anome

alandail said:

loopless said:

Probably good to wait. The "heat" has gone out of the EV market. Many of the "early" adopters have bought one. Now the rest are saying, why would I pay more to put up with range anxiety and a crappy charging network that still can't charge a vehicle in anything close to the time to "gas" an ICE vehicle. A lot of EV's are sitting on lots.

Nonense. EVs are superior to gas cars and global EV market share is growing rapidly.

Would you own a phone you had to take to a store to charge ever week instead of charging in your house nightly?

Elon and Tesla are doing what Steve Jobs and Apple would have done with an Apple car if Steve were still around. Apple car is becoming increasingly pointless. Apple isn't going to solve self driving without the real world data Tesla has.

Tesla hasn't managed to solve self-driving with the real world data they have.

Apart from that, I can see a lot of similarities between Jobs and Musk. After all, Musk is known for making design choices for vehicles that create massive engineering problems for the actual car builds. You know, like the Cybertruck, and the gull-wing doors on the Model X. While Steve had that thing one time where he insisted they repaint a machine blue, and it never worked properly again.

I don't think Apple will do a car, but I wouldn't want to claim that Tesla is the Apple of car manufacturers. For the most part, Apple seem to know what they're doing, and produce new models every year, while Tesla do a lot of announcements that never seem to quite get there, and if they do appear, are a disappointment.

I really kind of wish I'd been able to put up the extra for the Max MBP instead of the Pro now.

I mean the Pro is fine for what I currently want it for, but the Max...I mean...

ITGUYINSD said:

anome said:

Oh well, that's A$4199 down the tube. I really wanted a Max, but can't really afford it at the current prices. So, I got the upper Pro model. Should be plenty for home defence.

Plus Space Black, I mean, I couldn't not.

Now watch Windows laptops copy Apple and start making black laptops.  Oh, wait...

Sure, they make black laptops, but do they make Space Black laptops?

Yeah, sure I could have bought a Windows laptop that was black, but most of them are plastic. Plus they run Windows.

The Touch Bar needed to be implemented across the line, and not just on the one model for it to really go anywhere, and given it was apparently driven by spare processing power in the T-series chips, putting it in a standalone keyboard might have been tricky, if not expensive. Then again, they've put TouchID in a standalone keyboard, so...

The one thing having a Touch Bar taught me was that I didn't use the Function Keys very often, as I never missed them. A physical Escape key, I did miss, and they at least fixed that in later models.

Of course, the one thing I really miss is the extra TB port they sacrificed for the HDMI and SD-Card slot on the current models. I mean the reason I didn't consider the 13" Apple Silicon MBP was that it only has two ports, which is just not enough.

Oh well, that's A$4199 down the tube. I really wanted a Max, but can't really afford it at the current prices. So, I got the upper Pro model. Should be plenty for home defence.

Plus Space Black, I mean, I couldn't not.