Comments on: Macworld Roundup, Day Three

By: Julian Bennett Holmes

Julian Bennett Holmes — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:37:18 +0000

See this post for an explanation of why the disco holding-shift trick doesn't work.

By: Julian Bennett Holmes

Julian Bennett Holmes — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:14:54 +0000

I must admit, I haven’t been home so I haven’t been able to test the Disco shift-key trick on my own computer, but Brian Ball demonstrated it for me and it worked.

Maybe it’s just working on some development build or something?

I’ll stop by and ask them again today about that.

By: Lonnie

Lonnie — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:01:59 +0000

Same here – the smoke works for me when burning a disk but not the shift launch trick.

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:07:59 +0000

Re. the Apple TV and movie quality – I downloaded an entire season of 24 and it looked horrible on my MacBook Pro. I was so disappointed in the quality I downloaded a few free trailers and such to make sure the quality was the same. I’m sure it’d look good on a 2.5″ screen, but they market the movie store to make you believe the movies look great on computer, TV, etc.

I’m not paying DVD prices for something that only fits on a 2.5″ screen. I paid as much for the season as I could’ve bought the boxed version on Amazon. Unless Apple changes the quality to that of DVD or HD, I’m afraid they’ve lost a potential customer for the movie store.

By: vanni

vanni — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:26:07 +0000

“iPhone’s battery is not removable” …well that is a deal breaker for me. Can’t go and pay 600 for something that can’t have it’s battery replaced. unless they can give me three years worth of warranty.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:52:27 +0000

Strange, I can’t seem to get that shift-key trick to work, and mine will spew smoke only when it’s burning a CD. Anything else special I need to do?

By: Schlaeps

Schlaeps — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:22:17 +0000

Sweet. I might have seen you there, I was around the App Zapper booth for a bit while I was walking the floor today.

By: Julian Bennett Holmes

Julian Bennett Holmes — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:44:49 +0000

Doesn't work on your MacBook Pro? That's funny, the Disco site says that any Mac with a non Nvidia graphics card with floating point texture support should work, which I think qualifies any modern Mac. I'd mess around with the prefs a bit if I were you, see if you can get that to work.

By: Richard Neal

Richard Neal — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:19:54 +0000

Hm, the ability to do smoke without burning a disc would be awesome, but it doesn’t work for me on my MacBook Pro…