New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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Update... Unlike the clusterfuck that was Final Cut Pro X, Logic X is a great update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0cAPKuLb4

Is that Tricia Lockwood

did she say something about a cart.

also that's not on vine

if you're at all interested in the iwatch, read this: http://9to5mac.com/2013/07/18/apple-stacks-iwatch-team-with-sensor-fitness-experts/

there is no way they actually call this thing an iWatch

have they trademarked iwear for their version of google glass?

considering the first post in this thread refers to the itablet, you may be on to something

xp

Apple has registered the trademark "iWatch" in several countries, although that doesn't mean they'll actually use that name for a soon-to-be-introduced smart watch; it could just be to prevent competitors or squatters from using it.

Also, it could be for some kind of surveillance project.

the iPhone is already the most effective surveillance device ever invented....

i bought a macbook pro a few months ago but it got totally totalled in a liquid-spillage accident. I won't go into details but it involved a glass of wine and an episode of The Golden Girls. Anyway after THE FEAR i have finally got reimbursement through my home contents insurance (minus a small-ish premium).

thankfully i now have the cash to replace it and i need to do that pretty soon (for work) but macrumors says "don't buy! updates imminent". so i should wait, i guess, but my worry is that if they do update it will be all-retina and SSD and they will eliminate the optical drive and ordinary hard drive model.

1. i need at least 500 gb of storage space. I'm not tied to the optical drive although i do find it handy because clients do give me DVDs to watch. will i even be able to afford a retina model with at least 500gb of storage space? I imagine the imminent update will increase the capacity of the SSD in the baseline model but that's unlikely to be 500gb, or is it? (the current baseline retina has 128gb of storage and 500gb storage carries a premium of £400 - well out of my price range.

to be honest my price range is the basic non-retina with 500gb, so i guess i should just bite the bullet and get that but it would be annoying if they came out with a revised model of the basic one within a month or so.

what would you advise? I guess i could wait a month or so but not much longer than that. cheers.

can't you cope with a tiny external drive to cover the hdd space you require?

Yep external DVD, with external hdd, or a nas, or cloud storage, or even a flash drive - 128GB insanely cheap these days

Flash STICK

And for gods sake in this day an age why would you get a spinning harddrive? It makes your laptop feel like it is running through mud.

After a weekend with a Macbook Air, the sound of hard drive thrashing became like nails on a chalkboard to me.

^^^^ concurr on this. Would not switch back.

and you shouldn't

the mba is the way of the future

actually the ipad probably is

but if you need a laptop

https://twitter.com/cabel/status/360549363245789184

some of us hate cords and subscription models.

i guess i should just bite the bullet and get that but it would be annoying if they came out with a revised model of the basic one within a month or so.

what would you advise? I guess i could wait a month or so but not much longer than that. cheers.

― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Isn't there usually a week or two lag time between announcements of new products and when they hit the stores and the old ones are no longer available? And after that (and even before that), sometimes the old models appear in the on the online Apple Store Certified Refurbished site, which are usually good deals - these are sold by Apple with their standard one-year warranty and optional AppleCare, with all standard accessories, documentation, and latest software. No guarantees they'll have the model you want though, and if they do they are usually available for only a short time.

As for why anyone would want a spinning hard drive in their new laptop, two reasons - more capacity for less money, which still matters for some of us. Apple is clearly fine with reducing the storage space in their new MacBooks in order to go solid-state, which serves their business interests by pushing iCloud accounts instead of local storage. Of course SSDs are also more technically elegant, more reliable, smaller, faster, lighter, silent, and draw less battery power - all things Apple (and many buyers) find alluring.

i need a laptop for draughting.

And for gods sake in this day an age why would you get a spinning harddrive? It makes your laptop feel like it is running through mud.

for the couple of months i had it the thing felt very sprightly to me! compared to what i was used to, at least. external things plugged in to hump around would be a real drag for me, sorry.

xpost and thanks Lee.

iCloud doesn't save on local storage btw -- all machines have all copies of everything in iCloud.

(ITunes Match a diff matter, I guess, but I don't see them shipping less space just to drive its usage)

jed, I had something similar over here:

Should I buy an Apple laptop?

a couple of weeks ago. The advice on that thread def swayed me, especially Tracer pointing out how cheap 32/64gb thumb drives are now. I went with a 13ʺ macbook air - 128gb (but boosted the ram to 8gb). Absolutely no regrets yet (although tbf I am still only a few days in and basically opening and closing indesign over and over and oohing at how quickly it launches). Really fast, really light. If 500gb built-in storage is a must, then it wouldn't be right for you, but I am sold.

jed, you can get a regular 15 or 13" with the optical drive, and swap out the optical drive for a spinny one, and swap out the normal one for a solid state

I had the impression thumb drives were somehow inherently more unstable in terms of memory - am I wrong?

(ITunes Match a diff matter, I guess, but I don't see them shipping less space just to drive its usage)

― stet, Friday, July 26, 2013 4:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not just HDDs but also the removal of DVD drives in laptops and Mac Minis. I think Apple would rather you download your entertainment via iTunes and such rather than rent from Netflix or Amazon.

I haven't found USB thumb drives unstable, but you do have to be careful not to lose them (or have them stolen), and it's just a bit of a nuisance to have to unplug them each time you pack your MacBook away in a case, then reinsert it when you take it out.

The Apple rumour sites seem to become much more accurate about one week in advance of new product launches.

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I wouldn't trust one as sole back-up, or the only place I have a photo/music/something important library - stability aside, they're just too easy to lose.

But I think they're prob ok for stuff that you could download again. Like there's a hinterland of films, games, comics that I mean to get round to and I'd like to available - if I keep that on one, should mean my main drive has a bit of breathing space.

until I can get 500GB of Dropbox space for free, those SSD drives are too small to hold a library of media/games/what have you; but if you have a main home computer to store all this stuff i guess it can work, maybe

if i had a zillion bucks i think the ideal situation would be an mba and then at home a thunderbolt display into which i kept an external hd permanently plugged

mba + little flash drive for things I will *definitely* get round to watching soon + hard drive library/back up at home seems to be working for me atm but the home end could be nicer & less of a faff.

(*definitely* = *probably won't* of course)

Since I'm leaving my job I just got a new 11" MBA and the new Time Capsule. 802.11ac wifi makes wireless storage truly practical for almost anything (n wasn't that bad to be fair)

Leaving this job I'll miss my thunderbolt display for sure. I'm also wondering if I'll buy my own dropbox subscription, google drive is fast becoming a more than adequate replacement for it.

how is the screen size on the 11"s? we've been using a 15" MBP but my wife is going back to school and it's entirely too big to cart around with her, so we were going to pick up an Air. 11" just sounds so tiny but maybe it's perfectly fine for writing.

It's great. It's pretty hi-res, so you actually get the same number of pixels you got on the old white 13" MacBooks.

WSJ reporting retina iPad mini this year, this could be conclusive.

don't have the money to be upgrading, but don't really need to either

how is the screen size on the 11"s? we've been using a 15" MBP but my wife is going back to school and it's entirely too big to cart around with her, so we were going to pick up an Air. 11" just sounds so tiny but maybe it's perfectly fine for writing.

― akm, Friday, July 26, 2013 11:46 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

have had the 11" for 2 years, i don't really like it - highest pixel density outside of the retina airs, but OSX still hasn't really implemented, uh, what's that term? you know, the feature that allows you to scale up fonts system-wide without any objective loss.

i really hate writing on the 11" - it's simply too small vertically, you end up doing a lot of scrolling up and down to move between sections when you're writing.

My GF has the 11" MBA and loves it - and she's mostly dealing with text. The slit-like screen is too much for me, but I dunno... I'm planning on going traveling in the fall for a couple weeks and am at a dilemma. Hoping for retina iPad mini

My wife just got a 13", never actually saw an 11" until a week ago and I'm kind if shocked at how tiny it is compared to the bigger one. I think it would drive me crazy unless I was someone who had to use a laptop on planes for dozens of hours a month.

so i'm thinking of getting an iMac to complement my 4 y.o MBP - is a new model on the horizon? is Retina a realistic and affordable possibility?

No rumors or announcements on a Retina iMac, but there will likely be a standard spec bump this fall.