iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On 'Hey Siri'

[bice]

To truly earn the "Pro" moniker, the imac will be powered solely by that A10 chip.

 

[Andres Cantu]

Only 512MB of RAM? Here we go...

 

[Tech198]

Siri? Useless on iPhone, so why would I use it on a 'pro' machine?

Actually i thought it would of been "more useful" on a phone than a 'pro' machine. As how many pro's do you know that talk to their computer?

A separate processor that has access to your microphone even when your computer is off isn't creepy in the slightest.

since Apple gives u options for just about anything under the sun, that paves the way for them to sacrifice privacy as long as u give users the ability to disable those things as well.

I like Appe's analogy to privacy.... I really do

 

[Moonjumper]

An ARM coprocessor : Nice.
A device listening to me, even when turned off: No thanks.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I wonder if Apple will delay this launch until next year like the speakers?

 

[lucasrant]

So what is BridgeOS exactly? I don't remember reading about this before.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

 

[DaveN]

add in facial recognition to unlock the computer. Just sit down, move the mouse and if you are facing the screen, your computer is unlocked.

 

[6803390]

add in facial recognition to unlock the computer. Just sit down, move the mouse and if you are facing the screen, your computer is unlocked.

Hopefully, second gen Face ID. I can imagine that.

 

[scaramoosh]

Please just leave the ****** mobile apps to mobile, I want my Desktop to be left alone.... Microsoft did this and ruined Windows.

 

[dbri306]

That's cool. Unfortunately I've relegated Siri to little more than setting a timer countdown when I make my coffee in the morning. It's the only Siri request that doesn't make me want to shove my iPhone in the garbage disposal out of frustration.

Now even this last Siri function was sucsessfuly replaced by Alexa for me.

 

[Hezzaa]

I kinda hope they'll include tvOS as an app. They won't tho but would be like Front Row and the Apple remote used to be.

 

[Glideslope]

And so it begins.

Yup. Officially on our way to "Apple OS." One big glob of Apple's Windows VISTA.

 

[flat five]

That's cool. Unfortunately I've relegated Siri to little more than setting a timer countdown when I make my coffee in the morning. It's the only Siri request that doesn't make me want to shove my iPhone in the garbage disposal out of frustration.

heh, i used to use Siri only for timers but it's getting better..i've been giving it another go and surprisingly, Siri is getting a lot better than i remember..


on the iPhone X with the side button Siri (which eliminates "hey Siri".... just press&hold the button and start talking then let go when your question is finished.. walkieTalkie style).. i've been giving it another go and surprisingly, Siri is getting a lot better than i remember..
one example:
on Friday, i get this from an interior designer:



..while there are some dimensions on there, it's missing some that a CAD designer / Builder would use.. such as overall height.

to get the height, i needed to add:

24 + 17 + 2.5 + 17 + 2.5 + 17 + 2.5 + 6

..so i used Siri and got the answer.. very quickly.
try it.

 

[mikecorp]

Not that good, that would be the last feature I would want to have. I hope they start making better OS X!
They should make 2 versions pro and lite. I really miss pro applications! Apple killed it all.

 

[cmaier]

It’s not just for Hey Siri.

 

[ruka.snow]

Hopefully the A10 processor is for something useful on a pro machine, like faster development of iOS apps.

 

[Count Blah]

I'm sure there will be an easy "Off" button for this, like turning "Off" wifi/bluetooth in iOS 11, right?

 

[Kaibelf]

I wish you could completely uninstall Siri from osx and iOS. And I don't mean just disable it. It's the most useless voice assistant in my opinion and it irks me that it takes up space.

Considering it’s all cloud based I’m not sure what you mean.

 

[Mr. Dee]

Another reason to wait for the 2018 MacBook Pro's like I previously recommended.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Apples Siri-centered home anno 2018.

Hey Siri!

"Yeah?" said the iPhone
"Wazzup?" said the Apple Watch
"What?" said the HomePod
"Can I help you?" said the iPad
"What do you need me to do?" said the iMac
"Yo!" said the Apple TV

All at once, of course

How about this:

"Hey Siri"
"Yes"
"Say 'Randomly say 'Hey Siri" until I say "Stop Siri"

Does that set up an endless loop of each Apple device "waking" Siri on each other device with "Hey Siri" interplay ad infinitum?

Perhaps for more fun, pull all the devices around the TV and put on Sports Center or Fox News argument shows so that many Siri's get to hear bits & pieces of statements from the TV to have Siri's "checking they web for that" over and over.

And, if we could get everyone to do this at the same time, would it crash the Internet?

 

[cmaier]

So what is BridgeOS exactly? I don't remember reading about this before.

It’s the operating system that runs on the arm. On the mbp it handles the touch bar and bridges the camera (for security). On the iMac pro it will have more duties, like providing voiceover for efi functions, controlling the x86 bootup and power states, etc.)

 

[iSee]

Maybe this allows for an external touchbar keyboard, where the touchbar software runs on the iMac (while the touchbar display and other hardware is on the keyboard, of course.)

But what I’d really want is FaceID.

 

[brentsg]

The iMac Pro is such a misguided product concept that it doesn't matter what they throw in there.

 

[Janichsan]

And so it begins.

Native iOS apps

For what?