iTunes, I have to admit, is pretty neat. So’s this recent song from Adele, “Hometown Glory“. Quite the voice.
Now much of TimeFlyer was written while Muse’s Absolution album was playing, in particular, “Butterflies and Hurricanes“.
My turn for prediction. There will be no DVD drive in the upcoming (I hope!) MBP revision. As with the Air, Apple has a technology replacing every use of DVDs. You think that external DVD drive Apple makes is just for the Air? No way.
Now if you removed the DVD drive, what might the resulting MBP look like? Wedge shape, like the Air. But thicker than an Air, to retain ExpressCard and other I/O. Big-ass touch pad, like the Air. But also with a touch-enabled mouse button so Bootcamp users can finally have two proper mouse buttons.
Or heck, use the space for some liquid cooling and throw a G5 in there, just to say, “There! We did it!”
OK perhaps not.
And please, now that nVidia’s CUDA GPU programming technology is on the Mac, let the MPB continue to have a CUDA-compatible graphics chip.
Really really high resolution displays? Wait for WWDC for that one.
I know NBC is being silly and has taken its toys away. But still:
And when is that 24-hours-after-broadcast delay going to be removed? What is the point of that, anyway?
Edit: Survivor is available after all. I’ll replace it with anything from the BBC. Dr Who? Top Gear?
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSWEN388420080211 and http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWNAS040320080211
I guess that’s it for HD-DVD. We just need them to stop selling the players.
I wish Netflix would increase their stock of Blu-ray discs though. Most of the ones in my queue are marked “Short”, “Long”, or “Very long” wait. The incredible picture quality is worth the wait however. It beats the pants off AppleTV.
A Playstation 3 makes a very good Blu-ray player. Why O why doesn’t it remember where you left off on a disc? If you turn off the PS3, or play a game then come back to a movie, it’s totally forgotten where you got to. You’d think with that hard drive there’d be a bit of space to store restart-at locations for more than a couple of discs. But no, it’s time to endure all the copyright messages again. Groan. Couldn’t they just show those warnings once, perhaps before the very first disc you play?
I’ve been watching a few TV shows bought from iTunes. In particular, some documentaries from the History Channel. They’re quite good… except they are clearly edited for broadcasting with commercial breaks. Every few minutes the picture goes to black, followed by a recap of what you just watched. It’s very annoying. Editing to cut the recaps would mean less bandwidth required, more episodes fitting on a DVD, and watching more of a pleasure.
Decided to go for the upgrade: buyer for the 8GB conveniently timed his offer, and I’ve felt the 8GB is just a little cramped. Too many partial albums on there, hard to fit the kids’ music on as well as my own, etc.
Synced up the old iPhone first. Then shut it down, swapped SIM cards, and plugged in the new one. Had to go through the AT&T registration replacing the old phone on my plan, which went smoothly enough. The initial sync meant all my phone settings were retained – the only thing I had to do was re-enter my Voicemail password. I had no idea what that was, so I had to reset it by calling 611.
I copied over a few music tracks I’d been missing, and now have 7GB free and am wondering what the heck to fill it with! Must have got used to 8GB in the last few months…
Is it just my imagination or is the speakerphone louder? (After a day of use: just my imagination.)
