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  • Apple debuts $549 AirPods Max over-ear headphones

    saareksaarek
    Yeah, good luck with that. I can buy a pair of Bowers & Wilkins PX7’s for £289 right now, they were down as low as £220 in October (an absolute steal at that price), no way would I pay twice that for these.
    lkruppwilliamlondonchemengin1kkqd1337NotoriousDEVdysamoriadavgreg

  • Apple's leather sleeve for iPhone 12 review: expensive, but without equal

    saareksaarek
    Just far too expensive. You can almost buy an iPod touch for this case!
    williamlondonlkrupptwokatmewfred1elijahg

  • Apple releases macOS Big Sur with redesign, Safari updates and more

    saareksaarek
    lkrupp said:
    I’m not seeing it! Son-of-a-bitch Apple! Oh wait! I have a late 2013 iMac 14,2 and it won’t run Big Sur. Sorry, my bad B)
    Your 2013 iMac supports Metal. Give it a few days and DosDude will release an easy to use patch that will make your iMac work just fine. No technical reasons whatsoever that your iMac can't run Big Sur, it's just Apple seeing your computer as end of life. I do strongly recommend you get an SSD if you don't already have one and make sure you have at least 8GB of Ram.

    My daughters 2010 MacBook Pro works great with Catelina, no reason to think you would have any issue with Big Sur on your iMac.
    cornchip

  • Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs

    saareksaarek
    elijahg said:
    mdriftmeyer said:

    elijahg said:
    I suspect the desktops will have a different CPU (M2? D1?) than the laptops. Presumably some iteration eventually will end up in the Mac Pro, with PCIe support, and with it PCIe GPUs. Either that or Apple will just abandon the iMac Pro and Mac Pro, I wouldn't be hugely surprised.
    They abandon their pro lines they might as well stop selling Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X, because the entire creating markets will abandon them.
    Well honestly I'm not sure they really care, because I don't think there *are* many creatives left using Macs. Apple is so ditzy when it comes to pros (and their software, FCP X for example, Shake, Aperture, etc) that plenty of businesses that rely on pro software have switched to Windows where they can be sure they aren't going to be abandoned at the drop of a hat. The BBC for example used to do most of their editing on Macs, but they switched to Windows and Avid a number of years ago. Not sure what they're using software-wise now.
    The BBC uses Nuke, by Foundry. And yes, they now use Windows.

    A friend who works there remembers the days when it was all G5 PowerMacs, ah the glory days.
    elijahgphilboogie

  • Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs

    saareksaarek
    22july2013 said:
    Maybe it was just an embarrassment to Apple to support external GPUs that had slower speeds than their internal one.
    Integrated Graphics are fine for the average consumer surfing websites, etc. But discrete graphics have always crushed them and likely always will. I do wonder what reason they could have to remove support for External GPU's? I suppose it doesn't matter for something like the MacBook Air, I doubt many if any people used one on that machine anyway, but they need to offer this for their real "Pro" machines.
    mdriftmeyerwilliamlondon