The Apple thread

[WiteWulf]

You'd only be saving £160 (the seller wants £40 delivery), I'd say it was worth that just to make sure you had a year's warranty on it, tbh.

[Cloudane]

Bear in mind the current iMacs are about due a refresh going by the MacRumors buying guide, so they say "buy now only if you need it". That said, my dad is itching to buy one too.

[phattslagg]

Bear in mind the current iMacs are about due a refresh going by the MacRumors buying guide, so they say "buy now only if you need it". That said, my dad is itching to buy one too.

Ah - thanks for that. Didn't realise it was likely to be so soon. I think I'll hold fire for a bit..

[Cloudane]

The thing with Apple is you can never be sure, it could be next week it could be 6 months away, but the buyers guide works on average time between releases.

[WiteWulf]

New Macbook Pros tomorrow, by the looks of things:

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/24/mac ... s-tuesday/

I'm still interested if it's the Time Capsule, too, tbh...we'll probably be getting one at work to play with.

[TT]

Where's the 3g iPhone then eh? EH? EH?

[gravy]

Where's the 3g iPhone then eh? EH? EH?

On my old 3G phone I only ever got around 9k/s out of it max.

Did I have it set up badly or is 3G a bit shit?

[amanset]

Where's the 3g iPhone then eh? EH? EH?

Where's the iPhone? Eh? Eh? It is only available in a handful of countries. IIRC it is only in four markets in Europe.

[amanset]

Where's the 3g iPhone then eh? EH? EH?

On my old 3G phone I only ever got around 9k/s out of it max.

Did I have it set up badly or is 3G a bit shit?

Or your network is/was shit.

[WiteWulf]

At bloody last...new Macbook pros are here...

*edit* ...and Macbooks.

[matt303]

The MacBooks might have tipped me back to getting a MacBook rather than a cheap windows laptop, what are my options for running the occasional windows app, Parallels and the other one?

Whats the secondhand value of a 1GHz 12inch G4 PB?

[RiK]

The MacBooks might have tipped me back to getting a MacBook rather than a cheap windows laptop, what are my options for running the occasional windows app, Parallels and the other one?

Whats the secondhand value of a 1GHz 12inch G4 PB?

I've just installed the VMWare Fusion trial with an XP install and it's pretty cool, especially 'unity' mode where the PC apps run seamlessly alongside OSX.

[WiteWulf]

Anyone else noticed that the new 15" 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz MBPs have 512MB video RAM on the US site and only 256MB on the UK site? Is the UK getting lower spec machines or is this a cock-up on the website update?

[matt303]

I've just installed the VMWare Fusion trial with an XP install and it's pretty cool, especially 'unity' mode where the PC apps run seamlessly alongside OSX.

I've just had a go with this, worked ok apart from making my mac mini grind to a halt for a while, I guess only having 1Gb of ram and a full HD doesn't help. I guess it'll be much better on a machine with 2 or 4 Gb of ram and plenty of disc space.

[WiteWulf]

Yup...the big killer on the Minis is the slow HDD. Once you start hitting the HDD heavily for anything, or run out of RAM and it starts swapping, you're in trouble.