New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (16745 of them)

I have the ethernet dongle it's annoying to have to remember it but nbd.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link

yeah i havent been in a situation where ive absolutely needed to use the ethernet dongle either

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link

I mainly use it at work the wireless isn't too hot.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link

Yeah, I made up my mind on this much: I'm not accepting anything less than 512 GB.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is a huge thing for me too, even just my itunes library

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link

i dont trust externals either

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link

i get by fine w/ 256 and all my music on it, have about 40 gigs perpetually open

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link

It's not that I don't trust externals. They're just a chore.

Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link

http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link

i've been dongleless when it's mattered. i have several now. : (

my hdd use varies, but it was basically impossible until i signed up to itunes match, which i still don't really like.

caek, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link

all worth it though for the weight imo

caek, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link

how is "aapl" one point on a line? wouldn't the whole line be appl?

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link

you dont trust externals, sheesh

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link

external hard drives are literally the same as internal hard drives, but external. You can convince yourself of this by buying a regular hard drive and slapping it in an enclosure.

the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link

I never said I was being rational.

Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

I am, after all, buying an Apple product.

Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

i have had so many external hard drives die on me, they are horrible

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

spinning disk hard drives in general are horrible, tho.

the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link

externals are fine. get one with a warranty and clone it/back it up to the cloud.

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link

i dont know why im selling the mba so hard, ITS YOUR FUNERAL

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link

i swapped out my optical drive for a spinny hard drive, feels great but it also feels like it might die on me at any moment

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link

do you trust checkboxes or flush headphone jack

kenjataimu (cozen), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link

I'm pretty happy with iTunes match other than it has screwed up the artist list on the iPhone.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link

my biggest ITM complaint is that it doesnt play well w/ my ISP for some reason and gets stuck in an endless upload loop. otherwise works more or less entirely as advertised

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link

my theory based on nothing but my guessing is that one of the things that kills external hard-drives is shittier electronics/power supply than whats in your computer. I've had external drives "die" that I've opened up, pulled the drive out of the enclosure and stuck it in my mac and gotten a few years out of it.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link

yeah it could be the usb interface in the enclosure itself

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link

i think this is true, the USB interfaces die before the drive itself does. which makes it the more annoying when they glue the case shut or some such idiocy

Nhex, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link

externals are fine. get one with a warranty and clone it/back it up to the cloud.

― max, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:26 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

i did that multiple times. kinda impossible to back it up to the cloud when it's 3TB tho :(

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link

i have been buying externals since they cost $500 for 60GB and were huge and had loud spinning fans. this has been a long heartbreak

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link

I think the main problem with external drives is that until USB3/Thunderbolt you were stuck with USB 1 or 2 which suuuuucked or you had a nice firewire drive that was less supported with each hardware revision

mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link

idk what to tell you slocki

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link

stop buying external drives from montreal mob-owned counterfeit computer stores

mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link

idk what to tell you slocki

― max, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

just say you're sorry

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link

eSATA > USB anyway

they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link

ive been using fw800 for video stuff but i have a weird feeling about it

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link

weird

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link

fw800 users hate this one weird feeling

they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link

weird feeling in my firewire

mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link

That's my thunderbolt.

Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link

my #1 itunes match complaint is that there are gaps between the tracks on "and their refinement of the decline" by stars of the lid.

caek, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link

terrible

max, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link

the weird feeling is i finally got around to spending the money on FW800 just as the technology is about to officially die

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link

do they sell thunderbolt enclosures yet? would probably be pretty simple to do a swap

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link

i dont have a thunderbolter yet

i have seen thunderbolt adapters, particularly for one of my seagates (which has died twice, rebate is great but not if it keeps dying), but they cost as much as the drive itself :/

hard drives suck

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link

yeah... i wonder if you did the pricing of replacing HDs over time, whether that would come close to the amount of money it costs to have a dropbox pro acct

although it looks like personal use accts top out at 500 GBs

乒乓, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link

i do have a pro acct

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link

and it's totally useful and gives me a lot of peace of mind but yeah, it's only so large. and syncing TBs of data over the internet is just... never gonna happen any time soon

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

if s1ocki has terabytes I'm assuming he is messing with video and doesn't really have the bandwidth to continually back those files up to dropbox

mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

dang, xp and I missed the boat

mh, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

s1ocki have you looked into Drobo?

the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link


This thread has been locked by an administrator

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.