Eric_in_CT

They story I saw said she was able to give them to families & neighbors.  They weren't wasted.

I would've done the same after eating the first 27 or so..



Cheers!

mtbnut said:

That's amazing. I feel like an idiot. I can barely use iMovie to make stupid movies of my kids.

I'm in the same boat.  Years ago on the white G4 Macbook, I made probably 50 movies overall of kids, using a Sony whatever-Cam over firewire to iMovie HD-6.  It was definitely homegrown but I did have a title-screen, chapters, I would ease audio down then up between cuts.  I used actual music a time or two. 

I just "got" that program, the basics of it anyway, and it was fun to do.  All I thought about while making the movie was the future-experience I was creating. 

Burned DVDs right on the MacBook and mailed them to family, and even exported the video BACK to the camera, and then exported THAT to a !VCR! to make !tapes! for a couple of grandparent holdouts!  (Just a few times on that).

When iMovie 8 came out "all re-imagined", it was so horrible I never made a movie again.  It was exactly like being in Windows Hell, where you're fighting/pleading/begging to get ANYthing to work.  No thought of your content or creativity, just head-banging fighting the tool.

iMovieHD 6 (to me) met Jonathan Ivy's vision that the tools fade away and it's just your content.

"iMovie", that black-quad-screen experience was the exact opposite.

I only blame myself for not being able to "get it", or at least find a middle-ground, but that's my experience.  Have some very old movies digitized in iMovie right now; haven't touched them in years.  Can't stand it.

E.

Apples handhelds are so darn good.

We have two iPad mini's (the first with Retina, whenever that was).  They're going strong, no issues, daily use (by kids), good battery life still.  Never even a screen-stutter.
Actually we've worn out the smart covers while the hardware is still near-perfect!  Just realized that, wow.  What does THAT say?

We recently bought the $329 iPad.  It's SO NICE that for $329 we feel like we stole it, and it's not even the best one! 
Offering that model for $329 is super generous in my opinion.  Could've easily been $379, which is a big difference mentally.

And we now have an old super-beater iPad 2 that a friend recently gave us.  Even though it struggles at times rendering the graphics in our "Clash of Clans" game and can crash Safari at times (its two only uses), I see that as testimony of how LONG these iPads last; that it still mostly-works with X-years-future Apps.  The multi-touch is still flawless, and rendering issues in a game shows how far the GAME has progressed over the years (way more complex now).  Reasonable battery life too, for its age.

There are great products.

Have a 27" iMac from 2009 with 2TB of 7200-RPM storage; was $2600.

For about a year or so one can get an Intel 27" with 2TB of SSD (no Fusion) for about $2600.  Been waiting a long time for 2TB-No-Fusion, but haven't bought yet.

When Mx hits the 27", how much will 2TB of on-board storage be?

Given that the technology between 2009 and now is horse/buggy to SpaceX, it will be pretty impressive if it's the same $2600.

The new 24"s are pretty amazing too.  Want to see one in person of course.

Just looked at the US Apple store base MacBook Pro 13". 

Going from 128GB of SSD storage to 2TB is $1000.

Assumptions:
Both what's in the Mac and this external enclosure are fast & high-quality.
The "Pluggable" people need to pay for the R&D, design, enclosure, packaging, marketing, etc etc. 
They charge $500 for all of it.  Are the 2TB chips....$250 for them to buy?  $200?

To me, having the 2TB internal, right from Apple, is way WAY better for all the obvious reasons, but how much is fair to pay?

If Apple charged $750, that would be an easy $-stretch for me, from $500/ext to $750/internal,  to NOT have to deal with an external item.

If Apple charged $500 to go from 128GB to 2TB, then doesn't this product immediately disappear? (not counting sharing large files with others by loaning the drive [will T2 allow that?], or using the files on two different computers [2 laptops, external-drive has movies?]....).

Hard to develop a fair opinion on what's fair to pay....

Desperate for a larger iMac refresh.

What does the Armchair-Predictor reveal?

Great machine.  Our 2009 with 2TB HD is still hanging on (fine) for our super-basic use-case of lots of home photos.

Can AI add to the piece with some history?  Wasn't the original Glass Cube made of many panes of glass (biggest avail per technology), then when tech got better, it was re-glassed with bigger panes?

If I'm seeing the image correctly, it's 3 panes per side now?  Amazing.

Three years from now, single panes per side!  It will be so cool they won't interrupt a pane for a door, and they'll hog out a Bilco-Door through the sidewalk!

E.

The base mac mini with M1 is enough for us.  We just need more storage for a large home-photos library.  

We kept our 2009 iMac for over 10 years until it failed finally.

My only worry with an M1 Mini (+16GB & 2TB SSD upgrade) is if 16GB would be enough 10 years from now (still simple use-case).

Best guesses on when the base Mini gets any-Mx that can use 32GB?    Base Mx, 32GB, and 2TB would last us indefinitely.

That new Studio......wow.   Very tempting if a chunk of $ comes our way....

Cheers!

There's a fun movie-intro with Robert Redford where he's paid to "hack" a bank.
He physically breaks in at night, then hacks into the computers, creating fake accounts with $$$
The next morning, in a suit, he goes in as a customer and closes the accounts.
Teller asks politely why he's closing the accounts.
"I didn't feel my $$$ was safe here", with a nice smile.
Takes the briefcase upstairs in the bank to the board of directors conference room and opens it, with all the $$$.
"You guys aren't that secure."