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by **penfolder** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:49 pm

new 13" i5 MacBook Air looks tasty, I never did upgrade earlier this year, now might just be the right time.

by **Martin Dust** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:18 am

penfolder wrote:new 13" i5 MacBook Air looks tasty, I never did upgrade earlier this year, now might just be the right time.

Do look nice but I like a bit of weight to my laptop, and air would vibrate off the table

by **penfolder** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:23 pm

^ ideal for travel and table space tho :thumbs:

by **pla** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:07 pm

Well I'm part of the club now. Impressive bit of kit. Won't have to upgrade for a long long long time!

Just waiting for NI to patch Maschine for Lion as it crashes in 64bit mode and then I'll upgrade the OS (qualified for a free upgrade, bonus!)

I did pick up a mouse though as I need my right button

by **Martin Dust** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:15 pm

penfolder wrote:^ ideal for travel and table space tho

Very much so but impossible to play on as they are so light they vibrate off the table!!!

by **Martin Dust** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:16 pm

pla wrote:Well I'm part of the club now. Impressive bit of kit. Won't have to upgrade for a long long long time!

Just waiting for NI to patch Maschine for Lion as it crashes in 64bit mode and then I'll upgrade the OS (qualified for a free upgrade, bonus!)

I did pick up a mouse though as I need my right button

You tried a magic mouse? Wonderful bit of it.

by **penfolder** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:01 pm

Martin Dust wrote:Very much so but impossible to play on as they are so light they vibrate off the table!!!

couple of G-clamps will solve that, current mouse is approaching retirement... magic all the way nxt

by **pla** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:45 pm

Martin Dust wrote:You tried a magic mouse? Wonderful bit of it.

Did have a look at it, but decided against, what's it's like as I don't like the normal apple mouse?

by **Martin Dust** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:40 pm

pla wrote:
Martin Dust wrote:You tried a magic mouse? Wonderful bit of it.

Did have a look at it, but decided against, what's it's like as I don't like the normal apple mouse?

Really love it, the gestures work a treat, costly mind.

by **penfolder** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:58 pm

things appear to have settled down on the Lion upgrade front, lots of software bugs.

by **Martin Dust** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:29 pm

penfolder wrote:things appear to have settled down on the Lion upgrade front, lots of software bugs.

Going to wait at least 4 months and may not upgrade at all due to 2gig of memory needed for the OS, 2 fucking Gig!

by **cdw** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:47 am

Martin Dust wrote:Going to wait at least 4 months and may not upgrade at all due to 2gig of memory needed for the OS, 2 fucking Gig!

bloatware!

by **pla** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:15 am

Martin Dust wrote:
pla wrote:
Martin Dust wrote:You tried a magic mouse? Wonderful bit of it.

Did have a look at it, but decided against, what's it's like as I don't like the normal apple mouse?

Really love it, the gestures work a treat, costly mind.

May have to treat myself in the future when this one packs up.

by **Martin Dust** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:16 am

cdw wrote:bloatware!

It's certainly a lot and kills most of the old range off in one go.

by **penfolder** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:22 pm

Martin Dust wrote:Going to wait at least 4 months and may not upgrade at all due to 2gig of memory needed for the OS, 2 fucking Gig!

my days.. 2 Gig :shocked:

by **pla** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:57 pm

anybody done the lion update yet?

I've not bothered yet but NI have now reported no issues with Maschine so thinking about it now...scared though, especially as everything works as it should haha

by **Martin Dust** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:27 pm

by **osiris** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:41 am

I wouldn't advise a Lion upgrade unless you want minor tweaks in the GUI or is required by an app. Upgraded my iMac and it's taken some digging (cleaning caches, fixing permissions, sorting log files, etc.) to get it behaving as it had previously. MacBook Pro is still Snow Leopard and works fine. If any of you are developers and upgrade to Lion, you'll end up needing to reinstall Xcode and possibly recompile apps, depending on what you have installed.

Lion is a baffling point release, my only guess is that the attempt is to unify the computer/mobile device experience but they could've waited for more significant features for an OS update. Like scratch and sniff porn.

by **pla** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:09 pm

osiris wrote:I wouldn't advise a Lion upgrade unless you want minor tweaks in the GUI or is required by an app. Upgraded my iMac and it's taken some digging (cleaning caches, fixing permissions, sorting log files, etc.) to get it behaving as it had previously. MacBook Pro is still Snow Leopard and works fine. If any of you are developers and upgrade to Lion, you'll end up needing to reinstall Xcode and possibly recompile apps, depending on what you have installed.

Lion is a baffling point release, my only guess is that the attempt is to unify the computer/mobile device experience but they could've waited for more significant features for an OS update. Like scratch and sniff porn.

i've not bother with my free lion upgrade. everything i use works fine with snow leopard so i'm not to bothered about the little tweaks, plus why rock the boat!

by **Martin Dust** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:53 pm

Not upgraded yet, no need to yet and I don't like the "toyish" vibe of the OS.

by **Babaluma** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:56 pm

have been hearing worrying things about audio quality on lion too:

http://prorecordingworkshop.lefora.com/ ... vm=9#post9

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/conte ... nd-quality

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