June 5, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, blessingx said: When did Apple execs get the force? When they embraced the dark side? Apple vision pro use case #1
June 6, 20233 yr I'm curious about the M2 Ultra benchmarks... otherwise, a bit of a snoozefest. macOS Sonoma dumps the 2017 Macs... a bit too soon, for my taste.
June 6, 20233 yr 2 minutes ago, HiWire said: I'm curious about the M2 Ultra benchmarks... otherwise, a bit of a snoozefest. macOS Sonoma dumps the 2017 Macs... a bit too soon, for my taste. Yeah, when I mentally rewound the presentation, they kept comparing the M2 Ultra with the M1 Ultra, not the M2 Max. WANT.
June 6, 20233 yr 12 minutes ago, HiWire said: The audience laughed when they mentioned the Mac Pro's $6,999 starting price. Has anybody played with the configurator to see what the fully loaded price is?
June 6, 20233 yr 8 minutes ago, Grahame said: Has anybody played with the configurator to see what the fully loaded price is? When I saw it didn't come in pink, I forewent. I can only take so much emotional trauma.
June 6, 20233 yr 8 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said: When I saw it didn't come in pink, I forewent. I can only take so much emotional trauma. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23750154/apple-m2-ultra-mac-pro-cheaper-intel-mac-pro
June 6, 20233 yr 2 minutes ago, Grahame said: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23750154/apple-m2-ultra-mac-pro-cheaper-intel-mac-pro US$13K? That's not as bad as I thought it'd be.
June 6, 20233 yr 19 hours ago, TMoney said: What the hell am I watching? Who and what is this thing for? Why would I want one? I'll give them credit though, they really went for it. No Oculus ripoff here. If you mean the Mac Pro, I have no idea. Most people who want that kind of compute power either DIY their own boxes or rent by the hour from Amazon. I guess if Mac OS is a requirement along with massive computational power it kinda makes sense, but that’s uncommon. Maybe for running proprietary hedge fund code. If you mean the Vision Pro, I’d find it very handy as a replacement for a bunch of external screens. It seems capable of displaying remote desktops. I could use a much smaller desk if I didn’t have to put a 27-30” screen on it. Or I would just pile my desk with even more audio hardware. 🙃
June 7, 20233 yr Not worthy of its own thread: Drobo is Officially Done as the Company Moves Into Liquidation. For years I used one as my primary backup. See here on my very crowded desk, a decade ago.
June 7, 20233 yr Yeah I gave up on Drobo about 15 years ago. I could never get it to work the way I wanted to so when it came time to upgrade I went with a Synology NAS and never looked back.
July 10, 20232 yr Squeak squeak. Apple's energy efficiency is nothing short of amazing, but their marketing is crap. Squeak. Spoiler Knuckles are you really picking on Linus for having such a high pitched voice? That's really petty of you.
August 29, 20232 yr https://www.apple.com/apple-events/ large_2x.mp4 Apple Event Watch on 9/12 at 10 a.m. PT. View online at apple.com or on the Apple TV app. Add to your calendar https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23819494/apple-september-event-iphone-15-pro-watch-ultra-date Edited August 29, 20232 yr by Grahame
September 12, 20232 yr https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23824688/iphone-15-event-live-blog-apple-keynote
September 12, 20232 yr So unrelated to today's announcements, does anyone here use the spatial audio for music? I keep trying it and keep bouncing off it. Is 2-channel audio with headphones a problem that needed solving?
September 13, 20232 yr Don't know about spatial audio... that would require buying new, expensive hardware. Some engineers still struggle with stereo mixing and mastering, so I'm not in a hurry to complicate things. I thought the announcement was very anticlimactic... the iPhone 15 Pro's A17 claims incremental performance improvements and features like ray-traced graphics and AV1 decode. A 10% and 20% increase in performance from the A16 is hardly a quantum leap. Also, they discontinued the iPhone 13 Mini, which made me sad. They may continue the small format phone in the next iPhone SE update. Edited September 13, 20232 yr by HiWire
September 13, 20232 yr I need to know more about the 5x tetraprism zoom lens and 24/28/35 default focal length selection.
October 24, 20232 yr https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/24/apple-promises-scary-fast-mac-announcement-the-night-of-october-30
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