VRing

Mike Wuerthele said:

JanNL said:

Appreciate your piece about CES. But when it's that bad, why is AI putting out so many articles about (great) products?

CES is... funny. We are about eyes-deep in press releases full of superlatives about mostly unreleased products. The first filter we put on is AI-reader relevance. The next is a "likely to ship" filter. We then write about what interests us, removing almost all of the "best-in-class"-like modifiers that get applied by the mavens that send it to us.

Over the last six years of CES extravaganzas I've covered from this very chair, I'd put good money on 50% of the PR I've seen for CES products haven't ever made it to market.

There's no reason why this couldn't be spread across the year, instead of in a show that is mostly a vestige of a day gone by.

philboogie said:

JanNL said:

Appreciate your piece about CES. But when it's that bad, why is AI putting out so many articles about (great) products?

Because this author is referring to the journalists hired by the Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNET and Reuters as "amateur bloggers". No idea who wrote this article (it doesn't say), but my guess it's not done by a journalist.

hodar said:

Put this in a Mac Mini, and make some very minor tweaks - and Apple will sell Mac Mini's at a rate that they cannot keep up with supply.

1)  DIMM Slots - again, just like the 2012 and earlier versions.  Allow the user to add memory.

2)  SATA Connector(s) - allow the user to add a second hard drive, or SDD, or simply add two SDD's, again; just like the 2012 and earlier versions.

The Mac Mini is a small inexpensive INTRODUCTION to the Apple computer environment, it sports no monitor and is just a small form factor, desktop Mac.  The sad fact is that the 2012 Mac Mini with some very inexpensive upgrades will stop the living bejezus out of the top-of the line Mac Mini that is sold today.  Given the money, I will buy the 6 year old Mac Mini - as USED - before I would consider the current stock of Mac Mini's sold at Apple.

This is a chance for Apple to not only refresh the aging Mac Mini; but to also make some inroads against Windows (Mr. Cook, you do remember MSFT, don't you?)

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

Hey @VRing, does that supposed magical and revolutionary custom build of yours that is SO much better than an iMac Pro do this? Didn't think so and never will! 

I know you're just flaming, but TPM chips have been in the vast majority of Windows computers and motherboards for enterprise use for years. As well, a number of these types of computers have a self-healing BIOS to restore a corrupt or potentially attacked BIOS.

Too bad thats not the same thing as the T2 chip...try again!

It's not meant to be the same, but provide a secure hardware solution for systems for over a decade now. 

So your build doesn't do this then. Thought so. I guess custom builds aren't so great after all....

Different approach to a similar problem, especially when dealing with hardware level encryption on an NVMe drive.

You have little to no interest in the actual topic, this is nothing more than a personal attack as you simply reply with inflammatory posts.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. You're the one who came in spouting off about how great this custom build is. The bottom line is that its not the same, you even admitted it. 

Your post is yet another example of inflammatory posting.

There are other alternative methods than using the T2 for a secure encryption solution. This just happens to be the method that the iMac Pro uses.

But its not the same thing...you even admitted to it. Just admit, your wonderful build sucks and is not practical in the places iMac Pro is. 

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

VRing said:

macxpress said:

Hey @VRing, does that supposed magical and revolutionary custom build of yours that is SO much better than an iMac Pro do this? Didn't think so and never will! 

I know you're just flaming, but TPM chips have been in the vast majority of Windows computers and motherboards for enterprise use for years. As well, a number of these types of computers have a self-healing BIOS to restore a corrupt or potentially attacked BIOS.

Too bad thats not the same thing as the T2 chip...try again!

It's not meant to be the same, but provide a secure hardware solution for systems for over a decade now. 

So your build doesn't do this then. Thought so. I guess custom builds aren't so great after all....

Different approach to a similar problem, especially when dealing with hardware level encryption on an NVMe drive.

You have little to no interest in the actual topic, this is nothing more than a personal attack as you simply reply with inflammatory posts.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. You're the one who came in spouting off about how great this custom build is. The bottom line is that its not the same, you even admitted it.