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  • Apple voices official support for California SB 244 right to repair bill

    sdw2001 said:
    avon b7 said:
    sdw2001 said:
    I’m not a fan of the right to repair movement. Just wait until people start blowing themselves up because they don’t know what they’re doing.  Also, customers make an active choice when they buy a product. I don’t know where this so-called “right” comes from, but they have to be allowed to repair their own product. I suppose I could see a provision where the manufacturer is not allowed to withhold original parts. As for Apple, they are supporting this because it’s good PR. Apple is genius when it comes to knowing which way the wind is blowing.  
    This is why, on the EU side at least, battery replacement is required to be a simple action for laymen and using freely available tools. 

    Design for repair. 

    The 'right' is something that has been eroded over time. It was basically there and industry has worked to eliminate it. 

    Legislation is a way to bring it back. 
    The point is it’s not a right.   Never was, never will be.  It’s just another big government, nanny state provision.  A right is God-given and natural.  

    What’s interesting is that all those new right to repair chop shops in the future will have flowery language in their paperwork (the contract) that you sign before they repair anything, that they reserve the right to use whatever part they deem necessary. :smiley: 
    avon b7
  • Hands on with Apple Vision Pro in the wild

    melgross said:
    I’m hoping I’ll be lucky enough to be able to buy one of these when it first comes out. I’ll have my finger right in the buy now button. But likely there won’t be enough to go around and there will be others who tapped a small fraction of a second before me. Oh well, we’ll see.

    ive tried some high end industrial models. They all cost a lot more than this one. They’re pretty good, but are tethered to a computer. I’ve did spit some problems with them such as resolution that was almost, but not quite high enough. Field of view that was adequate, but not great. Some stuttering, etc. all were notably heavier than a pound. But I really don’t consider weight to be a major issue as long as it’s not over two pounds. I had a couple of dual eye infra red head units for our darkrooms. These weighed slightly over two pounds, also with batteries in the pocket, or on a waistband. The batteries being extra weight and lasting about an hour.  Most of that weight was forward of your face. Not very comfortable, but you get used to it. There are lots of head mounted equipment in use in various industries that are worn for hours at a time that are heavy. They’re necessary to use, and again, you get used to it. Some competitors are listed at about one and a quarter to one and a half pounds. If the AVP is really a pound, that a lot lighter.

    Touché Mel, half a second after midnight will be the difference between getting the Apple Vision Pro in two weeks or getting it in six weeks or ten weeks……
    byronlwatto_cobrajellybellyjahblade
  • Vision Pro to ship with 1TB storage

    Marvin said:
    danox said:
    Apple Vision, Pro  will have minimum one 1TB storage and 24 gigs of memory (M2 maximum is 24 gigs), but the X factor is the R1 co-processing chip it could have another 24 gigs of memory and even more storage capacity.

    The R1 chip really is the great unknown………
    R1 is a video processing chip, it just needs a small amount of fast memory for the framebuffers. 4k framebuffer is 3840 x 2160 x 5 bytes = 41MB, 12 cameras + displays is < 1GB of memory, could be 2GB to handle 8K, compositing buffers etc.

    M2 needs more memory as it's running apps. Each app can use 2GB.

    The SSD storage is for persistent data. It would be nice if the minimum is 1TB and for Apple to do this across their product line. SSD is really cheap now. 2TB PCIe SSD is ~$100, 1TB is $50-80:

    https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Internal-Gaming-MZ-V8P2T0B-AM/dp/B08RK2SR23
    https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Plus-PCIe-NAND-6600MB/dp/B098WKQRDL

    Today Apple charges $400 for 0.75TB and $800 for 1.75TB, this is 8-10x higher than mainstream SSD prices, nearly $500/TB. If they charged 4x premium for SSD, they could make 512GB standard on entry Macs with 1TB a $200 upgrade and 2TB a $400 upgrade and 1TB would be standard on devices $2k+.

    Cross shopping Apple? The new R1 processor combined with Apple software abilities is going to be very hard to match by the competition, that’s what being a vertical computer company means and if the Apple Vision Pro succeeds and it will, it will succeed on what it can do not whether the memory or the SSD, cost a certain amount of money, Apple research and development and curation cost money, like that 5k 27 inch Apple Studio Display monitor which year later is unmatched. (Dell and Samsung have swung and missed).

    Apple definitely isn’t perfect and there are some things that are inexcusable like no iMac over 24 inches yet, the lack of video target display on iMac’s, or the WebCam on the Apple Studio Display not being the equal of an Pro iPhone camera at this late date.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra
  • Hands on with Apple Vision Pro in the wild

    I am a simple consumer, I will be purchasing one on day one. It is about half the cost of the original Macintosh (inflation adjusted) and I purchased that as well. I believe most are underestimating the demand this spatial computer will generate with the general public. Many "average Joe's" I know plan on buying one. Credit cards and payment plans are a wonderful thing.

    Touché….. when people get a chance to try it out at the store, that will be the selling point, and if the experience is overwhelmingly positive, some will cry about the price even more as it has the power of a MacBook Pro/iPad Pro with a new R1desktop class co-processing chip and 12 cameras it won’t be cheaper.

    Just go to the Apple webpage and look at the prices for a MacBook Pro/iPad Pro, add a R1desktop class co-processing chip and 12 cameras.
    Alex1Nwatto_cobrabyronljellybelly
  • Three iPhone 15 models rumored to get Thunderbolt/USB4 connector

    mike1 said:
    charlesn said:
    Finally an iPhone 15 leak that, if true, would make an upgrade worthwhile. And if you're wondering why Thunderbolt speed would matter that much, you're obviously not a pro using your iPhone Pro for high-rez videography and photography. The slow transfer speeds with Lightning are a real pain point. You may not mind as a hobbyist who does it once in a while, but when it's a bottleneck on a daily basis, it gets more than a little frustrating. 

    I may be wrong, but I don't believe the Lightning connector itself was the limiting factor to inclusion of Thunderbolt transfer speeds.
    I would guess the speed of the smartphone SOC, and maybe some of the other chip components power requirements/cost for something that is the size of a smartphone?
    tmayAlex1N