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  • Four new Macs spotted in Eurasian regulatory filings

    tipootipoo
    nht said:
    hodar said:
    Please, for the love of God - let the new Mac Mini's allow users to add RAM and internal drives.

    Soldering down the RAM, means that I'll continue using my 2012 Mac Mini's with 16 GB RAM, and my homemade Fusion Drive.  I will not buy a hamstrung Mac Mini, I will find myself FORCED to go back to Windows (and I don't want to do that).
    Unless it's a "pro mini" I doubt the RAM will be user replaceable.  

    If they put 32GB in the thing and you refuse to buy one just because then that's just silly.


    But a more upstream/Pro focused Mini is exactly the rumor. It's supposedly larger, or a top end model is. 

    Hoping larger means RAM/Storage are easily accessible. This, this was pure bullshit (2012 to 2014 model pictured, they moved the steel plate to the bottom for seemingly no reason but to hamper upgrades) 

    Image result for 2014 mac mini review ars
    boboliciousrazorpitargonaut

  • Four new Macs spotted in Eurasian regulatory filings

    tipootipoo
    Nothing so far has indicated a form factor change for the iMac, right? Might just be a spec bump + TrueTone or something (Kuo mentioned a display performance enhancement...ProMotion would be cool but 5K @ 120Hz sounds hard to drive!) 

    I wish they could/would extend the screen into the bezels more. 21.5" is a bit small for a main desktop screen imo, but with another inch it would be pretty ideal for the size. 
    ravnorodom

  • New iPad Pro again rumored to ditch Lightning for USB-C

    tipootipoo
    This could be good combined with one software change. 

    Presently, you can't do much of anything off an external drive on iPad, to, say, edit a video, you have to import to internal storage, edit, then export again to external storage. If they let you work right off of USB C drives at the same time as moving to C, that would be golden. 
    watto_cobra

  • ARM processor for Macs coming in 2020 or 2021, Apple car in 2023 says Ming-Chi Kuo

    tipootipoo
    Can't wait. A12 is up there with Skylake server performance per core, and NOT normalized per clock, just core vs core. 

    I hope Apple takes the opportunity to bring segmented Intel features like an AVX-512 equivalent down to more products. ARM has variable length SIMD so they can scale from 128 up to 2048. 
    Soliwatto_cobra

  • Apple denies claim China slipped spy chips into its iCloud server hardware [u]

    tipootipoo
    Wow, I don't remember Apple's official statements EVER being that hard hitting. Between their reputation and Bloomberg's, a lot is on the line here. 
    randominternetpersonentropysJWSCGeorgeBMacwatto_cobra