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.

Oh, puh-lease. Apple most certainly did not pay $1,185 per chair if they ordered 12,000 of them. Try half that figure for a ballpark number.

I work for a large outfit that is distinguished by its ownership of thermonuclear devices, among other things. Aeron chairs have never cost us much more than 60% of list. And for what it's worth, Aeron chairs have been my place of calm (and slouching) for the last twenty years. The Pacific may be much better in many ways, but I will never go back to an upholstered chair. The upholstery wears out much faster than the chair (or the Aeron webbing) does, and is far less comfortable on warm days.

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?

Massiveattack87 said:

Just ridiculous and "doomed" actions by AAPL. 

Human rights? Liberties? Gender pay gap?? All those things are really essential and should have been executed from the beginning on. 

What did AAPL say how to boost their stock price and how to generate their sales with "AI" etc.? 

No highlights in terms of their stategies??

Ridiculous and laughable. 

Nice of you to come out from under your bridge.

Apple has maintained, as long as I've been aware of (> 25 years), that it obeys the laws in any country in which it sells it products. Nothing new to see there, so move along. If you want proactive, note that Apple has more than once sent its CEO to negotiate face-to-face with Chinese government officials to prevent even more odious restrictions being placed on Apple's operations in China (e.g. data sharing).

Apple's share price is boosted by introducing products and services that turn out to be popular — not by talking about them at once a year shareholder's meetings.

 If, by the way, you're an Apple shareholder, the current share prices appear to be a bit of a bargain, so I'm guessing you could find a buyer if you want to unload yours.

sflagel said:

To be fair, none of the Apple TV shows is a must-see. They play it too safe, no comparison to HBO, BBC, or even Amazon. Even the Morning Show started strong and has turned into a soap opera. 

Guess you missed Slow Horses.

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/

I’m probably in an incredible minority now that laptops have effectively replaced desktops, but I find the WiFi requirement for Handoff features to be unnecessary. Why can’t these features work for any and all devices on the same subnet, regardless of physical access layer?