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It's okay guys, the new Macbook Air lets you control another computer's optical drive wirelessly.
Apple is officially selling you a laptop that has to work in conjunction with a full-function computer.
The price? For 2GB RAM, a 1.6GHZ processor, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n you'll pay $1800. The SSD model, with a 64GB flash drive, and a faster 1.8 Ghz chip, is $3100. Both available in three to four weeks.
How do you even install software? Oh yeah, that's right, you don't have to because iLife does everything you'd ever want it to do right?
Shit I am a full-grown adult. I don't NEED a laptop to be under 3 pounds and thinner than a paperback novel to carry it around. I just want it to, y'know, DO THINGS.
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But with the Time Capsule for wireless backup and storage and movie downloads, who needs it? You'll connect the bus-powered drive to the MacBook Air's single USB port, which is hidden behind a door on the side that also conceals a mini DVI slot for an external display and a headphone jack. If you don't want to pay for an external drive, you can piggy-back, or borrow any drive on your network, PC or Mac, using the new Remote Disc feature.
SINGLE USB PORT!? THE FUCK!?
No, no, because that's perfectly reasonable. Fuck you Apple. I an NOT going to buy a Macbook now. I was interested because I wanted a portable design station but you've gone and screwed the pooch with this horse-shit.
No surprise, though, they've been peddling overpriced garbage that doesn't let you do anything except what they came up with as of launch time for YEARS.
Sarah's got one of those tiny iBooks that they don't make anymore. Trying to watch movies on the thing is a chore because it goes dim if you leave the touchpad alone for more than 30 seconds even when it's plugged into the wall.
I really didn't have any problem with MacBooks until now. I even planned on getting one eventually. Now they are telling me with their current marketing plans that the direction the company is going in only cares about aesthetic and first-party software.
Honestly, they want us to use downloaded software and abandon CDs and DVDs already!?
Even if that's the case I can't get my head around the single USB port. What is with that? Surely it wouldn't make the machine any thicker to toss a few other USBs on there right? Or is this a ploy to sell me a $100 four-port hub?
I love a few of the people in GnT talking about this and saying how awful it is to not have cd/dvd drives and digital downloading and all. These are the same people who are always talking about how bluray is stupid and will fail and digital distribution is the wave of the future. Well, there you go.
you'd have to be a cosmic retard to pay $100 for a four-port hub.
I was referring to how they are charging $100 for an external CD drive. It was an exaggeration to make a point.
External DVD ROM drives shouldn't go for much more than $60 or $70. Of course Apple's will probably have curved edges, weigh as much as a remote control and be encased in brushed-aluminum with a pulsing LED Apple logo on it's top. Hence the extra 1/3 of the price tacked-on.
I love a few of the people in GnT talking about this and saying how awful it is to not have cd/dvd drives and digital downloading and all. These are the same people who are always talking about how bluray is stupid and will fail and digital distribution is the wave of the future. Well, there you go.
Well, just because digital distribution is the wave of the future doesn't necessarily mean it's completely practical to rely on it in the present
you'd have to be a cosmic retard to pay $100 for a four-port hub.
I was referring to how they are charging $100 for an external CD drive. It was an exaggeration to make a point.
External DVD ROM drives shouldn't go for much more than $60 or $70. Of course Apple's will probably have curved edges, weigh as much as a remote control and be encased in brushed-aluminum with a pulsing LED Apple logo on it's top. Hence the extra 1/3 of the price tacked-on.
you'd have to be a cosmic retard to pay $100 for a four-port hub.
I was referring to how they are charging $100 for an external CD drive. It was an exaggeration to make a point.
External DVD ROM drives shouldn't go for much more than $60 or $70. Of course Apple's will probably have curved edges, weigh as much as a remote control and be encased in brushed-aluminum with a pulsing LED Apple logo on it's top. Hence the extra 1/3 of the price tacked-on.
At least it can play AND burn CDs and DVDs, including multi-layer DVDs. That makes it close to worthwhile.
Holograms are the wave of the future but to make a computer that can only display holographic imagery and is incompatible with 2-Dimensional video and graphics right now would be monumentally stupid.
But it's Apple so they'll sell out of every single machine they make because there are people out there with far more money and fashion sense than practicality.
I'm sorry if you cavemen can't see that you don't NEED an optical drive, nor do you NEED a million ports.
I'm digging the Air. I will buy one.
I bought a Macbook Pro a year ago.
In a couple months I'm sure I'll buy one of these.
When's the last time I used an optical drive on either my windows laptop or my Macbook? Let's see.... I honestly have to sit here and think about this. Everything at work is streamed or on jumpdrives. Everything at home is streamed. So what? Maybe once in the past 6 months? maybe? Mouse and keyboard is bluetooth, and it has a video out. So where do the complaints come from?
Now granted, my Pro is pretty slim, but it can get annoying to carry around. This thing? This is just sexy.
no you can't, because you can't hook up your 10 year old serial mouse and 8 pound external PATA drive enclosure. Nor can you jack directly into your 10mbit hub at home and browse your 512kb "broadband".
Seriously.... this is what half the people screaming about "lack of options" sound like. Get with the fucking program people.
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no you can't, because you can't hook up your 10 year old serial mouse and 8 pound external PATA drive enclosure. Nor can you jack directly into your 10mbit hub at home and browse your 512kb "broadband".
Seriously.... this is what half the people screaming about "lack of options" sound like. Get with the fucking program people.
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Keith you've no idea
I sit
waiting
waiting
for the perfect moment to use that.
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I remember tales of hijinks at a supposed place in high school(right on the VA/Maryland/D.C. border.
Apple is officially selling you a laptop that has to work in conjunction with a full-function computer.
How do you even install software? Oh yeah, that's right, you don't have to because iLife does everything you'd ever want it to do right?
Shit I am a full-grown adult. I don't NEED a laptop to be under 3 pounds and thinner than a paperback novel to carry it around. I just want it to, y'know, DO THINGS.
Edit:
SINGLE USB PORT!? THE FUCK!?
No, no, because that's perfectly reasonable. Fuck you Apple. I an NOT going to buy a Macbook now. I was interested because I wanted a portable design station but you've gone and screwed the pooch with this horse-shit.
Then I saw how crippled it is and I thought, naw I'm good.
No surprise, though, they've been peddling overpriced garbage that doesn't let you do anything except what they came up with as of launch time for YEARS.
An incredibly skeezy one covered in scratches and red stains.
like, creepily thin
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and they won't have vaginas
I'll probably build a new PC, and keep this around for portability.
Playing games on this thing really kind of sucks.
Now the screen hinge is busted, the battery is toast and the power supply makes a good connection only if the laptop is sitting at a certain angle
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
It's cool though, cause you can pay $99 for an add-on vagina
or connect to another vagina
But it only plays stuff from iTunes!
I really didn't have any problem with MacBooks until now. I even planned on getting one eventually. Now they are telling me with their current marketing plans that the direction the company is going in only cares about aesthetic and first-party software.
Honestly, they want us to use downloaded software and abandon CDs and DVDs already!?
Even if that's the case I can't get my head around the single USB port. What is with that? Surely it wouldn't make the machine any thicker to toss a few other USBs on there right? Or is this a ploy to sell me a $100 four-port hub?
Shit, my video game console has 3 USB ports!
I was referring to how they are charging $100 for an external CD drive. It was an exaggeration to make a point.
External DVD ROM drives shouldn't go for much more than $60 or $70. Of course Apple's will probably have curved edges, weigh as much as a remote control and be encased in brushed-aluminum with a pulsing LED Apple logo on it's top. Hence the extra 1/3 of the price tacked-on.
Well, just because digital distribution is the wave of the future doesn't necessarily mean it's completely practical to rely on it in the present
It's a extra $30, so you'll match your notebook.
At least it can play AND burn CDs and DVDs, including multi-layer DVDs. That makes it close to worthwhile.
Holograms are the wave of the future but to make a computer that can only display holographic imagery and is incompatible with 2-Dimensional video and graphics right now would be monumentally stupid.
But it's Apple so they'll sell out of every single machine they make because there are people out there with far more money and fashion sense than practicality.
Someone needs to draw Justin Long vomiting into a toilet while John Hodgman looks uneasy
in that blank white space they set all those commercials in
Sweet, I actually had a picture of the set saved on my computer.
Now, someone else do the easy bit and edit the people in.
chop chop.
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I'm digging the Air. I will buy one.
I bought a Macbook Pro a year ago.
In a couple months I'm sure I'll buy one of these.
When's the last time I used an optical drive on either my windows laptop or my Macbook? Let's see.... I honestly have to sit here and think about this. Everything at work is streamed or on jumpdrives. Everything at home is streamed. So what? Maybe once in the past 6 months? maybe? Mouse and keyboard is bluetooth, and it has a video out. So where do the complaints come from?
Now granted, my Pro is pretty slim, but it can get annoying to carry around. This thing? This is just sexy.
or at least an eee
we don't NEED laptops in the first place.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
no you can't, because you can't hook up your 10 year old serial mouse and 8 pound external PATA drive enclosure. Nor can you jack directly into your 10mbit hub at home and browse your 512kb "broadband".
Seriously.... this is what half the people screaming about "lack of options" sound like. Get with the fucking program people.
yes
where's my green arrow
I have none of those things
gimme