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  • Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store

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    jkichline said:

    cnocbui said:
    I agree.  I needed to get my daughter a laptop a year ago.  I considered an iPad briefly, but at a starting price of €200 more than the 15" Toshiba with an i5 processor, 4Gb and 500Gb HD I got her, it seemed a 'bit' overpriced.
    I can almost guarantee you that an iPad would have performed better.  Any device I use now with a spinning hard drive is terribly slow compared to solid state drives. iPads use memory much more efficiently than Windows... programs for Windows are more expensive, etc.
    I can guarantee you it wouldn't.  I swapped out the HD for a 128 GB SSD from my old Macbook she discombombulated.  I recently had to fit the original 500 GB HD back into the optical disc bay that is empty in this particular variant of the model because she ran out of storage space.  An A8X equipped iPad is no match for an i5 powered laptop.  Geekbench score for the Air 2 - 1809.  For the i5 in the laptop - 5166. She uses a Wacom graphics tablet for some of her artworks so that would have been a problem also.  Even an iPad Pro, had it been available at the time, would still have 30%+ less performance, not enough storage and at about double the price, just isn't even close to offering value for money.
    gatorguy

  • Redesigned, ultra-thin MacBook Pro with AMD GPU not expected to debut at 'iPhone 7' event Sept. 7

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    thewhitefalcon said:
    rob53 said:
    Will this MacBook Pro actually be a "Pro" model or another space handicapped laptop? I need a new Mac, my iMac from early 2009 isn't going to run macOS Sierra so I need to figure out whether I want to buy a laptop and an external monitor or another iMac. I use my iPhone on the road but there are things that just won't work easily on a phone or an iPad. A laptop would be easy to take on the road but unless it's capable of doing all the things I do on my iMac, it won't be worth it.

    Will the AMD GPU be speed/performance limited because of its size? Will Apple be forced to use a speed-limited CPU because of cooling and battery life? 
    It shouldn't be. A bigger, but unappreciated problem with the current design is that MagSafe is limited to 85W when the design really needs 100. USB-C will allow for that. 

    But the GPU will be on a much better process, and use a more efficient arch. 
    I'll take a 15w theoretical deficit I have never personally encountered, over a smashed $2000+ computer, any day.
    digitol

  • Apple counters Australian banks' call for iPhone NFC access, cites handset security

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    beowulfschmidt said:

    I am so sick and tired of things being called "anti-competitive" that aren't any such thing. 

    Is it "anti-competitive" for a restaurant to serve only the food that they themselves prepare?  Is it "anti-competitive" for factory car dealers to only sell their own brand of automobile?

    The why the fvck is it "anti-competitive" for a device payment service provider to only support their own payment app?

    It is not anti-competitive for Apple to restrict access to the NFC chip, or any other part of the iPhone.  The banks are free to develop, market, and manufacture their own solutions, thus competing in the market.

    Good luck with that.

    Funny how people don't apply this logic when the banks refuse to allow Apple to profit from a free ride on their systems.  Then it's the banks who are accused of being anti-competitive.
    singularity

  • New Google Photos ad riffs on struggles of 16GB iPhone users

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    dklebedev said:
    16 gigs here. 3000 items in Photos. 18000 tracks in Music. Half storage empty. Zero problems. 
    That is an interesting claim.  3K 8MP photos at 2.63 MB per photo would total 7.89 GB.  A 4:27 minute  256 Kbps iTunes store track is about 8.2MB in size.  18,000 of those would take up 147.6 GB, roughly, giving us a total of 155.49 GB.

    8 GB free and no problems, you say.  I don't even want to know what bit rate you have encoded your music at, it would be worse than listening to AM radio. 
    singularitygatorguy

  • Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store

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    k2kw said:
    entropys said:
    Evenat refurb prices it is just too expensive. The launch of this iPad Pro should have been the opportunity to reset the prices of the entire iPad line downward to goose sales. Instead the dicks moved price points of new products upward, and kept selling ipads with old CPUs, with continued falling sales as a result. I bet the higher margins do not offset the decline in ipad sales.
    Totally agree with you.   If apple wants to grow their services businesses they need to get more people using products.   The iPad especially the 12.9 inch iPad Pro needs to be priced more aggressively to compete with inexpensive laptops.    Especially for selling this into corporations for them to commit to actual development programs.

    When the iPad originally came out everybody was surprised that Jobs was able to Price it starting at $499 when earlier tablets were more expensive.   Jobs also cut the price of the original MacBook Air (that's what motivate me to buy mine).  The entry level i9.7 inch Pad pro is $100 overpriced. The 12.9 inch Pro is $200 over priced.  Without a price cut I think that the next two quarters of sells will fall off the Cliff now that the initial surge for new models is over.

    The iPad pro should also support multiple user/accounts for families and small offices.
    I agree.  I needed to get my daughter a laptop a year ago.  I considered an iPad briefly, but at a starting price of €200 more than the 15" Toshiba with an i5 processor, 4Gb and 500Gb HD I got her, it seemed a 'bit' overpriced.
    albegarc