Everybody loves to speculate about Apple product releases and damn it I want to speculate too…
Well… I’m not going to speculate… I’m just going to flat out say what I want in my next notebook, and hope it magically comes into existence. If it doesn’t, I’ll be in the area in a few weeks, so I’ll pay Steve Jobs a visit and give him a piece of my mind… or maybe a piece of some cake, if I happen to have some on my person. I like cake… especially yellow cake. I know, I know… it’s cheap and low class, but it tastes so good, especially the Entenmann’s chocolate covered yellow cake. Man, that stuff is good.
So anyway, I’ve read quite a number of articles suggesting that Apple will soon be coming out with a new MacBook Pro. Since I’m looking to upgrade my current 1st gen MacBook and I will never ever ever get my small form factor MacBook Pro, I may as well go for whatever new 15″ is coming out, and here is what I want:
- A video card capable of handling Unreal Tournament 3. Every other game I would want to play would require no where near the performance of the aforementioned, so ya.
- New processors. Give us some of that lower power usage and higher clock speed love the MacBook Air got, even though it doesn’t deserve it
- Hybrid hard drives. SSD is overpriced and pointless… unless you happen to run highly concurrent databases on your laptop computer, and require amazing random seek performance. HOWEVER, I read about some drives proposed a while ago that would have a few gigs of flash and many gigs of platter, that would let you live off flash when you don’t need to access anything that requires spinning, and any time you need to dump the flash to platter, power up for a few seconds to do that, then go back to sleep. Good idea and I want that.
- Who cares about multi-touch? I don’t think it’s really a big deal on a laptop, but if Apple wants to throw it in, I’d be glad to disable it in my System Preferences.
That’s it, I guess. I hope whatever is coming out, comes out soon, since I want to spend spend spend. No saving! Just spending!
I recently picked up a Sony Bravia KDL-40V3000, which is a really nice 1080p HD TV that satisfied all of my requirements in buying a new TV. Out of the box, the standard image mode of “Vivid” looked like it was meant to burn the retinas of everybody watching it, and maybe lure unsuspecting bugs/human beings towards it, so they could bask in its (possibly) radioactive glow.
Right out of the box, I switched the picture mode to Cinema to get a half decent setup, without much work. Cinema, of course, looked sort of crummy, so some tweaking was necessary. I decided to go the expensive route and pick up the Digital Video Essentials HD-DVD/SD-DVD, and use their guided tour to get all my picture settings tweaked to perfection, for the environment and whatever unique characteristics my set has. While the outcome of my configuration ended up looking pretty good, it took me quite a while to complete and after I was done, I found there was a thread on www.avsforum.com where many other people had posted their optimized settings, most of which were scarily identical to my own… so, I could have saved myself $25 and a couple hours of time if I had just searched the internet first, but whatever… at least I can use this DVD for helping out friends and family with tweaking their sets.
The reason I even wrote this post, was because I saw an article in Forbes talking about this exact topic and wanted to throw in my two cents. Ya
It’s a bit too late to be posting this, but if somehow Obama is able to pull off some amazing post-super Tuesday win, this video here really shows why he is so infinitely superior to Hillary, who to me is just George Bush in women’s clothing. Yes… Hillary is the devil, and to be quite honest, if she is who the Democrats decide to run for president, I will be very tempted to vote Republican, regardless of who they run… and if they run McCain, then no way is Hillary getting my vote.
Also, I want to give some props to Apple and the awesomeness of Time Machine. After about 24 hours of running Disk Utility trying to repair my disk, due to numerous files that magically became unlinked (e.g., deleted), I gave up and popped in my Leopard DVD, and hopped into Time Machine restore mode, which was able to get all of my files back in place and working with really no difficulty at all — except the Mail had to re-index my email or something, but that’s fine with me. Everything else is running smoothly.
I just really wish that Apple would finally ditch crappy HFS and go ahead with ZFS, so that I wouldn’t have had this issue in the first place.
Also, some side props to SuperDuper, which allowed me to boot into a working copy of OS X, from my separate functioning backup disk — something Time Machine does not allow. I also found out today that SuperDuper is now 10.5 compatible… not entirely sure how, but the release notes say so!
