crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • Studio Display review roundup: From 'delightful' to 'unusable'

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    lowededwookie said:
    As soon as I read some reviews were calling it unusable the first name that popped into my head was the Verge.

    This magazine is filled with anti-Apple sentiment that it’s probably subscribed to by Putin.

    All of their Apple coverage is biased against Apple. I’ve hardly ever read anything positive about Apple from them.

    I’d refuse to accept their review as anything but pure drivel.
    Their Mac Studio and iPad Air reviews this week were both positive.
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  • Apple given an 'F' by US consumer advocacy group over difficult iPhone repairs

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    sdw2001 said:
    Dumb.  No one really cares about repairability any more.  The devices are solid state and integrated.  This means they require less repair.  We aren't talking about an x486 from 1995 here.  Things like batteries typically last longer than they used to as well.  For example, I've replaced the battery on my 2009 MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo three times.  I just unloaded my 2015 MBP after 5.5 years of use, and the battery was still at least 80%.  Most people really don't have the technical skills to repair these devices anyway.  It was different when you'd open up a beige box and swap out a 6 inch RAM module.  You know what else I can't really work on anymore? My car.  It's been like that for over 20 years.  
    Right to repair isn't really about "most people", it's about the thing being repairable at all, by repair shops and professionals.
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  • Apple's Mac Studio launches with new M1 Ultra chip in a compact package

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    What's missing?
    No upgradeability. At all. None. Zero. Nada.
    No way to upgrade the RAM, SSD or any other components.
    What you get is what you get. Forever. You are welcome.
    Not even a M.2 slot for when the built in SSD seems very slow and small two years from now.

    Those GPU speed/power charts were missing the name of the discrete GPUs they used for comparison. The charts shown when the M1 Pro and Max when the MacBook Pro was released ended up being very misleading. How exactly does the M1 Ultra stack up to a RTX 3090 when ray tracing in Blender? Who knows? Guess we have to wait for a real review to find out. We do know that that the M1 Max hash rate is around 10.7 MH/s while a 3090 gets 121 MH/s so even if the M1 Ultra is twice as fast, it is still 1/6th the speed of the 3090.
    The GPUs used are in the footnotes on the product pages: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/
    Popular discrete GPU performance data from testing Core i9-12900K with DDR5 memory and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Highest-end discrete GPU performance data from testing Core i9-12900K with DDR5 memory and GeForce RTX 3090. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac Studio.

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  • Apple launches the 27-inch Apple Studio Display with 5K, speakers, camera

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    KBuffett said:
    Does anyone know if this can be used with a PC?
    Probably usable, but you'll have difficulty adjusting any settings because there won't be any buttons, and Apple will only ship control software with macOS.
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  • Rumored 'Mac Studio' and new Apple display leaked in renders

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    Nothing has leaked, some dude has just made a mock up.
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