The new Macbook Pros don't look half bad, but I'll wait for a more significant upgrade.

>> ^criticalthud:

>> ^Payback:
>> ^criticalthud:
... so many people, while they are cursing the hippies and typing on their Macbooks, should really get a clue...

Dude. ANYone could see gwiz665 was joking.

cool i guess i missed the joke. even here in Reno, 2 hours away from the playa, the perception that it is just a bunch of hippies in the desert still dominates. Even fox news uses burning man references as a way to encourage a negative perception of OWS people.
but don't let me missing the joke detract from the rest of the post.
i'm not sure any of us realize the extent of the importance of encouraging creative thinking and cooperation.


Geez you hippies are touchy.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^criticalthud:
... so many people, while they are cursing the hippies and typing on their Macbooks, should really get a clue...

Dude. ANYone could see gwiz665 was joking.


cool i guess i missed the joke. even here in Reno, 2 hours away from the playa, the perception that it is just a bunch of hippies in the desert still dominates. Even fox news uses burning man references as a way to encourage a negative perception of OWS people.
but don't let me missing the joke detract from the rest of the post.
i'm not sure any of us realize the extent of the importance of encouraging creative thinking and cooperation.

>> ^criticalthud:
... so many people, while they are cursing the hippies and typing on their Macbooks, should really get a clue...


Dude. ANYone could see gwiz665 was joking.

what amazes me is how many techies, artists and engineers - creative minds from all over the world (and especially silicon valley, sf, portland) converge on this place. the ideas that flow from this event are incredible, life changing, and benefit humanity.
so many people, while they are cursing the hippies and typing on their Macbooks, should really get a clue.

the only thing burning man org really does is create a place for creative expression. creative possibilities. then it just goes. and goes and goes.
imho, more countries should do this.

we are of course, dangerous to the establishment.

>> ^RFlagg:

Does nobody close their laptops while they walk down the hall? I saw 4 or 5 people walk by with their MacBooks still open.


A lot of people at my workplace walk with their lappies opened. I guess they hate that sleep/suspend feature.

Also, nice typo in the submission's title.

Does nobody close their laptops while they walk down the hall? I saw 4 or 5 people walk by with their MacBooks still open.

>> ^dag:

I don't own a device fast enough to play this without skipping.


My macbook can just barely squeak out the 4K version without skipping, but it gets damn hot and the fans rev up to 11.

Edit: and it doesn't matter because the monitor isn't a 4k monitor

>> ^artician:

"Jay Programs so rapidly, that he often crashes the computer."
Has 60-minutes always been this pandering. That isn't rapid "programming", it's shitty software.
Either way, good for this kid. I hope he makes amazing work in his lifetime, and doesn't end up finding some esoteric, progressive compositions being the only thing he can do after a certain point.


I think his problem is that he's still using an iBook. Someone needs to donate a MacBook and new version of Finale or Sibelius.

As to the quality of his symphonies, he's still really young. Imagine what he can do in 5 years or so.

Wow, the newscaster equates hypocritically protesting Wall Street by owning a Macbook... Also, I love the fact that this movement has largely been ignored but since it's not going away the media is starting to try to gloom & disinfo them out of existence.

@spoco2

I have to disagree and it comes from someone who was in a very similar position to you when the first iPad was announced and came out. I've worked 13 years in IT and have a pretty good feel for technology and I was CONVINCED there was no real market for a device larger than a smartphone, but smaller than say an airbook. In my mind, the macbook air would have been something 100x better than an iPad for a lot of reasons.

When the iPad hit, I watched and initially felt vindicated because I felt it was just a larger iPhone that just didn't do all the things an iPhone did.

Over the following year though, I saw (at least in my office environment) a very clear niche that it fit far better than a laptop. While it is not as powerful, it was impressively useful in meetings. What people don't seem to get is that when you have a bunch of people with laptops in a meeting, it can actually get quite loud and distracting. There is also the physical barrier of the screen which seems to put people behind a wall in a subtle way. The iPad sits almost flush against the table, allows you to take notes silently and really reduces the distractions of larger laptops.

What impresses me so much about it as a productivity tool is that it doesn't replace a laptop or a phone, but allows for a very specific type of subtlety when in meetings specifically. A year later I got it to replace a macbook air and I'm VERY pleased with how good it is, specifically for meetings. The fact that you can turn it on and off quickly and the battery life is pretty damned good for all it does, I'm really sold for my own business purposes.

This said, I do have some major problems with the way that tablets are being pushed for things they absolutely SUCK at. I'm an avid gamer and I feel that while the iPad has been good with games that work in a touch-screen environment (puzzle games, rpgs, etc.) the insistence that apple and game developers have to try to shove motion/tilt control down my throat, or really shitty third/first-person shooter control is really really annoying. Puzzle Quest 2 - perfect on the iPad, Dead Space - unplayable on the iPad.

As for this video, he really didn't have a choice. Absolutely anything he said would have turned into a giant front-page BS article that would have hurt MS... I'm not surprised at all that he went with no-comment.

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Up until Lion I would completely disagree with you and say the UX of OS X is simply the best. Yes, I'm talking against Windows 7, Gnome, KDE et al. Now however, I'm starting to cast a wandering eye back towards Linux.

Windows 7 however, is a frigging awful experience any way you slice it. It's stupid little things like the alt-tab selecting whatever window is in the background when really you just want to cycle through the icons. Also, I can't believe they still haven't killed the dysfunctional bloatware ridden system tray. The retarded nanny-ware labyrinth that has to be navigated to connect to a wireless network makes my eyes bleed.

The way I'm feeling now is that all operating systems suck hard, but OS X sucks a little less, at least until Lion - which, again, is starting to suck much harder for all the reasons outlined in this video - and more.

Also, I don't give a shit about all the other "cult" crap you cite as a reason not to use an OS. I don't pick my computers based on style, other people's behaviour or religious beliefs - and IMO neither should you.


>> ^srd:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Fuck Lion. I'm waiting for OSX Direwolf.

Fuck OS X. I've had these tinboxes (aka MacBook Pro) thrust on me by my ex-employer about a year ago. My last encounter with Apple computers before that was with a Mac Classic when I was in 10th grade. So I didn't really know what I was getting into. Before that I worked for 15 years on Linux.
At first I thought "Ok, Apple, you're all about UX and intuitive design. Enlighten me! (and lets forget the abomination that was itunes for the moment)". Oh boy was I sorely disappointed. The workflow that was thrust on me by MacOS X on the GUI side rubbed me the wrong way, regardless of which aspect. So I thought "Ok, fair enough, those were the default settings. Lets change things a bit.... Uh. Wait? That half dozen scared little options is _all_ I get to fiddle with?". Trying to google for solutions was just as sobering. Apple ignoring feature requests for over 8 years, other people frustrated with the same problems I was facing and the most frequent response to valid questions on (non-Apple) help sites wasn't a "I'm sorry that's not possible" but a condescending "Why would you even think of doing that?".
I lasted for one more day after that before installing Virtualbox and running a useable environment (for me) in there.
I'm not going even to get into the hardware aspects of these machines...
So what I'm taking away from my forced encounter of the turtleneck kind is, we're getting the worst of both worlds:
a) Apple is currently as arrogant as Microsoft was in the 90s
b) Apples user/fanboy base is just as bad as the Linux crowd was in the 90s.
=> It's a cult. They are producing overpriced, mediocre machines with mediocre UI that is a far cry from the intuitiveness that is so often touted.
I'm glad some people are escaping the Jobsian reality distortion field.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Fuck Lion. I'm waiting for OSX Direwolf.


Fuck OS X. I've had these tinboxes (aka MacBook Pro) thrust on me by my ex-employer about a year ago. My last encounter with Apple computers before that was with a Mac Classic when I was in 10th grade. So I didn't really know what I was getting into. Before that I worked for 15 years on Linux.

At first I thought "Ok, Apple, you're all about UX and intuitive design. Enlighten me! (and lets forget the abomination that was itunes for the moment)". Oh boy was I sorely disappointed. The workflow that was thrust on me by MacOS X on the GUI side rubbed me the wrong way, regardless of which aspect. So I thought "Ok, fair enough, those were the default settings. Lets change things a bit.... Uh. Wait? That half dozen scared little options is _all_ I get to fiddle with?". Trying to google for solutions was just as sobering. Apple ignoring feature requests for over 8 years, other people frustrated with the same problems I was facing and the most frequent response to valid questions on (non-Apple) help sites wasn't a "I'm sorry that's not possible" but a condescending "Why would you even think of doing that?".

I lasted for one more day after that before installing Virtualbox and running a useable environment (for me) in there.

I'm not going even to get into the hardware aspects of these machines...

So what I'm taking away from my forced encounter of the turtleneck kind is, we're getting the worst of both worlds:
a) Apple is currently as arrogant as Microsoft was in the 90s
b) Apples user/fanboy base is just as bad as the Linux crowd was in the 90s.

=> It's a cult. They are producing overpriced, mediocre machines with mediocre UI that is a far cry from the intuitiveness that is so often touted.

I'm glad some people are escaping the Jobsian reality distortion field.

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Seriously? What about the instant-wake from sleep? >> ^blankfist:

>> ^dag:
I was going to say the same thing. I think my next Macbook will have an SSD. Finally, no moving internal parts. >> ^deathcow:
Hook me up with this and SSD drives.
He says it's 10 gigabit. I think it's two independant channels of 10 gigabits.


I'm not sure I can tell much of a difference with mine.