Justin Long will soon join the list of celebs like Ellen DeGeneres, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys, who endorse non-Apple brand, but caught on camera using Apple.
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Intel Launches Heavily Biased 'PC vs. Mac' Comparison Website
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You can simply check his twitter profile banner.
Gaming PC is going to become even more niche. Things are moving to the cloud - like xCloud. While I don't think I can ever use it as I am very sensitive to input lag and need 144Hz+ on fast pace games, the general user does not have this same problem.
Hahaha, just saw that. To be fair he has to use an M1 mac, or at least the soon-to-come M1 iPad Pro tho.You can simply check his twitter profile banner.
$20 dongle and you have every port you need. Personally I hope they keep the mostly closed design and just USB-C rather than fill it with a bunch of ports I rarely need that just get full of dust. I just wish they'd put one on each side like my 2018 MBP so I can choose which side to connect the power to.
This is a bizarre marketing campaign. Apple's marketshare is just a tiny sliver of the market at just 8%. This kind of strategy isn't going to entice Mac fans, but make them angry.
It's like this campaign is revenge at Apple for dumping Intel.
It's like this campaign is revenge at Apple for dumping Intel.
Exactly the same setup here (but AMD) and it’s a fantastic combo
Yeah, at this point, it's better to have more USB-C ports instead of backtracking into single-purpose ports. Everybody uses dongles. Even Windows ultrabooks have to have dongles. Dongles is not an Apple-only "problem."
Really? Solarwinds.....Microsoft Exchange....Stories about Ransomware completely taking over companies (most recent is CD Projekt Red and they reported their developers could not work for a few days). Its quite common in Windows environments that one single email and someone falling for it can take down an entire company for a few days.
While macOS might have more, its still no where near the level of Windows malware: https://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/
Intel is a rare case of a market leader taking the reserve role and attacking the challenger. By doing that, Intel only gives more spotlight to Apple.
I do not get why using a dongle would be a reason to avoid a MacBook. Having to use dongles may be an annoyance, but it is far from being a core reason to choose one or another laptop.
yes and MS is working with Qualcomm to develop these chips. And let’s remember that Qualcomm just purchased a chip startup headed by Apple’s former chip designer.
Which never made a single product. And it’s just two guys from apple - they didn’t design the whole chip.
Thats a pretty skeptical view. The M1's have only been around a couple of months, proven to be faster when Apps are released specifically for ARM and most developers are only catching up to releasing native Apps.
And that's on the first try.
Most folk at most will only need a single dongle to do a specific task (e.g. SD transfers) or will change their habits completely e.g. wireless transfers.
If you really need more ports there are docks-a-plenty, just like there has been for years for PC laptops.
But none of these ads (at least none that I have seen) highlight anything that’s dependent on the Intel chip. It’s not like dongles are specific to Apple Silicon or multi-monitor support requires a specific instruction unique to Intel processors.
Nuvia, was formed in 2019 by three former Apple engineers and chip specialists who developed the A series chips.
Nuvia CEO Gerard Williams, was formerly chief CPU architect at Apple. Nuvia’s other two co-founders worked on chip design at Google.
Ok. Three guys. An architect doesn’t actually do chip designs, by the way.
And, again, they never made any chip at Nuvia. So what you have is “qualcomm hired some guys from apple.”
Guess what, there are guys from apple at lots of companies.
Why can’t we all just get along! They all have issues and limitations, I buy apple products because they are sexy! And because I can afford to! When I can’t afford them anymore I will be on acerrumors.com
Intel left a feature out of their comparison chart: You can cook an egg on our high end laptops! Try that on an M1.
And Boeing is doing the same thing to Airbus. 'Oh, their planes have problems. No one should buy their planes. 'They have fuel tank problems', etc. Says the corporation that killed, what, 700 innocent people because they cut and pasted huge engines on a 30 year old airframe, and then bandaided the mess with software that relied on only ONE SENSOR to tell it what the plane was doing. Since Boeing doesn't do actual engineering any longer, they can almost be excused for not remembering that planes usually have backup sensors in 'flight critical' systems. (And rely on BOTH sensors to keep the plane in the air) Well, like systems that need to tell if the plane is about to crash, and how to determine that it's actually not going to, and not drive it into the ground. Oh, and they deliberately under-informed customers about the 'fix', and made the second sensor OPTIONAL. How many ways can you screw it up? Oh, one more: The FAA 'trusted' Boeing in what they did with the new plane.
And they are now to believed to be an expert on flying planes? Like Intel is supposed to be an expert on ARM processors. Okay... Sure... What?
EDIT: HOWEVER, the one thing that burns me about the current implementation of the 'M1' is that it's a SOC, and as such, if you need to alter it, like with more memory, etc, you are SOL. You can't. At least not without voiding the warranty, and/or ending up with a reflowed hot mess. It's the idea that you need to buy for what you think you 'may need', which is seriously twisted. The mantra seems to have morphed into 'Buy the most that you can afford, because once you get it, it's done'. I guess it could work for Apple's bottomline, but it sucks for consumers that might not be able to drop the cash for the bigger hotness, rather than the currently fits, but barely hotness.
Sure, it's true that *most* purchasers don't upgrade, and that idiots that are allowed to upgrade their systems often kill them, but that's not reason to slam and triple bolt the door for those that need to upgrade. At the least, Apple should have a liberal and generous 'treade-in' program for those that have a change in needs, and need the bigger hotness. It only seems fair...
And they are now to believed to be an expert on flying planes? Like Intel is supposed to be an expert on ARM processors. Okay... Sure... What?
EDIT: HOWEVER, the one thing that burns me about the current implementation of the 'M1' is that it's a SOC, and as such, if you need to alter it, like with more memory, etc, you are SOL. You can't. At least not without voiding the warranty, and/or ending up with a reflowed hot mess. It's the idea that you need to buy for what you think you 'may need', which is seriously twisted. The mantra seems to have morphed into 'Buy the most that you can afford, because once you get it, it's done'. I guess it could work for Apple's bottomline, but it sucks for consumers that might not be able to drop the cash for the bigger hotness, rather than the currently fits, but barely hotness.
Sure, it's true that *most* purchasers don't upgrade, and that idiots that are allowed to upgrade their systems often kill them, but that's not reason to slam and triple bolt the door for those that need to upgrade. At the least, Apple should have a liberal and generous 'treade-in' program for those that have a change in needs, and need the bigger hotness. It only seems fair...
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Exactly.
And, frankly, who rally cares? USB-C to -A "dongles" are now ubiquitous - like a buck or two a piece and the size of a dime. Buy a handful and stick 'em on every cable you got. Never have to take them off. USB-C to HDMI are only a couple of dollars more.
Fact is, when sitting a your desk you are likely going to want to use a single USB-C port and a hub anyway - who wants to plug these mythical 50 external devices to a notebook (Mac or Ultrabook) every time you sit down anyway? If you use a Mac mini or rarely (if ever) work on your MBP away from your what difference does it make to use a dedicated single0use port or a dongle. Plug it in once and never touch it again.
Everything has an easy solution - a cheap and prevalent adapter or a dedicate USB-C cable. When I am home I use a single UCB-C cable to connect my monitor. The monitor feeds power, and my webcam plugs into the monitor. I have a handful of dongles for when I am on the road, but I vary rarely have use of them. Modern office conference rooms are wired for video conference and are wireless streaming for presentations. Actually, the last time I NEEDED an HDMA adapter I did not have mine with me (only brought my MBP to the conference room) so I borrowed a USB-C to HDMI dongle from a PC user in the room - a Dell-branded adapter that he needs for his PC to connect HDMI.
And never believe what politicians say in press conferences. I'm amazed at how many people believe that politicians can't lie to them on the TV. Just like actors, and commercial spokesdroids. It's like no one has seen an 'infomercial.' It's all crap. But they *bought* Mr 'Mac' because they knew it would be 'edgy'. Who's going to believe him? Only people that didn't see those commercials?
Apple should rerun those commercials and take some of the wind out of Intel's smear campaign.
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So it isn't enough for Apple to just make a better CPU / GPU and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Intel needs to fry, huh? Obsess much?