raoulduke42

Great suggestions. I’d like to see multi-display apps in general. Besides CarPlay, I know there are a few games that will treat an AppleTV display as the main display and show controls or info on the iPhone or iPad display... but why not apps that can use multiple iPhones and iPads in concert? I’d love to see all the sliders for Adobe Lightroom take over my iPhone display, leaving the larger iPad display just for the photo I’m processing. They could call it “Handshake.” One can dream.

I'm hoping Apple comes up with some secret sauce to utilize some of their "force touch" magic on a virtual keyboard. Maybe use some infra-red interferometer cleverness to sense an imminent "key" touch so as to have one of those crazy haptic vibrations that feel like a click happen as soon as your finger is on the glass. That'd be rad.

If I ran the world, the Plus sized iPhone with the X design would just be a wider version of the current "medium" sized X as the display has already gotten crazy big and these super long aspect ratios are kind of silly. Then make the small variant just a current X only about 1.5" shorter, but with the same width-- resulting in an iPhone almost the same size as the original, and just as one-handable, but with way more display. I can dream anyhow.

d_2 said:

I truly weep for the generations to come that will have no idea what driving an automobile with a real, gasoline engine feels like... and somehow this is progress

Right, it’s so sad they’ll never have to deal with oil changes, fluid leaks, generally spewing noxious gases into the air we breathe, transmission issues, radiators, going through brake pads, and all the other moving parts that keep dancing-bear internal combustion engine cars rolling. They do make that neat vroom vroom noise though, so I guess you have a point. *I own and love a Honda S2000, so this comment is only 95% snark.

MacPro said:

I'd love my mac Mini a lot more if it was easier to swap out the internal HD and RAM ... jeez what a PITA on my late 2012 i5, 4GB RAM model.  I use it as a headless a server for Plex and Home sharing.  It is soooo (f****g)  slow I have to upgrade something.  I don't mean its serving operations, it works fine, I mean doing anything on it directly.  I can go for coffee while waiting for it to open System Preference for example.  What have folks found to be the best bang for the buck, SSD or RAM or both?

Both would help, the SSD more so. I had a 2009 MacMini (older style case) that was my main machine for almost eight years because I swapped in an SSD and max ram.  Check out Other World Computing (aka macsalesDOTcom). Your mini has a 6G sata connector, better CPU, and the ability to take 16GB RAM... all good things. An SSD and some more RAM in that thing would make it feel like new.