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I don't know how new this is but the remote app on iOS (not really an app anymore, but still) lets you find the remote-ish. No direction but tells you how far you are from it.

cjlacz said:

I bought my Mac Pro a bit before the cheese grater. But after the amazing laptops and the max studio, you really consider this the best max ever made? I admit it’s competing, at least for it’s time. But this article seems 3 years late.  Basically this had internal storage and good pci expansion. That makes it the best mac ever made?  Meh. It was important at the time. And I do respect that. But im Not sure it qualifies it for the honors you are trying to give it. 

You... bought your Mac Pro before the cheese grater? I don't think you did somehow. 

It was the best Mac for Pros who need expansion, upgradability, power and value. Unlike the current Mac Pro, it was very respectably priced. Furthermore, It was a machine without the outcomes of Apple's undesired "courage"; the current Mac Pro seems more like a tech demo than a real machine, with the resulting price tag to go with it.

This kind of thing proves Apple Intelligence has most definitely not been seriously worked on for anywhere near as long as Cook says it has. The Apple Summary Service does a better job than this, and doesn't hallucinate. 

AppleInsider said:

The advantage of microLED is that it could offer OLED-like contrast and brightness, but without requiring a backlight panel.

Instead, the microLEDs are used directly to make the picture. They are deposited in a pattern, with each able to display red, green, or blue light. This also eliminates the need for a color filtering layer.

What? OLED doesn't have a backlight panel, OLED pixels are "used directly" to make the picture and they don't need a color filtering layer. You are confusing LCD and LED. Either way LCD is irrelevant on the Watch because it uses OLED. The actual advantages to MicroLED are it's essentially immune to burn in, the brightness is higher, colour quality can be better and potentially less power consumption. You are welcome to credit me in the article.

dewme said:

The Nvidia GPU solder issue is what led to the premature death of my 2008 iMac. I think it would still be running if the video subsystem issue didn’t crop up after the AppleCare ended. Some owners came up with a scheme to reflow the solder connections by baking the video card in the oven for a certain amount of time at a certain temperature. It was successful for some folks but I don’t think it was ever a permanent fix. 

I had a Mac Pro 1,1 at the time with a Nvidia Geforce 8800. That also suffered, but reflowing it in the oven fixed it until the power supply died, then the motherboard died sometime in 2011.

Thanks guys for putting up with us, speaking for everyone but I’m sure everyone would agree; we do really enjoy your work and the effort you put in, even if we don’t show quite as much appreciation as we should sometimes!

Merry Christmas to all of you! 🎄

CheeseFreeze said:

Of course we all know this is BS. The real reason is that Tim Cook wants us to climb the spec ladder. A memory upgrade is probably a better choice versus upgrading cores or even moving from a Pro to Max.

It is this 100%. Same with SSD upgrades, it does not cost Apple £200 to add an extra 512GB chip to the board, more like £6-7; if that. And you can't even justify that it helps pay for macOS or Apple Silicon research that does into those chips, because Apple does not make their own memory. No doubt there will be plenty here that will still try and defend that though and make themselves look gullible and stupid. Apple RAM and storage is a massive rip off.

jas99 said:

saarek said:

Sounds like a typical Apple issue. For the amount of profit they make you’d figure they’d invest in better cables by now.

Hopefully enough people will be impacted so as to cause a world wide repair programme. Apple won’t do the right thing here without being forced into it.

Typical? Really?

No. This is highly unusual. 

Apple devices are famous for their long life and durability. 

Typically you buy a new Mac because you want to, not because you have to. 

I had my Mac Pro's power supply fail, then the logic board failed after roughly 5 years. I had a Core 2 iMac fail with vertical lines on the screen after about 4 years. My 2019 i9 iMac's CPU or logic board failed. The battery in my 2010 Macbook Pro turned into a spicy pillow. So yeah, Mac reliability is not amazing. Still, better than my work Dell which is on motherboard number 3 in 2 years.

phillyfanatic09 said:

In the end, Europe could simply price Apple out of their market. Apple is a for profit company. If the fines exceed Apple’s profits in Europe, why do business there?

Well EU citizens aren't getting Apple Intelligence due to some EU directive.. Which no doubt the EU will claim is Apple's fault for not complying, not their own for inventing a directive that cannot reasonably be met. This sort of pig-headed ignorance is a big reason why the UK left the EU.

12% seems like rather a lot for what appears to be nothing more than a payment processor.  Why not use Paypal which is something like 1.5%?