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Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and AirPods event is on October 18
Heh, yeah, one of my favorite games currently (Planetside 2) is a F2P, and I don't mind the membership and purchase content at all. When I have more time, I join up or buy things, and when I don't it's free. But, I don't mind paying for a game full-out either, and have done that many times over the years, and $60-80 a pop for some games in the last several years. (Then there's Minecraft, a game I/we've gotten many, many times our investment out of and it just keeps going!)fastasleep said:
It’s weird how people download these F2P games and then complain that they’re F2P games. I have a sizable Steam library on my Mac and absolutely none of it is that kind of game.And, there are tons of multiplayer games out there.
But, IMO, there is kind of a hole in gaming between the FPS AAA stuff, and the kind of casual games we find on iOS devices. Maybe it is just nostalgia, but there used to be some really cool stuff on the Mac years ago that kind of like the post indicated, I used to enjoy playing while chatting w/ friends. There is also kind of a hole in localized-multiplayer games that a family can enjoy together, etc.
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Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and AirPods event is on October 18
I'd actually be seriously disappointed if it were about AR/VR or Apple TV gaming. Now you're scaring me.Japhey said:
Tell me I’m wearing a tin foil hat, but I strongly believe we are about to get a surprise from Apple that people aren’t expecting. It might be the AR/VR unveiling everyone has been waiting for. It might be the new Apple TV gaming device being whispered about online, or maybe just a new HomePod. But I really think this is going to be more than just a MacBook Pro and AirPods event.
Yeah, I agree with the idea that the MBP will get the priority, but I doubt they'll do them in sales-numbers order. It would kind of make sense, IMO, to release a bitter more pro iMac at this event, but I have no idea if it is ready. The Mac Pro will almost certainly be last and barely squeak into that 2yrs, if then.fastasleep said:
If you were going by sales, the larger iMac would definitely be ahead of the mini (which has seen recent rumors/design leaks) and the Mac Pro which is almost certainly to be last.
Oh please NO!!! As much as I like ABBA, this event needs to be solidly about the M1X Macs (or whatever they call it). I suppose if they wanted a 'one more thing' to close the presentation. You guys are scaring me big-time. (But, that's really cool... thanks for sharing!)22july2013 said:
AR/VR? Hmm, I've been wrong before, and my prediction today is the biggest longshot I've ever predicted, but here goes.... A few weeks ago ABBA announced new virtual reality ABBAtars of themselves...
Yeah, generally I'd agree. I wouldn't mind a good display like the iMacs have, though, so if they had a video input on them, I'd probably buy one to use as that central-hub machine. But, I love my mini (2018) and will likely just be adding another.dewme said:I’d vastly prefer a Mac Mini Pro to a larger iMac. Nothing against the iMac, but I’d rather have a moderately extensible and modular Mini ...
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Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and AirPods event is on October 18
Exactly. Besides my personal interest in a mini M1X type unit (or possibly a bigger iMac *if* they included video input, which is unlikely), I really want to get a feel for how quickly Apple is advancing with this tech. Trying to figure out the direction the GPU technology is headed is of even more interest. Will we just get lots more cores? Will options open up to eGPU additions, either Apple Silicon or AMD? I suppose we won't know for sure until the Apple Silicon Mac Pro, but maybe we'll get a good feel for it with this event.ericthehalfbee said:
Two, this will be our first look at just how far Apple has come with their custom processors. How they perform and what they include should give us a glimpse at future Macs (for example, CPU and GPU core counts and RAM support).
The problem would be the graphics, I'd think. But, I hope you're right. I've just come to the conclusion I need to keep my Intel mini around and add an Apple Silicon one. But, if that happens, I'd be thrilled.verne arase said:
If this thing performs as I hope it'll have the power to run x86 games in a Parallels ARM Win VM at full speed and full resolution using ARM Win's x86 -> ARM translator. Just hope that Parallels DirectX intercepts and Metal drivers are up to the task.
Yeah, for that to happen, Apple will have to *really* pull out ahead and then maintain that lead for some amount of time. The problem is the software, as it won't just turn on a dime and run well enough to take advantage of all that new-found power. But, if the lead maintains, the developers will eventually be forced to take a serous look.OutdoorAppDeveloper said:... In truth the entire PC industry is about to be turned upside down by the M1X, M2 and then, perhaps, the next generation of ARM processors in about two years when NVIDIA ... Recent build of Windows 11 for Arm are working quite well. Seeing GTA V playing at decent frame rates on the Mac Mini in Parallels is quite literally a game changer.
That's interesting about the gaming in Parallels. I hadn't seen that. If true, you're saying Windows emulation is getting that good? How broadly does that work? (If I'm understanding, Windows ARM is emulating the X86 environment to run those apps?)
Exactly... I'm actually going to watch this one! (First in a couple of years. I used to watch every single one.)Fred257 said:This is the event we’ve been waiting for!!
Yeah, that's part of the problem. We get all excited about the potential, and then Apple usually fails to quite meet those expectations. It seems like there is often some 'gotcha' aspect that kind of ruins the fun. A few times, they've totally blown us away, but usually when we have a general idea of what is coming along, our imaginations exceed the reality.nadriel said:Most interesting event of the whole year! Let's see how much overhyped our expectations are against what Apple has actually cooked for us. I'd hope being blowed away, maybe I should leave all these rumor websites. -
Native Union Snap 2-in-1 magnetic charging stand review: An Apple user's companion
That is probably good that it charges more slowly. But, will something like this work if the iPhone is in a non-MagSafe case?
I was thinking about it, as if it is small enough on my desk, it could 'hold' the phone and AirPods Pro (with the side benefit of keeping the charged... the stand aspect is the most appealing part at the moment), but I don't want to have to buy a MagSafe case AND one of these kind of units or I'll be sinking $100s more into it. (I have an iPhone 12 mini, btw.) -
Apple ordering frequent COVID testing for all corporate, retail employees
Thanks for the link. I'll have to look that one over, because it differs from what has been seen in Israel, UK, Wales, etc. Unfortunately, it looks like the data here (USA/Canada) is starting to swing that direction as well, but I think we're behind those places in terms of the timeline.tmay said:
I'll show mine...
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-protection.html
That's a pretty unbelievable multiple...No it’s the immunity after you’ve had it that’s up to 27x better than the vax.
I haven't seen that 27x figure, but if you look at my earlier post, you'll see an ~13x figure. That isn't really unexpected either, and is common sense when you think about it a bit. The mRNA is designed to instruct your body to produce one small aspect of the original variant of the virus. Your immune system, when exposed to the real virus, is very likely to 'map' it much better. The vaccine primarily produces antibodies, where as natural immunity involves a T-Cells and another similar sounding one I can't remember right now. As expected, this is a much more robust immunity.
The other problem is that we're now dealing with the Delta variant (mainly) which wasn't the target of the vaccines. It seems somewhat effective, but much less than it was for the original version. We'll be facing Lambda, Mu, and others in the future, which it might do little to nothing for, whereas the natural immunity is much more likely to be effective against. And, there is the possibility of ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) which they hopefully have thwarted, or we'll have a lot more people lost, but vaxxed this time.
Also, here is what Dr Robert Malone (inventor of the the mRNA vaccination technology) had to say a little while back at a panel discussion on mass vaccination, herd immunity, and escape mutants, etc.:"In order to get to herd immunity, you have to have a vaccine that is generally more than 80% effective in preventing infection, not preventing disease - Ok - to block the spread. In the CDC slide deck that was leaked to the Washington Post, they showed clearly, even with Delta - let alone Lambda and Mu - we cannot stop the spread of Delta. If we were to vaccinate with these 'leaky' vaccines, which efficacy in terms of prevention of infection is something between 40 an 60%, we can arm wrestle.You could vaccinate the whole world with that and you still won't stop the spread. What you will do, is select for even more potent escape mutants that are going to blow through those vaccines. And who is going to die? The people that we wanted to protect in the first place: the elderly, the morbidly obese, the immunocompromised. Those are the ones that are going to suffer from this inappropriate universal vaccination strategy."
https://globalcovidsummit.org/news/san-juan-panel-undertreatment-cited-as-a-cause-for-hospitalizations-long-haul-covid (43m30s in)
First of all, your system develops immunity when you get sick. So, in that sense, I suppose you're a bit correct in that we don't have pre-existing natural immunity to this particular virus variation. However, there is some data that due to past corona virus exposure, the immune systems of some people are able to better mount a defense against this one and it's variants. How do you think we got through past SARS (and other) viruses before we had vaccines?darkvader said:
THERE IS NO NATURAL IMMUNITY TO THIS VIRUS.It's a new virus. Humans never encountered it before 2019. NO ONE has natural immunity to it.There is vaccine immunity available now. All you have to do is get one or two shots, and your immune system will have had exposure to completely harmless proteins that let the virus fool your cells into letting it inside, thus giving you the ability to fight it off.Or are you talking about getting sick? Yeah, that only provides very limited immunity, for a very short time. Plus there's the frequent permanent damage that getting sick from this virus can cause. There's good news though: If you've been sick and get the vaccine you will have significantly better immunity than if you'd only been sick.But natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2? There is no such thing.
And, that isn't how it works. The mRNA instructs your cells to produce the spike protein of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. Your body responds by producing antibodies against that spike protein. Those proteins aren't necessarily harmless, and there is some evidence that they are in fact the cause of some of the 'long-covid' symptoms.
Yes, there is absolutely a risk to going unvaccinated. Fortunately, if you're not really old or have other major health issues, it is relatively low. The debate isn't over whether the vaccines are effective (though that is decreasing with each variant, again, as one would expect), it is over the potential side effects and whether individuals should be allowed to run that risk-calculation and decide for themselves. Here, you can calculate your odds: My Covid Odds
If there was strong social benefit to being vaccinated, I'd *personally* have an issue with it, as I have some concerting autoimmune conditions that it seems to dramatically inflate in some people, but I'd be supportive of it on the whole. The problem, as Dr Malone lays out above, is that the social benefit is next to nothing, if not negative (I'd say almost certainly... this is how evolution works). About the only argument for social benefit I've heard that holds water, is by reducing symptoms (as far as that works, again the variants might be a different story... then it is a game of whack-a-mole between evolution and big-pharma) we might keep the ICU levels lower. That's kind of it, though (and the big problem in ICUs is staffing, not beds/equipment, on the whole).
