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  • Intel 10nm Cannon Lake delays push potential 32GB MacBook Pro into 2019

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    No wonder the iMac is gaining in popularity. After a decade+ of laptop design improving by leaps & bounds, we seem to be in a new golden age of all-in-ones.

    i bought my first iMac since 2009 late last year. I’ve been using MacBook Pros in the meantime, but didn’t see the value right now. 
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  • CarPlay becoming pivotal purchase priority for new car buyers

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    Toyota seems to be the major CarPlay holdout. Maybe I feel this way since I just bought a RAV4 hybrid to replace my fiance’s Prius. The tech is nice in the top trim Limited. Great cameras. Great nav.

    But just reading the music on my iPhone required a long indexing process that didn’t complete during our test drive. I assume this is a one-off step that isn’t required every time I connect my phone, but i haven’t felt like trying again since the issues during the test drive. 

    If this were my daily driver, the lack of CarPlay would be a dealbreaker. But she loves it. It will be my turn next car :)
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  • The 2019 Mac Pro will be what Apple wants it to be, and it won't, and shouldn't, make ever...

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    seanismorris said:
    I guess Mac people live in a different world...

    I would buy a Dell and gut it (when appropriate)... new Ram, SD drive, video cards.  Every 2 years brings such a huge boost of performance...

    Of course, upgrading laptops is limited to Ram + SD.  But upgrades are so easy in the PC world, if I move to a Mac I’d expect the same.

    I’d purchase an A series Apple laptop expecting limited upgrades, but for Pro level devices that’s unacceptable.


    You are right. We live in a different world.

    I have NO interest in tearing apart a computer every couple years.

    If Apple can design a better way to upgrade (their "modular" terminology implies they have not nailed down exactly what upgrading means) I'm interested.
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  • The 2019 Mac Pro will be what Apple wants it to be, and it won't, and shouldn't, make ever...

    polymniapolymnia
    Its great that Appleinsider is writing this article. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment expressed.

    Having performed many upgrades to my Apple machines over the years puts me solidly in the typical AI reader camp. PCI cards. Memory. HHD/SSD/Optical. So there are my tinkerer bona fides.

    I make my living with my Mac. Graphic design and photo editing. There are my Pro bona fides.

    Being an avowed tinkerer and pro doesn't mean I have any preconceived notion about the evolution of the Mac Pro line. I have no sacred cows so long as I can run Adobe software as fast as possible and be able to continue doing so for the next several years.

    It's Apple's job to design an amazing Pro machine. I'm willing to accept occasional failures in the interest of moving the state of the art forward.

    Maybe that means a rack mount device. Maybe a warmed-over cheese grater. Or maybe computing units that stack like Lego.

    That's Apple's task.

    In the meantime, I'm going to spend my time being a Pro: making the money to buy whatever Apple comes up for Pros in 2019.
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  • Apple planning to ditch Intel chips in Macs for its own custom silicon in 2020

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    mdriftmeyer said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    mdriftmeyer said:
    As a NeXT/Apple alum you folks are blatantly ignorant of the meaning of Fat Binary. Fat binaries were the binaries of NeXTSTEP/Openstep that were built binaries of the OS to run natively on different hardware architectures instruction sets.

     Apple continues working on shoring up the custom ARM based CPUs of its own design and still licenses the IP in order to produce them has nothing to do with leaving macOS to fend for itself on ARM based only instruction sets.

    More importantly, the effort to create OS X even with decades of x86/PPC/Moto/SPARC expertise took 5 years to get a limped version out the door, and that was already with a platform native on x86. The Rosetta was a compatibility layer on top of it.

     The logical solution moving forward is for Apple to license IP from AMD to have them build custom ASIC designs of SoC APUs and use their discrete CPUs/GPUs with the upcoming Thunderbolt licensing [now royalty free] to have a custom Thunderbolt controller designed by Apple on their boards, that are compatible with AMD's x86 chipsets, thus freeing Apple from relying solely on Intel.
    Before you throw stones, you'd better look at your history, and see what else the term was also applied to.

    I'm aware of your definition, and the usage you cite. However, there are more.
    The term FAT binary is actually patented by NeXT now owned by Apple. That term, is the only use we should ever discuss.
    And Kleenex is proprietary to Kimberly Clark or P&G or whatever. But if there is a box of Puffs sitting on your desk and someone asks you to “pass me a Kleenex, please” do you launch into this same argument?

    Breaking it down further, if you and the person asking for the Kleenex had been talking about how to cure a cold prior the request for a Kleenex and having a disagreement. Once you proclaimed there is no Kleenex here, you have also convinced yourself by extension that your cold remedy is the best one. 

    Well played. 
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