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rjharlan said: I can’t help but believe that this is a complete fake. There’s no way that two Russian influencers got their hands on two Macs that haven’t even been introduced to the market! Even the associates haven’t even been introduced to…
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nubus said: charlesn said:As for Vision Pro being a dud--that's hilarious for a product that has been in the hands of consumers for all of 32 weeks. Please cite fact-based sources for its "failure" that include Apple's actual internal pro…
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tipoo said: Now if only Apple dropped a bag of cash at Valve to bring that ARM Proton port to macOS natively, so that Steam games "Just Work" on macOS...That's the dream. This is currently available to an extent due to Apple's Game Portin…
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jdw said: Marvin said:I find it gives very good answers for technical questions that have a correct answer that would be difficult to find online but it does make mistakes. Duckduckgo has it integrated now: https://duckduckgo.com/chat It …
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chasm said: The "Harry Potter" models are interesting, but I don't quite understand why "Harry" always looks freshly beaten up in the graphic provided. The AI model training works like search engines where they scan images and then add lab…
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entropys said: AppleZulu said: entropys said: chasm said: entropys said: Writing by committee is no doubt a key factor in the malaise plaguing Hollywood these days. That and risk averse studios doing remakes, seque…
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jdw said: As I've mentioned under other articles in the past, my experience with ChatGPT4o isn't that great. I want like to use it to check multiple online sources quickly, in the hope it can Google faster than I can on my own. And it is fa…
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sflagel said: I don't know why but movies produced by streaming companies just don’t have “it”. And that is especially visible in movies that were produced by studios after the studio became part of a streaming service. Streaming content come…
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dominikhoffmann said: I have had an issue for quite some time, possibly since Ventura, where the dialog asking me to allow the USB device to connect disappearing within a fraction of a second. I miss the dialog altogether. My workaround has b…
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CheeseFreeze said: Apple’s screens are already lower res than the Quest 3 (but have better darker blacks). Quest 3 is ~2K, Vision Pro is nearer 4K: https://vr-compare.com/compare?h1=0q3goALzg&h2=8aL1JxO3T Apple used the best that wa…
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y2an said: ‘Holographic’ here might refer to the glass having an embedded hologram of a mirror which with the right geometry provides high levels of reflection for a rear projected off-axis display, something which can’t be done with half-sil…
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m4m40 said: I’d expect new movies to be shot in a format that’s compatible with 8k or better. iPhone.. really ??? While movie cameras are still way better for filming big budget movies, the iPhone 15 is a big step up in quality over the o…
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siretman said: Any guesses on the 15” MacBook Air being updated to M4 in an October event? 15" M4 Air is unlikely given the M3 Air was released in March this year. This would mean just 7 months between major updates. Two updates in the sam…
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macike said: I’ll see if Mac OS Sequoia fixes it, because nothing else has been successful. If it beachballs, opening the Activity Monitor allows generating a spin dump of what it's doing by selecting the process and clicking the button wi…
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pulseimages said: Any idea how many units have been sold? There's some information from the wearables revenue: https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_earnings/2024/q3/filing/_10-Q-Q3-2024-As-Filed.pdf Wearables, home and accessories in…
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battlescarred1 said: Why do they let so many of their products die a slow death? HomePod discontinued, then a meager update years later. HomeKit and the Home app. So much potential, yet so little effort put into it. FCP went dormant for years. I don…
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AppleInsider said:We'll never know how long Apple spent developing FineWoven as a replacement for leather. But if the company hasn't given up on cases, it seems like it's taking more than a year to come up with a replacement for FineWoven. …
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9secondkox2 said:Intel meanwhile is claiming their new integrated GPU is the fastest gun in the west (and everywhere else), but that remains to be seen. Yet we haven’t even seen m4 Max and Ultra capabilities. Intel says it's only 30% faster…
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blastdoor said: I guess this speaks to what a shoestring budget Aspyr has for making Mac games. It says here they have 140 employees and their parent company Saber Interactive was bought by Embracer Group for $100m: https://www.gamesindu…
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jdw said: Marvin said: Keeping support for it on computers is what keeps manufacturers making the products with USB-A. nor will a decision by Apple to drop all USB-A ports on the Mac Mini dictate what the Windoze PC world will do. A…