mattinoz

tenthousandthings said:

mattinoz said:

AppleInsider said:

24-inch iMac M3 review - A welcome change, for Intel Mac users

The 24-inch iMac does have a wide opening available for one market: Intel Mac owners who have yet to make the jump to Apple Silicon. Intel owners, that noise you're hearing isn't your Mac's fan, it's the sound of inevitability. Apple will discontinue Intel Mac support in macOS sooner rather than later, and we're already seeing signs of that, with Apple Silicon-only features.

Despite the headline, there is no clear evidence to back this statement suggesting Apple's support of Intel machines in OS will be less or sooner than the standard legacy policy Apple has applied to date.

Mike can speak for himself, but I don’t think he is suggesting that. Standard legacy policy means 2018 machines (including the 2018 Intel Mini) won’t be supported beyond macOS 14 Sonoma.

macOS 15 will be the last for all 2019 machines except the Mac Pro (and possibly the old iMac Pro). macOS 16 will be the last to support Intel. This is “inevitably” happening.

I would go a bit further than Mike, and say the M3 Retina 4.5K iMac is a thank you to average Retina 4K and 5K iMac users. Making the iMac the flagship for M3 sends a good message to them.

Note: I’m not talking about myself, someone who spent north of $4000 on my last Retina 5K iMac, all told. My thank you was the Mac Studio, and I hope, next year, some newfangled displays to choose from.

StrangeDays said:

mattinoz said:

maltz said:

jpellino said:

I always figured that everyone could hear all the communicators, that they were just a lot more respectful in the future.
When ST came out in the 60s, many saw it as a hope-filled sign that we as a species made it to the 23rd century.  
Now I see it as na hope-filled sign that we as a species will eventually stop staring at our phones 24/7/365.

Star Trek:TNG is commonly misinterpreted to think we become the Federation.  We're actually the Borg.

Either way is a vast military dictatorship in which people are only valued by their contribution to the machine. 

Tell me you don’t watch ST without telling me… The Federation is a multi-planetary alliance with a council governing body (think UN). Starfleet is their exploratory navy focused on science and exploration, with defensive armaments.

9secondkox2 said:

It IS the town square for the internet. 

Strange article. 

Cook doesn’t have to “justify” being on social media. It’s good business. 

The only thing he really needs to rethink is investing so heavily in the human rights violation that is the Chinese government.