David H Dennis

Where do Apple executives live?

The Bay Area.

What cities do they visit?

NYC

So where are things beautiful?

The Bay Area and NYC.

Cheer up, through.  Here in Costa Rica we don’t even get navigation and I have to use Google Maps or Waze.

Unfortunately I can understand why Costa Rica is a low priority.  Costa Ricans don’t buy iPhones, they are far too expensive.  Only tourists and expats (like me) have them, and most of us buy them from the USA because import fees here are prohibitively high.

I wonder how this will work, since all the satellite services I know of require a dish — which is certainly not portable equipment.  

Also I wonder how much this service would cost, and whether it’s a first step to introducing an Apple cell carrier, which I would think would be an almost guaranteed success if service isn’t awful.

Certainly Apple’s level of customer loyalty is far, far higher than Verizon’s will ever be.

I really loved the old IBM Model M keyboards!  If they could build something that would provide this kind of feel, and let people select the feel they wanted, it would be really cool.

Honestly, guys, I'm a little confused as to why you would want an eGPU at all.

Performance we have with the M1 chip alone crushes the performance of previous Intel models with discrete chips.  Just the demo in another thread where they change resolution in a blink of an eye instead of watching the display blank and interminable delays shows this.  I have this experience every time I plug in my external monitor with my top-line 16" MacBook Pro with maxed out memory and GPU.  I can't wait to have my next-generation 16" MacBook Pro where it will be beautiful and seamless.

According to Apple, the reason for the increased performance is that the processor and graphics modules share the same memory and so they avoid endless copying to and fro.  So if we put in an eGPU wouldn't we have the same problems and sluggish performance by definition?

Rayz2016 said:

Right, are they saying that's it for new Intel-based hardware?

Well, if you put yourself in their shoes, would you want to introduce new models distinctly inferior in nearly every way to what you've already introduced in Apple Silicon?

That would feel like an embarrassment, for sure.

I'm kinda shocked how many people there are out there using Windows on a Mac.  I guess it makes sense because buying a Mac gives you a great Unix machine to work on your web sites while still giving you the commercial software of a more or less mainstream environment.  But I never really thought of being able to run Windows as that big a deal.  Getting Parallels and a Windows license is about the same cost as buying a new low-end Windows machine, and that gives you the full masochistic Windows experience that people who use your software receive.

I'm curious, why are people talking about Brew being in a difficult state during the transition?  Doesn't Brew download and compile from source?  I would think that would work on the new machines pretty much by definition.