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  • M1X Mac mini will be thinner, use iMac's magnetic power connector says leaker

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    spheric said:
    roundaboutnow said:
    I'm not an electrician, but a magnetic power connector like the one on the new iMac can exist only when the power flowing is DC not 110v AC. I think 110v AC is probably just too dangerous. In theory it might be possible to design an "AC MagSafe" but I doubt anyone wants to deal with the liability especially when it comes to selling it to the unwashed masses. Perhaps in an industrial setting you could get away with it.
    Magnetically attached AC power cords have been used for quite a while on consumer deep fryers. Very clunky, but they exist:


    Wow. That is SO illegal in most places. 

    It's illegal for a consumer deep fryer not to have one in the US, has been for well over a decade now.

    The electrical risk is pretty low, the pins are widely spaced and recessed.  The much greater risk is that someone tripping on or tugging a deep fryer cord might pull it off off a surface and dump very hot oil on themselves or others.
    cgWerks

  • Former Apple CDO Jony Ive helped design the 24-inch iMac

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    jcc said:
    I would find it very difficult to believe that Ive had anything to do with this piece of turd. It’s so fugly that a first year industrial design student wouldn’t design this.

    So you're saying it's got Ive's fingerprints all over it then.

    I was hoping his leaving would help.  But Apple keeps making the same mistakes, and doubling down making them worse.

    A power brick on a desktop computer is the kind of half-done garbage that you expect from sub-$300 low end PCs, not in a computer that costs over $1k.  But Ive values thinness over function, so we get this abomination.
    williamlondon

  • Apple Silicon M1 24-inch iMac review: Computing power for the masses

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    tedz98 said:
    I have a new strategy for Mac purchases: I’m buying a Mac mini M1 and a nice monitor. I’ll buy a low end Mini which makes it affordable and easy to upgrade by replacing it. This way I can have the benefits of new compute technology every 2-3 years without having to pay for the cost of the monitor.

    My strategy is to pick up Intel Macs for as cheap as I can as quickly as I can.  I'm not going to M1, I've been through too many architecture changes already, and I'm not doing this one.  I've used the M1s, and contrary to the reports, they're slower than Intel in real world use.

    I figure the last Mac I'll ever get will be an Intel Mac Pro in a few years.  Maybe a 16" Intel MBP.  And that'll be it for the Mac, I'm already making friends with Xubuntu.
    williamlondonKTR

  • Hands On: Aurum-Edition Apple Watch is a $6,000 24-karat timepiece

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    Beats said:
    Apple discontinuing the Edition was one of their biggest mistakes ever. Millionaires will just go to 3rd parties(like this one for example) to blow their money.

    Poor people always complain about why they can’t afford but Apple should have at least kept the OPTION for those who can afford it. 

    Look everybody, some jerk whose taxes aren't nearly high enough!!!!

    Apple has enough trouble with their reputation as a company that makes horrible products that only people with more money than brains buy as it is.

    The original "Edition" watch was a stupid mistake.  Apple likely only ever sold a few dozen, and probably lost tens of thousands of sales because of it.

    Spending seven digits on a watch is stupid, and that's true whether you spend it on an Apple watch or one of those ridiculous Swiss mechanical watches that for some stupid reason (marketing) are still being built in 2021 even though they've been utterly, totally, and completely obsolete for virtually my entire life.

    The 1st gen "Idiotion" was a bad idea, and quietly dropping it was an incredibly smart move from Apple.
    Beats

  • Apple unveils new 12.9-inch iPad Pro with mini LED Liquid Retina XDR display

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    k2kw said:
    So there is really no reason why macOS couldn’t be installed on the IPP.
    i see SuperOS emerging.   IPadPro with the new Keyboard for theIMac running macOS would be great.  They just to put 16 GB ram in this with a big SSD.  

    Edit: and external monitor.
    They already could have done this. iPadOS/iOS is based on OS X. They chose not to due to form factor and use case. They affirm it every year. 



    They're obviously lying, of course.

    Mac OS just keeps getting more and more like iOS, not the other way around.  And Mac hardware keeps becomeing more and more throwaway garbage, like the iPad.

    The new iMac is idiotically thin. 

    The main failure point on the MacBook Air is now the display, because it's so stupidly thin that it's incredibly fragile.  We used to see a broken display every few weeks, I was in the shop yesterday morning (I'm almost never there, I'm mostly working at home these days with occasional visits to client sites) and there were three broken display calls in half an hour.  That display is going to cost $600 to $800 if you break it.  "Oh, but I'll get Applecare" you think.  Yeah, I don't know about you, but I keep computers a LOT longer than three years.  My 2012 15" MBP is a MUCH better computer than this 2018 MBA that I'm typing on now.

    I'll leave you with Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie.



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