iBox (the hardware)

What is your thunderbolt drive sled? I haven't really seen any that seemed cheap enough to buy. A while back I was looking into it and all I saw was some overpriced item from La CIe.

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johnny k
Curious what the BOM cost of a Thunderbolt connection is.

Anandtech is a good starting point for these kinds of questions.

I have a Seagate GoFlex. You don't have to use them with the Seagate mechanisms - just plug raw laptop drives into (any of) them.

$99 at the Apple store. Thunderbolt cable is extra.

I suppose if you wanted to use 3.5" data drives you'd have to rig up power and maybe extend the data cable a bit.

Display ghosting on new Retina MBP's. Only affects a few units. Still glad I got the 1680x1050 display instead of the Retina.

Strange realizations yesterday at the Apple Store: the 13" MacBook Air looks big, and the 21" iMac looks small.

My Retina MBP concerns validated. Glad I got the old display.

With hindsight, it's really a case of duh! - isn't it?

(kinda even more impressed with the graphics capabilities of the new iPad too btw...)

Well, most of my insights are kind of, "d'uh."

I meant duh! for Apple.

4 times the pixels is 4 times the pixels...

I'm sure that Apple was aware of the issue. But I don't think that they really weight the performance of graphics all that heavily; it only hits gamers and people who want to do video editing.

Generally speaking, thrilled with my new Macbook Pro Retina.

Most expensive Mac I've had in years, although there were others this pricey.

The most rock solid, experientally fastest, super-shit sharp machine I've ever owned. It should get speeding tickets.

Toying with selling my Mac Pro as it is only marginally faster according to Geekbench. Not sure I will.

Probably only get $1,000 and then what to do with the drives I have in there, always online for me. NAS's are always too slow for me.

Why the hdmi port on the side? Totally puzzled. Who the heck would want that?

Jealous, Baha. Enjoy.

If they get a flexible substrate, will Apple introduce a 'folding retina' display? LOL

The MBPR is showing some signs of radical innovation.

My previous Macbook Airs had pretty much no issues whatsoever. There was one little glitch at one point, but I can't remember what it was.

That's a far cry from the garbage of a decade ago. PB Jelly? Or worse yet when I was doing consulting in the mid 1990s and no matter what couldn't get this poor woman's computer stable for more than a day. Turned out it was one of the Performas manufactured with a logic board error.

So I'm really happy with the quality of the Macs today. They're super table generally speaking.

But something is up with the MBPR.

Apart from one dead pixel that shows up when the screen is black and I want to watch a movie, the machine kernel panics every third day.

As far as junk running, the only things that could be doing it would be gfxCardstatus and switchresx, both of which I feel are necessary on this machine, the former to negotiate battery life vs performance, the latter to deal with apple's hobbled screen resolution.

That said, some googling suggests that individuals with the entire run of new MBRs are finding panics (haven't had one since I upgraded firmware yesterday, although now periodically the screen goes black for a second… wtf?) and black screens at a relatively high rate. Also Google Chrome seems to have been causing panics for some users according to Google.

No difference between Lion and Mountain Lion for these issues. Usually though, a major revision takes at least a major increment in the OS and a few minor ones to calm down.

We'll see. A great machine, but with some bugs.

I may have a buggy graphics card.

Hipsters are still holding out for the Mac PBR. I mean, they don't really care, you know, but it might be cool.

ddt

If IBM hadn't screwed up the evolution of PowerPC, we might have had PowerBooks with Retina displays.

Powerbook Retina FTW. But fuck that my old friends, I want a Performa Retina running iOS.

Nah, we need a Newton Retina with iOS.

A CentrisPad running NewtonOS X.

eMate, retina edition! Anvil-tough sumbitch!