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In response to a previous article and this one, AI is drinking too much Apple cool aid...

With the exception of the 13" quad core, these are not major upgrades at all...

The machines are good, yes.  But there remain three massive issues which won't ever be fixed:
 1. Extremely poor built in dedicated graphics (for a pro machine) (could someone tell me what the double precision FP performance of a Radeon 555X is!?)...  Probably not even 100M FLOPS...?
 2. CPUs which cannot hold even base frequency under constant load (is this the first laptop that Apple has shipped which cannot hold base frequency under full CPU utilisation)?
 3. Price.  It's no longer price competitive, especially once you start paying apple taxes for necessary add ons like dongles and extra SSD storage.

I'm so disappointed.  I have lost so much faith in Apple's Mac team under TC.  Things started going downhill pretty badly after Bob Mansfield left.  I recently bought a 13" 2017 non touch bar laptop to tide me over until these upgrades were available, and now I don't know what to do.
All of my long term Mac friends are leaving the platform because of cost (especially for SSD storage, it's insane, most people don't need 3GB/s write speeds, but they do need/want more storage in a laptop)...  The pricing is just insane.

Apple just doesn't listen, it never has and probably never will...  It's time for TC to go and concentrate on saving the world from intolerance.  Let's please get someone in there who understands the Mac and is not just some logistics guy.  Laptops are not going anywhere any time soon.  But Apple is slowly bleeding its core users.  And when developers all end up buying competing laptops, then the precious iOS will suffer too.

What's sad is that Apple is basically dead in Education and science now...

Apple won't win this.

Hey all, wondering what the "problem" is with Apple's Touch ID that it needs a "solution" like facial recognition?  For me, it seems like a solution to a problem which doesn't exist (on the iPhone anyway, watch and laptop might be a different story).  I hope Apple hasn't forgotten this basic principal of their functional ethos.

To the author, this has nothing to do with the size of the OS, which is probably larger.
it is likely because the phone underwent cleaning of caches, logs etc.
Try this, take a phone which is almost full, try to rent a large movie in iTunes, voila more space, like magic.