There are plenty of 10-bit monitors out now. OS X does not support them.
Amount does not equal range. RGB matches human eye perception poorly.
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There are plenty of 10-bit monitors out now. OS X does not support them.
Amount does not equal range. RGB matches human eye perception poorly.
This does a better job of explaining it than I can. For every use, 24-bit color is fine. But when you start getting into more specialized fields that need more than 256 steps on a single color ramp, well...
Anecdotal survey results from Consumer Reports
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As opposed to all those other organic PCs that you put in your compost or feed to your pets
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You're funny
Most of us here are big Apple fans if you haven't yet realised. Most people call me an apple fanboy. That doesn't mean myself and others who are big Apple fans can not be critical of what we see is Apple making choices that have little to no benefit (e.g. soldering the SSD), except for increasing product margins (Tim Cook's favourite exercise) in a way that leaves the customer (who you should care about, instead of siding with Apple) and the environment much worse off. I'm not buying it. I hope more people don't buy it. That doesn't mean we can't voice our displeasure in this move by Apple that represents their overall move towards a future many don't like.
"But he would surely be worried about a drop in Mac sales after the introduction of the new iMacs."
Yep - Last time Apple went this way (cost cutting and making decisions similar to this) was the 1990s. Guess what happened then? Apple tanked. Luckily for them they had the pro users and prosumers, who were the only thing keeping them alive. Cost cutting and focusing only on sales numbers is bound to lead to failure, as you're no longer making the best product - Just like Windows of old.
You obviously have no clue about the PC world then. Every purchase of a Windows PC includes the purchase price of Windows. Microsoft also made plenty of money off upgrades, which also sell big. Windows of the past was pretty poor, because Microsoft did what was 'good enough' for sales - focusing only on the sales instead of making a truly good product, which they've finally started to do, meanwhile Apple is going in the opposite direction and focusing on sales numbers not the quality of the product.
Then don't stand up for it then.... simple. Thats nice for you that you bvipsuly have lots of money tp throw around. Claps of you. I for one don't and choose to use my computers for around 7 years, and it is not cost effective to BTO to predict the future. I've told you already, if I BTOed with a Retina Pro instead of my cMBP I would have paid $1500 more and I can't afford that. Am I somehow unworthy of the computer that will fit my needs, because I can't afford a ridicviosuly priced $4000 computer? Not to mention if my needs change in the future, I can put another bigger SSD in my Mac. But no, you can't stand for that as it would mean your precious Apple would miss out on $1500 from their stupidly overpriced BTO options. Where is the advantage there to the consumer in paying more to Apple? Paying $1500 more? Oh thats right, you only seem to care about Apple making money, after all of course the consumer should be left worse off by apple making cost cutting decisions.
Suitable for you maybe. Not for me. $2000 is a lot of money, I'd want it to last as long as it should.
Well I'm sorry but you're wrong. 3 years of service is nothing for a over $2000. Oh but thats right, you don't give a damn about the consumer
We should defiantly all have to pay for the overpriced applecare because it will cost so much to fix our over $2000 computers if say the SSD fails, because of Apple's cost cutting moves That makes perfect sense! NOT! Applecare shouldn't be a must. Plus what happens after 3 years if the SSD or RAM module fails? A $1000 logic board replacement? Is that reasonable for a 3 year old computer that you've just paid $2000 for plus whatever stupid amount of money you've paid for Applecare?
Try reading my response properly. I said that the issues that soldered Macs will have (longevity, environmental impact, repairably) will not have started impacting yet as it was only in 2013 that you had the majority of the line move towards being soldered (when iMac, 13 & 15 inch Macbook Pro and Airs were), though that still leaves out the Mac Mini, and the further disposable/soldered nature of the latest iMac.
I don't get why you'll stand up for Apple making a decisions that has such little benefit, but so many negatives for users. If the world was full of this sort of thinking, we'd be completely screwed over by every single company, because at the end of the day, all they care about is profits, consumers are needed to keep them in check.
I will say that you have been critical of a 16GB base 6S. And been vocal about it.
Soldered RAM, Soldered CPU, Soldered SSD. On a desktop machine.
Soldergate®
Soldergate®
more like GreedGate
13" Macbook Pro ~ with 2 year old CPU not updated for a while
iMac with Mobile CPU even though it can take desktop CPU at the base
MacMini with Mobile CPU even though it can take desktop CPU at the base
16GB iPhone with 4K camera
iPad mini 3 dropped and iPad mini 2 kept
24GB SSD on the 1TB fusion
iPhone 6 - no more Gold option with iPhone 6S launch
iPad Pro - to get LTE model it takes more than $1000
500GB SSD - $500 really?
Hefty price hikes in the international market
and the list goes on.
Up sell, up sell, up sell ... money, money, money...
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Indeed, to be honest Apple has always played this game, but to me this year seems the year Apple has made the greed way too evident, I would have never dreamed seeing 5400 and 4k in the same sentence.
You know how Google used to be the 'cool' do-no-evil company about a decade ago? Look at Google these days, the cool image is gone, they are the evil data-hungry company now.
Apple's image in my view is suffering a downturn with the 16gb iPhone which is Apple's flagship product, and to a lesser extent this iMac as well as all the other stuff as listed here. Apple as a greedy company is more visible in my mind, and as I discuss this with family/friends they tend to concur. It's a shame.
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I think they, osx and windows, are pretty close now. Up until el cap I would have given the edge to windows. Before el cap I was considering removing osx and installing windows, I'm going to stick with it for now. I predict the next version will be a buggy mess again though, every other version.
I'll be honest, with Apple's 21.5" 4K iMac, I pretty much snapped completely. Soldered RAM, no SSD socket, 5400RPM drive, 24GB SSD in the FD, outdated CPU, all of that for the same price as usual. COME ON APPLE. Snap out of your greed already. I almost want to build a Hackintosh or just buy used Apple products until they become obsolete because of Apple's incredibly stupid practices. They're just being greedy, and eventually they just risk of losing the enthusiast customers, or in other words 90% of Mac users. Good luck with that Apple. Post-Jobs Mac crime #2! (after the Mac Mini)
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Lets see how the market reacts to it. In the US gas prices seem to stay low until the next president take over, and the immediate purchasing spree with black Friday and the Christmas holidays around the corner they will surely sell plenty of them or will the consumers think twice about it?
I guess the new Apple TV may sell better?
IPad Pro...who will spend all that money when there are plenty of old iPad models still around?
I don't get what Apple did - the AppleTV is seriously a dumb-box which is about as sophisticated as an iPod touch. The software is what had any sort of "secrets" inside it. I could see Apple going after hackers who tear into the OS code, but not people just opening up the silly thing to see the components.
It's not a question of what they did, the important part is that they broke an agreement. Thus, Apple punished them by banning them. I think it's pretty fair to be honest. They could have gone worse and actually blackmailed them or even sued them.
Then it sounds like you'll be fine on an older second-hand Mac.
A processor which can compete against a desktop processor is nice, so why can't they make an OS worthy of competing against a desktop OS?
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Really, close, huh! Are we actually using the same OS... And yes, I do use windows 10 (forced too....), just like I've used every version of windows since 3.0.
Yes. Guess you missed, or ignored, the thread about windows being faster than osx. Running boot camp 10 is faster on spinner than osx on ssd. Only with el cap sid my kernal panics and apps force closing go away. I won'tbe upgrading my computer for a couple of years or so but when I do this imac refresh has sealed my decision to go to windows. If the next osx is as bad as yosemite, which is likely, I will go to windows on this anyway but then my decisions are based on use and not brand worship.
I started on dos and have used every version of windows. With 3.0 started building "clones" to monitor security systems. Built tons through the years to sell), so don't bother jumping on the high horse. Doing a clean install on a clean build (my build) the only version I really had a problem with was 98. Se fixed it and it should have been free, but 98 was the worst.
I like osx but apple is more worried abour profit margins than quality.
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I have a 2010 imac and a 2010 mac mini that I am clinging onto for dear life. The mac mini was the last one before they took out the superdrive for no reason and the iMac I wish I had a thick one that had USB 3 but this one does ok. The mac mini even with a core 2 duo flies with an SSD compared to the iMac with a hard disk and an i3 which is an absolute slug. I might put an SSD in that one one day but its mostly my kids and wife that use it so I don't really care as much
The ssd will make the difference, osx is pretty much unusable on a spinner. Why they are still putting them out is beyond me.
I said the same thing on here - Windows on a mechanical HDD is somewhat useable, but OSX is a disaster - especially on the 5400RPM drives.
Boot camping windows on a spinner with osx on an ssd windows is stii faster. The wife and son both have windows on spinners and they are faster than mine on ssd. Apple needs to wake up, or better yet I do.
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