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  • Review: Apple's powerhouse iMac Pro wows with stellar performance and design

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    bestkeptsecret said:
    awesomeepicguy said:
    As Steve would say, this iMac is "dead on arrival".

    Steve Ballmer?
    or Steve Buschemi? Might be the space dimentia talking though.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple tops device activations during holidays, iPhone X handily beating iPhone 8 and iPhon...

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    For those of us not living in either N. America or Europe, Apple provides by far the best customer service options followed by Sony/Samsung and Google support is non existant (as far as well known brands go). For example with repairs, Apple lets you take it in to any Apple authorized reseller worldwide. Sony or Samsung you either go to the store you bought it, or the 1 service center they have in country. Google, as I said is non-existant and you have to depend on whichever grey import store you bought it from.
    bb-15GG1watto_cobra

  • Apple's HomePod isn't about Siri, but rather the future of home audio

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    Soli said:

    We don't even know if HomePod will support anything other than Apple Music or allow other wireless speakers to connect. I suspect they will, but we don't know. But, hey, go ahead and call it now without having a single review by which to judge the actual performance.
    It doesn’t matter if it allows other stuff to connect to it. I don’t have nor intend to get any items from outside the Apple ecosystem.
    lkruppwatto_cobra

  • Inside iPhone 8: Apple's A11 Bionic introduces 5 new custom silicon engines

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    Daniel is getting mellow in his old age. I didn’t figure him for the author until half way through the article.
    SoliGG1ronnnetmagetylerdbdkennedy1002

  • A11 Bionic processor in iPhone 8, iPhone X contains first Apple-designed GPU, new secure e...

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    wizard69 said:

    ericthehalfbee said:
    The A11 is the one thing the competition (and the haters) do NOT want to talk about. It's a sore spot with them how far ahead Apple is. Even next years 8990 & 845 (or whatever they call them) won't catch up to the A11.

    Hell, Samsung and Qualcomm are barely at 2,000 single core while Apple is at 4,000. It'll be years before they're even close.
    Don't dismiss what Samsung or Qualcomm may accomplish with a processor design.   The only problem these companies have is that they need to focus on a wide array of processor performance levels unlike Apple which needs only to release one high performance processor a year letting older processors take up the slack at the low end.   It amounts to a resource problem as they need to allocate talent to a broad array of customers.   I'm pretty much convinced that Qualcomm at least could very well produce a high performance chip if it could dedicate all the resources needed to such a chip, they have a good track record of doing better that ARM in their designs.
    Also consider that Apple no longer needs to allocate space on the processor for 32-bit processing. 
    watto_cobra