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  • Apple's $4,999 all-in-one iMac Pro launches Thursday, Dec. 14

    tipootipoo
    Giving the X to youtubers first was fine I guess, giving the iMac Pro to a bunch of youtubers first is kind of a chuckle lol. 

    Here's the most detailed tests I've seen, numbers of course look good

    http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20171212/
    emoellerwatto_cobra

  • Apple issues macOS High Sierra update to fix password-less root vulnerability

    tipootipoo
    Looks like this was known about two weeks ago. Only having a 'drop everything and fix shit' patch 24 hours later is just from the point of mass media coverage forming a critical mass, which seems endemic of Apple fixes right now. 

    https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235


    I hope their audit brings about good change. Their QC seems whack of late. I don't care if it's longer between OS releases, I want them stable, secure, and high performance.
    h2pwilliamlondon

  • 'Hey Siri' may come to iMac Pro with rumored inclusion of A10 Fusion co-processor

    tipootipoo
    Hey Siri is just what the developer found - A8 could already do that, A10 is way overkill. Clearly there's a lot more here. I'm thinking background downloads, power nap, sleep, security, etc. 

    I think they'll move more to the ARM side over time and use it like a more split big.little, let the Xeon focus on the big tasks. The PS4 does this really well, such that you can play a game on the x86 cores while the ARM core is installing them. 
    watto_cobratenthousandthings

  • Apple releases iOS 11.1.1 update with 'i' autocorrect fix, 'Hey Siri' bug repair

    tipootipoo
    waverboy said:
    Has battery life been fixed?  I'm not updating my 6s Plus to iOS 11 until that happens.

    11.1 seems between 10 and 11.0 in battery life, 11.1.1 does not seem to improve this further. 

    My framerate on my 7 is also still all over the place. 
    waverboy

  • Tim Cook email claims Mac mini 'important part' of Apple's product matrix

    tipootipoo


    - don't you think reliability is way overrated?

    Based on service statistics, Apple's reliability is twice as good as it was in 2000, and better than it was in 2010. The difference between both of those time periods and now is a larger visible number of failures because of an expanded user base rather than a higher percentage of failures.

    Interesting to hear, links? It can be easy to forget that most things do get better over time, and perhaps increasing reliability was one part of what drove all sealed in designs as well (not forgivable on a mini desktop though). 

    2010 is one thing though - that's when the world switched to lead free solder before it was ready, and we had 2009-2011 soldergate Macbook Pros as well as other devices (360 was partly caused by this, though a few years earlier). 

    I'd be interested to see 2015 Macbook Pro vs 2016 Macbook Pro reliability, that tried and tested 2015 design vs the new butterfly/thinness design. 

    cgWerksGG1