Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition Apple price drop. I still think all of their laptops are overpriced. Wish they’d shave about a grand off the base Mac Pro… then it would only be double the price of a comparable Dell.
I’ll be at my local Apple store on Friday to buy the new iPhone. Just wish that it didn’t mean living with AT&T for another two years. Service in my area is mostly decent but there are oddities… I can’t tell you how many times a caller has gone to voicemail with no rings despite the phone showing full signal strength, and recently the EDGE data service has either been unreliable or obscenely slow.
Snow Leopard… appears to still not fix the DPI problem. Bummed that they’re going Intel-only with this release — the version of OS X on my mom’s iBook G4 is so old (Panther?) that Firefox stopped supporting it long ago and even Camino is dropping support in their next major release. Guess I’ll have to pirate her some Tiger or Leopard…
Safari 4′s “full-page zoom” feature works well enough that the DPI problem is much less annoying on the 17-inch MBP, though I’d be much happier if there was a preference to make the default +2. Performance for me seems to be worse than the previous version — the spinning beach ball and UI pauses are occurring with much greater frequency. It hasn’t yet crashed on either of my MBPs so I guess that’s something.
And lastly, Apple has finally released an update for the 9-month old Java vulnerability. Nine fucking months. Not only are Macs vulnerable to Internet malevolence, just like every other computer, but Apple’s approaching to dealing with the vulnerabilities is straight out of 1992. Remember that the next time you see one of those “I’m a Mac” ads.
