sunman42

Just re-watched the iMac Pro section of the WWDC keynote on AppleTV the other evening. It specifically announced that the CPUs would be Xeons, so a Core announcement is irrelevant from the get go.

Abel Gance directed the definitive film on Napoléon in 1927, without CGI but with multiple cameras and split screen views. Watch it, preferably with a live orchestra playing the score written for the 1980 re-release by Carmine Coppola, and decide for yourself which is the better film.

Let’s see:

1Password - when they stepped onto the Electron bandwagon, I stepped off paying for any updates. 7.whatever still runs, if all you need is a password vault, which I use as a deep archive (for accounts I never use, but some vendor may still maintain my account) and a backup to Keychain Access. Speaking of which, what will Passwords offer that Keychain access does not?

Grammarly: Never used it. After six years of rote learning of grammar, syntax, and composition in English in high school, at least until dementia sets in, I don’t need anyone else’s grammar interventions.

Calculator: will have to see what it can do that I don’t do already with Kalkulilo.

ChatGPT: As I emailed Tim Cook last evening, all I want from ChatGPT is a kill switch so I am never pestered to use it, for anything.

mikethemartian said:

They are going to replace it with an ad where they kill Bambi.

 Bambi vs. Godzilla, one of the best animated movies ever.

Having used (for work) various PowerMac G5s, cheesegrater Mac Pros, and the "Mr. Fusion" Mac Pro, I can state that they all were good in their day for one application or another. If you had a variety of tasks, the 2013 Mac Pro, with its large number of ports and GPU/memory configurations, turned out to serve our needs better than the cheesegraters did. I'm certain the reverse was true for many people, especially those who couldn't bend their minds around the fact that Thunderbolt was a game changer, and external enclosures linked by it worked at PCIe speeds.

I also owned a cheesegrater Mac Pro for home use (mostly for work), and found it incredibly useful — until workflows with ~ ten thousand times as much data/unit time made it obsolete. The world moves on, and thankfully, so does Apple.

Bundles are the devil’s work. They’re why we all dropped cable TV, and for me, at least, bundling Apple TV+ with Paramount+ would add up to less than the sum of its parts. On a related note, Slow Horses started season 3 last night. What a delight.

macuserosu said:

So it will come with the bare essentials to use the device….got it!

Well, it does come with a polishing cloth. That’s at least a $19 value, right?

Allow me to express my skepticism that any of these changes will make my life better.

I can hardly wait for the next time I drop my iPad. Will the OS tell me to be calmer and not throw things?

ATLMacFan1 said:

Am I supposed to know what “intercompany transfer pricing” means or how that adds up to billions of dollars?

Try the more informative article on The Register’s site:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/microsoft_irs_tax_bill/