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jimh2 said:

What is the true advantage of these high performance video cards and what is a use case that justifies them?

There are probably dozens of different answers for this question.  One might point out the advantage of parallel processing on a GPU which can effectively speed up all sorts of computations.   This is often referred to as GPU compute.   With some classes of problems GPUs are much quicker and even if not much faster can often work in parallel with the CPU.  

MacPro said:

As we all already could have predicted but nice to see in print.

Not surprised at all!    I work in a MS only workplace and see what the support people go through and frankly I suspect even Linux would be dramatically less trouble.    The biggest problem with Apple in the corporate world, especially manufacturing, is suitable hardware.   The Mac Mini is not a universal solution and all in ones are completely unacceptable.  I still don’t think Apple gets it but then again neither do many corporate IT managers. 

razorpit said:

adamodonnell said:

I'd assume most people here would lean to Apple for most decisions, but I'd really recommend this tablet if you don't need a real workhorse tablet (and I don't think most people do). From a media consumption standpoint it blows iPads out of the water. Hands down. Is the picture better on an iPad? Sure. But when I weigh that vs the huge pain in getting movies and TV shows onto an iPad it's not even a close decision. Around the house the iPads get used occasionally but they never leave the house, while we wouldn't dream of traveling without our fire tablets. Kids have 8s and we have 10s. It's a breeze to transfer Plex movies to an SD card and pop it into the fire tablets. I often download videos from YouTube for the kids and put them on their tablets too. Super easy. 

Why would it be more difficult to download movies and tv shows to an iPad? You just download them to the device, you don’t even need a SD card.

I could see where the cost of Fire tablet would make travel a little more relaxed. You drop one or lose it oh well. Just get another one.

Oh come on any reasonable person knows about the file handling issues on iOS.  Even the latest update do little to correct that.   

auxio said:

tht said:

for a cellular functionality that I won’t really experience unless I’m packed in a room with 50,000 of my closest friends. 

I don't really understand this part.  My expectation with 5G is that I won't experience the speed increases unless I'm in a downtown urban area where it was worthwhile to build a 5G tower (which thankfully I live close to).

I can’t read the minds of the vendors doing the various roll outs but I see spect the big reason to go urban first is the likelihood that there will be far more customers to pay for everything. The other problems are technical and this is where the 5G experience might not be what many expect. Penetration into buildings will suffer and cell density can help with that but I expect lots of fall backs in data rates or even loss connections. Maybe you haven’t noticed but 5G isn’t getting the wild marketing actions like 4G did. The service providers are still trying to figure out how to manage customer expectations. Apple is likely in the same boat. It will simply take awhile to get that 100% coverage that users have grown to love. The urban landscape is one reason why I like to say that 5G might work better for many users in more rural areas. Even here it will depend on what type of rural area we are talking about but often it is far easier to maintain line of site to a tower. If people would remember back to the early years of smart phones AT&T had some serious issues in a couple of cities due to no licenses to operate in the lower frequency bands. They had this issue until switching bands. 5G operates at much higher frequencies than that so issues related to power, penetration and so forth, will be worse. In most cases anyways, radio frequency electronics can be strange. Now don’t get me wrong, I really like the idea of 5G. However im I no rush to get a 5G phone. Instead let the early raptors suffer through the roll outs.

wood1208 said:

Apple did smart move to hold on until 2020 or later to release 5G iphones. I am thinking to stay bit longer on LTE. But, more curious to know how Apple will keep iPhone 12(equivalent to current iPhone 11) price lower by not offering 5G or by not offering OLED or both ? something got to give up for $699 price point.

I still don’t think people realize that 5G will not be universally something that people can leverage. It will pretty much be line of sight technology. As such it isn’t something to get excited about in a cell phone. This especially early in the technologies roll out where you can expect many dead spots. On the other hand if we are talking iPad I suspect fewer frustrations with that due to the way IPads are often used. If Apple was smart they would lead with a 5G IPad as IPad can certainly use the bandwidth. More importantly you have a much smaller client base to work with thus far fewer pissed off customers. IPad is a good place to work out the 5G kinks.