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AMD Radeon Vega 56, 64 officially announced, shedding more light on iMac Pro GPU
I'd like to see Adobe fix Photoshop and Illustrator for AMD GPUs. Performance on new Macbook Pros is significantly worse than machines from three years ago. Sad!
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Apple slips wireless Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad onto online store [u]
I'm with you, I hate wireless input devices, but the sweet thing about the new keyboards (and the new trackpad) is you can use a normal Lightning cable to use them as wired devices.
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'Fair Repair Act' proposal in New York under fire by Apple lobbyists
I need new up and down arrow keys for my Touch Bar Macbook Pro. I can replace them myself. Apple says they'll replace the entire keyboard for ~$500, that's it. Although I usually side with Apple on their consumer policy stuff, I'm a bit sore on this thing.baconstang said:I seriously question that Apple makes a significant amount on repairs.
I have a few friends that had virtually every major component in their MBPs replaced for something like $320, including next day shipping.
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Apple debuts Live Photos API, allows for playback on most popular browsers
Am I the only person who finds Live-by-default in the Camera app to be absolutely infuriating? I've taken countless, carefully composed photos that wind up looking like drunken stumbles because of this stupid feature.
(yes, I go back, edit, and save as a still after the fact, but it's time consuming and frustrating)
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Apple releases first iOS 10.3 with 'Find my AirPods,' tvOS 10.2, macOS 10.12.4 betas for d...
Dunno dude. Beachballs don't just happen on spin-up, they happen all the time for all sorts of reasons.APFS also focuses on latency: Apple's number one goal is to avoid the beach ball of doom. APFS addresses this with I/O QoS (quality of service) to prioritize accesses that are immediately visible to the user over background activity that doesn't have the same time-constraints. This is inarguably a benefit to users and a sophisticated file system capability. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/a-zfs-developers-analysis-of-the-good-and-bad-in-apples-new-apfs-file-system/I'm sure the big gains will be on SSDs, but this prioritization should be a big deal anywhere.
FWIW, I've been running my iTunes library off a high-speed USB key (a weird one that uses an SSD controller). I switched it from HFS+ to APFS on it about a month ago; beachballs are less frequent, no stability issues at all.
That change did require an erase and reformat. I have no idea how the installer is supposed to switch file systems on a live device, this is puzzling.
