Excellent (if true)! Looking forward to the possibilities. And an iMac Pro.
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iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On 'Hey Siri'
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Loaded MacRumors, saw iMac Pro image and immediately thought it was delayed/cancelled… only to discover the New Sleekness™ is actually a Mac-from-the-future (evidence: it'll sound like one 
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)!Misguided in the sense that you have no experience with it to make a judgement based on How it will meet others expectations ? Also, I doubt Apples engineers just randomly would "throw" components in the iMac Pro, but your entitled to believe such absurd thoughts.
why should they do that?
what would be the difference(s) between the two versions?
Hope they have an API for third party assistants from Google and Amazon, but is unlikely.
so we've gone from an un-upgradeable miniature tower to an un-upgradeable mac with built in un-upgradeable screen
that's progress for ya !!!
that's progress for ya !!!
And now macOS could run iOS apps at native speed. That's a big deal for developers that you can truly build a single app that can run on phone, tablet and desktop seemingly without much extra work. That's not to say the best user experience on the Mac having an iOS-like user experience for every app, but for some apps it may be like games and potentially others.
Not FaceID yet or it would be A11; maybe next year. Not some first step to ditching Intel.
I guess it has some supervisory functions for booting. Big Siri upgrades must be in the works if they foresee Hey Siri adding value to the iMac Pro. Power nap could refer to having some MacOS services available when the computer is sleeping, like receiving iMessage and email, not sure how it would integrate/work with the Intel/MacOS side. [edit: I’ve been alerted by chucker23n1 that power nap is a current feature, still no idea how an A10 would work with this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032]
I don’t see this being used just so you can install run iOS apps, except maybe for app developers to give them a more integrated development workflow.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Apple innovating again!
I guess it has some supervisory functions for booting. Big Siri upgrades must be in the works if they foresee Hey Siri adding value to the iMac Pro. Power nap could refer to having some MacOS services available when the computer is sleeping, like receiving iMessage and email, not sure how it would integrate/work with the Intel/MacOS side. [edit: I’ve been alerted by chucker23n1 that power nap is a current feature, still no idea how an A10 would work with this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032]
I don’t see this being used just so you can install run iOS apps, except maybe for app developers to give them a more integrated development workflow.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Apple innovating again!
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Mac book
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“i Mac” has an “i” and a “Mac”.
i OS + Mac OS?
Cool as an idea but just one more thing to go wrong. What if this chip (or its functionality) breaks/stops working? Will the whole system become inaccessible?
It really freaks me out to have Siri always listening to my conversations. Even if the machine is turnef off...
Those are the two extremes: those who oppose Siri, because of privacy concerns or because it doesn't do enough (queries get anonymized etc.) and those who oppose Siri because it doesn't send enough of their private stuff to an online-retailer or an ad-flinging biz.
Sounds like a great way to jack up the price for no discernible reason.
google voice dictation on the youtube kids iPad app understands my 4 year olds broken English just fine. Yet for some reason Siri can't understand 90% of the things I say in a loud, clear, adult voice...Siri is crap, they should just use google at this point and forget about Siri
A iMac Pro with Siri ..... nice .... now fix Siri
It sounds like a nice feature for an iMac.
The iMac pro should just be about power !!! To be honest there is no need Siri in a pro unit
It sounds like a nice feature for an iMac.
The iMac pro should just be about power !!! To be honest there is no need Siri in a pro unit
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Useless things - now featured on a $4k machine. Yay!
I didnt know that the siri button was walkie talkie like. Works great !!!!!
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You mean just pressing and holding the home button on an iPhone before that (since the 4S), and long before Hey Siri was ever a thing?
No, Siri's voice is installed locally, and takes up several hundreds of MB.
Likewise, in the other direction, Siri probably uses locally-installed speech recognition, which is also more 1.2 GB here.
Power Nap is not a new feature.
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iMac Pro only has 512 MB of RAM?!
No.
More and more gimmicks are being introduced
Apple doesn't release Siri in Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan: "why doesn't macOS get feature parity? Apple doesn't care about the Mac any more!"
Apple does release Siri in Sierra, adds Hey Siri on the iMac Pro: "useless things, irrelevant for pros, gimmicks!"
Apple does release Siri in Sierra, adds Hey Siri on the iMac Pro: "useless things, irrelevant for pros, gimmicks!"
No, I think we established that toggling a CC icon from blue to grey means disconnect.
There’s still an off/on switch if you need that.