Post #324,373
4/10/10 11:24:00 AM
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Bugger the iPad
I've got a new iMac coming, and I got the email today saying it's shipped.
>bounces impatiently<
27-inch, i5, 4GB RAM (although this might change over the next few months), 1TB disk, Radeon HD 4850 graphics (whatever the hell that is).
I specced a regular wired keyboard rather than the cut-down wireless one, and I think the Magic Mouse will stay in the box, because I prefer my lefty Logitech to all other mice.
It'll be getting Bootcamped (for games - I have quite a lot in my Steam account) and I'll probably just slurp the contents of this Mac onto it via the Migration Assistant.
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Post #324,377
4/10/10 12:14:00 PM
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Hope it works out well.
I'm waiting to see what the next MBPs look like, and in the meantime putting a shopping list together for a pair of possible Hackintoshes (J has a dual G5 Mac Pro that's getting a little long-in-tooth, and I'm strongly considering taking the plunge). At the moment, I'm using this as a template - http://www.tonymacx8...f19cca636ce#p8722
Apparently 10.6.2 works very well with Gigabyte UD2 boards. There are still some teething issues with 10.6.3 on some Hackintosh machines, apparently - http://tonymacx86.bl...63-aftermath.html
But I haven't decided anything yet, and if it's like most of my major purchases, it's going to be a while (unless I win the lottery).
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who hopes his laptops hold together for a while as he doesn't expect the new MBPs to be groundbreaking. And who realizes that Hackintoshes are something you frown upon.)
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Post #324,378
4/10/10 12:38:27 PM
4/10/10 12:45:19 PM
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As someone somewhere pointed out...
...the top of the line iMac (27 inch) is a couple of hundred quid cheaper than a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display.
It's a massive monitor with free computer inside!
>sells to self as bargainous steal of the century<
Edit: Actually, it's not cheaper than the 30-inch Cinema. Don't care.
>Ignores reality<
Edited by pwhysall
April 10, 2010, 12:45:19 PM EDT
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Post #324,390
4/10/10 3:22:15 PM
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About that 'lefty' Logitech (?)
While I don't need that, others do and I should tell them about it
(yet.. I am sufficiently ambi re mouse motions ... that I could imagine using one, too.)
I was unaware that Logitech had heeded that call from all the wrong-handed, over they years.
Model? Is it really shaped like my bitchin (wired and wireless) Trackman cum scroll -- just mirrored?
I find that only the thumb-on-ball design works for me; thumb can make far more precise moves (though over a lesser range) than finger-tips on any of those middle-ball things, Kensingtons et al. Accel. setting makes up for the thumb-range, quite well-enough for my picky taste.
And Ohhh Yeahhhh - - -
even after a year, every time I wriggle the Tball and various open/unfinished things are precisely as I've left them, hours or a day later: I'm still in awe that there can be a consumer-grade piece of techno as satisfying to use as This i-Mac. Sans the security blanket/ext. warranty: been running on the lottery of MTBF since last May. In hopes that this lovingly-overgrown laptop design can match the bulletproof 9+ year longevity of that cheap 600 MHz eMachine!
(And I don't care about Steve's psyche / deep motivations / childhood insecurities-all: even if part of him Is a money-grubbing manipulator of Göbbelsian engrams of the sort which cause people to open wallets.)
I forgive the Lisa with-no-floppy, etc. So Long as he continues to insist that these suckers remain as reliable mechanically and OS X remains such a joy to use at any level of Boolean obsession.
[I'm betting that Steve couldn't possibly be a Republican crackhead, never mind the Repo-phermone of green bills in huge piles, as that affects others. I believe Steve has Cuth.]
Carrion.
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I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
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Post #324,391
4/10/10 3:31:07 PM
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Tell them! Tell them!
It's straight from Ned's Leftorium!
The thumb buttons are on the other side, the main buttons are swapped over, and the ergonomics are swapped too.
It's a brilliant, robust, comfy bit of kit. It's quite big, though - think MS Intellimouse Explorer kind of sized.
http://www.anythingl.../mx610_mouse.html
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Post #324,395
4/10/10 3:57:34 PM
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Alas.. only meeses there:-/ No T-ball {sob}
But will certainly pass on the Source for all those other left-leaning gadgets.
I guess that Logi remains, like its egregiously inept 'management' s/ware which I eschew on Apple: impervious to suggestions from the field / actual experience.
You just cannot use the Logi T-balls with l. hand, forcing such folk to use the finger-type models with ball-centered == ugh, in my universe.
Oh Well.
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I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
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Post #324,399
4/10/10 4:52:35 PM
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Software? Nein.
I use Steermouse, which is the path to nirvana for mousological management on OS X.
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Post #324,404
4/10/10 8:03:24 PM
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Don't forget Steam coming to OSX, RSN. (Yay)
Whether games publishers follow or not remains to be seen. Fingers crossed!
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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Post #324,416
4/11/10 12:04:37 AM
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I'm psyched about Portal 2
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