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  • Apple announces colorful new 6.1-inch iPhone XR with full-screen Liquid Retina Display and...

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    bolen mac said:
    iPhone - Tennis
    iPhone - TennisMax
    iPhone - Tenor 
    Somewhere Emily Latella is smiling....  ;)
    bolen mac

  • A year with Apple's 5K iMac: Still the best Mac for your money

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    mike54 said:
    I'm waiting for a reasonably priced and spec'd headless mac. I will not buy an all-in one, especially these iMac's as they have serious thermal limitations.
    Is your last name Godot?

    'Cos I imagine your wait is gonna be interminable. 
    kingofsomewherehotwatto_cobrabaconstangfrankeedelijahg

  • The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose

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    It's the keys below the keyboard that vex me.  I can't type well on it and don't want to type louder and I eat at my Mac (with no problems in the last 15 years), so no way crumbs aren't going to get in.

    But I'm nursing my 2013 MBA waiting for a MBP I could love, not one crippled by marketing decisions (Thin! Thin! Thin! No Touchscreen Ever! No matter what! Don't you really want an iPad Pro instead? [NO!] ).  And so this sentence near the end crushed me:

    "...we're starting to wonder if Apple wants to build a machine without a physical keyboard, and one with all virtual keys."

    I really, really don't want to go back to Windows and its learning curve and replacing Mac only ways of doing things.  But I feel I'm being pushed in that direction hard.

    I think it's not us in the reality distortion field, rather, Apple management themselves.  In so many ways they're killing the Mac line via the few design parameters they're allowing to rule.


    tokyojimuanonconformistaylkAvieshek

  • Can Apple's HomePod take on a surround sound theater system?

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    Think I can do better on living room sound for $700.  A lot better.  And Siri-schmiry.
    gatorguywilliamlondondysamoria

  • Apple isn't doomed because it didn't release new Macs and iPads at WWDC

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    evilution said:
    2019 will be the end of Intel powered Macs.
    Apple confirms that Mojave is the last MacOS to support 32bit software so I think the 64bit only update next year will contain code to run on A series chips or will possibly only run on A series Macs. It will cut the reliance on Intel and ensure we see more updates to the platform.

    The iPhone works so well because Apple controls hardware and software. As soon as Apple control the iMac processor, we'll see the future.
    I'll guess 2020.  

    And before then I'm begging for a MacBook Pro I can actually type on (worst typing experience ever - loud, inaccurate) and keep typing on if I drop a crumb on it without spending $700 to fix it.  

    (PS: rest assured, I will drop crumbs on any computer I spend a big chunk of my days on.)

    Since that will meet every need I have planned, they can then bring out the first few gens of their post-Intel line and I'll be fine.

    Plus since not until the end of the year, 32GB is very much in my sights.

    Meanwhile, Apple's kept me on a sluggish MBA and forgone at least $4,000 it already could have had from me over the last four years.  

    Both of our losses.
    elijahg