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RyanWilliams said:

Oh boy. Did nobody think to just look up some examples of other photos taken with the new portrait mode? You can quite clearly see bokeh circles in numerous photos from the phone popping up all over the web. Would have been a lot more interesting than two pages of arguing semantics.

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http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/28/iphone-7-plus-depth-of-field-photos/

Yep, you're right. Some people may not like it, but Apple's bokeh is the real (albeit simulated) deal, and it is most certainly not a gaussian blur (I am not a professional photographer, but I did study photography at my Faculty and, being a designer, I have to do a lot of photo editing in Photoshop, so I know a gaussian blur when I see it)…

But don't take my graphic designer's word for it; this photographer did some really extensive testing and some bokeh renders with his iMac (and quite heavy ones at that), and it appears the A10 Fusion is almost as good at doing it (with some predictable loss in quality, but much less than you might think) as a 4GHz Core i7… Go figure!

http://prolost.com/blog/deptheffect

AppleInsider said:

Another discrepancy is the Apple model number as listed by Best Buy. The K0SC0LL/A does not conform to existing nomenclature of MK462, MK472, or MK482 prefacing a remaining two digits, and completed with a /A.

Well, I'm sorry to put it this bluntly, but that's also a bit inaccurate on your part… Apple does use 7-digit numbers ending in “/A”, it just so happens those are order numbers instead of model numbers. As a matter of fact, absolutely all Mac order numbers going as far as the 1990 Macintosh Classic, from the John Sculley days, seem to end in “LL/[alpha]” (some of them actually end in B, and I haven't found any ending in C but I wouldn't discard those as a possibility, but in any case Apple seems to have dropped that numbering convention and to have standardized in “LL/A”, maybe for the sake of tradition and to differentiate them from model numbers).

From the page about the latest Retina 5K iMac model, currently on sale, on the MacTracker iOS app:

Order Number: MK462LL/A (3.2 GHz with AMD Radeon R9 M380), MK472LL/A (3.2 GHz with AMD Radeon R9 M390), MK482LL/A (3.3 GHz with AMD Radeon R9 M395)

It does appear, however, that this model *would* break the almost ininterrupted pattern of naming the Mac order numbers “M[…]”, the second character being an increasing character (the Bondi Blue started out as “M6”, “M9” covered both G4 and G5 iMacs and the first “M[alpha]” was the Rev. C G5 w/ iSight, so their atrribution doesn't always correlate with generational skips *nor* with Mac models, and I believe “MJ” was either skipped altogether or reserved for some education model or whatever). It stands to reason that the next order number would start with “ML” instead of “K0” but, then again, Apple could be revising its naming conventions (maybe because they finally ran out of numbers? I have no idea and it has been already 26 years since they started using that numbering scheme, so I'd have to scour them to find out, but I believe that should be your job  ) while keeping the “LL/A” part.

Considering past history, that may very well be a legit iMac order number (and a legit leak), while also representing a significant shift in the order numbering scheme on the Mac line altogether.

Speaking of Affinity, I really don't get why AI doesn't focus at all on the huge news of the day:

https://affinity.serif.com/blog/affinity-is-coming-to-windows/

Is it because it involves Windows? I, for one, have seen enough articles about the Surface on this site to know that when Windows-related announcements are relevant, they warrant a mention here… And I am dead sure that a Windows port of both an Apple Design Award-winning app/MAS app of the year runner-up and a MAS-featured app, which will turn them into cross-platform industry standards instead of just niche products, is one of those cases.

So, the question now is: are you going to stay mum on the subject and pander to the 800lb incumbent gorilla, or are you going to shine a well-deserved spotlight on Serif and publish a front page article on them as well?