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  • Apple's new Swift UI designed to help developers build better apps with less code

    mcsandbergmcsandberg
    This is a huge step BACKWARDS! I don't want all that garbage https://developer.apple.com/xcode/swiftui/ in my CODE. That belongs in Interface Builder.

    Since Swift still doesn't support generics and therefor doesn't have something like the biggest advance in programming since the IDE - the Standard Template Library, I'll stick with the most powerful coding system ever - Objective C++.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Apple may show modular Mac Pro, new external 6K Pro display at WWDC 2019

    mcsandbergmcsandberg
    Eric_WVGG said:
    When's the last time Apple released a proprietary connector though, ADC? If they did some stacky thing like the Slice (which p.s. looks cool as hell) I'm sure they'd just use Thunderbolt 3.
    There's an enormous proprietary connector in most of the tower mac pros between the CPU tray and the motherboard. 
    watto_cobra

  • Steve Jobs predicted the Mac's move from Intel to ARM processors

    mcsandbergmcsandberg
    Soli said:
    The problem with Apple's ARM implementation is that it is designed from the ground up around power efficiency. You simply don't care about that on the desktop. That's why they released the iMac Pro with a large intel processor. They might be getting close to desktop chips from a few years ago now with the A12 bionic, but close isn't anywhere near good enough to change https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/arm-promises-laptop-level-performance-in-2019/?comments=1 .
    1) All chips care about power efficiency. The current Intel chips used in the iMac are able to perform as high as they can because of efforts to make them power efficient which helps reduce heat. Without these decades of effort many other aspects of the iMac would be much slower and much larger, which includes the iMac enclosure itself.

    2) Would you look at the S-seres chip in the Apple Watch and then conclude that Apple could never make an iPhone or iPad because the S-series chip isn't powerful enough for those applications? Of course not, so why assume that Apple isn't focusing on larger, faster chips that produce considerably more heat simply because they have an A-series chip that is idealized for the small, portable, finless environment of their handhelds?
    The emphasis on the desktop is performance, performance and performance. intel considers 150 watts TPD to be easy to handle. They just unveiled their latest Xeon W-3175X processor, with 28 cores at 255 watts TPD https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xeon-w-3175x-cpu-specs,37899.html . It starts at 3.1 Ghz and tops out at 4.3 Ghz. AMD's latest offerings seem to be a bit faster. I wouldn't be surprised if the rumors base was Apple going with AMD for some of their machines.
    fastasleep

  • Ralph Nader once again assails Apple's stock buybacks

    mcsandbergmcsandberg
    It's good that Ralph Nader is using, LOL, a typewriter! This idiot should be as unproductive as possible. It has another advantage - Luddites have approximately zero credibility when talking about technology or technology companies.
    JWSCwatto_cobra