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  • Apple's new Touch Bar MacBook Pros and the future of Macs

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    misa said:
     What most people don't understand is that a "pro" computer isn't defined by the hardware it has. Its defined based on your needs as a user.
    Failing to satisfy those needs doesn't mean that it isn't "pro" for other uses.
    It falls short of being "Pro" as in Professional, it's really just "Pro" the marketing alternative for "Premium" which means "Prosumer" not Professional.

    A Pro device has to suit all Professional uses. Take a look at DSLR and Video cameras.

    A Pro DSLR costs between $600 and $10,000. A Pro Video camera costs between $5000 and $60000. A "Professional" computer like the Mac Pro can be excused if it costs $10,000 fully kitted out for Photography, Video Production, or Audio production. But one configuration of Mac Pro would never one-size-fits-all all of them because the GPU parts don't need to be overkill for Photography or Video production, and can be repurposed as OpenCL DSP's in all non-3D production purposes, but if all you do is Photoshop and work with conventional film/non-DSLR photos, perhaps a fully kitted out MacMini is all you need. The current highest rated DSLR is the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV which costs $4500. It uses UHS-I SDXC cards, that is fine if you have a SDXC card reader for your computer, but a MacMini would already have this slot. That camera takes 6720 x 4480 14-bit raw pictures. That means at the minimum you need 240,844,800 bytes of memory simply to open the file. When you start working on the file you need that much memory in the GPU as well if it's GPU accelerated. This already pushes iGPU solutions into "painful to use" territory.

    So these MacBook Pro's are not photoshop tools (Professional Artists use a Wacom Cintiq which they hold on to for years, alternatives still only come with DVI-D or straight VGA.) Who's tools are they really for? The Videographer? Hardly. Take a look at the system requirements for 4K+ cameras. At best you're going to use a MacBook Pro for dailies, and not much else. Any serious editing or video effects work is going to be done at a studio with the highest end systems available.

    Which is why there is all this frustration over Apple not bringing back the 2010-style Mac Pro with a socket-2011 series upgradable chassis.  The MacPro that they came out with, was an interesting, but ultimately useless product for production. It would have been better off called "MacMini Pro", at least then it fits the marketing. I'm sure It's Pro enough for people using their iPhones as video cameras, but it's a complete joke to the film production industry, whom feel that Apple has abandoned it.

    Apple is not going to be able to survive on iterations of it's iPhone product forever, at best that has 3 more iterations left before there is no more performance improvements possible, much like all other electronics. We might see 14nm cpu's, we might even see 7nm, but that's not going to result in cheaper parts. The only way up then is to make products bigger again. Once we reach this plateau, it becomes like cars, where some people have to replace their iPhone's and iPads every year for business tax-write-off reasons, and everyone else hangs on to them for 7 years because there is not a significant change in the technology to warrant it. 

    So I hope Apple comes back and starts producing real Macbook Pro and MacPro's again that appeal to the Professional user, not just the prosumer. 
    How much time have you spent with the new MBP? I'm jealous. You must have tried it for a couple weeks at least to know so much about how terrible it is as a "real" pro machine (whatever subjective definition you give that).
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  • Apple captures more than 103% of smartphone profits in Q3 despite shrinking shipments

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    This headline is stupid. You can't capture more than 100% of something.
    Yes you can. Many handset makers sell at a loss which means negative percentages. Balancing those who lost money with those that made money, you get 100%. If I make 2 dollars and you lose 50 cents, the profit for our industry would be $1.50. $2.00(my share of profits)/$1.50(total profits for the industry) = 133% (my percentage of profits earned)
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  • Kuo: Demand for new MacBook Pro models tepid due to high prices, disappointing specs

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    Kuo  is good at knowing what may be coming. But he's an Apple doom salesman like most other analysts. Drive the price down, pick it up cheaply, sell when the results are better than forecastedz
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  • Apple's new MacBook Pros boast 58% louder built-in speakers thanks to new design

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    Wait, I thought they were just charging exorbitant prices for basically the same computer... you mean they're actually innovating and putting real improvements in this machine and expect to recoup their r&d spending?! Preposterous... such a greedy company, they could just eat that cost and keep the computers the same price and lose money... they can afford it. /s
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  • Samsung tells Galaxy Note 7 users to turn off, stop using device

    andrewj5790andrewj5790
    hentaiboy said:
    Highly likely they were using third party cheapo  chargers. They're usually the culprit. They fry the charging port all the time, and harm batteries all the time. I know because I repair iPhones. Given that the iPhone 6 is two years old, there's really a million things that could have happened. If it ends up being a manufaturing defect, I'd expect Apple to handle the problem much more quickly and professionally than Samsung. If they don't they deserve whatever retribution they get. 

    Except this was a brand new 7 Plus being shipped to buyer:

    http://imgur.com/a/LrhYz

    Shit like this can happen to ALL vendors.

    That box was punctured from the outside. During shipping something likely punctured the box and hit the battery. Metal inside a LIion battery=fire. We just don't know. But 1 phone out of the millions Apple has shipped isn't the same as the many out of the much smaller number Samsung shipped. Besides, there is no argument here, Samsung issued a recall, admitting there is a systemic flaw.
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