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  • M3 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro review 3 months later: Peak Mac with best-in-class performance

    jagrahax said:
    High Apple memory prices may be due, in part, to extensive memory testing at the memory supplier to weed out bad or unreliable memory.  Apple may also specify a low die defect level that rules out many memory chips on the wafer.  I was once responsible for worldwide memory quality for a major computer manufacturer and we took the same approach.  

    Memory errors can result from weak or defective bits.  A memory error may not matter for photo editing or web browsing but if the computer is used for scientific or precise technical calculations, memory quality is important.  

    Apple used to offer ECC (error corrected) memory in its most powerful computers.  In the absence of ECC memory, I will pay Apple’s higher memory prices every time.  I’m paying for quality.  
    Your comment is total BS.  Apple used regular off the shelf memory chips by suppliers like Hynix, etc.  Apple for decades has had a ridiculous markup and they still do, even worse on their SSDs.  Now you are stuck with the Apple Tax and getting ripped off on memory and SSDs.
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Don't use a smartwatch or smart ring for blood glucose monitoring just yet

    The only way to accurately test your blood sugar is by actually testing your blood, which means doing the finger prick and using a blood sugar monitoring device.  It cannot be 'good enough' because the wrong result and incorrect medicine dosage can kill you, especially if you are type 1 or have an insulin pump.  I would never trust a non-invasive method if I was feeling 'off' and needed to check my blood sugar, and I am type 2.
    watto_cobra
  • Jony Ive wanted to combine MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines

    If Ive was still at Apple, you would still have bad MacBooks with horrible butterfly keyboards.  That guy was far too obsessed with thin products.  Once he was gone, Apple was able to fix his mistakes.
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  • Apple Vision Pro is already a win for Apple & consumers

    designr said:
    igorsky said:
    After the Apple Watch came out I remember seeing articles up to two years later proclaiming it a flop. Not everything is an overnight success, including the iPhone. 
    People keep making these comparisons and it's odd. Things like iPod, iPhone, iPad and Watch addressed existing markets and existing use cases in new, interesting, and vastly improved ways. The market and use cases for AVP are much less clear.
    THIS!  The iPod solved the digital music problem, and improved on the Walkman.  The iPhone solved the bad smartphone devices in 2007.  The Apple Watch kinda solved wearables, but almost all developers have abandoned the Watch, and Apple pushes it more for fitness than having a 'killer app'.  AR/VR has been a dead market for years.  Apple calling it Spatial Computing is silly, it is AR.  Vision Pro is an answer looking for a question.  No one wants to wear goggles and Apple is going to have a hard time convincing people to wear goggles to run apps.  And the $3500 in today's economy is out of reach by most consumers.  Apple only made 180K of them, so that is telling.  It is a niche product that most won't be interested in.
    designrwilliamlondon
  • Apple Vision Pro customers face a 25-minute in-store sales pitch

    A 25 minute sales pitch.  So it is like getting suckered into a timeshare purchase.

    Yeah, Apple has a lot of convincing to do.  No one has interest in the AR space, and $3500 isn't going to convince anyone for running iPad apps in 'space'.

    The iPhone solved a problem.  This solves nothing.
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