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Microsoft launching Loop, focused on remote & collaborative work
elijahg said:
There are CPUs that're faster than the M1. But they can't run the software you would expect. But who cares right? As all that matters is performance, not interoperability, compatibility or actual usefulness ߙ䦬t;/div>DuhSesame said:
No, absolute performance makes the difference. If you’re giving me a fanless laptop that’s equivalent to an mid-to-high eight core, I’ll say “screw the ports”. Nobody cares about ports when you’re dominating the performance game.elijahg said:
Absolutely it does. But the base M1 iMac has lost most of the ports that its Intel predecessor had. The M1 is faster than the Intel CPUs it replaced, but it’s not necessarily more capable.DuhSesame said:
And that “form over function” with M1 beats pretty much every mid-to-high spec PCs.elijahg said:
iWork has an online aspect, that's probably closest. But unfortunately Apple's insistence that iWork has feature parity across web/iOS/iPadOS/macOS means it's hobbled to the lowest common denominator. It's only really now begun to reach the same level of power it had before they crippled it to work on iOS back in about 2012. Meanwhile Office has continued to expand its collaboration and automation tools.22july2013 said:What is Apple's closest competing product? iCloud?
I have used Pages extensively, and whist documents created in it look 20x better than they do in Word, the development priority seems to be form over capability (much like Apple's hardware), and therefore it misses so many powerful writing features that're needed for more than just a school newsletter. Until about 6 months ago for example, it didn't even have a way to caption images, much less create an index of figures. I have previously posted here a long list of issues I encountered while writing my dissertation, I was close to abandoning it at one point and switching to Word but I persevered. Knowing its shortcomings now though, I wouldn't even consider writing a complex document in Pages. There's just so much that Word does automatically that is manual in Pages.
Other than that, I agree. Though I think iWork never wanted to replace Office, nor it can.I agree, I’m sure that wasn’t their aim. But the rate of improvements has - as with much of Apple’s software of late - been glacial. That does seem to be improving slightly, but MS has come up with an entirely new solution since the start of the pandemic, whereas Pages has gained a couple of templates, background page colouring, captions (!) and offline editing amongst some other small improvements.
With that said, that two thunderbolt ports brings more bandwidth than 99% of laptops out there, the only limitation is you have to put adapter, but I’d say capabilities are more important.Faster with what, twice as much of power and a blower? Do they even target the same audiences? Who’s the one that thinks “performance is all that matters?”This, is why I hate Apple communities these days. All you get is people who don’t have any clue about their gears but so eager to split false criticism.
you don’t realize what 80Gb/s bandwidth means, do you?
Or what the M1 position itself at?
Find me an ultrabook in late 2020 that can do everything the M1 can, anything less than 8-core (or you can even include those low-power ones).
But all you see it’s “gawd why do I need a dongle”, I doubt most of you actually maxed out your ports.
We’re really not on the same level, farewell.
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Microsoft launching Loop, focused on remote & collaborative work
No, absolute performance makes the difference. If you’re giving me a fanless laptop that’s equivalent to an mid-to-high eight core, I’ll say “screw the ports”. Nobody cares about ports when you’re dominating the performance game.elijahg said:
Absolutely it does. But the base M1 iMac has lost most of the ports that its Intel predecessor had. The M1 is faster than the Intel CPUs it replaced, but it’s not necessarily more capable.DuhSesame said:
And that “form over function” with M1 beats pretty much every mid-to-high spec PCs.elijahg said:
iWork has an online aspect, that's probably closest. But unfortunately Apple's insistence that iWork has feature parity across web/iOS/iPadOS/macOS means it's hobbled to the lowest common denominator. It's only really now begun to reach the same level of power it had before they crippled it to work on iOS back in about 2012. Meanwhile Office has continued to expand its collaboration and automation tools.22july2013 said:What is Apple's closest competing product? iCloud?
I have used Pages extensively, and whist documents created in it look 20x better than they do in Word, the development priority seems to be form over capability (much like Apple's hardware), and therefore it misses so many powerful writing features that're needed for more than just a school newsletter. Until about 6 months ago for example, it didn't even have a way to caption images, much less create an index of figures. I have previously posted here a long list of issues I encountered while writing my dissertation, I was close to abandoning it at one point and switching to Word but I persevered. Knowing its shortcomings now though, I wouldn't even consider writing a complex document in Pages. There's just so much that Word does automatically that is manual in Pages.
Other than that, I agree. Though I think iWork never wanted to replace Office, nor it can.I agree, I’m sure that wasn’t their aim. But the rate of improvements has - as with much of Apple’s software of late - been glacial. That does seem to be improving slightly, but MS has come up with an entirely new solution since the start of the pandemic, whereas Pages has gained a couple of templates, background page colouring, captions (!) and offline editing amongst some other small improvements.
With that said, that two thunderbolt ports brings more bandwidth than 99% of laptops out there, the only limitation is you have to put adapter, but I’d say capabilities are more important. -
Compared: 16-inch MacBook Pro vs Razer Blade 15 Advanced
Sorta pointless though. There are plenty of headroom to bump-up the CPU, I don’t see that we’ll be stuck with 8+2, something that fits better with the 14” instead the 16”.
if it beats the rest, good. If not, let’s say that they suppose to be a lower-tier chip that competes with a higher class.
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Steve Wozniak 'can't tell the difference' between iPhone 12 and iPhone 13
He’s a troll who will post once and never reply. I bet he’s one of those “Apple II still the best” person that basically hates everything new.equality72521 said:
Complete bollocks re The Steves: They needed each other. It’s not either / or.darkvader said:What is wrong with you people?This is Woz, the guy who created Apple. The Steve who REALLY created apple, not the attention whore Steve who liked taking credit for what Woz did.And he's absolutely right. The iPhone 13 is effectively no different than the 12, which is no different than the 11. Phones are a mature technology, and pretending that a new model every year is somehow going to be an amazing upgrade is idiotic at this point."But battery life is better!" - Guess what? That's not innovation, Apple could have done that all along, all it takes is making the phone thicker so a bigger battery fits inside. We could have iPhones that work for a week without charging if Apple really gave up on the idiotic thin fetish. -
Steve Wozniak 'can't tell the difference' between iPhone 12 and iPhone 13
“Wiz created Apple and Steve Jobs is a liar”darkvader said:What is wrong with you people?This is Woz, the guy who created Apple. The Steve who REALLY created apple, not the attention whore Steve who liked taking credit for what Woz did.And he's absolutely right. The iPhone 13 is effectively no different than the 12, which is no different than the 11. Phones are a mature technology, and pretending that a new model every year is somehow going to be an amazing upgrade is idiotic at this point."But battery life is better!" - Guess what? That's not innovation, Apple could have done that all along, all it takes is making the phone thicker so a bigger battery fits inside. We could have iPhones that work for a week without charging if Apple really gave up on the idiotic thin fetish.
are you lunatic?
Glad I quit the forum for so long.
