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Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, But Only 2GB Used

cmaier said:
unless you are a professional who relies on your mac to do 4k video editing and want to see the app’s controls at the same time as the video.

Just because you don’t need something doesn’t mean it’s “vastly overhyped.”
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Ofcourse 4K resolution is merely 8.8 Megapixels , a Human eyes resolution is 576 Megapixel.
Our Displays have a huge room for improvement.
 
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cmaier said:
unless you are a professional who relies on your mac to do 4k video editing and want to see the app’s controls at the same time as the video.

Just because you don’t need something doesn’t mean it’s “vastly overhyped.”
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Yeah I heard all the "Who needs 5K on a 27" monitor? Your eye can't even see the difference at 3 feet away". Then I got a 5K iMac (had a 30" Apple Cinema Display HD prior). The text is so clean and crisp, and video looks great. I'll never go back.
 
citysnaps said:
The subject of the story is about Apple's new display having 64 GB of storage of which 2 GB is currently used. Why would it be "silly" should Apple use that extra storage bringing out new features in the future
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… if that happens, great. If it doesn’t, well, you’re silly, too. Why can’t it be used right now? To get another headline in 3 months? That’s silly, too. Not to give people, especially those that immediately bought it without question, their actual moneys worth but wait to unlock features with time, which they don’t need to do.
That almost sounds like another lawsuit coming in.
 
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Apple's Studio Display contains 64GB of onboard storage, but only 2GB are actually used by the display, a developer has discovered.
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I suspect that Apple will introduce an "Apple Theatre Display" or "Apple Family Display" based on a similar internal platform, but with a larger screen, designed for the living room as a TV replacement, it'll have a camera like the Studio display, Centre Stage, FaceTime and AppleTV functionality. My guess is that it will have Thunderbolt and HDMI inputs, but no internal tuner.
 
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It is highly likely this is merely a 'firmware' iOS version running on the display. The A13 Processor, 64GB of storage etc are there to facilitate the displays' own functionality. I'd be amazed if Apple unlocked the device to be used as a desktop iOS device (although I am sure hackers are working on this right now)
 
So much space remains unused! Maybe as suggested, it has got to do with the storage controller of A13. Looks like Apple is using components in a way that it faces minimum part shortage, just like putting M1 on iPad Air.
 
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troublador said:
They're separate OSes, dear. They have been seen 2019. Is that incredibly difficult to understand or something?
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I don't know the exact argument happening here, but I think it's more nuanced than that. All of the Apple operating systems share the same core. They're all running the Darwin kernel. iOS and iPadOS share the same frameworks, filesystem, etc. It would be mildly crazy for Apple to maintain two distinct operating systems that share so many components.

If anything, I would say it's more like Linux distributions than operating systems. iPadOS and iOS are different interfaces on top of the same core operating system.

But who knows, I've been wrong before. Maybe they did fork iOS in 2019 and have been independently developing separate operating systems and trying to reach feature parity with each other. I don't know how Apple works.
 
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filchermcurr said:
I don't know the exact argument happening here, but I think it's more nuanced than that. All of the Apple operating systems share the same core. They're all running the Darwin kernel. iOS and iPadOS share the same frameworks, filesystem, etc. It would be mildly crazy for Apple to maintain two distinct operating systems that share so many components.

If anything, I would say it's more like Linux distributions than operating systems. iPadOS and iOS are different interfaces on top of the same core operating system.

But who knows, I've been wrong before. Maybe they did fork iOS in 2019 and have been independently developing separate operating systems and trying to reach feature parity with each other. I don't know how Apple works.
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This was my assumption too, wrong or right.
 
troublador said:
They're separate OSes, dear. They have been seen 2019. Is that incredibly difficult to understand or something?
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Yes, it is. Because they are essentially the same OS, one just has features not available in the other since its designed to run on larger screens. They are also both stale and boring on any screen size.
 
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moodler said:
Maybe they just a had a huge backlog of them and a factory sitting around
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That's what I assumed, but it turns out it has a large logic board that looks ready to house a much beefier chip (the board on the bottom right):

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