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  • iPhone 12 mini Review: 'Mini' in name alone

    philboogiephilboogie
    An entire article on the mini, without any concrete info on how it compares to other iPhones. Oh well, I made a table for that:

    right_said_fredadyb

  • A maxed-out Mac Pro will cost you $53,000 -- without display

    philboogiephilboogie
    The HP looks better value, the HP uses a $16,000 CPU. It'll also come with far better on-site service support and maintenance too.

    The real issue is the Mac Pro is being marketed towards creative professionals both video and 3D professionals. Creative pros like me are buying Threadripper based workstations and filling them with nVidia GPUs. At every price point the Mac Pro is at least twice the price and slower than an equivalent PC. You often read on this forum that Professionals are not price conscious, we are especially when we can build two faster workstations for the price of one Mac Pro. Why on earth would we want to spend more and get less?

    The real world is moving to PCIe 4.0, Threadrippers will be available in 48 and 64 core counts for a fraction of the price of Apple's upgrade price alone early next year. Next gen GPUs from AMD and nVidia are expect in the first half of next year which will make the mid range Vega GPUs in the Mac Pro look obsolete. Come on Apple that 580x in the base config is a rebranded 3 year old GPU! It's a sub $200 card in the real world!

    I agree stop with the Max Price nonsense and look at the real comparison between the state of art in PC tech and this anachronism Apple has just released. I can see absolutely no good reason to buy the Mac Pro as a creative professional.
    This guy made a hackingtosh which is even faster than the nnMP. Only $3400

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXg9sMuGxB0


    gatorguy

  • Apple confirms 16-inch MacBook Pro 'popping' sound is software issue

    philboogiephilboogie
    netrox said:
    The ones that cling to old legacy ports for the sake of compatibility stay foolish.

    USB-C is the future to rule all. It's a done deal. The UX of USB-C is a huge improvement. No more fiddling wit ports being oriented correctly. It can power up to 100W, it can provide lines for high bandwidth monitors. It can do ethernet. It can do card readers. It can do much EVERYTHING. That's why there are docks and hubs out there that lets you use legacy devices and the USB-C will still support them. Get a dock.  All my new devices are USB-C based and I can say it's worth it since the UX is much better. 
    USB-C the future? People said that about Light Peak Thunderbolt as well (Ethernet, data, power et cetera) yet Apple removed it from the MacBook, yet had to reinstate it due to public demand in 2009. It is actually Thunderbolt tech in MacBooks, just with a USB-C connector. A connector which still needs to be orientated correctly (only round connectors don't need orientation, like an audio jack). They also replaced FW with USB on the iPod, which had a slower data transfer rate. Sometimes Apple downgrades things. Because things change. Evolve. Connectors get replaced by newer designs. USB-C will get replaced at some point in time.

    Here's a 'rant' on the removal of Thunderbolt:
    https://newatlas.com/no-firewire-kills-the-macbook/10238/

    Which made Steve put the connector back in. This site here got their longest thread ever, over 1,500 posts on the subject, back in 2009.

    Apple used to pride themselves on ports:


    • MagSafe power port
    • Gigabit Ethernet port
    • Mini-DVI port
    • FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps)
    • Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
    • Audio line in
    • Audio line out
    • Kensington lock slot

    jdwmuthuk_vanalingam

  • New German law mandates opening up Apple Pay NFC tech to rivals

    philboogiephilboogie
    urahara said:
    Lol. People who suggest Apple to pull out of Germany because it’s just a rounding error. 
    Are you the same people who suggested Apple pull out of China. And before that out of India. 
    By your business senses - Apple shouldn’t do business with any other countries except US, and maybe Canada and Australia. LoL.

    You sound like a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. 
    Germans love cash and use it far more than most advanced countries.
    QFT. Indeed, the average amount of cash a person from Germany is 103 dollars:

    Germany Is Still Obsessed With Cash

    The national disdain for plastic has become a proxy for profound concerns about trust, privacy and the role of the state.


    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-06/germany-is-still-obsessed-with-cash

    "Issing, the former ECB economist, accounts for this demand by making reference to an oft-repeated German maxim: “Cash is printed freedom”—offering the ability to transact with autonomy and anonymity in a country with good historical reasons to value both. Under the Nazis, he points out, the use of foreign currency was heavily restricted."


    cat52watto_cobraspheric

  • How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth

    philboogiephilboogie
    Yet even with Apple including Safari webbrowser to their iOS and macOS platforms, allegedly installed on more than 1.5 billion devices, its marketshare is a paltry 5.1%. Google's Chrome is on 72.4%, and people actually need to go online, download and install it. Somethings up, and it's not Apple's marketshare.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser#Market_share

    dysamoria