New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

get a blu ray burner and do it on like 3 discs

services like carbonite or jungledisk are fairly affordable, if you're that paranoid

went back to the apple store today; now sure I want a rmbp, pretty conflicted on 13" vs 15". gah.

13, more portable

15, bigger screen

also 15, more powerful. although I'm not sure I ever really do anything that needs it... that said, I'm leaning a little towards the 15, and then carrying on using the 11" mba as my main travel machine, even on somewhat extended trips.

this is a ridiculous thing to even see as a "problem", though (it's a work machine, so I don't have to worry about the cost, so really this should be an enjoyable decision).

if you have an 11" air i'd def recommend you go for a 15" mbp.

thanks. I think everything is pointing in that direction... which is funny, as I've been waiting for a 13", and would have bought one if stet hadn't sent me off to negative reviews.

I have a Stora NAS for backups, which has hard drives in it and will one day die. I could back up to DVDs so I could have a giant stack of them sitting around instead of a giant stack of CDs, which I already have anyway. It is not currently in my monthly budget to play for 100+ GB of remote backup storage that is growing constantly.

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i shan't lecture you on the the wonders of modern day storage but I back up my itunes collection to two external 2 tb hard drives (via time machine) and also have the important stuff on two ipod classics so

fuck a raid imo

i mean i don't want six thousands cd cases shitting up the second bedroom, but i am aware that that is just my personal preference

xxx-posts

A couple of years ago, my gf's iPhone was stolen out of a club. Find My Phone was still an early version, but we were able to track the phone down to a 24 hour diner and I busted the guy right at the table and in front of his friends and recovered the phone just a couple of hours after it was swiped. Thief had no idea about "Find My Phone."

as soon as DJP reminded me he's a software development professional I lost 100% of any reason to ever want to talk about software distribution

I just can't talk about stuff like that to someone else who's in the same gig makes me feel ill. We can talk about anything else, though

Do we need a separate thread for developers? Wouldn't mind the occasional debriefing.

ungh, we could use a place to gripe, I am sure we run into all the usual horseshit

$1.5 Million Worth Of iPad Minis Stolen From JFK Airport http://www.fastcompany.com/3003168/15-million-worth-ipad-minis-stolen-jfk-airport

http://i.imgur.com/jui0k.jpg

lol

FORTUNE -- He's been called "bonehead," "Dumbfellas" and the "less-than-master-mind" behind the theft of 3,600 iPad minis Monday night from the JFK cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in "Goodfellas."
Court papers filed Friday in Brooklyn show that one Renel Rene Richardson has been arrested by the FBI and charged with acting as the lookout for a pair of accomplices as they allegedly forklifted two pallets containing 1,800 iPad minis each into a waiting tractor-trailer.
The FBI was reportedly led to Richardson after co-workers told Port Authority detectives that he had made suspicious inquiries about when the iPads were due to arrive and where a forklift might be found.

Hero...of nothing.

Anyway, getting my new MacMini today (well, ordering it, rather). Maybe an iPhone 5 as well, the dust having settled somewhat.

Ned, are you getting a Fusion Drive?

Caught myself looking at ebay for junk to further upgrade my old-ass Mac Pro I got used. Dumbest hobby ever, but I have the suspicion if I put the fastest possible processors in it, it'd be comparable with a late-model iMac.

xpost -- I was strongly thinking about it but the cost won't come through in this case (both purchases are gifts from another, and I'm mindful of their own budget). Seems like it would be a great idea for sure -- maybe next time.

Woot! had a new 11.6" Dual-Core i5 MacBook Air for $760 and I just keep staring at the sold-out page hoping it will stop being true.

My 15" rMBP arrived! It's great, although I haven't got very far with configuring it yet, and I've already discovered that Firefox isn't retina updated (at least out of the box).

Thanks for the advice about this machine - 15" was definitely the way (for me) to go. Nightly build of firefox is retina enabled, everything else works fine, I've got the machine set up just the way I like it and I'm very impressed. Not sure if the SSD is better than the ones in my iMac and 2010 mbp, or just that the machine is only a few days old, but it's running much more smoothly and quickly than either of them.

Next step is to reformat the 2010 mbp and see if it behaves itself better - it has a tendency to get very hot and slow while doing very little, which doesn't seem right.

I wiped and reinstalled my 2011 mbp recently and it feels a lot less crusty to me. Though it probably had more to do with going from 4gb of ram to 16 which might have been the best $75 I've spent in a while.

yes, I guess my old machine is 4gb and this is 16gb. Otoh my 11" mba is also 4gb, I think, and is faster than the mbp, so it's probably not just that.

Ok im a complete noob when it comes to hardware but how does one upgrade the ram of a Mbp? I've got a 2009 model that's really struggling these days

Upgrading the RAM is pretty straight-forward on those MBPs. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1270?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

planning to get a new laptop in january. if i wanted to be able to keep using music-making software on my computer (mainly reason), i'd probably want a macbook pro over a macbook air, right?

http://i.imgur.com/B9ioQ.jpg

iMac build-to-order pricing, finally:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/27/build-to-order-pricing-for-new-imac-models-revealed/

I now own my first ever Mac and it arrived a day early. Air 11" 2 ghz, 8mb hd. I understand there will be an induction ceremony with coffee and cake?

it's not coffee and cake it's something much more.... involved.

creepy children in blue t shirts will loudly applaud you

n/a - yes

Yes cake. You cut it with the edge of the Mac.

omg.... this is humbling

the mac will be inducted, not you.

It occurred to me that the "humbling" thing might have sounded like I was humbled by the work of wonder that is a Mac. No. Rather, I feel dumb trynna use this thing. Like my boss trying to open her copy of Microsoft so it will download a USB from the Adobe.

hah

I am now installing iTunes 11. People have warned me to back up 10.7, but to be honest it's reached a point where I feel it can't be any worse. And this, about something that was once my favourite piece of software.

preintel mac i own can't install itunes 11, and ios 6 will not sync with anything prior to itunes 11, so basically i cant put any music on my iphone using my computer. fuck you mac.

OK, it actually appears to be awesome.

that's odd ... my itunes is telling me it's the up-to-date version?

sure sure, rub it in why dont you xpost

oh duh app store

Yeah, only seems available through App Store Software Update at the moment.

One really basic thing that I can now do easily that drove me up the wall before: switch from playing a song to playing the album it comes from (in order).

just downloaded and installed itunes 11

I can't believe the skeumorphic decision to make the interface into a furry, rainbow-colored Lisa Frank notebook. WTF Aple??

Love iTunes? I've got the perfect job for you! No mention of iTunes 11 though.

http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/ofc/3431742843.html