Gaby

I think one of the questions that needs to be answered is if Facebook intends to or already has copied over all of the data they already have on citizens related to facial recognition to this new “parent company” before it is “deleted”
And isn’t it strange that they seem to have such differing views on its use being acceptable or not. This whole situation is a farce. They are veritable cockroaches, scum looking for novel ways to exploit the general public’s ignorance. But I see you Mark!

Xed said:

Gaby said:

Considering the 15 inch MacBook Pro came with a base RAM of 16gb since late 2013 or 2014 I think its about time it was upgraded to 32GB and absolute minimum 512GB SSD as base model. Especially if they are pricing the same as 2020. As they’re saving money on the Touch Bar, processor & GPU at the very least. Granted there will be a slight increase in display cost but considering the savings they’ve made in the last 5 years by keeping the same screens launched in 2012 I don’t think that should be a factor. Otherwise they should knock £200\$200 off the price. 

I'll never understand the problem people have with minimums. You don't have to buy the minimum option being offered and you should always be aware of costs v need and how it related to your personal ROI.

Furthermore, they're switching to a new architecture so your blanket statement about RAM needs doesn't carry. Now, I will be upgrading the RAM—I always do—because it will make the resale down the road worth the investment, but that's very different from stating that the minimum RAM needs to be 32GB in the 16" M1X because the minimum RAM in the 15" Intel MBP has been 16 GiB for many years.

Personally, I'm going to be happy to get a new MBP this year. I've been holding onto my 2017 15" for about twice as long as I usually keep a Mac notebook because I knew this charge was forthcoming and Intel really hasn't moved the needle much to make an upgrade viable. You won't hear me complaining if I can't get more than 64 GiB in my name MBP.

Well I have to disagree with you there. For one, I have not ever ordered a base spec model as it would be entirely unsuitable to my needs.  In point of fact I’m merely speaking from a value proposition, which is important to a lot of people, and nobody likes to feel they are being taken advantage of.  I’m in the fortunate position of not needing to worry about my finances as such, but I am not blind to the struggle of others, nor to the fact that Apple; or it’s leadership, are becoming greedier as time goes on..  I realise that in this respect the company is a victim of its own success in that the larger the growth, the more they need to earn to continue to grow, but I digress…

The point I was actually making was that back then 16GB was the maximum available RAM, and yet they saw fit to ship the 15 inch - which was the high end machine - with a large amount. These machines, with their new  second gen RISC chipsets are going to truly push things forward in terms of what’s possible on a portable machine, and will benefit greatly from increased memory. The efficiency of the architecture or the OS do not factor into it. It’s easy to say “well look the M1 macs run great on even 8 gigs so why do you need more?” 

ArchStanton said:

M68000 said:

Why are people so up in arms about this?  If you have nothing to hide 

Is this post for real? An actual serious point? Wow...

Fyi to the rest of the world. Privacy is one of the fundamental tenants of any level of freedom. When the powerful get to know everything you do/think/say, they will always (and I do mean always) make sure you abide by what they dictate. The very fact that the powerful can't see and know means their power, at least to some degree, is in check. 

One of the most pernicious arguments the powerful use is "As long as you have nothing to hide" or "as long as you have done nothing wrong". Everyone has something to hide, everyone has done something "wrong"(though it may not be illegally wrong), everyone has some level of thoughts and words that go against what others believe is acceptable. And everyone has done something actually illegal (there are many thousands of laws and regulations in the books. it would be impossible to live a life without crossing sentences if the massive volumes knows as law and regulation). 
The powerful use a very interesting tactic of equivocation. They try to lump ordinary people in with grossly illegal behaviors like kiddie porn peddlers -- i.e. well those despicable people have something to hide. Now why do you have something to hide. 
See how that works?

I do believe you meant tenets, not tenants…..

eightzero said:

AppleInsider said:

Last year, the Tesla and SpaceX founder revealed that he once reached out to Apple CEO Tim Cook to gauge interest in an acquisition. Cook declined the request.

Yeah, I kinda doubt Apple would be interested in being acquired by Tesla.

Perhaps it’s not written particularly well but you have grossly misinterpreted the statement. Tesla reached out to Apple to see if they were potentially interested in purchasing the auto maker, when they were financially really struggling - around the time they were trying to get the model 3 into production - if memory serves correctly. I don’t suppose we’ll ever know how sincere musk was about the whole thing but anyway…

For anyone that’s interested, after first charge and use I got 48% charge on my 12 pro max from zero.  I’ll update if there’s any further increase after a couple of uses if anyone wishes.