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k2kw said:

lkrupp said:

DAalseth said:

Makes me eager to see what the next gen M series iPads do.

22july2013 said:

Kuyangkoh said:

Will Apple make those high end Mac in US? Or made in usa simply just a PR a while back!!!

I think someone needs to create a "Seal of Approval" for products that are made in free countries. I would call it the "Freedom Seal." Maybe the logo would look like a seal swimming in the ocean. How many products does Apple make that might qualify for this seal?

I like the concept, but got Dog’s sake don’t call it Freedom Seal. Sounds too much like the jingoistic BS during the W years. 

What? As opposed to the “America is not exceptional” and “You did not build that” tripe of the O years? 

The real hero of the M1 machines is TSMC and their manufacturing performance.   Without them iPhones would be on Samsung chips still and Intel wouldn’t look so bad (ignoring AMD).   So Apple designed it but didn’t build it.

It’s known that Apple substantially contributes to TSMC’s R&D, and production. Other than providing funding and machinery, I don’t know how far that extends. But it’s by no means a one way street. Apple is their largest customer as well, estimated to be between 25 and 30% of their output.

listening to music in the Music app in lossless, after almost two hours I got a memory situation. When I looked, Music was using about 238 GB of memory using swap, and yes, that's GigaBytes. This is in a new 16" 64GB M1Max Macbook Pro. I haven't had a chance to try it again.

But it sounded amazing.

shareef777 said:

My BTO 16” MBP M1 Max w/ 32core gpu, 64gb ram still shows 11/18-11/26. Sadly it showed a November delivery immediately after the store opened when I changed any default config. So seems that the 32core gpu M1 Max was always planned to be a delayed item. Even now, every base model, except for that one, shows as available for pickup today from my local Apple Store. Either they didn’t plan on having that particular config available day one, or they vastly underestimated the number of people that would opt for the higher chip.

Mine is a 16” 32 core model with 64GB RAM and 2TB drive. I don’t think it’s the 32 cores itself that’s the problem. Someone else here ordered the same config as mine. Was also told that it would arrive Nov 3-5, but now this Friday.

im sure it’s more than just we two.

There is not a single thin in that “license” that states that Apple, or any other entity has the right to cancel a legitimate purchase. It’s the standard license stating that while it’s yours, this is what you can and can’t do with it.

bjt there’s a problem between “buying” a material work, such as a CD, and “buying” a digital representation of that work. When you buy a physical work, it’s understood that you are buying the media, and licensing the work itself. But when you are told you are buying a digital representation, then that meaning changes. Now, you’re being told your buying the work itself, and that’s a problem. Companies shouldn’t use the term “buy” if they mean license. The two are different terms with different meaning. Courts often regard the commonly accepted meaning as the correct one to the consumer.

bjt I accept the concept that we can’t sell copies of what we’ve “bought”, or give them away. No problem there. But when they remove something from the catalog, and tell you it’s no longer available in the store, so that you can’t use it, even if you choose to not delete it, then that’s wrong.

As much as I hate to say it, I can’t really disagree with this one. I’ve bought books that no longer work, because they were 32 bits. A great Ansel Adams book, and that one really annoyed me. Most of these books were written as apps which was very common a few years ago. Some still are, I think. Almost all have disappeared. I had a couple dozen. As we all know with media, particularly books, popularity varies greatly. If not enough are sold, the developer abandons them, much as publishers stop publishing them. But at least the paper copy doesn’t disappear.

there are other reasons as well. A copyright may no longer allow a region, for example. There needs to be a way these things are grandfathered in, including something that theoretically won’t work. Somehow, these things need to be in some universal wrapper so they can be used in perpetuity.