rundhvid

mr lizard said:

rundhvid said:

How about that: mighty impressive performance of the 7-GPU core M1 🦖

On a side note, I have yet to notice the fan in my M1-macMini (sitting on my desk, just in front of the keyboard). In fact, I haven’t heard the fan at all, despite torturing the machine by restoring Aperture libraries up to 500.000 thousand pictures. (no complaining, though 😋)

Aperture still runs?! Wow!

Yep, it sure does, given a little help: Retroactive 

How about that: mighty impressive performance of the 7-GPU core M1 🦖

On a side note, I have yet to notice the fan in my M1-macMini (sitting on my desk, just in front of the keyboard). In fact, I haven’t heard the fan at all, despite torturing the machine by restoring Aperture libraries up to 500.000 thousand pictures. (no complaining, though 😋)

I remember when the App Store could be explored and new apps discovered within a couple of hours on an iPhone 3GS 🤭
Bt the time I had upgraded to a 4S, the App Store itself had become useless as a means to discover new/updated apps because of all the crap that drowned the content I was looking for—today’s story tells me that the flood of apps wasn’t actually crap, and the problem first-and-foremost a matter of deficient search function. From the above posts, I get the impression that the continuous updating and categorization of the App Store inventory is more complex than I expected but I am very optimistic about this enhanced functionality 🤓👍🏽

elijahg said:

StrangeDays said:

GeorgeBMac said:

thedba said:

GeorgeBMac said:

For all those defending the "Everything Glued together & soldered together" assembly of the MacBooks by saying "Nobody ever upgraded a computer", Andrew just called bull!

His biggest (only?) complaint about his M1 MacBook Air is that it can't meet his needs because it is frozen in time with what it came with when he bought it -- versus his MacPro which grew and developed with enhancements as his needs, wants and requirements grew.

Likewise, my 9 year old i7 Thinkpad runs perfectly well and meets all of my needs -- because it's been upgraded to a 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram and an internal harddrive used for ongoing, real time backups.  Without those cheap and very simple to install (5 minutes or less) upgrades the machine would have been scrap

Statements such as this remind me of my now deceased father who used to long for the days of when he could service his car himself. 
I sometimes wonder what he would say seeing today's Teslas or Priuses. 

Either way, all technology will move towards this way of doing things with ARM architecture taking up more space. Apple is just ahead of the curve on this. 

I don't see the logic behind equating an inability to service or upgrade something as synonymous with better products.

How often do you service or upgrade your iPad? Your iPhone? Your Apple TV? Your Watch? Your TV set? etc... Yet these are clearly better products than the more-easily serviceable early-computing counter-parts, right? Side note, my grandad used to repair his vacuum-tube tele, but I have never done this nor will I. My solid-state flat panel TV lasts way longer, and by the time it fails, it won't be cost effective to try to repair its electronics. I'll dispose of it properly and get whatever newer tech is out.

You apparently don't understand the goals of appliance computing, after all these decades. That's fine, but that doesn't mean Apple is going to conform to you. Nor will you being able to crack open your Tesla and work on the OS or CPU.

The new Mac Pro is in some ways "clearly better" than the older Mac Pro, both of which are equally serviceable. You are making a false correlation that serviceability is mutually exclusive to how good a machine is. The lack of serviceability isn't the definition of how good a product is. What disadvantages to you would the ability to add more RAM or storage space to a desktop machine bring? I await your reply, but I doubt you will since you never concede when asked something awkward.

Not sure who you think you're kidding when you say there are consumer advantages to non-serviceable products, the only advantage is to Apple, more repair profits and more RAM/SSD upgrade profits. Should we glue everything together in cars too such that the entire thing has to be replaced when a tyre wears out?

R.E.L.I.A.B.I.L.I.T.Y 🤭

—compare mean time to failure of socketed vs soldered parts!
Add to that, the increased cost of manufacturing the device.

 favors the unibody-design not only because of the aesthetics and the fabulous sound when pronounced. Previously, MacBooks had replaceable battery. Great! A once mobile laptop rendered OFF unless tethered to uninterrupted power supply, is happiness to no one. Period.
However, there are several unintended consequences: The latch to the battery compartment can will break at some point. Further, available battery capacity is lower in a modular design as the interior, effective volume becomes compartmentalized and the exterior surface enlarged.
—as a result, many users will notice their laptop develops an uneven base: the damn thing wobbles unless I rebalance it with gum!

Most of us should be more continuous about ecology, especially the way we perceive and dispose things instantaneously. However, remember the scale at which  operates: It is vast! And cumulative cost of users delivering/returning devices to service are not to be dismissed.

And what about the resources to provide support to the DIY-crowd? We are tremendously stupid and there’s no end to our ingenuity when it comes to how we make use of even the simplest, idiotic proof hardware 😳

As interesting this is (or not), consider this: How come  devices exhibit the highest resale value despite the increasing lockout of all but iFIXIT?

darkvader said:

flydog said:

doggone said:

What is MR?  How would contact lenses work or even be powered?

The “prediction” is for contact lenses to be released within 20 years, which is the same as saying “if the technology existed,” which it doesn’t. 

And we have no idea if it's even possible.  It would require transparent circuits, normally transparent/sometimes opaque and lit display, and probably a transparent wireless power antenna.  That would all have to be less than a millimeter thick, and flexible. It would have to accommodate corrective lenses for users who wear contacts for vision correction, or it would have to handle vision correction itself.  Oh, and it would have to be completely non-toxic and oxygen permeable.

Maybe in a hundred years.  Maybe never.  But I don't think there's a chance that this is going to happen in 20 years.  The materials to do it simply don't exist now.

Easy—no doubt this will be solved!
First of all: Consciousness—especially perception of our surroundings—are basically an iterative two-step process of 1. Presentation of a simulated draft, 2. Verification or rejection, repeat.
Thus the origin of the content of our consciousness is completely fake and the result of a “best-guess engine”.
—and no one has ever complained about this and demanded a more detailed, realistic experience from their brain 🤭👀
Therefore you can be certain these devices will make it to market, as the preconception of the need to deliver infinite detail and accuracy by these devices are (worryingly) incorrect!