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  • Despite what you may have heard, don't write off the iMac just yet

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    Turning the Mac Studio Display into a 27" iMac can't take all that much work.

    The display is the same at the 27" iMac that went away a couple years ago.  It already has speakers, power supply, camera (with center stage), fans, and USB-C/Thunderbolt ports.   All it needs is the logic board from a MacBook Pro. a headphone jack, add a couple more Thunderbolt ports, and, poof!, it's an iMac. 


    williamlondonroundaboutnow9secondkox2baconstangbyronlappleinsideruser

  • M3 MacBook Air update due in March, M3 Mac Pro in late 2024

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    I find it hard to believe that Apple will not introduce an M3 Max and M3 Ultra Mac Studio and Mac Pro in the first quarter of 2024.  If they wait until June and WWDC, the M3 Max will already be a seven month old processor and the M4 would be just five to six months away.

    If they wait to late 2024, then the next Mac Studio and Mac Pro will almost certainly be in the M4 processor family.   

    I think the calendar for the start of the year will look more like this:
    Mid-January:  M3 Max and Ultra in the Studio and Pro  (Surprising everyone.). Also, USB-C keyboards, mice, and trackpad.   Updated displays would be nice too.

    Late February:  VisionPro  (look for a Super Bowl commercial on February 11...it's been 40 years since the original Macintosh was announced that way...great way to celebrate that milestone.)

    Early to mid: March:  New iPad line up, and M3 MacBook Airs



    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • 'Napoleon' is a hit with the box office, but not so much with critics

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    As a retired history teacher, inaccuracies in movies often drive me nuts.  When a big film came out, I would go through a list of what it got wrong with my students.  (Braveheart, for instance was one of the worst for accuracy.).  Even good films like Hidden Figures play all sorts of games with the timelines and inventing characters that didn't exist.  Steven Spielberg did that in Schindler's List- combining two or three real people into one fictitious character. The reasons for this is usually just time. Without playing games like that, movies would be two or three times as long.  

    Of course, it can get ridiculous.  I haven't yet seen Napoleon, so I can't comment on that film just yet.  The real problem is people will see a film about some historical event and not look up anything about the real version of things.  I can't watch For All Mankind because it's truly alternate view of history (of course it doesn't pretend to be factual at all) in some people's eyes will thing that's what happened.... UGH! 
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Deeply questionable rumor claims 14.1-inch iPad Pro arriving in 2024

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    The iPad line up is a bit of a mess.  Here's what is should be

    iPad at 10.9" with an A Series Processor 

    iPad Air 10.9" with an M1 Processor
    iPad Air 12.9" with an M1

    iPad Pro 11" with M3
    iPad Pro 12.9 with M3

    iPad mini 8.3" (8.5" with thinner bezels) with an M1. (Basically, a Air Mini) 

    That gives people enough of a difference between models and two larger size models to pick from.   The idea of a 14.1" iPad is just dumb. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • How to make sure you get an iPhone, instead of a swapped Android fake

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    Having worked for Apple's post order service team, I took more than a few phone calls where the shipping box had been tampered with.  The worst was a customer who ordered at 16" MacBook Pro and with the FedEx delivery guy present, opened the shipping box to find nothing but cut up FedEx boxes inside.  His computer was gone.   Of course, all of these shipments are insured by the delivery carrier and the customer had a replacement order created and got his desired computer- he just had to wait another two or three weeks for it.

    My guess, in this case, is the same.  The DPD shipping box was not tampered with... well, what people would have access to such boxes to repack something?   I'm more than confident Apple sent out a real 15 Pro Max, but sometime after that box left Apple, someone opened it, stuck in that fake phone, and sealed it up in a new packing box.   

    One final note- these instances are incredibly rare.  Consider that I would take dozens of calls a day and most were about credit card issues, order changes, order delays, etc.  Stolen merchandise during shipping happened literally just a couple times in my year doing that work.  (Porch pirates stealing delivered goods was another story.)  Now, think of all the people who place and order and have no issue and never need to call order support.   In short, when you order something from Apple directly, the chances that you will not get the item you wanted is astronomically slim. 
    FileMakerFeller