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  • Iran to reportedly allow iPhone imports to cope with rampant smuggling problem

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    Nice to see Apple's fine doing business with a country that actually executes gays. So much for principles.
    sdw2001

  • New 'iPhone 7' photos show off alleged case design, hint at pressure-sensitive home button

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    Neither of them are final, since Apple doesn't have to put all the symbols on the bottom any longer. Lousy mockups.
    caliDeelron

  • Redesigned, ultra-thin MacBook Pro with AMD GPU not expected to debut at 'iPhone 7' event Sept. 7

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    toranaga said:
    OCD with "ultra-thin" continues. Fine if they have Thunderbolt 3 with external graphics card option. Delay in getting update out the door, ("Real artists ship"), meanwhile Mac sales volume down, market share down, means Apple missed a huge opportunity due to failed Windows 8.1 and unsatisfactory Windows 10. I am using OS X 11.4 and find it inferior to 11.3. Spotlight is buggy. I had to reboot the OS the other week due to a freeze-up. Tim Cook is not capable of running this company. Maybe Apple should buy Tesla and let Elon Musk run the whole operation. Then you could buy a spaceship, solar panels, batteries, and information technology all under one roof! Anyway, we need someone better running Apple. Maybe Trump if he doesn't win? Instead of making the laptops thinner, he would make them Yuge!
    Why are you on 10.11.4 when 10.11.6 is the current version? 
    tallguyfastasleep

  • Redesigned, ultra-thin MacBook Pro with AMD GPU not expected to debut at 'iPhone 7' event Sept. 7

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    rob53 said:
    Will this MacBook Pro actually be a "Pro" model or another space handicapped laptop? I need a new Mac, my iMac from early 2009 isn't going to run macOS Sierra so I need to figure out whether I want to buy a laptop and an external monitor or another iMac. I use my iPhone on the road but there are things that just won't work easily on a phone or an iPad. A laptop would be easy to take on the road but unless it's capable of doing all the things I do on my iMac, it won't be worth it.

    Will the AMD GPU be speed/performance limited because of its size? Will Apple be forced to use a speed-limited CPU because of cooling and battery life? 
    It shouldn't be. A bigger, but unappreciated problem with the current design is that MagSafe is limited to 85W when the design really needs 100. USB-C will allow for that. 

    But the GPU will be on a much better process, and use a more efficient arch. 
    1983tallguy

  • Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    entropys said:
    Evenat refurb prices it is just too expensive. The launch of this iPad Pro should have been the opportunity to reset the prices of the entire iPad line downward to goose sales. Instead the dicks moved price points of new products upward, and kept selling ipads with old CPUs, with continued falling sales as a result. I bet the higher margins do not offset the decline in ipad sales.
    So products that cost more to make should have been sold more cheaply than the old ones. Do you run a business?
    SpamSandwichredgeminipamike1rhinotuffmac fan