I like that Dad has the correct trendy glasses to be using a MacBook.

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

Pranks that:
1. Brings big LOLs
and
2. Don't hurt anyone or destroy their property
= win.


3. Pranks that (slightly) hurt people and destroy property (if compensated properly in or off camera).

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>> ^handmethekeysyou:

I just wish a tech had cranked her up from 4 to 7 on that. Maybe the intricacies come out better when not being played on macbook speakers, but just too damn low for such a great solo.


Seconded! Then again, I feel the bass line is mixed in too low in practically every recording ever made... Did I mention I play bass (although nowhere near *that* well)?

I just wish a tech had cranked her up from 4 to 7 on that. Maybe the intricacies come out better when not being played on macbook speakers, but just too damn low for such a great solo.

>> ^dag:

Hate to rain on your parade but they are probably clearing stock for this.


Why would I want the damn thing to be smaller?! Faster? Yes. Smaller? No. I'll be just fine with this minor upgrade.

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That sucks. I've heard of that hinge flaw. I hope, at least, they are fixing it for free. To be honest- I've always thought the MBA was a bit of an inferior product. Sure, it's thin and light- but what else does it have going for it?

I'm starting to notice some definite bruises on other Apple products. Things that have pissed me off lately:

Ok but don't they give you a replacement Macbook for the duration of the repair?

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Are you a Macbook user? I get this when I inadvertently do a "pinch" on the multitouch mousepad. If so, try a "command-0" to bring back to default size.

>> ^budzos:

I care very little about the argument directly. Most people who care about this argument are just marketing victims and/or pretentious twats.
I'm CONSTANTLY meeting people - often clients unfortunately - who know very little about computers or using computers, but feel very strongly that I should be using a Mac if I'm genuinely creative. And these people are actually ascribing less creativity to me in their internal assessment. It's hard to express the contempt I feel for anyone who expreses this opinion to me. Some people even package it in the form of advice. Beware people of the world: If you have this opinion, you're most likely a fucking pretentious twat. Honestly. It's like caring deeply about what colour lightbulb your accountant uses.


This is where things got really lopsided for me in regards to Macs. When I was in college in an early digital media related class they were using G4s with OS 9.1 (?) which at the time was standard (OS X had *just* come out a few months earlier). I had a portable firewire drive I would use to take projects back and forth on my PCs at home and would always get garish looks from the instructors and other students as if I was poisoning their inner sanctum.

What really got to me is that OS 9 was hardly a model of stability and there were often problems with hangs or snags yet nobody really cared about it... I would just be present for class and just do all my damn work at home when I could on the PC version of say After Effects which was comparatively much more reliable. I talked to one of the lab veterans who had been there a while and what they had was light years from the previous base of PowerMacs which were apparently guaranteed to not run for more than an hour without eating shit in some fashion.

Understandably things are much better today for Macs hardware and software wise but that year of experience forever tarnished my view of the community itself. I don't mind the equipment thats being put out even as a hardcore PC user I can't knock the unibody MacBook Pro for being a well built machine.

Some of the most vocal users just need to dial down the anti-Microsoft or anti-anything-thats-not-Apple bile, thats all. Oh by the way Endgadget users, posting with "Micro$oft" or "M$" is so 1997.

Heh....David and Goliath effect?

With Apple now being richer than Microsoft, I'm not sure that's as relevant anymore.

I think the thing that bothers me about apple is that flaws aren't recognised amongst their fans.

A friend of mine owns a macbook and an iphone. If he goes on any webpage with flash on it his fans spin right up. He was using a shockwave flash application recently and said his CPU was at 160%. This laptop is maybe 2 or 3 years old. The only learnt recently that unless you void your warranty by jail-breaking it - the iphone doesn't let you change the background, which seems ridiculous when on my much less sophisticated sony ericsson, I have a custom made metal gear solid theme I made myself where I can customise everything from background to tab and font colour.

That moves me on nicely to my other quibble of how locked down apple products are. 'you can view videos in AMAZING quality on your ipad'. Perhaps....but you have to convert it into some proprietary format first. The shuffle needing licensed patented headphone parts for them to actually work with the device. What's that Seric? You'd like to use your new Sennheiser PX200-II's with this product? Too bad.

I mean...yes, Windows is with it's flaws too. But I can do what I want with it. (In before linux users, I have and use cygwin, that's good enough for me ) Well...I say I can do what I want, but last time I checked - I wasn't allowed to write programs for iphone/ipad on a Windows machine T____T.

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Of course - weapon of choice for nerds who make cool stuff.

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You just had to go there, didn't ya?

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Nice Macbook on the desk.

You just had to go there, didn't ya?

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Nice Macbook on the desk.

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Nice Macbook on the desk.