thinkman@chartermi.net

fmalloy said:

'Course, if you live here you realize that Apple, and the cities of Sunnyvale and Cupertino, are doing ZERO to expand the roadway infrastructure. So while the fanboys can drool and swoon over these humongous buildings, those of us who live here are already choked in traffic, and once these behemoths open up and thousands more cars spew onto the freeways, it's going to be much worse.

And, I don't buy this "environmentally friendly" BS. They've cut tons of trees to build these monster complexes and who knows what else they do to the environment. Sure, solar farms help their energy bill, but nobody talks about how they're hurting the environment; all those bulldozers sure spew a lot of stuff into the air...

No, you must live in an alternate dimension since Apple tore down the old HP buildings to build Apple Park. They have also planted thousands of trees! Also, Apple will be busing many of their associates to work. If you're not happy about the traffic situation, talk to your city council and city planners - but stop grousing about a company that will bolster the businesses of local merchants by a very substantial amount! But none of this likely means anything to you - you're just someone who needs to gripe about everything!

Original concept images - very interesting! Hard to comment of the redesign, as there are no images of the interior. I'll save my invaluable judgement for the time those are revealed.

Coolfactor, First of all, "hyperactive ADD" is ADHD. Secondly, younger minds can digest so much more these days than we could as kids without similar tech. As a psychiatrist who works almost exclusively with kids, I've had the most stunning results, relative to traditional therapies, using computers, etc. STUNNING! As for these ads, the target audience is able to get so much more out of them, because of their rapid pacing, than those of us raised on slower paced or static ads. These challenge their minds!

dreyfus2 said:

macxpress said:

Maybe I'm just cheap, but I don't think this program is worth $40. It used to be free and then all of a sudden its magically worth $40! I can basically use Time Machine to do the same thing for free. 

It was not free, it was donationware. People not getting this difference are the most likely cause of the new price :-) I would not like to live without it. I had several cases where our expensive Retrospect copies could not restore our project Mac servers, but CCC did it correctly and in a third of the time. If you run any productive Mac servers without CCC and Drive Genius in your toolbox, you are already on the Darwin-award list, IMHO. TM is great for restoring single lost or messed up files, for a full restore it is just too slow in a productive setting, even if it does work (which isn't always the case, I know several people who could not restore Fusion Drives using TM and effectively lost data).

$40.! That's less than a meal for 2 at a mid-range restaurant. For a program of this quality, $40. is more of a bargain than you will ever know if you don't give it a shot!

One would think that with the amount of testing Apple purportedly does before releasing new hardware or software updates, concerns and complaints would be few and far between. One would think……… but in my experience over the last few years, one would be wrong. With the number of engineers, both hardware and software at Apple - this should not be, particularly when one of their claims to fame is that they produce both the hardware and the operating systems - closed loop. Apple support is generally outstanding, but the number of times I've needed to contact them over the last year is overwhelming. I still love my Apple stuff, but am running out of patience when it comes to needing SO much tech support, and then reading articles like this! I'm not about to switch teams, but I'm far less likely to buy new equipment from Apple at anywhere near the rate I had been in order to stay ahead of the curve (as a graphic designer/composer), to stay at the top of my game, since I still do work for select clients (namely Charities, Children's organizations and the Arts) pro bono. I was handsomely rewarded in the past for my work (I've been retired for 8 years) and owe a debt of gratitude to Apple as a partner in my success! In all the time I was in business, I needed their support a mere handful of times. In the last 6 to 7 months it's been non-stop APP support. I've been using computers since 1963 (yup, mainframes to iMacs) so I've been around the tech block more than a few times. I never thought I'd say this, but I really think it's the fault of the man at the top. Tim, get your shyte together, and stop letting Ives, who's forgotten the most basic tenet of design, FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION, make the rules!