Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

They're both really quite thin, so practically that would be very difficult.

Lol

Using Air display to extend the desktop of my MBA to the 40" TV, the Apple TV is connected to a fast Ethernet port on the router with a patch lead, the MBA is connecting to the router over 2.4GHz wifi.

Should the Eurosport player image (which is smooth on the MBA) be choppy on the Apple TV?

It's watchable, but you can clearly see that there is a bandwidth issue when you compare the video on the laptop to the video on the TV.

I've read owners of the new MacBook saying it's fine even for editing video. I edited video on an iMac with a 230ghz or something processor near 15 years a go and although the res was loads lower it still managed. I'm getting bored of tech people making out you need 2ghz plus and 16gb of ram to send an email.

Well, it'll just take a bit longer I guess. Who's actually got one in the real world yet though? People in the US? 4-6 weeks shipping from the Apple website, no Apple stores have stock yet. Journalists have had a chance to have a good play but not many other people.

To be honest I have no intention of using whatever laptop I buy for video editing, but I plan to use it a lot for the web, so if multiple tabs slow it down significantly that's not good. I'd like a play with one really to find out for myself...

Well, it'll just take a bit longer I guess.

..that's what he said.

Think I have made my decision... gonna go with the 1.3ghz... I think I deserve a treat... but before then, can someone buy my mac mini and other stuff to raise funds?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/266754/#comment12239928

£1419 for what's basically a glorified netbook though. Oof.

Nah, it'd be just over £1k for me, not interested in the 512Gb storage plus I get edu discount... still I am not saying it's cheap, but once in many blue moon, everyone should do sth crazy and this is my turn.

It's not though is it. It's a full laptop capable of running all consumer and prosumer apps which is little bigger than an iPad. Computing isn't about counting ghz, it's not the 00's.
But I wouldn't spend near 1.5k on one either, second cheapest will do.

the old Air is more capable, and costs less.

Yes, maybe but benchmarks put them very close and the air doesn't have a retina screen. I never feel the need for ports either, I only ever use one on my rMBP.

I love the design of the new macbook but I can't believe how much it costs. I bought my refurb 15" rMBP for the same price as the base level model, crazy

Y'see, I use a million ports.. No SD?! Complete write off for me. What's so portable about carrying adaptors everywhere? :(

Is a retina screen worth £300 more?
Especially in a machine that is comparable (or a little inferior, when utilising the graphics under the weight of said screen) in performance to a mid level machine from 2014?

You're paying for the R&D with this generation of the macbook. I'd wait a gen and use an older machine in the mean-time. (unless I was loaded obvs then i'd buy both and use one as a chopping board)

That goes with the territory IME, it's a little bit choppy... I haven't found a way of fixing it...

Yeah hear what you are saying, funny you use so many ports and I use near none! Horses for courses and all that.
I did forget I swore I'd never by a 1st gen apple product too, for the exact reasons mentioned. 2nd revision will be 1.2ghz base and start at £999 or something.
Now, resisting a retina iMac is a much harder task, even at 1st gen.

I can give you 1 good example why not to go for a 1 gen 5k iMac - they overheat... we have a few at work and while they are nice, in fact very nice to use, they overheat... had to set 1 back and it looks like the 2nd one is heading the same way. It could just be a bad batch though.

As far as retinas go, I find them more useful on smaller devices where you're closer to the screen. At the distance I sit from my desktop, retina falls squarely into #marginalgains.

I'm not convinced it's a full laptop with the lack of ports, a mobile processor and if it slows down when running multiple browser tabs. I don't care about ghz either and agree it's not about counting them. The very reason I'm looking at the new Macbook v. the Pixel 2 is that I get the way computing is moving: towards thinner, lighter thin client devices with great screens and battery life where the heavy lifting is done elsewhere and things are stored in the cloud. I'm fine with all that, but I do care about real world performance.

@ExTra I hadn't clocked that the obvious thing is to upgrade the base model. I wouldn't need the extra storage. I can actually get edu discount too I think. But inclined to agree with @haveo that the price is just bonkers really.

I'm swinging towards the Pixel because £799 is plenty to spend on a laptop anyway and I can buy it sooner. Also @7Üp it is squarer and thicker than the new Macbook so will make a better chopping board.

I have read of worries about the new Macbook that it might overheat with the faster processor due to the lack of fan and how thin it is...

A wire?

A wireless wire? Where I canz purchase?

Thunderbolt update:

ParcelFarce have asked me to get a quote for a repair... Of course they left it til I was in Malaysia to tell me that, the monitor's in Spain as they told me to leave it there in case they wanted to inspect the damage...

Popped into the Apple store here in Brissy and was told it's probably only a AU$100 repair but that will probably go up a hell of a lot once it's inevitably been trashed some more on its way from Spain to Australia... I'll obviously have to pay for it to get here as well... What a bunch of cnuts...

Rock... Hard place...

Waiting for a repair estimate from Apple now, I hinted very heavily that I'd be straight in to buy a brand new one if the old one was beyond repair... Fingers crossed they bite...

In other news, I've got another job starting on 1st May that I'll have to design on a 15" MBP screen... Oh joy!

inverse shim store

Anyone have any idea if you can push Eurosport player from an iPad/iPhone to an Apple TV and watch it on your tellybox? If not, whats the best solution?