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  • Leaked M1 Ultra Mac Studio benchmarks prove it outclasses top Mac Pro

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    melgross said:
    Well, I was hoping to be able to test this myself soon, but apparently, even though I ordered a couple of minutes after the store went live, I’ll be waiting sometime into April for the monitor and until late April and possibly early May for the computer.

    i’m using the 16” Macbook Pro with 32 graphics cores and 64GB RAM now, so I’m really interested to find out how close to a doubling in performances I’ll see with this. Double the rendering engines as well. That should prove interesting.

    I'm a bit disappointed in the monitor though. I was hoping for a model that was somewhat more expensive, with miniLED, and possibly even 6K, as I’m hoping the new higher end monitor expected to come out will also use MiniLED, an advance over what it has now, and possibly go to 8K, though now I’m reading something about 7k, which is an odd resolution. But I bought this new one anyway. From what I’m reading, it should be somewhat better than the present iMac versions.

    MORE expensive?  $1,600 starting price isn't highway robbery enough for you? 

    No idea why you bought one of these then.  Apple's got you covered, they can rape your wallet very effectively with their other stupidly high priced monitor.  Might as well option it up, with the stand and the VESA mount (why not have both, since you're so filthy rich) it's only $7,197.00

    For the rest of us, $500 is a very high end price for a really good 27" monitor.  My eyes can be perfectly happy with $300 one.
    williamlondon

  • Steve Jobs wasn't a good engineer, had to learn communication & sales says Wozniak

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Woz is right.  He was the competent one, Jobs was the idiot blabbermouth.  Woz made stuff, Jobs made noise.

    Jobs was fired for a good reason in 1985, he should have been fired again in 1996.  Apple was a good company because of Woz.  Apple succeeded in spite of Steve Jobs, and turned into a far worse company because of him, Ive, and Cook.
    grandact73cornchip

  • Apple looking to the past, working on how to put a Mac in a keyboard

    darkvaderdarkvader
    As others have pointed out, this is not innovative, should absolutely not be patentable, and is an incredibly stupid idea.

    We put up with the computer being under the keyboard in a laptop because there's not a better place to put it.  It results in the destruction of many laptops and a huge amount of lost data.  I've seen so many thousands of liquid damaged laptops over the years.  And, interestingly enough, the users most likely to spill something in their laptop seem to be the least likely to have a backup.

    Keyboards are fragile, and they are subject to frequent exposure to liquids, dust, dirt, food, and physical abuse.  They have a short lifespan.  Maybe that's the idea, Apple thinks the frequent destruction will sell more computers....
    williamlondonviclauyyc

  • Apple announces 'Tap to Pay', lets users take payments on iPhone

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    hmlongco said:
    Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?

    Toothing?
    williamlondon

  • Peloton appoints new CEO, announces layoffs of 2,800 employees

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Xed said:  Are you aware that Peloton does more than "dumb bikes"?
    Sure, they also do killer treadmills.
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