Marvin

AppleInsider said:

A handy new feature of macOS Sequoia allows a mounted volume to self-eject once a process copying files from it ends. Here's how to use it.

If the copy is still running, the Finder will throw up an alert telling you it can't eject the volume because it's in use. But now in macOS Sequoia, that alert features a new button: Eject when finished.

This is useful if it works but one of the worst offenders for blocking eject is the Finder's QuickLook process. Clicking a single time on a file, especially if it's a less common format can block a disk eject as QuickLook tries to decode it and it needs opening Activity Monitor to force quit QuickLook. Some processes would be best tagged as interruptible. Non-essential features like QuickLook and Spotlight should always be interruptible by any process.

mpantone said:

Of course, the View-Master unit had a number of shortcomings. The biggest was the fact that the it wasn't compatible with a wide variety of smartphone dimensions. The optics were fixed so were limited to a subset of viewers' eyes. There was no headstrap. Audio was terrible because it relied on the phone's built-in speakers. 

There was a Gear VR for $100 too:



An Apple designed one would fix a lot of the issues.

This would be like a $599 iPhone 14 + $100 case = $699. The resolution here would be bad at less than 1K per eye.

But if the total retail price of these parts comes to $699 and 2K Micro-OLED displays are $300 for a pair, they have enough parts to make an affordable, very lightweight, reasonable quality headset that retails around $1199. Even adding additional tracking like hand/eye tracking, it would be under $1500.

It wouldn't be as sharp as Vision Pro but would give mostly the same experience and would build a platform with a bigger user-base in the millions, which is needed to be sustainable. The display spec can be increased later.

mpantone said:

Since their recent M.O. has been to give event invitees two weeks lead notification, it's pretty much too late for an October event.

Last year they announced on the 24th the event on the 30th:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/24/tech/apple-october-event-2023/index.html

Toortog said:

The only thing about the new Mac Mini is when is Apple going to annouce the date for the release event.   Time is running out for  October event.  

It's pre-recorded so there's not much planning needed for the broadcast, just an announcement, likely tomorrow and then setup a video stream next week.

If they want to do a Halloween themed event again, they have to stream it next week so the announcement will be any day now.

danvm said:

danox said:

Who are those rivals it can’t be Microsoft and Qualcomm they can’t even get their act together with the Surface Platform notice that Recall is still basically in dry dock, like all the other AI solutions. The Windows development kit that was supposed to help developers port Windows programs over to Arm has been canceled by Qualcomm, maybe Google is the one that is ahead?

I think Qualcomm did a great job with their first Oryon CPU for desktop.  They are ahead of Apple with 45 TOPS compared to Apple M4 38 TOPS.

These are marketing numbers that don't hold up in real-world testing:

https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/84389
https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/84303
https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/77044

M2 iPad is faster than the highest Snapdragon. Not to mention the results vary hugely depending on which product they are used in:

https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/52178 (single precision 401 vs 3428 on the M2 iPad)

M4 is also Apple's lowest chip usually with no active cooling, they have M4 Pro, Max and Ultra, up to 8x this.