dreyfus2

If this delivers the advertised performance, it is quite a steal. ATTO's TB2 to 10 GbE adapters sold for around $1k.

I really admire how ingenious Apple is about staging these developments. If you had asked me a year ago, if I wanted or needed phone capabilities in a watch, I would have denied it vehemently. Now that I am used to my AirPods and their interaction with the Watch (2), I can't tell you how many times I have wished that I did not need to carry the phone around all the time... Sleazy bastards :-) But then... Anybody who designs the most advanced mobile chip in existence, and when trying to find anything useful to do with it, comes up with "let's allow people to animate a turd using facial expressions" ... can have my money.

Paid for both and liked them. But I have not even received the features I have paid for originally, like reliable syncing. Deleted it from all Macs and my iPad. Byword and Marked do most of the stuff I need for far less without monthly money for nothing. Added to the gravesite of apps I have used for very long times (TextExpander, 1Password, NovaMind, Dreamweaver, Illustrator) and now do just fine without them.

Anybody having the physical access required to implement this hack could position dozens of mics and cameras in your home far more easily and quickly. And all that to listen in on a sad person, which anybody talking to a speaker certainly is... Just put your own bug in a potted plant and leave it on the door step.

avon b7 said:

In November this year we will be able to start gauging out of warranty failures and how people feel about them. We will also be able to compare MBP and BTO pricing of last year with this year's and evaluate if it was a good deal to pay between 3,000-5,000 dollars for a three to five year investment. I'm sure that some users would have preferred to wait for this refresh if they had known it was coming. And to think people were insisting that the incorporation of the newest processors would only produce minimal gains. In the end, this refresh has seen enough gains to make some rethink their decisions.

So much bullshit, so little time. Apple has never let people down on warranties. If there is a design problem (not seeing one so far), Apple will extend warranties for these issues as they always do. And clearly, this update does only provide minimal gains – with real work, they are not even noticeable, unless your work is running benchmarks. Fact is, I have been using the now previous model 10-12 hours every day since it came out and made several times its price using it. Do I rethink my decision? Fuck, no.