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some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
So can we TV/IV this? Or..

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some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
macOS at the end. Guess maybe they have something important to announce?? :O

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Jiggle mode

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Rick posted:

I like this idea but I will probably still keep using spotlight to find any app that isn't on the first or second page.

I like this idea but I will probably just not use any app that isn’t on the first or second page.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
This looks cool but unless I’m privacy focused I’m not sure why I’d use this over Google Translate.

I use GT daily so I’m still pumped to see this in action though.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

OldSenileGuy posted:

Is GT entirely on device? That seems to be the big thing to me. Especially when trying to use it somewhere where the WiFi or LTE signal is not reliable.

Yeah good question — I was under the impression that it was based on what packs I downloaded but I could be misremembering.

The advantage to GT for me is that it maintains my translate history across devices. When I look up phrases or terms in GT I can get at them in my history no matter where I am — Unless there’s a web version or macOS specific app I can use on my Mac, I’ll be losing that.

But I may have a specific use case for GT and that may not really bother a lot of people.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
RUN HAIRBOY RUN

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I forgot iOS even runs in light mode.

It’s gross.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
The only pencil improvement I want to hear is that you can change the default double-tap app away from Notes

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
This text entry thing should jive with whoever was asking about handwriting input in the iPad thread

Remains to see how universal it is though

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
poo poo kanji OCR is going to be so awesome for me

By which I mean “poo poo kanji” OCR, in my case

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
This AirPods auto switching sounds like a disaster waiting to happen imo

I use like three devices simultaneously most days, not sure it’ll be able to keep up well, but let’s see!

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Jose Oquendo posted:

Make sure you close your pornhub tabs when you're done.

Ding ding ding ding

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I wonder if they would have done this had it been live on stage

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Judging by the last four months in quarantine, the only way this bedtime thing would work for me is if it forcefully just logged me out of all my devices and then yelled GO TO BED over and over until it detected I was geofences in my bedroom.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Finally, a device that can shame me into washing my hands for the right length of time.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Jose Oquendo posted:

Make sure you close your pornhub tabs when you're done.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

FCKGW posted:

I wear my watch at night, I just pop it on the stand for like 30 minutes before I go to bed and it's good to go.

TBH I never really thought about how long I needed to charge the watch after a day to get it back to 100% — just always left it on the charger overnight. I should try this once new watchOS hits.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I completely forgot my AppleTV can play games

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
This brings the total of possibly watchable things on TV+ to like.. 3? 4?

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I’m pretty psyched about Foundation, not gonna lie.

Hopefully it airs before my free year of TV+ expires because smh if you think I’m paying for that service to watch one thing.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Secht posted:

Call me crazy, I like this prerecorded format better.

Yeah, much MUCH prefer this.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I... I don’t hate the to-iOS shift.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Holy poo poo iWork still exists?

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I love it. I’m probably in the minority but I love this.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Widgets are BACK BABY! :twisted:

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Here we goooo

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
RIP my Windows VM I guess

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
“Really great for games”

You mean the ports of mobile shovelware

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
HOW DID CRAIG GET HERE SO FAST?? :O

E: Oh wait never mind Tim was the last one talking before secret ARM man

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Office runs like poo poo on my 2019 13” MBP so I mean, if they can optimize PowerPoint to run better on Apple silicon than they did on Intel then maybe I’ll switch on day one.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
So... Xcode for iPad when, then?

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
So..

I'm pretty excited, not going to lie. I don't think anything outside of running my Windows VM is dependant on Intel for me, and if I can get equal performance to what I have now with drastically improved battery life (I would presume) then gently caress it -- sign me up. Looks like my 2019 13 MBP may be my last Intel machine.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
I don’t have it in front of me but wasn’t that almost verbatim what Steve said about PPC during the Intel launch?

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

FuturePastNow posted:

I've got a Powermac G5 with a manufacturing date of June 2006 and sometimes I wonder who paid $2500 for it at that point in time.

To anything that isn't a small business, a $2500 machine is just a consumable and they'll buy the machine they need now, not the machine they may need next year. Especially desktop stuff to finish projects, etc.

And I mean, Macs tended to be the realm of working creatives so I'd guess there was a good chance it was just a working machine that was bought as what I'd consider a consumable.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
qemu will probably be able to do x86-64 emu on day one, for all the Windows and x86 specific OS that people may have edge cases to run on their Mac these days, such as myself. The question is whether it’ll be worth the time given the fact that it won’t be virtualized but rather emulated so you’ll be taking a dip in performance. I’m not sure anyone can really answer how much of a dip we’d be looking at.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Boris Galerkin posted:

I knew people were worried about x86-64 emulation, but I don't think anyone was worried that virtualization was going away period. IIRC Apple showed native x86-64 software running via Rosetta Stone, and they showed ARM Linux running in Parallels. But have they shown that Rosetta Stone can run an entire x86-64 OS like Windows or the linux variants that people actually use? I think that's key because there are non-Mac software that people need to use on their Macs.

I highly highly HIGHLY doubt Rosetta will provide VT-x dynamic translation. I think it's more likely that the "virtualization" layer of OSX could provide some kind of qemu-esque x86-64 emulation but even that I'd be skeptical of.

I think folks who will need to run x86-64 workloads will be forced to look to emulation (again, via qemu or a commercial product that I'm sure will spring up overnight) or just abandon the Mac for a native x86-64 Linux or Windows machine.

I don't know what NDAs are in place, but assuming qemu has an existing ARM branch I would expect that the second someone gets one of the dev transition kit Mac Minis, qemu will be one of the first things recompiled and benchmarked and then we'll have our answer.

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some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
Eight years may be pushing it, but I don't think you should have an issue with at least five. Heck, given that the Intel install base is so huge I wouldn't be surprised if support was maintained longer by big developers as compared to the PowerPC->Intel transition.

I think the only thing the ARM transition should factor into, in deciding a computer to buy TODAY is just how much you want to futureproof yourself by speccing up. If I needed a computer today and my use case wasn't heavy computing I would now probably go buy a lower priced machine that would get me through the immediate tasks I expect to do in the next year and change. If I had to make the same decision without the ARM news I would probably have picked up the biggest machine I could afford "just in case".

That's just my philosophy though -- obviously others may have a differing viewpoint :)

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