The Apple thread

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:49 pm 0

In other news, my iPod Touch wants to update to 1.1.3, didn't realise this was out for the Touch already.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:51 pm 0

Sorry I am not paying attention today

I need more caffine.

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:39 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:In other news, my iPod Touch wants to update to 1.1.3, didn't realise this was out for the Touch already.

came out yesterday
required for the january software upgrade
and like jimaroid went ahead and bought it

hadn't tried the hacks so wasn't disabling things.
kinda suspicious about the install as it seemed too quick as if it's there in the update and just hidden...

probably just me and my suspicious mind

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:56 pm 0

I'd get the January Update and 1.1.3 right now if it weren't for a couple of apps I use a lot that I I'd miss, namely bookreader and password safe.

Once Apple gets the SDK out and these apps start to appear by a more official route I'll probably go 'kosher' again.

Bisley · Post by **Bisley** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:59 pm 0

The January update isnt only available to OS X is it ?
Mate has itunes on XP and is having trouble with the update, I notice the requirements state Mac OS X.....is that correct ?

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:38 pm 0

To be honest if you've only got an SDTV you're probably better off with some kind of modded Xbox anyway. It's a shame the Apple TV isn't a bit more powerful - I don't think it has sufficient grunt for Blu Ray / HD DVD playback which would make it a far more attractive product IMHO.

Cheers

Bubba

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:42 pm 0

In other news my brand new today Mac Mini (2ghz model, damn that Superdrive!) has just completely killed itself while trying to install the 10.5.1 update. I left it for about an hour sitting at the desktop background in the "about to install updates" phase with no hdd or disc activity. So I reset it only to be presented with an infinite loop of setup account wizards.

Silly 10.5.1 update

Archive and Install time for me, which on the Mini will apparently take about 2 hours

Cheers

Bubba

galaxis · Post by **galaxis** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:38 am 0

I couldn't care less about the missing optical drive on the Air - but ethernet via USB, and just one USB port? Comeon...

Not everyone lives in the wireless world that some people seem to believe is all around us.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:27 am 0

So has anybody on here actually ordered an Air?

I'm thinking they're not that popular?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:32 am 0

We're not the target market - it's the corporate expense accounts that made Sony's Â£1500 midget laptops a practical market until the eee widdled on their chips.

Anyone spending their own cash would have to be neck-deep in the RDF (or in their own cash) to pay that much over the odds.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:53 am 0

TBH I really would rather have an eee. Thin-ness is all well and funky but I want genuine compactness in a subnotebook, and 13 inches is still too lardy in the other dimensions. I loved my little Libretto, and I like the form factor of the eee, and it makes more sense to me as an ultraportable *and* it doesn't cost $stupid_money.

I'm seeing it as a bit of a DS vs PSP thing really. Cheap, cheerful and possibly a bit ugly is far winning over "executive status symbol" wankiness in my mind.

Not that I can afford either of them really, but hay

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amanset · Post by **amanset** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:05 am 0

Rod_S wrote:This just in: The Mac Pro doesn't have SCSI.

Do people still use SCSI for anything but servers?

sponge · Post by **sponge** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:03 am 0

Updated my iPhone last night. The locate feature on Google maps is shockingly accurate.

I smell voodoo.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:50 am 0

Yak wrote:TBH I really would rather have an eee. Thin-ness is all well and funky but I want genuine compactness in a subnotebook, and 13 inches is still too lardy in the other dimensions. I loved my little Libretto, and I like the form factor of the eee, and it makes more sense to me as an ultraportable *and* it doesn't cost $stupid_money.

With you there, and there has been a somewhat muffled undercurrent of WTFness about the MBA from certain usually staunch RDF hang outs. No denying it's lovely but it's such a luxury item that anyone serious about a second or portable computer can easily find something a bit more palatable. To be honest I'll take the iPod Touch in preference, I'm still staggered by how great it is. That and the DS Lite saved my life on my travels this Christmas and both take up about the same space as three cassette tapes.

But you just *know* Apple have something waiting in the wings. It's all just a matter of when.

Mat · Post by **Mat** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:33 am 0

amanset wrote:
Rod_S wrote:This just in: The Mac Pro doesn't have SCSI.
Do people still use SCSI for anything but servers?

Still used a lot in video editing.
And fibre channel uses the SCSI protocols too.