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sog35 said: Actually all that would be better with a Plus phone Wrong. Period. I chose the iPad Mini for much the same reasons. It's the perfect size for reading books. I've noticed that reading web pages is good, but any smaller would be t…
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cali said: Apple producing world changing technologies. Meanwhile "Apple doesn't innovate". This kind of study is an excellent use of technology. Major kudos to Apple for doing it! But most of current complaints about Apple are not abou…
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foggyhill said: ewtheckman said: ericthehalfbee said: Fan Boyz? What, you don't think that's an appropriate term for someone who absolutely ignores or excuses any problem caused by a the entity they're a fan of, even when the…
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There is a brief (2 comments) discussion of this over at MacInTouch that gives some important details of what went wrong. https://www.macintouch.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1032&pid=15507#pid15507 The short version is that Apple added a fea…
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ericthehalfbee said: Fan Boyz? What, you don't think that's an appropriate term for someone who absolutely ignores or excuses any problem caused by a the entity they're a fan of, even when the problem is serious and obviously that entity's …
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ericthehalfbee said: ewtheckman said: Apple implements a system that causes an application to stop working even when nothing has changed, requiring an update from the developer and reinstallation, and which does not take into account r…
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Apple implements a system that causes an application to stop working even when nothing has changed, requiring an update from the developer and reinstallation, and which does not take into account real-world cases such as users needing to use an olde…
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…if potentially at the expense of turning off some viewers. Potentially? How about the absolute certainty of annoying users? It's very annoying. And when you cannot skip ads—which is what advertisers want, and using HTML 5 to play videos on YouTube…
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sog35 said: Wall Street will look at this as a negative. Not maximizing profit. Amazon got a D. Stop the presses. Wall Street now ups Amazon's target price to $1000 Why, oh why did AI remove the "Dislike" button?!?
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Given that YouTube has inflicted 5 and 13.5 minute unskippable ads on me multiple times, I say "bring it on, Apple"!
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Rayz2016 said: But if this thing is as bad as people have been saying it is, then no one would buy it. They'll wait for the next one, or move to Windows as folk here have said they would. I mean if you cannot POSSIBLY work in anything less than…
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foregoneconclusion said: What's interesting to me is how many of the internet based complaints are from people who identify themselves as software professionals who constantly run VMs etc. for comprehensive software testing, but they're dismiss…
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macplusplus said: If they work, leave them as is, don't touch them. If your legacy hardware doesn't work with the Mac Pro, this is the fault of neither your legacy hardware nor Mac Pro. So, what is the point? The necessity of spending a big…
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tallest skil said:2) The requirement to replace everything in and attached to my current computer due to Apple's changes. Tape backups, RAID, RAID enclosure, etc. Spending more than $10,000 at one time is not an easy pill to swallow. (Especially…
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macplusplus said: Does it make sense to buy a Mac Pro if you know that every year your jewel will be replaced by a new and better model? As I already said (though I made a typo when I said it), the Mac Pro lifecycle has generally been super…
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macplusplus said: I'd suggest iMac 27" but since you made up your mind for Mac Pro that's even better. Do not hesitate to commit to Mac Pro thinking that Apple would abandon the desktop market, who said anything like that? They even developed a…
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macplusplus said: If it is Filemaker Pro then it will get a huge improvement from the new Macbooks, but this is mostly related to CPU, not RAM, increasing the RAM in my previous MBP didn't bring much improvement. Regarding the virtual machine, …
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macplusplus said: Incredible numbers ! What database is that ? Which loads all the tables and indexes into memory !!! Apparently this is a very bad database, doing so, or some preload parameter is badly configured. You cannot sell much projects…
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jkichline said: Based on the specs and benchmarks, I don't think they've made compromises concerning performance. Maybe software manufacturers ought to use RAM more effectively and learn to code properly. 16 GB with superfast SSD should give y…
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jkichline said: It seems like most people who need gobs of RAM have made some mention of running multiple VMs. I guess I need to ask th question... why? It seems like a terribly inefficient way to run your laptop. I guess I don't have a need t…