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daydreamer · Aug 27, 2003, 05:00 AM

http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showga...p;ppuser=21825

This guy on spymac already got his dual 2ghz ! This is in Asia.

chrisutley · Aug 27, 2003, 05:42 AM

Look at the dancing around it, grabing for it, and taking it apart!

I am certain at least one of them reached orgasam during this event.

KidRed · Aug 27, 2003, 09:01 AM

The Apple store here in Orlando got eh 1.6 yesterday. They carted it out as I was standing there. It's fricking huge. Very nice. It just looks fake. Too clean, too perfect. The metal case is so thin and the same thinness the entire way around the case. It's just something you feel compelled to study, to gazer upon. Then of course I had to play. I launched 5 apps at once and nearly all (excpet iMovie) were near instant in launching to a workable state, not just to spalsh screens. iPhoto just popped. Of course, resizing iPhoto's window was wierd, it jumped from window to flash of white to reflect the new size then the window filled that white flash and was resized. DVD Studio Pro also was nearly instant to it menus and palettes setup. Very impressed with that. Then my wife started nagging because she knew if we didn't leave then, it would be harder to get me off it.

I can't wait to see the dual 2 which I plan on getting once it's out.

israces · Aug 27, 2003, 06:05 PM

Aren't those just old pictures from the demo days Asia?

kcourt · Aug 27, 2003, 06:10 PM

I live in Southern California - what kind of things are you interested in seeing?

There are two apple stores close to each other - South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa, and Fashion Island (Newoort Beach)

Of course there are the usual attractions - Disneyland (Anaheim) and Knotts Berry Farm (Buena Park) Then there are the great missions - I live near the one in San Juan Capistrano - one of the best, although Santa Barbara one is nice also.

You can travel from the sea to the ocean in about two hours so there is much to see.

I love San Diego, but hate LA - just my opinion.

Eug · Aug 27, 2003, 06:18 PM

This is pretty damn sweet.

LegendaryPinkOx · Aug 27, 2003, 08:54 PM

Nifty iPod stand, the monitor looks abit awkward up there though.

Kenneth · Aug 27, 2003, 09:27 PM

Poor studio display... hanging in the air.

mac freak · Aug 27, 2003, 10:26 PM

Ok, now that just looks silly

Brazuca · Aug 27, 2003, 11:53 PM

Pretty ugly set up, IMO. Looks like something out of the 60s. And the display looks like a kid stuck on a tree hanging by his shirt.

Put that G5 on the floor!

Simon · Aug 28, 2003, 02:38 AM

Yep. That mounted Apple Studio Display floating in the air looks like crap.

The white keyboard and mouse don't fit well to neither the screen nor the PowerMac.

The G5 is an amazing piece of art.

chrisutley · Aug 28, 2003, 04:13 AM

Super stupid looking if u ask me. The iPod stand has got to be the single dumbest product I have ever seen in my life. It is neither functional or attractive, and replaces a standard stand that is small better fits with the already small iPod. I mean what's up with a stand that's 5x's bigger than the iPod itself, and forces me to hand connect the cable.

The Studio Display looks super stupid suspended like that. If it makes it easier on your neck I guess, super.

Link · Aug 28, 2003, 06:33 AM

hehe I love you people. While they're kissing powerjack's *** bigtime at spymac you're making fun of him.

Come on.. don't be so hard on him.. so he wanted to have a higher monitor.. and instead of just getting a 23" sony and VESA mounting it (or a 24" sun), he got an apple LCD and paid a company who knows how much to custom-cast an arm bracket, and then turn around and make a non-matching arm for it too!

Of course he could have just put his apple display on glass blocks or something.. $5 solution instead of a $500 one.. but most mac users don't think that way..

I think I'll stand neutral on this one.. I've wanted things before and went 'the hard route'.. even though this is like putting an easel on a hydraulic lift... if ya know what I mean

osxisfun · Aug 28, 2003, 09:44 AM

the jacked up monitor looks silly.

AssassyN · Aug 28, 2003, 10:54 AM

If he likes it, KUDOS! However I find it "tacky".

The Jackalope · Aug 28, 2003, 10:56 AM

**** you guys, I'm wanting to find out more about that monitor stand!

wyz · Aug 28, 2003, 11:19 AM

what's the white thingy on top of the ipod?

Leonis · Aug 28, 2003, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by wyz:
what's the white thingy on top of the ipod?

That's an infer red receiver (letting the iPod remote-controlled) I believe.

Jesus Christ. That monitor stand is just plain silly

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Aug 28, 2003, 12:08 PM

That G5 picts looks like something a PC user would do. Why not add some blue lights to it also.

The Mouse will not work on glass. The iSight is at a stupid angle for the person on the other end and that display looks like a head that has been impaled.

Cheese.

Boochie · Aug 28, 2003, 12:08 PM

Infer red? I'm not familiar with that part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Is that anything like infrared?

Originally posted by Leonis:
That's an infer red receiver (letting the iPod remote-controlled) I believe.

Simon · Aug 28, 2003, 02:21 PM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
That G5 picts looks like something a PC user would do. Why not add some blue lights to it also.

Thanks. Perfect wording. Exactly that is what it looks like. Horrible.

Eug Wanker · Aug 28, 2003, 02:27 PM

One of my beefs with the Apple Display, there is no way to adjust the height. Now the height he has it at is too high for me, but on some setups I want the monitor higher than the Apple Displays allow. Another problem with the Apple Display is that it has such a huge footprint. Plus, the stand on the Apple Display is IMO unsafe on a small table like his. His solution allows him to adjust the height of the screen at will, saves desk space, and keeps the monitor safe. And I betcha it rotates too.

I too would have put the G5 on the floor though.

And yeah, I do like the iPod stand there. It matches the cheese grater look of the G5. (I wouldn't buy it though.)

MusicalTone · Aug 28, 2003, 02:31 PM

Ouch, what did they do to the SD up there? And that iPod stand? NNooooo. Horrible. And who is Jack?

version · Aug 28, 2003, 02:39 PM

Everyone's talking about that monitor stand, but what the hell is that battered looking, grease spatter guard beside it? Is that the G5? ewwwwwww, friggin weird, and bloody ugly as sin.

I'll still get one, when I have the money.

Apple + design sense = gone over a cliff

gururafiki · Aug 28, 2003, 05:01 PM

Originally posted by version:
Everyone's talking about that monitor stand, but what the hell is that battered looking, grease spatter guard beside it? Is that the G5? ewwwwwww, friggin weird, and bloody ugly as sin.

I'll still get one, when I have the money.

Apple + design sense = gone over a cliff

This is of course, your lone, humble opinion.

Sosa · Aug 28, 2003, 05:22 PM

I agree with the majority here. The G5 belongs in the floor. Its too big and Borg-cube looking, eliminates free space on your desktop and makes it harder to think with all that clutter!

The iPod stand is silly. Useless. But artistic. The display up in the air with its legs dangling really looks retarded.

I also don't like a glass table for my computer equipment. Seems to me it belongs in something more solid that allows you to put your legs up occassionally.

This seems like a good example of how not to set up your Apple products!

gururafiki · Aug 28, 2003, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by version:
Everyone's talking about that monitor stand, but what the hell is that battered looking, grease spatter guard beside it? Is that the G5? ewwwwwww, friggin weird, and bloody ugly as sin.

I'll still get one, when I have the money.

Apple + design sense = gone over a cliff

This is of course your lone, humble opinion.

klinux · Aug 28, 2003, 08:33 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
One of my beefs with the Apple Display, there is no way to adjust the height.

Apple has predetermined that their height is the right height for you and everyone else - just like the one-button mouse.

That is... until they decide that variable height+tilt and two (or more) button mouse - what the rest of the world is demanding - is what is right for you and everyone else!

rytc · Aug 29, 2003, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by klinux:
Apple has predetermined that their height is the right height for you and everyone else - just like the one-button mouse.

That is... until they decide that variable height+tilt and two (or more) button mouse - what the rest of the world is demanding - is what is right for you and everyone else!

What you mean like the iMac? Now how long has that been out...2 years? And I'm yet to see any monitor from any company give the same ease of movement.

version · Aug 29, 2003, 03:50 AM

Originally posted by gururafiki:
This is of course your lone, humble opinion.

Sad, but true. I'll be putting it under my desk, way out the road of where people can see it. Here's hoping for the revisions.

Angus_D · Aug 29, 2003, 04:51 AM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
That G5 picts looks like something a PC user would do. Why not add some blue lights to it also.

Hey, blue lights rawk!

moki · Aug 29, 2003, 04:52 AM

Originally posted by version:
Sad, but true. I'll be putting it under my desk, way out the road of where people can see it. Here's hoping for the revisions.

Wait until you see it in person. I think it's the finest case Apple has ever built.

michaelb · Aug 29, 2003, 07:22 AM

Originally posted by moki:
Wait until you see it in person. I think it's the finest case Apple has ever built.

That's right. I think it just photographs badly (like me!).

The mesh lets flashlight through and this light also rebounds off the opaque parts starkly which gives it an unnatural exposed appearance. The perspective of the case fools the optics of the lens, like when a person's nose looks huge when photographed up close by a wide angle lens.

(And being a newborn, it's probably a bit shy!)

In person though, the sleek lines, the way the light falls off its aluminum sheen, and the cool metal touch will win more than a few hearts.