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Yay - they kept ethernet. RIP DVD...

[edit] DVDs are still there on the old ones. Nice.



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Broke the bank. Maxxed out 15" Retina on its way FTW!

Return of the expensive Mac laptops. Remember when the Pismo used to cost $2400???! Guess it was worth it to cure "PB Jelly"

Surprised no mention of Apple TV in iOS 6. Add Apps and the ability for Apps to work in sync with it plus maybe a bar that could do kinect+facetime and you would've had a home run. Stock fell because of none of that. Apple TV, "our little hobby" (tm).

Oh ya, DPBD!! This needs its own post… 

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167227/two_new_thunderbolt_cables_join_parade_of_apple_releases.html

WTF Apple d00ds, why is it only now that you've knifed thunder-baby with USB 3 that you have that thunder-baby to FW adapter? Huh? Huh?

At half the speed of thunderbolt, you do get the impression that USB3 is "good enough"...

(Crying shame that most people will plug a mouse/trackball into that 5Gb/s port though...)

Thunderbolt was idiocy. Apple should have made a thunderbolt to firewire cable from the get go. Why the insanely expensive format? I dunno. Just cuz I guess.

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bahamut
Thunderbolt was idiocy. Apple should have made a thunderbolt to firewire cable from the get go. Why the insanely expensive format? I dunno. Just cuz I guess.

Thunderbolt is classic Old Apple: potentially extremely cool, but overpriced, which leads to limited adoption, which leads to limited availability of accessories that use it, which keeps the price of those accessories high.

I think that it's in pursuit of Steve's minimal cables dream. Get a port with enough bandwidth for anything, then run everything through that. One tb port replaces FW800, Ethernet, and DVI? Of course, if you want to use more than one of the above at the same time, you're stuck... unless you buy a TB dock.

... or an Apple display that can act as a Thunderbolt dock. And really, why _wouldn't_ you also buy an Apple display when you've already bought an Apple laptop?

ddt

Apple had the same problem initially with firewire--then they dropped the licensing fee to a reasonable level and it started to grow. Unfortunately it was too late then, and will most assuredly be too late now.

This time it's less about the licensing than the actual cost of the circuitry, on the motherboard and in the cable. It's beautiful, but if it's going to fail, it's because of architectural decisions that can't be removed.

And it's Intel's problem, too. Are they building in support to a chipset in the near future?

Perhaps this should go in digital lifestyle, but I think we all missed the Airport Express upgrade

And a new AirPort Utility app for iOS... and I gather by the public grousing there was a silent and underwhelming MacPro update too, followed by the "sources in Apple say the desktops will be attended to in 2013" somesuch.

One thing about the ApExpress that is implied but unclear; can it be an MDS base station? Probably not, of course. The description implies a satellite scenario only.

A moment of silence, please, for the 17" MacBook Pro.

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A moment of silence, please, for the 17" MacBook Pro.

Isn't that essentially what the 15" retina display MBP has become?

Yes, essentially (minus the substantial internal storage, unless you pay Apple's outrageous price for a 512 MB SSD).

I'm still sad to see it go. I remember when the first 17" PowerBook came out, with what was then a screen the size of that on a big iMac, and thinking, "you've got to be kidding"--who would put a big desktop screen on a notebook. But six years later or so, I found myself buying one of the last pre-unibody 17" MBPs, and it's been terrific. I wouldn't have contemplated getting one of the unibody models, as the pixels were just too darn small for my poor eyes, but the 1680x1050 screen on my MBP is a nice compromise between real estate and visibility. But the thing is definitely hefty to lug around.

I'm curious to see what the new retina display looks like--not that I'll be buying one, I won't, but I'm curious. It's clearly where we're headed.

Some of the responses to the Stupid Article of the Day are awesome. Personally, I like:

" * SCIENCE! wrote:

Science here. Your article is bad and you should feel bad!"

The Mac Ach thread responses of the "this is what I'm doing physically to keep myself from giving Apple more money RIGHT NOW" type in their WWDC thread are pretty funny, too.

ddt

Went to the Apple Store today to get another Mini to upgrade the treadmill machine, so I could move that hardware to my home server. The home server is a Core Duo mini, and won't do Lion.

I know of the Core 2 Duo upgrade which can be done, and I plan on doing that to the deprecated hardware before I sell it, but I needed a test bed to upgrade from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server so I can proceed with that upgrade on some production machines.

Anyhoo, while I was at the Apple Store, I checked out the Retina MBP.

The display is absolutely gorgeous.

When I'm due for an upgrade this time next year, I'll be getting one of those and a Retina Cinema Display, presuming those are out by then.

Good news: unexpected 15" MBP arrived at my office. (My boss noted that my primary mail/admin machine is a Core Duo iMac, though I use a Mac Pro for daily work.)

Bad news: it is not a Retina display.

Thing is my home "desktop" is a 13" MBP. And the "laptop" is turning into an iPad 2 + Kensington KeyFolio, like Shawn Blanc. (The only difference being that I have internet sharing on my Tmo HTC HD7 running Windows Phone that basically turns my WiFi iPad into a WiFi+3G iPad. Hush, now. I helped work on it. And it's one of the few things Microsoft's done that actually hasn't looked like a botched abortion for UI, or is a blatant ripoff of someone else.)



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Congratulations, Robert. I wish I could use a Mac for work.

Substantial fee for the 512gb? Sounds like a rip off. I bought the 768gb.