StrangeDays

jesusfreak said:

Nothing but pessimistic Trump bashing and liberal spin on our "education funding".

We spend PLENTY on education in America, but we spend it POORLY.  We do not need MORE MONEY for education, we need to toss out all the bull dung and bologna and focus on SKILLS and BASICS instead of useless woke indoctrination.   Too many high paid Administrators and fancy buildings, not enough going to teachers, allowing teachers to teach and maintaining DISCIPLINE and demanding SUCCESS out our public schools.  

But how educated to you have to be to assemble an iPhone?   I think the Robots will be taking over most of this in the not too distant future.  Especially once we make it unattractive for communist dictatorships to force their multitudes into modern slave labor.

A lot of bashing Trump, but at least he is DOING something.   The last 6+ Presidents did nothing, or made things worse.   But, let's bash the guy trying to move the needle.

VictorMortimer said:

Yeah, design and build quality on Apple's current laptops is astonishingly bad.  The keyboard isn't nearly as good as it used to be, and the display is absolutely terrible.  There's really no excuse for it, thin isn't worth having something that will shatter if you do much more than breathe on it.

I'm thinking it's class action lawsuit time.  Screen damage should be a warranty issue, and there needs to be a repair extension to cover it even after the warranty expires.  The design is fundamentally flawed.

Mike Wuerthele said:

StrangeDays said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

StrangeDays said:

AppleInsider said:

Whither modular?

Apple really likes to bandy about the word "modular."

Apple literally called this system modular at the release event, and we're not sure what they mean by that. There's no real modularity here unless you count stacking a few up on top of each other and using Universal Control to do different jobs.

In our testing, we did find that eGPU enclosures can be repurposed for Apple Silicon-supported PCI-E cards. Vendors like Sonnet have Thunderbolt PCI-e enclosures and system more geared to cards that aren't as massive as graphics ones.

They're obviously extra expenses, but they do work. That might be what Apple is talking about when it says "modular," but that's a funny Cupertino definition of it, we suppose. [...]

From another source within Apple, we were told that there are "no plans" to offer upgrade modules to customers. Apple-certified technicians supported by a shop will use a serialization tool on the drive modulesm we're told.

I thought it pretty obvious in this context "modular" meant a non-AIO workhorse in additional to the fabulously expensive MP. As opposed to the iMac Pro, which has been retired. Not that it would have additional modules to snap on or something. 

Nobody said anything about snap-on modules. There is no sane definition of modular as it applies to computing that this machine fills.

It's a very nice machine. It's just not what you'd call modular.

Disagree, I’d absolutely call this modular, and say this has been a commonly used term when discussing AIO Macs vs headless, especially around the iMac Pro. People on this very forum debated the topic years back. This isn’t a new interpretation.

My snap-on comment was referring to this bizarre interpretation that modular meant physical attaching them to each other:

“There's no real modularity here unless you count stacking a few up on top of each other”

…completely ignoring the other common interpretation that a separated CPU and display are modular components.

Re-read the bolded sentence. That doesn't say that's what I interpret modular to mean. It's extremely clear that's not what I define as modular. The first five words in what you quoted makes that very clear.

It may be how you want to define modular, but as I see it, the modular definition of it requiring just "bring your own monitor" and nothing else is ridiculous. As an example, Apple doesn't call the M1 Mac mini "modular", but it did say that the 2012 with SATA drives and user-expandable RAM, and the 2018 Mac minis with user-expandable RAM that.

Apple uses the term as it sees fit, and inconsistently.

nht said:

So, what you are confirming is that you've hated the iMac design language for the last 8 years but you are still a customer.  Slow learner or Troll?

Oh, and people look at the back panel of iMacs all the time.  Any door facing desk with an iMac on it shows the back panel to anyone walking into the room