iJustine's Mac Pro unboxing. That one is a prefect example of "so bad that it's good".
But this video just seems like a waste of time.
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iFixit Shares Mac Pro Uncasing and First Impressions
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But this video just seems like a waste of time.
Customer: What about some cheddar then?
Wenslydale: We don't get much call for that around here.
People here would love a seal skin carry case to protect their Mac Pro.
Really getting sick of the cheese grater jokes. Dumb. Stupid. Not funny. Nope.
Seriously sir. [Some citizens in this thread are being super serious about a seriously super silly situation. Sadly.] ←(say that 3x fast) My man up the page actually claimed: "iFixit is about offering a service to people in the form of repair guides, access to parts, etc. There's a certain amount of gravitas that should go along with that." Gravitas? iFixit?!?! A DIY shop... gravitas. Tee hee. Faux-outrage makes people say crazy things.
What a stupid video, with two morons narrating -- and spare me your politically correct pearl-clutching. Worst video ever by iFixit.
One thing you can glean from the video -- this is a solidly-built Pro machine. Looks like it's very well engineered.
One thing you can glean from the video -- this is a solidly-built Pro machine. Looks like it's very well engineered.
Yeah. Me too. I had just updated firmware on my monitor too and...
WHY IS THERE NO SOUND! WHAT DID I DO!?
Oh. The video was made by doofuses.
I don’t remember needing a screwdriver to access stuff in my old cheese grater chassis. More courage Phil, more courage.
I dunno about that. They have a ton of guides to helping rather specifically with Apple stuff. They give other products low scores too.
And I would have thought the AirPods score was silly until I owned a pair. I love them conceptually and when they work they work well. But... ~$175 for disposable headphones is pretty disgusting—especially for a company that gives so much lip service to environmental issues.
Seems like they could have sacrificed form just a little and made the "straws" parts you could unscrew. A little aluminum band would have looked cool too.
TBH I hate jokes that are incredibly overused. It was barely funny 5 years ago and it’s really not funny now.
If I ran this site I would ban anyone that says anything followed by ‘it wrong.” We get it, Steve Jobs said ”You’re holding it wrong“ in an email about the iPhone 4 antenna bands but you should probably try to come up with something original.
If I ran this site I would ban anyone that says anything followed by ‘it wrong.” We get it, Steve Jobs said ”You’re holding it wrong“ in an email about the iPhone 4 antenna bands but you should probably try to come up with something original.
As said by ifixit, "So pretty, so cool, so pretty, so heavy, looks like a cheese grater, so pretty, it has Phillips screws!!!"🤦♂️ What is going on at ifixit??!!! Is everything ok over there?
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After that cheese grating stunt you know that this was these people's first and last ever video for ifixit
The funny thing is that if they made a perfectly repairable computer like they advocate, iFixit would be in trouble because they couldn't peddle shady aftermarket replacement components from China. Everybody would buy those parts from the usual retailers. Perfect example: how much coverage of Dell Optiplex and HP Elitedesk desktops do they do?
Since I haven’t seen the video I can’t comment on how funny it is (to me), but apparently it’s hit or miss. If it’s not funny to someone, I wouldn’t necessarily ascribe it to them being too serious, rather it’s probably just not their kind of humor.
Maybe kind of like stand ups; some people think X isn’t funny, but to someone else they’re hilarious ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PS For the record I refer to the older model as a cheese grater, and this one looks even more like one 😂 To me it’s just descriptive, not insulting in the least (but also not funny). I call the 2013 the cylinder, because to me it never looked like a trash can; it’s much too small. But if someone wants to say, “I bought more memory for my trash can” that’s fine, cool with me
But if someone tries to use it as an insult, I’ll echo it back to take away its power to disparage. Same when someone says Timmy or Tim Apple. I’ll use it back but in a complimentary fashion.
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Don’t bet on it lol. Their boss and/or management may well have thought it was hilarious 🤣
That cheese grater will accumulate dust as hell with time.
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I'm trying to do some vaccum cleaner joke... not as funny, but more likely to happen in the real life.
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I'm trying to do some vaccum cleaner joke... not as funny, but more likely to happen in the real life.
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Interestingly, to me anyway lol, Jobs never said “you’re holding it wrong”. He actually said “just avoid holding it in that way”.
The actual quote has neither the accusatory tone nor the victim blaming that makes the fabricated quote so appealing to some here on the forums.
In the terse, efficient, no BS manner that is so typical of Jobs (especially in email replies) he not only acknowledges the problem, albeit tacitly, but offers the user an eminently practical solution
MacRumors has been a haven for trolls for years now and as the OP here demonstrates it is officially sanctioned by the owners.
If you think MacRumors is a haven for trolls, then you clearly haven't been to many other sites on the internet...
My gold standard for a well run tech website is ArsTechnica.
Take a minute and pick out an article of interest to you and read its discussion thread.
The quality of the responses is several orders of magnitude above the dross here at MacRumors, plus they have effective comment sort options that allow the reader to quickly filter out the troll-o-sphere.
I learn more about current tech in one visit to ArsTechnica than I have in the past decade here at MacRumors.
Mac Rumors is a web site for very serious computer men who do NOT have freaking frackking time for Joke`s and Jape;s.