BruceLeeRoy
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Hmm it might be worth giving my nephew the bills and having him pick it up for me.
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WWDC12 Thread of iOS 6, Mac OS X Mountain Lion and iCloud
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Hmm it might be worth giving my nephew the bills and having him pick it up for me.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I use a Time Capsule, which is basically an Airport + hard drive. It works great. Best router I've ever owned.
Really? I remember the 2010 MBPs going up same day!
Well, I'll cross my fingers.
Personally I'd rather save several hundred dollars and just wait a little bit but... that would suck
They list them, but amazon doesn't resell them officially. You probably saw a second hand buyer for the mbp
criesofthepast
Member
Whoa. I hope Canada gets a similar deal. Totally forgot about using my student discount.
Mailenstein
Member
Just watch Germany's Next Top Model. You basically see them all the time there lol. Seriously tho, they are popular within pro photographers.
bearythebear
Member
Hmmm, so MacBook air or Zenbook Prime?
Crazymoogle
Member
Same bait and switch as MBA. CPU Upgrade + SSD upgrade in one. $ per GB with SSD goes up sharply past 256GB though, unless it's a dirt cheap part with bottom-barrel MLC. Kinda impressed 768GB is even being offered...
They don't need to change anything for that, you've been able to order an iMac with SSD+HDD for a year now.
cooljeanius
Member
Darn, I missed the event... can't wait till the podcast of it goes up on iTunes!
No idea. I never sell anything. I have an IT business so I'll repurpose it in some way, that's how I'll justify it. I may dedicate it as a replacement desktop or something..
The 17 inch is very portable anyway...
Not bad.
Is that with some sort of discount applied to it cause I can't see those prices on Apple's website.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Pristine_Condition
Member
Truth.
As a pro photographer for 18 years, I have never seen the rational behind the 17" MBP. If I'm on location, smaller is always better. If I'm in the studio or somewhere where I can have a huge screen, LOL @ using a laptop screen.
15" MBPs you see all the time. I never see 17" MBPs anymore. I use a 13" on location.
I have never been in ANY studio worth a damn that uses the laptop screen as a monitor in-studio if they have the option of using anything better.
Just curious: What market are you in? What studios do you use?
Napoleonthechimp
Member
They've gone back to it? Their power supplies and connectors are notoriously awful, and I'm speaking from personal experience of witnessing two of them combust.
Not bad. But tbh the lineup could be trimmed easily. Dump the 13" MBP, it does nothing better than the 13" MBA except having a DVD drive built in. Next year I can see the 15" MBP going, because the 'next generation' naming of the retina MBP sounds like it'll take over
So 11" MBA for compactness; 13" MBA for mass market; 15" retina for top end.
sankt-Antonio
Banned
The people I know who work in print all have CRT/EIZO/whathaveyou screens. How could someone work on screens that have such a bad (in comparison) color/contrast reproduction and viewing angle is beyond me.
Litflynt912
Member
took no time at all....
used employee savings program...saved the tax
Interficium
Banned
It's worth noting that I don't do any video editing, just shit-tons of indesign, photoshop, and illustrator (and diablo III).
Still RAM?
shadyspace
Banned
How do you use your student discount at the Apple Store? Just show them your student ID?
badcrumble
Member
As the standard config so I don't have to pay $500 for it, silly.
Gary Whitta
Member
Yeah good point. A bunch of people corrected me on this. USB3 and Thunderbolt should make managing big files on external drives a snap.
so there weren't any taxes yesterday? beacuase th price was lower than the $ price a few hours ago...
you can buy from the education store without actually having to be a student fyi
victreeb3l
Member
does it matter what video card i use for illustration and design work? the intel 4000 one should be fine, right?
i7 / 8gb ram should also be enough?
my current pc is i7 / 16gb ram but i dont think photoshop and illustrator cs5 push this machine at all.
i7 / 8gb ram should also be enough?
my current pc is i7 / 16gb ram but i dont think photoshop and illustrator cs5 push this machine at all.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
RAM
Ahh sweet. I could get 12% off one (£215) from where I work but still too much!!
always RAM
Haha, good luck with that.
It does seems small though if they are trying to seriously sell it as an option for gaming.
Someone who knows much better than I do, please answer my two questions!
1. Do you think that the new bottom-end 13" Air play recent-ish (but not hugely resource-intensive) games like Civ V, Diablo III, and so on, reasonably well?
2. As far as I can tell, the update to the Airs was pretty minimal. Does now seem like a 'bad' time to buy? (I have a 2009 low-end refurb white Macbook that still runs fine. I'd like to upgrade, but it isn't urgent. So I don't want to update at a bad time.)
Previous one could play civ. new one with the updated intel graphics should handle Diablo ok.
This is a good time to buy. Last years models were a good step up with sandy bridge, and this update brings more SSD space and I think more ram othe base model (wasn't it 2GB last year?) and faster graphics.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
$200 for 16gb of RAM? At least Apple aren't raping people with the price of ram upgrades.
Dude, until the refresh these prices were 100 lower. We went up 100 when US went down 50$.
And /$ change is still 1 = 1.25$.
Something is very wrong.
if you can afford a 4k projector, you're not worried about how much this retina display laptop costs.
Nope! I just checked my old order on amazon.com, i got it with prime shipping direct from amazon on april 13, 2010 (wikipedia confirms they did launch on april 13)
if they don't show up on amazon today I'll be a sad, sad geek with a fistfull of money
Napoleonthechimp
Member
A .1 increase is not worth that money.
Can someone invite me to the beta please
Can developers do this? If so how? Cause my friend has a developer account thing and I might see if he can invite me.
criesofthepast
Member
Ram by a long shot. 2.6 to 2.7 for that much is bullshit. 8GB of ram for $180 is also bullshit but if your set on getting one then go ram.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
sorry if asked before just got home from work.
Is the keynote video up yet?
And talking about the maps, is the maps and navigation thing a USA thing only or international also?
Is the keynote video up yet?
And talking about the maps, is the maps and navigation thing a USA thing only or international also?
Crazymoogle
Member
11" base was 2GB, all other models were 4GB I think. The improvement here is now you can get >4GB RAM and 512GB SSDs
GeorgioCostanzaX
Member
I have last year's iMac and it runs Diablo 3 great, not really sure how the performance of the entry level MBPs or air compare though.
that was over 2 years ago man. im talking the last refresh of the airs and the silent mbp updates in february of this year
They don't have live exchange rates. The USD has been gaining against the euro since may.