bobolicious

I've never understood the SLR transition in favour of a mechanical mirror vs an internal electronic viewing screen, although I guess reflected light is the most accuarte real time option. With AR, AI, ML and Meta how much will 'reality' matter any more anyway...?

OM-1 is still my (vintage) benchmark for analogue, and I have found it tough to find anything that rivals the Zuiko UWA lenses for image sharpness, compactness and build quality. I still use a Zeiss adapter on a standard iPhone lens vs the Apple OEM UWA offered - I have not tested the 13 pro, however I could see pronounced softness on the base model even on the iPhone screen (!) which I understand has been left unchanged since the 'pro' bandwagon rolled out the UWA on the 11. That said micro UWA I understand as very, very tough to design due to physics... Sigh...

MauiMac5341 said:

Opencl is deprecated, on the Mac so how is graphics comparison for opencl even relevant?

how about a test for real life performance?   No doubt the razed is better at gaming, but who cares, no one buys a Mac for gaming

...perhaps some may benefit from (or need) legacy compatibility, and can one compare metal vice versa...?

Based on specs I've long wondered about the 17" 4K touch screen w/3080 GPU...
www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/Razer-Blade-17/RZ09-0406CE63-R3U1  
admittedly more of a portable desktop than laptop...

Is it still early days for Mac ARM optimization...?

DavidEsrati said:

I guess there is no "Server" for the rest of us.

When they stripped out features- my small business which depended on it's features was thrown into a mess of problems-

much like when our last Airport Extreme bit the dust.

Gone was our easy internal messenger-

gone was our internal wiki and dns setups.
Our file sharing permissions started going wonky.
Our centralized Time machine died-

and - all of a sudden first we have to try the VPP system of software licenses- then the even more complicated Apple business manager- which wasn't set up for business at all- but for schools.
The whole concept of Apple ID- for a shop with multiple computers- owned by a company- and assigned to employees- got super complicated-
and it was super frustrating.
Now- we have a raspberry pi running our DNS and our Wiki
we're constantly having our apple messages go to personal phones instead of computers-

time machine- may or may not work with the remote drives- and stops frequently.
File sharing permissions get garbled more and more-
And in a day when collaboration is all the rage-
we're using fontbase to manage fonts-
and a bunch of other programs that are halfassed collaboration tools- that should be where Apple is scoring big time.

I wonder if anyone at Apple remembers when Apple was a small business?
Because they sure don't act like they care about mine.
Bring back Apple server. Please. Please. With all of it's ease of use capabilities.

I feel your pain... Does a lack of roadmap or official support policy call into question what is worth investing in any software promoted by Apple as the next great thing...?
Have shareholders increasingly benefited at the expense of long invested customers ? Is it time for a change of management that more transparently and predictably supports remaining mac business customers ?

...if one accepts that Apple can outsmart multinational or hostile state iCloud hackers, does that extend to customers as well...?
That said at face value this opt in sounds like a welcome feature for many...

- has the price increased dramatically in a very short time ?
- should one need (to pay for) 4 'channels' simply to access 4K image quality ?
- would offering 4K 'channel' options @ 25% of the current forced bundle cost increase subscription numbers ?
- has content become less varied / clever ?

I find myself searching longer now to find compelling content, and if I didn't have an (as defined) 'household' sharer I would have dropped the subscription some time ago, just revisiting the question last week. Indeed I find kanopy (free) reminds me more of the early Netflix when documentaries and films from indy distributors such as mongrel seemed more commonly available.

Presumably COVID production limitations and increased consumption may have been a factors ?