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I'll take two.

Sweet. I love good design.

One more reason to buy a new MacBook Pro :D

Now if they would only change the IR remote to a Bluetooth one

Yes, yes I know. Power consumption...

I wonder why my iMac has to have that little hole. The power light doesnt have one.

OK, so they lost the black dot on the screen bezel.

What's the black dot on the case, to the left of the latch release? Now that's visually unbalanced!

... and one more thing. A place to put the remote. Like the expresscard/34 slot.

Just my 2 cents

Actually it would be cool to have a bluetooth remote which gets charged when placed in the expresscard slot. Now would it?

How about Apple paying attention to the detail of sudden shutdown, freezes, crashes, exploding batteries and the need to constantly rebuild preferences?

They spend all their time on a tiny light while Rome is burning.

I have a better idea:

How about a green box surrounding the iSight (or a green line under the iSight)?

This way even when the light is on, it doesn't disturb the symetry.

But why not center the light under the camera? Because when it’s turned on, it’s still out of balance as is!

Or as MacMan suggests, which is better still.

Peterson: What crashes and preferences rebuilds? Are you running M$ software? As for your other gripes, they have all been solved already.

MacMan "How about a green box surrounding the iSight (or a green line under the iSight)? "

Would be great, but wouldn't the camera pick up a greenish hue?

"I wonder why my iMac has to have that little hole. The power light doesnt have one."

for some reason, I thought that was the mic. Anyone?

Also, on the portables, why couldn't the light just be directly under the lens? or has someone already asked that? Sorry...a little hung over...

My left testical hangs lower than the right one.

Peterson probably bought cheap third part RAM that's causing his machine to act a bit flacky and then blames his cheap ass tendencies on Apple. Typical projection of his own inadequencies on to others.

MW = alone
Ha! he's all alone in his delusions.

"My left testical hangs lower than the right one."

try tying a brick to your right one.
you will forget all about them being unbalanced, I promise

Why not make the light white, and have its intensity adjustable so that it helps illuminate the subject in lower light situations?

Peterson:

Dunno which machine you have, but it certainly doesn't run OS X, as all modern Macs have no need to "constantly rebuild preferences". We Mac users tend to call it 'repairing disk permissions', but I wouldn't want to get too pedantic.

Oh, and those 'exploding batteries you mentioned, affected virtually all PC makers as far as I remember and, hey, weren't they actually made by a PC maker too? How cute.

One more thing, the freezes affected a small number of Core Duo machines - note the missing figure yet? I'll point it out for you, these machines are in fact, NEW and are called Core 2 Duo.

oooooo...innovative.

Now I can use that idea for our laptops and call my own creation.

Please don't hate me because I'm so smart.

Michael S. Dell
Chairman of the Board, Dell

Would be great, but wouldn't the camera pick up a greenish hue?

In a word, yes. There are ways to calibrate the camera to overcome it though...

It's the beginning of the Chameleon Technology people. There will be another light indicator for email arrivals, chats, a text message on your iPhone, etc.

http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2004/20030813.shtml

One more time... I don't have any third party RAM - just the over priced Apple kind - no problem software - almost 100% Apple's software only - right now, am running one PowerMac G5, one iMac, and one PowerBook. Other family members are running a variety of other Macs.

As to repairing disk permissions, Apple's own instructions and their first fix for problems is to tell you to repair disk permissions. In fact, their instructions are to do it routinely especially if you are running lots of iLife (like I do).

Apple also tells you to trash preference files all the time to clear up shutdowns, crashes, freezes, slow operations and all kinds of other problems.

This means their products are ABSOLUTELY DO NOT "JUST WORK".

It appears most of the posters around here just use their machines for fun, love the look and feel, and care very little about performance.

No wonder Steve is so wealthy - he, like P. T. Barnum, has you guys figured out.

Oh, and Apple tells you all the time to 'restart' or do a shutdown and relaunch to clear things up so your machine will run again.

NO, THEIR STUFF DOES NOT 'JUST WORK'. Whenever Steve says that, he is lying.

It's the little things like this that impress Tricky Dick the most. Bravo on this one, Apple. Makes me hope that you -are- preparing that oft-rumored "iPhone."

RMN

Peterson. Have you been taking Midol again?

Ron, PLEASE. It's not Midol, it's Oxycontin. You should keep to the facts. It's an illness.

One VERY minor detail that's been bugging me since I first noticed it: the third MacBook Pro picture in the gallery doesn't have the IR sensor in the reflection. I've emailed them a few times about it, hoping they might put it back in whatever photo-editing program and add it in, but since they haven't done it yet I don't think they ever will. One attention to detail that was overlooked, I guess...

Peterson -

We're so sorry you are having problems. Even Apple does sometimes have a problem with an occasional machine. Please get a hold of a Apple service center and get your machine fixed.

(what a concept - when you sell a million laptops, if you have 0.1% failure rate that still means a thousand laptops with a problem)

MDN Magic Word "looked" - Peterson should have looked further to get his problems fixed instead of having a brain cramp and acting like EVERY APPLE LAPTOP ON THE PLANET IS DEFECTIVE BECAUSE HIS DOESN'T WORK!

Peterson-- I have a MacBook and MacBook Pro. No random shutdowns. No permissions issues. No heat. No burning batteries. Nothing. So based on that statistical sample of n=2, apparently the MacBooks are perfect.

However, my story is probably the majority story, since the people who are satisfied rarely bitch.

MDN Magic Word--Prozac, the wonderful pill for stressed out Petersons.

Are we gonna spend all weekend smackin' Peters around?

I really should preoofread more

I meant to say

are we going to spend all weekend beating Peters on his laptop?

OK, sorry, this is starting to pound like a James Webb novel...

butt, in all horesty, I cun't seem to s hit the right peys.

I did get a newd set of condom lens,

But I fill wet it sn Apples fault

The iMac C2D have the same design, so this must be a rerun from the consumer level to the pro level.

Peterson:

Compared to my XP machine, and my daughter's brand new school-leased ThinkPad, even my 1st gen G4 mac mini "JUST WORKS" much better then those two.

If you want to accuse someone of lying, you should look to Bill Gates. All my literature for Windows OS software boasts of being "stable" and "secure". Surely you can admit that is a lie.

Oh yeah - even my other daughter's G3 iBook is more reliable than my other XP computers.

Mind you, I quite like the imperfect slight off-centreness...

Another item of attention-to-detail is the iPod icon on the desktop, when it is plugged in to the Mac. The color of the iPod nano icon matches the color of the connected iPod nano. When I was playing with the 24-inch iMac at the Apple Store, I was as impressed by that little bit of detail as I was with the huge screen iMac.

it's still imbalanced if the light is on. not so clever after all.

"It appears most of the posters around here just use their machines for fun, love the look and feel, and care very little about performance."

Have been working Mac 10 hours a day for 15 years. No problems here.

All the Adobe / MS etc apps and more...

There are just dumb people who don't know how to run computers.

Yep that little hole is the mike

... and OMFG Apple is sooo fooked beacuse it cant fix my personal shortcomings!!!

"it's still imbalanced if the light is on. not so clever after all"
did you even think about it? I don't think so. don't complain. design is not easy process. just blame for it is very easy.

The MDN group in these posts are but a tiny fraction of the total number of Apple hardware and software owners - kind of like Apple has a tiny fraction of the national and global computer market.

And, the MDN group is made up of Steve worshipers who believe he can do no wrong, and that his products are perfect. Irrational though you may be, it is the case.

As we speak, there are 10s of thousands of discussions going on inside Apple's "Support" forums. Almost all of these discussions are about problems - and far beyond those few I have mentioned - making any claim of a tiny percentage of machines with problems another one of Apple's lies.

Yes, I know many of the posts in the discussions forums are from newbies who don't know what they are doing, but the result is the same.

APPLE'S STUFF DOES NOT 'JUST WORK'. In fact, their stuff is full of problems and they are getting worse as Apple moves ever so quickly to being AVERAGE because guys like those who swoon around these MDN discussions are willing to keep on fawning over declining quality.

Peterson,
I care for about 50 Macs right now. Mix of G5 Towers, Intel Mini's, PowerBooks and MacBook Pro's, iBooks, eMacs, iMacs Intel and PowerPC, . And that's just THIS year! I've a history since 1986. Private owned and work machines. I've worked with hundreds of different models of Macs for years.

What you describe just is not the norm.

I will tell you one oddity. Had ONE computer that was doing some of the stuff you described. The cause had nothing to do with the computer it ended up being a bad power source--brown out electricity and other impure line problems. Buy yourself a DECENT power protector that keeps the power pure. Crappy power can raise all kinds of odd hell with your computer and if you don't suspect that and blame the computer, it's impossible to troubleshoot or solve. Because it's not the source of the issue. It can be ONE computer in one room and all others will run well. Or one plug. Damage may already be done. It can take out a video card, or cause major drive issues. Run diagnostic software, repair all damages and then don't replug until you purchase the surge/brown out protector.

Space heaters and washer/dryeres kicking on or vacs on the same circuit can cause minor brown outs in a home.

Peterson,

Apple is shipping millions of machines. Their rate of defects is exceptionally low. I know that it sucks when your machine is one of the ones that has a problem, but you're not going to fix it by bitching about it. Take it to a service provider.

-jcr

TowerTone, what the fuck did you say about Jim Webb? You better keep your mouth shut, asshole.

RMN

@ Peterson: no trouble with my apple software. maybe u just dont know how to use it.

@ MacMan: Something like this? http://i13.tinypic.com/2eyuq2g.jpg

@ Jaakko: i like your thinking..that would be sweet as.