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  • Apple's Mac mini now inexcusably getting trounced by cheap Intel hardware

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    I think you've answered your own question by buying a NUC that is centered around PC gaming. That's their primary reason for existing, and the prices that include RAM etc. end up very similar to MacBooks and iMacs at the low-end. So why not just buy a MacBook or iMac?
    Which MacBook or iMac gives you 2.6Ghz quad-core i7, Thunderbolt 3, 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD, and 16GB of RAM for around $800? I realize the NUC doesn't come with a monitor, but iMac or MacBook-quality monitors can be had for well under $300.  

    The iMac with 2.3GHz i5, 16 GB RAM, and 256 GB SSD is $1499.

    Apple does not have anything that competes with this at this price point.
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  • Apple's Mac mini now inexcusably getting trounced by cheap Intel hardware

    tylersdadtylersdad
    Yeah, but instead of having power, the Mac mini has that cool Apple factor and Apple industrial design. That's far more useful than actual computing power...
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  • Microsoft Windows team wants iMessage on Windows devices

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    rogifan_new said:
    asdasd said:

    iMessage isn’t even on iCloud.com. No way will Apple do anything to make it easier to switch to someone else’s hardware and iMessage is probably the stickiest thing in Apple’s ecosystem. 
    Switch to what? Most iPhone users are Windows users for PCs, a stat that I worked out by comparing the installed base of iPhones in use with the installed base of Macs.
    Sure but if Apple ported iMessage to Windows (or allowed Microsoft to support it) the demand would be to do it for Android too which would be a disaster for iPhone IMO.
    OR.....

    Some people--like me--won't switch to Android because I don't want to give up iMessage. If iMessage appeared on Android, it would take away my barrier to switching.
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  • Microsoft Windows team wants iMessage on Windows devices

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    Soli said:
    tylersdad said:
    mjtomlin said:
    tylersdad said:
    "We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard.” Steve Jobs, 2010
    You can't force a standard, you can only propose one. It can be rejected regardless of what Steve Jobs wanted.
    I can't find any evidence to suggest that FaceTime was ever proposed as a standard.
    What do you mean by proposed? It was never up as an open source solution, but Steve Jobs certainly said it would be. If you mean the former, then no. If you mean the latter, than I'm sure we can dig up the event where he said it.
    If you look at my original post (Reply #3), you'll see that I referenced Jobs' quote about making it a standard. Another commenter pointed out that a lawsuit may have been the death of FaceTime as a standard.
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  • Microsoft Windows team wants iMessage on Windows devices

    tylersdadtylersdad
    Count me as another who'd like to see this happen. I'd also like to see the long-awaited arrival of FaceTime as an open standard too, but I'm not holding my breath for either, frankly. 

    "We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard.” Steve Jobs, 2010
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