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Review: The 2019 21.5-inch iMac 4K is iterative, not transformative
Upgrade to a fusion drive is just $100. So all your chagrin is for that $100 difference? And if you pay $200 instead of $100 you get 1TB Fusion drive + 8th gen i5 + 4GB GPU. It is not meaningful to default to Fusion drive in all models because only the HDD component of that drive can be partitioned for BootCamp and this is not as easy as partitioning a 1TB HDD.elijahg said:JWSC said:
Well, SDDs are optional for a few hundred dollars more.myshkingfh said:Anything with an HDD in 2019 (2015, really) is 0 stars out of 5. Come on.StrangeDays said:
Then don’t buy the cheapest 21” iMac, as the 27” all have Fusion or SSD. If you need the cheapest base model for some reason, upgrade the storage. Problem solved, something for everyone. Users like my dad are not performance oriented, and just want something to hold photos, surf, etc.myshkingfh said:Anything with an HDD in 2019 (2015, really) is 0 stars out of 5. Come on.
A Fusion Drive at least should be included in all the iMacs, especially when all the MacBooks and the old MacBook Air has an SSD and costs less than the iMac. They recently nerfed the Fusion Drive's SSD down to 64GB from the 128GB it used to be. Oh and even the top tier model that starts at £2,250 still has a hard drive. Apple's just taking the piss there. Plus upgrades to a SSD are ridiculously overpriced. Not only that, it's incredulous that the base iMac only has a 5400RPM drive. If that's not nickel and diming I don't know what is, and how you can try and defend that I dont know, and totally discredits anything you say.
A friend recently bought the base HDD iMac before the recent refresh, and it's so sluggish it's embarrassing. It's like a machine that's 5 or 6 years old. Hell, my 2012 iMac is faster than the HDD 2015 model she purchased in 2019.
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Samsung, Huawei getting close to iPhone, spending on camera hardware to get there
If you feel as having a SLR camera with that Huawei, alright. Keep feeling that way.elijahg said:
So SLR cameras that boost the ISO to 6400+ to get a decent picture at night are "cheating" too? Alright. You keep telling yourself that.macplusplus said:
If you get a "blank" photo from the Xs Max when shooting at night just boost the exposure. The fact that Huawei does this automatically is cheating, it gives the user the false impression that they are great photographers with great gadgets. Although that may be tolerated to a degree from UI point of view, Apple never pushes "user friendliness" to such a point that the border between "friendliness" and "cheating" disappears. "If you want to cheat yourself do it manually, I won't cheat you": that is Apple's stance on such fringe cases.avon b7 said:
Who has given up on 3D facial recognition?macplusplus said:They're still not even close to Face ID and they've given up on 3D facial recognition. That night shot saga began last year, cheating people by artificially removing dithering and bragging about how "noiseless" is that shot actually totally lacking tonal balance. Dithering is not noise, it is a must to represent subtle tonal variations when the tonal range is too limited as in the night.
As for the 'night shot saga' I think you are completely missing the point.
When it boils down to having a shot or not having a shot, you take the first option as long as the results are good enough for you.
That question has been answered many times over.
How it is done in that context is wholly irrelevant.
Take a peek at the P30 Pro presentation. They almost stopped comparing to XS Max because it was one 'blank' photo after another. -
Samsung, Huawei getting close to iPhone, spending on camera hardware to get there
Apple will certainly promote low-light features when it is technically meaningful and correct to do so. All come down to ISO values. If a given lens/sensor combination handles low-light ISO values better then that needs a technical explanation. "This photo is blank / that photo is brilliant" is layman's understanding if not clickbait and no one in this forum will buy it.avon b7 said:
You mean pull out your tripod and boost the exposure because without that, or something solid to rest the phone on, or you will get a blurred mess.macplusplus said:
If you get a "blank" photo from the Xs Max when shooting at night just boost the exposure. The fact that Huawei does this automatically is cheating, it gives the user the false impression that they are great photographers with great gadgets. Although that may be tolerated to a degree from UI point of view, Apple never pushes "user friendliness" to such a point that the border between "friendliness" and "cheating" disappears. "If you want to cheat yourself do it manually, I won't cheat you": that is Apple's stance on such fringe cases.avon b7 said:
Who has given up on 3D facial recognition?macplusplus said:They're still not even close to Face ID and they've given up on 3D facial recognition. That night shot saga began last year, cheating people by artificially removing dithering and bragging about how "noiseless" is that shot actually totally lacking tonal balance. Dithering is not noise, it is a must to represent subtle tonal variations when the tonal range is too limited as in the night.
As for the 'night shot saga' I think you are completely missing the point.
When it boils down to having a shot or not having a shot, you take the first option as long as the results are good enough for you.
That question has been answered many times over.
How it is done in that context is wholly irrelevant.
Take a peek at the P30 Pro presentation. They almost stopped comparing to XS Max because it was one 'blank' photo after another.
As I said, people want the photo. They don't care about how they get it.
It isn't 'cheating' and I would bet my grandmother that Apple will announce the exact same low light options this September/October.
What freaked everybody out last March was precisely that the P20 Pro was taking up to 6 second handheld exposures and using AIIS and pixel binning to give hitherto unseen results on a phone camera in auto (Night) mode.
As for changing settings, Huawei has always offered the Pro Mode on its Camera App for the last many years and given users almost complete control over the camera's control. -
Samsung, Huawei getting close to iPhone, spending on camera hardware to get there
Read about the backdoor recently discovered in Huawei's MateBook:
https://apple.news/A7Qnb0Z0bPL6b7g7wPH7cVQ
And read here Microsoft's explanation and try to figure out what Microsoft may be telling between lines with "One would expect that a device management software would perform mostly hardware-related tasks, with the supplied device drivers being the communication layer with the OEM-specific hardware. So why was this driver exhibiting unusual behavior?"
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/03/25/from-alert-to-driver-vulnerability-microsoft-defender-atp-investigation-unearths-privilege-escalation-flaw/
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Samsung, Huawei getting close to iPhone, spending on camera hardware to get there
If you get a "blank" photo from the Xs Max when shooting at night just boost the exposure. The fact that Huawei does this automatically is cheating, it gives the user the false impression that they are great photographers with great gadgets. Although that may be tolerated to a degree from UI point of view, Apple never pushes "user friendliness" to such a point that the border between "friendliness" and "cheating" disappears. "If you want to cheat yourself do it manually, I won't cheat you": that is Apple's stance on such fringe cases.avon b7 said:
Who has given up on 3D facial recognition?macplusplus said:They're still not even close to Face ID and they've given up on 3D facial recognition. That night shot saga began last year, cheating people by artificially removing dithering and bragging about how "noiseless" is that shot actually totally lacking tonal balance. Dithering is not noise, it is a must to represent subtle tonal variations when the tonal range is too limited as in the night.
As for the 'night shot saga' I think you are completely missing the point.
When it boils down to having a shot or not having a shot, you take the first option as long as the results are good enough for you.
That question has been answered many times over.
How it is done in that context is wholly irrelevant.
Take a peek at the P30 Pro presentation. They almost stopped comparing to XS Max because it was one 'blank' photo after another.
