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Digital_Jesus posted:As someone who just moved from a 2015 MBPR to a 2018/2019 model... The keyboard isn't as good as the the 2015s, however its still perfectly servicable. What is not at all acceptable, however, is this loving garbage dick rear end piece of trash OLED bar. I like the travel/feel of the new keyboards, but it's clear they need to address the reliability concerns so we aren't all stuck without out laptops for a week because of a spec of dust. Install BetterTouchTool and leave the TouchBar blank unless you activate it while holding down fn/command/option or whatever. Tablet hybrids are stupid and I don't understand why people want to cover their laptop in fingerprints when we have this beautiful interface called the TrackPad.
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Won’t the Apple ARM replacement chips be smaller than Intel CPU’s? Apple’s waiting until the transition to shave 4mm and then add 3mm back for a decent keyboard. Digital_Jesus posted:Also make a loving iPad Pro that runs touch-enabled OSX with two USB-C ports you assholes. I'm tired of carrying a laptop just to console cable into things and I don't want a drat surface because Windows sucks more than this oled touch bar. Isn’t there an adapter that lets you console from iPads? That may be Cisco devices only though.
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Also they could make a Qi charger pad and catch up to 5 year old technolo — oh wait lol
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Spending nearly two years in a product and not releasing even a dumbed-down version of that product is truely brave.
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Probably not an uncommon thing to happen.. the rare part is it is a product that was already announced.
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kefkafloyd posted:Apple's released laptop versions that were thicker than the previous ones, but it's been over a decade since they did that. truly some 2008 hp tier loving bullshit right there
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xzzy posted:Probably not an uncommon thing to happen.. the rare part is it is a product that was already announced. They also show the thing on the new Air pod packaging so it must have been really far along.
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Gerard Williams III, who led the design of every Apple chip core from the A7 to the A12X, departed the company last month, CNET has learned.
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Okay here’s a weird problem I’ve encountered I’m trying to create a Windows 10 boot disk using boot camp, I downloaded the iso, went through the process and it won’t finish as it says it can’t save the support software. I’ve tried a few things but can’t get it to work, one guide online suggests going into safe mode but for some reason it won’t it just hangs on the apple loading screen when the bar gets about 2 thirds through. This is all very frustrating...any ideas?
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Mar 31, 2019 21:52
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eames posted:Gerard Williams III, who led the design of every Apple chip core from the A7 to the A12X, departed the company last month, CNET has learned. Not good.
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Chris Knight posted:Not good. For whom? He oversaw miniaturization during a stagnation of processor capabilities that are now capped out on efficiency. Normal user processor performance is nowhere near full utilization. We're just gonna see bigger batteries instead of billions in R&D to eke out 10% greater efficiency in a chip.
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jokes posted:For whom? He oversaw miniaturization during a stagnation of processor capabilities that are now capped out on efficiency. Normal user processor performance is nowhere near full utilization. We're just gonna see bigger batteries instead of billions in R&D to eke out 10% greater efficiency in a chip.
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Chris Knight posted:Not good. The "why" is he leaving seems super important, and the why did not seem obviously stated in the article. Unless he just wants to be the new "Jim Keller - mercenary CPU designer".
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Apr 1, 2019 15:40
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Some people at that level just get bored after a while and want to find new opportunities. Nothing too much to read into it. Apple has something like 1000 engineers just working on chip design, they’ll be fine.
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For example they lost Chris Lattner, the superstar engineer/manager responsible for LLVM, Clang, and Swift. (Extremely key programming language tools if you have no idea what those are.) He just wanted to do something different than he’d been doing for 10+ years at Apple, so he left to join Tesla. (Unfortunately for Chris, the grass wasn’t greener because Elon Musk is a total dipshit. He was out in less than a year. I think, but am not sure, that he’s back at Apple now.)
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Holy poo poo look at this great new hub it has everything you ever wanted for only $99.99! https://www.hypershop.com/blogs/news/hyper-releases-the-mother-of-all-usb-c-hubs April Fools!
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Binary Badger posted:Holy poo poo look at this great new hub it has everything you ever wanted for only $99.99! There are probably some people who would actually want that product.
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It's missing this though. https://twitter.com/GraceSpelman/status/1112746622138621958
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BobHoward posted:For example they lost Chris Lattner, the superstar engineer/manager responsible for LLVM, Clang, and Swift. (Extremely key programming language tools if you have no idea what those are.) He just wanted to do something different than he’d been doing for 10+ years at Apple, so he left to join Tesla. hes at google now leading tensorflow support
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American McGay posted:It's missing this though. gently caress, I hate that thing. Genius move Lenovo, coming out with a new OneLink connector for literally one generation of laptop before you realize the whole idea is trash and use TB3 instead.
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If connectors weren't in a constant transition phase, no one would buy new computers so it's all they got to keep shilling their junk.
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Binary Badger posted:Holy poo poo look at this great new hub it has everything you ever wanted for only $99.99! No S-Video, no sale!
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Binary Badger posted:Holy poo poo look at this great new hub it has everything you ever wanted for only $99.99! 
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TealShark posted:No S-Video, no sale! Ah, go buy an SGI Indy if you want S-Video
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stevewm posted:There are probably some people who would actually want that product. How many hours of battery life does it buy you since logically most of the bulk comes from the giant UPS battery that's powered by that AC jack right? Seriously though, my rMBP 2013 has the ports that anyone actually cares about (USBA, SD Card Reader, HDMI) and it's 1/4" thicker who gives a poo poo.
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Apr 2, 2019 01:15
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I assume the GeekPort is on the other side
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My portable Mac is a 15" 2016 MacBook Pro. I shoot a Nikon D850 tethered to it for my work, and recently have found that its struggling to keep up in Lightroom. I can't always wait to get back to my iMac (a 2017 5K) which crunches through the files no trouble. 2 Questions: Is there a site I can use to compare speeds to a current gen 15" to see if an upgrade would bring enough of a meaningful difference? Are we X months from a significant upgrade in terms of speed or design and I should just suck it up for a while longer?
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Binary Badger posted:Ah, go buy an SGI Indy if you want S-Video Nah, you just need a good old AlBook.
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Binary Badger posted:Holy poo poo look at this great new hub it has everything you ever wanted for only $99.99! Take that and swap the floppy for an EGPU and you have a product that (as long as it was priced under $500) I think a lot of people would actually consider buying. All the current EGPUs suffer some combination of taking up a lot of desk space, being absurdly expensive even empty, or for some stupid reason sharing a single Thunderbolt controller for the graphics card and the USB ports so you can't actually use the ports in the box without everything stuttering constantly. Roadie fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Yeast posted:2 Questions: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks Going by the scores, what, a 10% difference? Wouldn't be enough for me unless I was super obsessive about HEVC hardware assisted playback, which I'm not. quote:Are we X months from a significant upgrade in terms of speed or design and I should just suck it up for a while longer? IMHO hold off on possibly a new design rMBP, maybe 16 inches screen this summer? Even if so, they'll likely keep selling the 2018s until no one buys them anymore.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Yeast posted:My portable Mac is a 15" 2016 MacBook Pro. Are your workloads commensurately larger or more taxing than they were before? Maybe something’s slowing down your current machine. That said, you can get something waaaaay more powerful (i9, Vega GPU) but it will cost $$$$$. The performance gains are somewhat less epic among the lower spec 2018s
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Friendly warning: I just picked up one of the new Lacie Mobile USB-C Drives (4TB) because that's all my local Apple Store had in stock. I noticed that transfer rates oscillated between 50 and 100 MB/s during the initial sequential write, slowing down to 25 MB/s towards the end. Turns out that they contain 2.5" Seagate drives with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). Both Lacie and Seagate hide this fact in their datasheets.
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Even if the 16" MBP comes out this year you should never buy a first gen product because they always, ALWAYS, have problems.
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eames posted:Friendly warning: I just picked up one of the new Lacie Mobile USB-C Drives (4TB) because that's all my local Apple Store had in stock. I noticed that transfer rates oscillated between 50 and 100 MB/s during the initial sequential write, slowing down to 25 MB/s towards the end. I have one of those but in USB 3.0 and it hits around 125 read. Were you expecting TB3 SSD speeds?
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tuyop posted:I have one of those but in USB 3.0 and it hits around 125 read. Were you expecting TB3 SSD speeds? No, I just wasn't expecting a drive with SMR (Seagate used to call these "archival grade" a while ago). I'm sure it has a pretty huge cache to hide the SMR performance characteristics, so many users may never notice, but uninterrupted sequential writes slow down below 25 MB/s when it fills up.
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Mu Zeta posted:Even if the 16" MBP comes out this year you should never buy a first gen product because they always, ALWAYS, have problems. Might not have any choice, this 2012 MBP is getting long in the tooth. 
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Yeast posted:Are we X months from a significant upgrade in terms of speed or design and I should just suck it up for a while longer? Mu Zeta posted:Even if the 16" MBP comes out this year you should never buy a first gen product because they always, ALWAYS, have problems. At this point I just wait a bit for the early adopters to deal with and report on whatever possible early production hiccups (or questions I have) and decide from there. I’d be particularly curious about the keyboard whenever they redesign the thing. If there’s a keyboard at all. Or if it even has an Intel chip 
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Apple needs to gently caress off the Touch Bar, but I have this lovely feeling someday it'll grow to replace the entire keyboard. "What? You chuckleheads kept complaining about the keyboards, look, we took the physical keys away? Aren't you happy?!" Apple also needs to start doing things in this order: design good hardware, layout make sure all technical issues are ironed out don't bring in Ive until the very last second when its too late for him to do anything that affects the first two release the fucker At the current moment, it's the opposite order.
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It's gonna be an oled keyboard with little silicone bubbles for keys. And haptic feedback for when you mush the little breast implants.
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Now that bendy screens are a thing, it's not inconceivable to imagine that in a few years the entire inside surface of a Mac could be a single flexible display. The bottom half could be set up to look like the keyboard and trackpad we have now, and if you open it all the way it transforms into a gargantuan iPad.
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