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Apple has 'great desktops' on Mac roadmap, CEO Tim Cook says
Tim has been talking about these never to appear amazing pipelines for years. It's very discouraging to hear it's not even in the pipeline and that they are only at road map stage.
To those blaming Intel. Intel has updated the XeonE5 two times after the 2013 MacPro. It currently maxes out at 22 cores. Graphics cards have also been updated several times. USB C has been out for a while. DDR4 Ram has been out for a while. Larger and different types of SSD are also available.
I'm not sure how Dell and HP are able to upgrade their work stations yearly with these type of improvements yet when it comes to Apple's 3 year old machine, it's intels fault.
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Review: Using LG's UltraFine 4K Display with Apple's USB-C MacBooks is as simple as can be...
You are completely misunderstanding my point. I agree with you 100% that once you switch to USB C, you should be going all in. If you re-read the article and my post, you will notice one big thing. The ports on the 4K monitor are not USB C. They are not even USB 3. They are USB 2 with a USB C connector. So when you buy your new all in (eg. scanner) that requires USB C or USB 3, it won't work even though you are able to physically plug it in.daekwan said:
The entire point of the 2016 MacBook Pro & LG monitor announcement is to push people towards USB-C. Either you commit 100% to USB-C.. or you dont. The moment you go halfway on USB-C.. is the moment you open the door to people to revert back to older versions of USB-C. While I agree the 2016 MacBook Pro does have some shortcomings, the 2017 and 2018 models should only improve on this initial new design.. and the price should drop significantly. And we all know many laptop, phone and tablet manufacturers simply copy what Apple offers.. which should mean a few years from now, there should a ton of USB-C devices on the market. All thanks to Apple being the first major company to push USB-C adoption 100%.altivec88 said:If all you can get out of the ports in the back is USB 2, why in the world are the connectors type C. Oh yah, to sell dongles.
Although the monitor designs look like crap, for the price, I wouldn't mind picking up some of the 5k monitors. Unfortunate, even a new state of the art $10 000.00 Mac Pro can't use them and with no idea when or if Apple will update them, we've got to pass.
And I'm not sure if anyone has every told you this, since you seem so mind-bent on Apple selling dongles (as-if they even needed that revenue stream). But USB-C is an entirely OPEN USB standard. Meaning ANYONE can make a USB-C cable, adapter, hub, monitor, etc. I dont know where you get this idea from that only Apple sells 'dongles'. In fact it goes a bit further than that.. this marks the first time in history that the ENTIRE MacBook line of computers from Apple is now absolutely free of any PROPRIETARY Apple ports. So buy your 2016 MacBook from Apple.. and buy ANY future cables.. from ANY manufacturer you choose.. as long as they follow the USB-C spec. As much as I loved Magsafe, you know what I love even more? No longer needing to purchase additional Magsafe chargers @ $99 a piece.
But please dont let these facts about the open end, standardized, next generation USB-C spec cloud your insane judgement that somehow Apple only moved to USB-C.. because they need to sell dongles to survive lmao. I bet you are still angry that Apple once upon a time also dropped the PS/2, Serial, Parallel, Floppy & Optical Disc drives from the MacBook lineup.. and somehow forced you to buy an "Apple dongled" USB external disc drive lol!!
My point was, if all you can get out of these is USB 2 then it's a legacy type port and all legacy USB 2 devices have a type A connector. So unless your new USB devices are so low level that it can cut down to USB 2 speeds and power requirements, you will require a dongle on these ports. To me this is mis-representation of the USB C port and will eventually lead to confusion and disappointment when grandma plugs in her new USB C scanner 2 years down the road from now.
This does not apply to the 5k monitor which is utilizing the USB c ports in the correct manor. That's why I said I would consider getting the 5k monitors.
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Review: Using LG's UltraFine 4K Display with Apple's USB-C MacBooks is as simple as can be...
If all you can get out of the ports in the back is USB 2, why in the world are the connectors type C. Oh yah, to sell dongles.
Although the monitor designs look like crap, for the price, I wouldn't mind picking up some of the 5k monitors. Unfortunate, even a new state of the art $10 000.00 Mac Pro can't use them and with no idea when or if Apple will update them, we've got to pass.
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Apple gives retail employees T-shirt, keepsake credo for holidays
although I understand what you are trying to say and in general I agree with you but this yet again shows how disconnected Tim Cook is.apple jockey said:Or how about, "Thank you for the TShirt and the Apple Credo". Also, "thank you for reminding me that I work for a wonderful company, with good ethics and that cares about all its employees. Thanks for all the other perks I get throughout the year. And, Apple I understand that you can't get extravagant with the gifts, considering you have tens of thousands of employees and a fiduciary responsibility to the investor/owners.
And, especially, thanks for the job!".
that would be my approach.
The point of giving a gift is to show appreciation and how much they value you. Giving something that cost you a few cents to make in China is more of a slap in the face than anything. It would be the equivalent of your boss stopping you in the hall and giving you a penny and words of wisdom (don't eat yellow snow) then expecting you to be oh so appreciative. I would rather them say "sorry, we aren't giving out Christmas bonuses any more" then this read between the lines message they just doled out to their employees.
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As ax awaits Apple's AirPort, wide swath of Netgear routers found subject to serious vulnerability
Thanks Mike.
Being that this is a rumour site. Some of us here really do appreciate hearing even the tiniest bit of info you can find, even if incomplete. We are all free to make our own conclusions from it and I would hate for that to stop just because a few people don't understand what a rumour site means.
