quadra 610

I love this direction for the Mac. 

And excellent article, DED!

Apple could run exclusively on perpetually available distilled angel tears and it still wouldn’t be enough.  

docno42 said:

quadra 610 said:

Will this run legacy apps? As in, do current apps need to be ported over? Will there be Rosetta-like technology available?

Sorry if this was made clear already.

Yes - there is Rosetta2 technology.  AI has several good articles discussing it from when it was introduced back at the world wide developers conference.  Just search the site for Rosetta 2 and they should pop right up  

I miss ClarisWorks, from the System 7 / OS 8 era. My first Mac was a PowerMac 6100/60, bought July 1994. Booting into what I regarded as the little integrated marvel that ClarisWorks was, gave me the same sense of wonder as running GEOS did on my C64 in the 80s. 

robertwalter said:

quadra 610 said:

mobius said:

Other reports claim it may be related to File Vault 2. Couple that with your own mention of the Photos app, I'm not sure there's a strong enough case to be made (yet) to say it's "likely third party software" at fault.

It does seem troubling that such an issue could strike these new models so soon after release, and especially after similar graphics problems had impacted some MBP 2011-13 models.

One wonders just how much emphasis goes on Q and A these days. Perhaps they need to spend a bit more time and money on that. Otherwise it's going to cause damage to Apple's reputation at a time when patience is already wearing thin with many pro users.

"In a serious case chronicled by a MacRumorsforum member Jan Becker, a new 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with an optional AMD Radeon Pro 460 GPU encountered trouble and ultimately crashed while transcoding video in Adobe Premiere Pro. Becker consequently took the machine into an Apple store for replacement."

"The incident did not go unnoticed by Apple. Becker said he received a call from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., where a team of engineers asked him to help replicate the glitch over the phone and requested access to the affected laptop for further investigation."


^^^

All part of that "Q and A" you thought smart to bring up. 

Apple's is from cradle to grave. Good on them. 

Warranty calls and refunds are the antithesis of good QA. 

No such thing as perfect QA.


Guess who's still the best in the business, though.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macbook-leads-reliability-customer-satisfaction/

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/02/macbooks-top-consumer-reports-reliability/

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/laptops/LaptopReliability

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498302,00.asp

http://www.zdnet.com/article/consumer-reports-notebook-reliability-survey/

So many folks in this thread soft and ripe for the Trump Long Con Extravaganza. 

Apple is doing what's right. They might lose a few customers here and there. The Steve Bannons out there. A lot of other things can lose a company customers as well. That's part of the biz. But those who really want Apple gear will always get them. 

Even folks working for the competition keep flashing Apple gear in some way, shape or form. It's priceless.

It's high time the corporate sphere take socially responsible stances. It might just be *them* who will be pivotal in fixing a socially retarded America. With a massive chunk of your population throwing Bibles and Jesus at others, and these folks actually casting votes... that is some horrific stuff. THAT is what's messed up, folks, NOT Apple. 

And guess what. A socially messed up and wrong-headed America can *still* have a great economy (if they have the manpower and expertise for it, and if they'll most be white, etc...   just look to a WW2 Germany), but *that* is part of the con. It's part of the illusion. But your dear leader has no concept of law, economics, and even basic Constitutional facts. And the folks surrounding him either don't know either, don't really care, or are bent on subverting what good, useful knowledge is out there. 

And NO, major corporations that are heavily invested in overseas manpower, knowledge and resources, will NOT change their position because of a few increased tariffs. All that will do is create a retaliatory increase, and then the consumer is pretty well fucked. All this talk about companies that will "re-invest" in local "talent" (you aint got none!) is nonsense. A few token gestures will materialize, but it won't be anything significant. The ideas (provided they even *are* ideas and not nonsense, because most of it is just nonsense) being batted around aren't realistic in the world of 2016. They're about 30-40 years out of date. But yeah, some folks will eat up the accompanying slogans without actually using their heads. 

In re: to this Apple news, you have an ATTITUDE PROBLEM down south (from the Canadian border) way, way before any corporate-humanism problem. So check yourselves. Really. 

In that spirit, let's take Jobs's birthday to remember those who made it possible for him to make his own dent in the universe.

On the day Apple's co-founder would have turned 61, let's take a moment to appreciate the pioneers who came before.


Why? It's HIS birthday we're celebrating, not anyone else's. It's about Steve qua Steve. 

We can save the pat on the back for everyone else, and those who came before, when it's APPLE'S birthday.