nicholfd

goofy1958 said:

Between my wife and I, we have 2 iPhones, 2 watches, 2 Airpod Pros, an Apple TV 4k, and I have 2 Homepod Minis in my office.  The only thing we don't have are Macs and that is simply because they are, to us, too expensive for what you get.  My Dell PC with the same performance and specs as a Macbook Pro is less than 1/2 the cost.  I simply cannot justify the extra money for the same performance.  I have used a Macbook Pro in the past when supplied by my company, and loved it.  If Apple would just come down on their pricing for the Macbook Pro, we'd jump in a heartbeat.

22july2013 said:

Now is the time for Apple to sell its M Series chips to PC vendors. Get a foothold before the competition does.

Clarus said:

Now, about the brick...that seems to be answered by going to the web page for this product on the OWC website. In the specs, I found a line that says "Secondary/replacement power supplies are also available." That was linked to this page:

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/PWR12V6A/

So it looks like it uses the same power brick that they ship with many other enclosures that they sell. Look at the Specs section of that link to learn the dimensions and weight of the power brick.

botsauce said:

Is it fully bus powered? If not, what does the brick look like? 

22july2013 said:

bloggerblog said:

or it just records directly to iCloud like other cameras?

Name a single camera that records to Apple's iCloud. All the cameras that I found record to proprietary clouds, mostly in China.

gatorguy said:

nicholfd said:

gatorguy said:

I don't know what rationale Apple is using to decide they should be discontinued. Perhaps they ordered some large quantity years ago and finally have run out? It's such a useful little accessory for those of us with really good wired headphones.

I use mine with HiFiMan Edition XS open-backs and a separate DAC. The combo sounds so much better than any of my wireless headphones. Bonus: I don't ever have to worry about the batteries giving up the ghost as they all eventually do, forcing me to toss out expensive bluetooth headphones. I also have a great pair of closed-back B&O's more than a decade old I sometimes use. There's no wireless ones that will last that long.

That little discontinued dongle saves me a lot of money, and allows notably better sound too. 

I'm confused or missing something with your comment regarding using a separate DAC with the now discontinued Lightning -> analog headphone adapter.  

DAC = Digital to Analog Converter.  The signal coming out of the now discontinued adapter is already analog.  How are you using a DAC with it?

A Sonata BHD Pro, which is both DAC and amplifier. Without it my iPhone can't drive enough audio power to the headphones. Planars like their power, and these are 8ohm and 92db cans. For my wants, a couple of smartphones and my office computer, I don't need an expensive DAC-amp for it, and some are seriously expensive. But dang, the Edition XS sounds soooo good

gatorguy said:

I don't know what rationale Apple is using to decide they should be discontinued. Perhaps they ordered some large quantity years ago and finally have run out? It's such a useful little accessory for those of us with really good wired headphones.

I use mine with HiFiMan Edition XS open-backs and a separate DAC. The combo sounds so much better than any of my wireless headphones. Bonus: I don't ever have to worry about the batteries giving up the ghost as they all eventually do, forcing me to toss out expensive bluetooth headphones. I also have a great pair of closed-back B&O's more than a decade old I sometimes use. There's no wireless ones that will last that long.

That little discontinued dongle saves me a lot of money, and allows notably better sound too. 

atonaldenim said:

Like Clarus said, the old model was very limited in its design, it only assigned 1x PCIe lane to each of the 4 NVMe slots. So the only way to get full performance out of it was if you had all 4 SSD slots filled and in a RAID together. 

If you just wanted to access one SSD in the enclosure say, that one drive would be limited to 1/4 the top speed of the connection. 

Do we know for sure whether this design flaw is fixed now, or still remains?

This one would sure look nice next to my Mac Studio!

hentaiboy said:

iqatedo said:

flydog said:

Most of those Samsung chargers will eventually be used to power an iOS device. 

Would you trust it? 

Would you trust the Samsung OLED displays, NAND flash, and DRAM chips being used in the new iPhones?