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  • Frequently asked questions about the 2018 Mac mini RAM, storage, and more [u]

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    Two Questions:

    1) I’m unaware of any four-port Thunderbolt 3 controller chips. Are you sure there’s only one controller? If so, are they possibly daisy chained?

    2) The off the shelf 8x00 CPUs I’ve been assuming Apple used don’t appear to support 5K resolution. Actually I didn’t think any Intel iGPU supported 5120 x 2880. Are these custom SKUs?
    tht

  • Frequently asked questions about the 2018 Mac mini RAM, storage, and more [u]

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    entropys said:
    Maxed out Mac mini, sans display, keyboard and mouse USD $4199

    base config iMac Pro, with keyboard and mouse, USD $4999

    What a great value proposition!
    That’s not a valid comparison. It’s ridiculous to compare a maxed out mini, which has twice as much SSD capacity and twice as much RAM, to a base iMac Pro.

    When configured in the closest like configuration—i7, 1 TB SSD, 32GB RAM and 10GbE—the mini is $2,599. That’s not iMac Pro money (but of course the mini is no iMac Pro).
    cgWerksfastasleepRayz2016

  • Newly-discovered iOS icon confirms small bezels, other changes in 2018 iPad Pros

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    mattinoz said:
    netrox said:
    Oh the buttons being so close is a great decision. It helps you know quickly which "side" the buttons are.
    And possibly how to pick it up for correct orientation for FaceID. It could be that FaceID requires a button (portrait) or buttons (landscape) on the top edge to unlock; button(s) oriented on the bottom edge might be “upside down”, and not work. 
    iPad with touchID works in any orrientation if FaceID doesn't/can't match that it shouldn't ship. 
    It hasn’t worked in any orientation on the iPhone X/XS and it’s been shipping for two (model) years. We already know FaceID works in portrait and landscape on the iPad, and that might be due to having TrueDepth camera system on both a long and short edge. 360° unlock orientation is a nice to have, but not a necessity—I’d say the same about TouchID, though it’s trivial to do 360° unlock with TouchID.
    How do we know? Was it confirmed on a software leak?
    Yes, Guillermo Rambo found a string in the 12.1 beta:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/_inside/status/1055580110236147713
    watto_cobra

  • Newly-discovered iOS icon confirms small bezels, other changes in 2018 iPad Pros

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    cgWerks said:

    PickUrPoison said:
    It hasn’t worked in any orientation on the iPhone X/XS and it’s been shipping for two (model) years. We already know FaceID works in portrait and landscape on the iPad, and that might be due to having TrueDepth camera system on both a long and short edge. 360° unlock orientation is a nice to have, but not a necessity—I’d say the same about TouchID, though it’s trivial to do 360° unlock with TouchID.
    They can't just rotate the image in the camera system? I thought this was sophisticated. :)

    Rotating the image is trivial, but you need to consider the angle of the dot projector. 
    watto_cobra

  • Newly-discovered iOS icon confirms small bezels, other changes in 2018 iPad Pros

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    dpkroh said:
    simply258 said:
    I think it’s safe to say we’ll see a Liquid Retina display rather than OLED.
    No doubt. An OLED display would make it much more expensive. It’s at least two or three years away I think. 
    Too expensive ? Yeah, right. More Apple marketing deception. Like the ridiculous premium for a 316L Stanless Steel Apple Watch, despite the reality that 316L stainless steel typically sells for slightly less than the slightly more expensive aluminum the much cheaper Apple Watch is made from. But stainless steel “looks” more expensive. Samsung S series tablets have been using OLED displays for years and they cost less than iPad Pros. An HP envy laptop I had almost a decade ago came with and OLED display. While Apple has created a super nice LCD for the iPad Pro, the lack of an OLED is pretty much inxcuseable at its price point. It’s not the cost. It’s the fact Apple customers will buy it anyways. Lest you think I’m anti-Apple our 3 person household has more than a dozen Apple devices.... we are all in on Apple. I personally have an iPad Pro 10.5 and have had the 9.7 and a gen1 12.9 Pro. Also have an Apple Watch 4 and iPhone XS Max among many other Apple devices. This intentional major deception, specifically with Apple Watch pricing greatly weakens Apple’s moral authority. Tom Cook is surely smart enough to realize this. So if he truly wants to help social causes like diversity and personal privacy, why does he allow this sort of deception to continue?
    Samsung uses their own OLED displays, they don’t have to buy them from a third party. And that HP Envy didn’t have a 264 ppi display, which makes a ton of difference in pricing. You actually have no idea how much an OLED display the size and quality Apple uses would cost. Let’s guesstimate. 

    The 5.5” iPhone 8 LCD is estimated to cost $52. Samsung is estimated to charge Apple $90 for the iPhone X’s 5.8” OLED display; your guess is as good as mine for how much Samsung would charge for a much larger iPad-sized OLED display. I’d guess somewhere in the neighborhood of $250. If that’s $100 more than an LCD, you’re looking at an increase in selling cost of maybe $275. 

    Like I said, it would be much more expensive. I’m estimating two to three more years before competition from LG brings OLED prices down to the point they’ll be used in iPad Pro. 
    watto_cobra