disneylandman

evilution said:

I don't get it. Apple have the 5K panel as fitted to the 27". They have the 27" iMac enclosures which they could use if they really needed to. It has space for a graphics card and a GPU. They could have these in stores within a month, so what's the hold up?

DisplayPort 1.2 is the hold up.  It does not support 5K displays.  And that is the current connection for an external display.  Even the iMac 5K cannot drive an external 5K display because of DisplayPort 1.2.

Incorrect information in the article.  This new software patch applies to the OWC SSD drives that are compatible with the 2013 and later MacBook Pros.  The article claims people would spend less money and then later swap out traditional spinning hard drives.  That is incorrect because all MacBook Pros shipping in 2013 and later all had proprietary SSD drives.  The traditional spinning hard drives were 2012 and earlier models, and those drives were standard SATA drives.  Swapping those with a SATA SSD drive worked fine with Boot Camp because those drives appeared as traditional internal drives.  The 2013 models with the OWC SSD upgrade installed sees the upgrade as an external hard drive because of the way the hardware is configured on the drive itself (it appears as an external RAID drive).  Boot Camp cannot install Windows on an external drive, so OWC had to create a software hack to make it work.

wonkothesane said:

Any idea if the el cap update fixes the slowdown issues with the early 2015 rMBP?

http://wccftech.com/system-freezes-hit-os-x-el-capitan-10-11-4-on-macbook-pro/

You need to get your story straight.  Your link refers to system freezes, not slowdowns.  Those are two different things.  Second, the article quotes one person who was running the BETA version and then updated to the final version and claimed problems.  Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that they were using a beta version of OS X, then tried updating to a final version.  They also claim this problem affects 15" Mid-2015 users.  Wrong.  I have a 15" Mid-2015 retina MacBook Pro and it has never frozen or slowed down with any version of El Capitan.  I also never run a beta version.  Their problem could be related to using beta software and then trying to update to a final version instead of doing a clean install of the final version, eliminating all traces of the beta, which is always the preferred method.

Instead of asking others, why don't you install it yourself and discover that your MacBook Pro never freezes or slows down?  I assume you are not using a beta version.  If it does, then restore it back to an earlier version.  You do have a backup, don't you?

False headline as usual to get clicks.  iTunes was not redesigned.  They restored the sidebar so it is permanent, as it was in iTunes 10 and earlier, and a few minor tweaks.  The sidebar was still present, but you had to click on Playlist in the center menu to make it appear.  12.4 restores what never should have been removed.

ktappe said:

palomine said:

Hey, if Apple has updated all this major software now, what does that leave for the Developers Conference (WWDC) in June??

Mac OS 10.12 (or whatever their new numbering scheme will be, since they're changing the name from OS X to Mac OS...)

They are not changing the name.  That story was made-up and it was a typo on the website that was corrected.  But of course all the AI readers believe every thing they read.