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My mom's iMac is starting to act up - from what she's describing sounds like the fan is going out. Hopefully I can just clean it and keep it limping along.

I hope they release them sooner rather than later!

entropys said:

InspiredCode said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

entropys said:

Not at all sure what it has to do with the CPU, but there is kinda a point about the dongle debacle.

You know, other than the fact that there are all USB-C Windows laptops, and Intel was instrumental in the development of the physicality and protocol of the connector.

Besides that, still no. Computer users have been adapting since day one, and will continue to do so forever. 

All usb-c makes sense for ultra mobile form factors since it is the “do anything” port. USB-C represents the end of dongles since everything new is USB-C. The Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro have traditional ports. I’ve pretty much converted all my USB-A ports to low wattage USB-C ports with compact adaptors at this point anyway. I’ve put USB-C cables on all my drives, monitors, etc. I’d rather just have USB-C everywhere.

That’s lovely. Right up until your client hands you their stuff on a usba memory stick.

Yes, it's so fsking stupid - just put one damn usb-a port too on the computer already.  It would be nice if someone could just Thanos Snap USB A out of existence but that ain't gonna happen so in the meantime we get a shitty user experience because of what someone thinks 'right' is.  

This is the part of Apple that drives me bonkers.  At least as of late they seem to be willing to backtrack on some of these form over function design decisions so there is maybe some hope that saner, more practical and dare I say customer focused heads will prevail.  I hope the rumors of mag safe for power on the laptops are true - I immediately missed it with my M1 MBA.  And yes, even managed to launch it once by tripping over the USB C cord 

sevenfeet said:

I’m old enough to remember Photoshop 1.0 on the 68000 Macs. Architecture transitions predate PowerPC-Intel.

Yeah but 68K to PowerPC Photoshop was pretty much Mac only - and it was a much smaller program and Adobe didn't have a whole pantheon of apps yet either.  

With PowerPC to Intel Adobe was not nearly as focused on Mac and Windows was a lot more of their revenue.  For anyone who was involved back then it was pretty obvious that Apples decision to cancel migrating Carbon to 64 bit was mainly to force Adobe to finish migrating Photoshop.  Those were some acrimonious and testy times.

It's nice to see Adobe and Apple working together this time, and also very nice to see Adobe back to prioritizing the Mac too (or at least pretending to care).

lkrupp said:

What a hideous looking piece of crap. No self-respecting Mac user would attach that ugly thing to their Mac, no matter how cheap or functional it is.

Seriously?  If the stand bothers you that much just get a VESA arm - will give you more flexibility anyway (monoprice.com has an excellent selection of reasonably priced and functional arms; lots of cheap ones that don't work well).

Aside from the stand the rest of the monitor looks like - drumroll - a monitor 

Waste of electricity for idiots with more money than common sense.

Sounds like most "luxury" products - this is one of the more egregious and useless I have seen in a LONG time though, so they should get points for that.