I'm stoked. I can get up and watch the event first thing at 8am instead of waiting till 11am like usual. Can't wait.
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Apple Invites Media to October 30th Event in New York City
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I was born in Brooklyn. “Artsy” wasn’t how it was described back then. “History” isn’t a long time
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Don’t be silly. The logos never mean much of anything. There will NEVER be a modular MacBook Pro. And they won’t be adding “proper ports.” If anything, they will remove ports.
Going from 10.5 to 12.9 I reckon..now I have the max I can see myself losing the smaller pro less so bigger iPad it is
Nice to see them mix things up a bit. These event time and locations have gotten boringly predictable for awhile.
Yeah, last year’s iMacs were updated in June, so I never expected an interim update. The 8th gen improvements were marginal except for the addition of the hex-core, whose loss was somewhat mitigated by the iMac Pro (albeit at a higher price).
The current design is somewhat long in the tooth, and this being the 20th anniversary it seems a logical time to refresh it. I’m assuming we can expect smaller bezels, better cooling and space grey at a minimum. The display is already excellent, so it’ll be interesting to see what the rumored display improvements might be, beyond True Tone. FaceID would be awesome and wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Just the people who are too stupid to realize they can use a USB-C port as a USB-A port with a $2 passive adapter.
Notice the similarities in the artwork for The Big Draw Festival in New York and the Apple event invitation?
It's a common conundrum many have faced, be it iPad, iPhone or Mac over the past 5+ years. Improvements to performance, generation to generation, have been incremental in most cases, making it more of a want than a need to have when Apple launches a "new" iPad or other device. It's a great thing for consumers, that there is less need to constantly replace devices.
I'm writing this post on a 2013 21" iMac that I wish had a higher res screen, but otherwise does what I need with no performance lag (that I can see). And I still use my 1st gen iPad Air, although it is definitely suffering performance-wise now, noticeable with lag in switching between apps or even tabs in Safari. I used to take it as my laptop replacement, but it's just too slow compared to my rMBP 15" (another 2013 model I have). Perhaps if Apple does indeed move to a smaller bezel design, I'll upgrade the Air and go back to traveling with an iPad.
You mean the original Mac Mini??
No, no superdrive, just the concept of a nested/closely connected stack of modular components. Yes the Quad Mini with the OWC MiniStack was a quite formidable desktop in it's time. Add the possibilities of 4 TB3 ports and the possibilities are endless. FWIW, I think Apple always thought of the Trash Can as the base of a modular system with 6 TB2 ports, but the form factor did not make a nested/stacked solution possible.
Me too. I have the first gen iPad Pro (2015) and while it's still going strong, the new form factor and Face ID is pulling me in.
You must have been gone for awhile, there have been many, many iPad Pro rumors. New iPad Pros are a given; mostly smaller bezels at about 9mm all around, FaceID, rounded corners, sub-6mm thickness, A12X, replacing Lightning with USB-C, new Pencil, more.
If there’s a Mac Pro sneak peek, expect release at WWDC. If the release will be the second half of 2018, I’d expect a sneak peak at WWDC.
iOS uses the exact same filesystem as OSX (currently APFS), if you meant the storage medium it's not like Apple can't put faster SSDs in the iPad Pro if they want to, and Apple's ARM based CPUs have been getting pretty impressive lately, so I wouldnt count out a more powerful A series chip for that kind of platform, at least for light editing work. I also wouldnt be surprised to see some sort of remote or cloud based versions, with the heavy lifting done elsewhere.
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When the new iPad is connected to a Monitor, Keyboard and Trackpad, iPad runs Marzipan version of iOS Apps in a windowed Desktop like macOS. It does have configurable Keyboard shortcuts like macOS. Also a Terminal App with Homebrew support is integrated in iOS 12, which requires Beta version of Xcode for iPad. Maybe.
with that:I know the difference: my last two iMacs (both stock models) performed well above their value. That’s all I want: Mac computers and iDevices that perform well, last awhile, and are thus worth their price -if not more so- as they used to be. Value to me is ease of use and enjoying the product for years.
Now, I am not so sure about Apple value
when they wouldn’t replace an 11th month old $1k+ iPad Pro that went touch screen screwy much earlier than that, despite AppleCare.
And now my 2018 iPad is exhibiting a lot of the same issues (and -worse- because the 2gb of memory is bottlenecking alot).
This makes me worried about getting value from any hardware Apple release going forward while they obnoxiously raise prices to maximize profits.
So, yeah, they have to prove themselves to me with hardware that isn’t going to conk out in under a year, and stop releasing software that hasn’t been rigorously tested. I want their hardware to last at 2.5 (iDevices) and 3-5 years (Macs) like it used to. I would roll my eyes at the prices, but just continue to be a happy Apple customer again.
Not much to ask to actually get usage value from their tech now, is it?
If macs/desktops/laptops went away and all we had were ipads, that might be OK as long as key elements of the desktop/laptop experience remained. iPads are great for taking in content, but for creating content and productivity, nothing matches the OSX-type of arrangement (vs. the simplistic iOS layout), physical mouse, and physical keyboard. Mate an iPad with those 3, plus improved data storage & input/output ports (since going wireless would still require charging or plugging in of that which was prevsiosly connected via cable), and now you have something.
- for content, iOS/iPad is fine.
- for productivity, iPad will never work, despite Apple's best attempts with those silly commercials last year where the "smart and connected" girl was clueless as to what a computer was. (eyes roll)
Well that's a very short sighted approach to me. No one is saying Macs are going away, but they will become used less and less over time. iPad';s can absolutely be productive computers. I manage a team of 60 people with nothing but my iPad Pro. My fiancee runs a graphic design business from her iPad Pro. It all comes down to the individual and their task. That old mentality that "real work" can only be done on a traditional desktop or laptop is just ignorant in my eyes, and usually comes from people who are simply afraid of adapting their workflows (or accepting their value) in an uncertain future. I always say though, use the best tool for the task at hand, so I support any decision people make in this regard.
While I agree that the foundational parts of the filesystem are the same, the "Userland" stuff on top of that most certainly is NOT.
And I also agree that Apple's ARM SoCs are getting quite impressive; but I really don't think they are quite up to the task, especially for video production work. Yet.
Apple in the Big Apple.
Why not do it in New York. Staying in Apple Park all the time must get boring. Maybe Tim Cook wants to ring the NYSE bell or do some Christmas shopping.
I don’t expect a Mac mini Pro, there’s no way to shoehorn a Xeon CPU and a workstation-class GPU into a mini form factor. I do think we’ll see a higher-spec’ed, more expensive entry price, about the same as the current $899 pricing of the 8GB/256GB SSD model.
The smaller iPad Pro currently starts at $649, I expect the new model to be around $699. The 12.9” should be close to its current $799 starting price as well.
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You people do realise that any "modular" aspect of a Mac Pro/Mini is refering to modules that Apple will sell you right? You don't really believe you can just take an off the shelf (read cheap) part and just plug it in and expect it to work?