Bought my MBP in late 2008. No compelling reason for me to upgrade yet.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
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Tom Scola - Feb 24, 2011 6:38:00 am PST #16116 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2011 6:48:09 am PST #16117 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh! I bought a Pioneer BDP-330. Which has youtube access. Which is nice. Except I can't work out how to enter anything other than numbers with the remote, which makes it useless for anything other than browsing. I can't find any explanation on the web for how to do more.
Anyone know?
le nubian - Feb 24, 2011 9:11:18 am PST #16118 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommy,
I just got a new MBA 11" for work and I really love it. I am going to feed it cookies and milk.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2011 9:16:04 am PST #16119 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cool!
I now have about a half-hour train ride each way to work, so I've been using mine to write fiction while on the train. (I may buy one of those mobile hotspot thingies so I can has internets on choo-choo as well.)
le nubian - Feb 24, 2011 9:34:45 am PST #16120 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you must have a mind like a steel trap. If I don't have 2-3 hours to write, I cannot write anything.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2011 9:46:26 am PST #16121 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh. Writing on the train does make the time fly. Often I'm like, "Wait, we're already here? Shit." One of these days I'm gonna miss my stop.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2011 9:50:08 am PST #16122 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, I've volunteered to fix a friend's broken MacBook LCD display. Anybody ever buy Apple laptop screens online? These are what she's found:
eta: from first link:
For this listing, we will ship you a brand new OEM Compatible LCD screen manufactured either by Samsung, LG, Chi Mei, Chunghwa, Sharp, or AUOptronics.
Does that sound good?
Gudanov - Feb 24, 2011 9:59:27 am PST #16123 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Sometimes I write stuff in 10 minute bits, 'cause that's the only time I got.
NoiseDesign - Feb 24, 2011 11:55:32 am PST #16124 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I adore my 11" MacBook Air. I'm pretty amazed at how much power this little wonder can pack. I've even been able to do some audio editing on it in ProTools with no issues.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 24, 2011 12:04:22 pm PST #16125 of 25501
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
New Macbook Pros today with first use of Thunderbolt (Light Peak) connector.
More interesting to me though is that with the developer release of OSX Lion, they've discovered a whole bunch of support of resolution independence which is paving the way for retina-display level pixel-density monitors. [link]
Monitors like that may be a year or more away but that's just dandy by me. I just need mine to last until they're released.