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Mac Studio and Studio Display Unboxing
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Unboxing are essential in the past since most companies never listed their box contents, and most gadgets had accessories inside that often not mentioned.
However, today, especially with companies like Apple, unboxing becomes a bit silly, as they tend to just have the actual device. Eg new iPhone unboxing. For what? All you get is just the iPhone with a cable. And Apple has already listed the content of the box. It's worse on those Samsung unboxing as often times Samsung themselves posted unboxing videos of their own products. It becomes moot point.
However, today, especially with companies like Apple, unboxing becomes a bit silly, as they tend to just have the actual device. Eg new iPhone unboxing. For what? All you get is just the iPhone with a cable. And Apple has already listed the content of the box. It's worse on those Samsung unboxing as often times Samsung themselves posted unboxing videos of their own products. It becomes moot point.
Loved the reverence as Dan peeled away the screen protector, was a very holy moment ?
AvE, undisputed king of unboxering and tear downerer without equal...
Would love to see if he thinks the Studio is skookum AF.
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Macrumors, don't be afraid to lawyer up if you gonna cowboy advice like that.
Not up to date with IEC connector regulations, but even a retard can see the monitor depth is insufficient to allow for complying friction connector. DOI
As for the inbred c you next Tuesdays in the video, I hope there's burns down their office, resulting in manslaughter charges.
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An awful unboxing video to be fair as I don’t understand them either, the guy rushes through it, fumbling and discarding all the materials! Dunno about you but when paying so much for Apple gear I am meticulous when unwrapping it. Then he has a radio on in the background and a loud hum throughout while trying to record some kind of ASMR..
As for the cable on the display I agree with above the monitor is way too thin for a normal IEC connection, LTT ranting on about Apple being stupid is stupidly itself. Yea I suppose maybe a magnetic connection but this isn’t a mobile device. Sorry I normally like LTT but he’s a moron in the latest WAM show and what is with wearing the beanie inside lol
As for the cable on the display I agree with above the monitor is way too thin for a normal IEC connection, LTT ranting on about Apple being stupid is stupidly itself. Yea I suppose maybe a magnetic connection but this isn’t a mobile device. Sorry I normally like LTT but he’s a moron in the latest WAM show and what is with wearing the beanie inside lol
Apple did what they had to, to get the tick from approval authority. iMac 24" has magnetic on the DC side, wall socket to power brick would be conventional IEC (C-5 I think)
But hey, if you did follow MR advice and your home burns down, Macrumours will cover the damages.
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Oh, if they are dumb, that means they should be cheaper than M.2 cards, right? Right?
...and who decided to make the display so thin that it couldn't support standard connectors? Ans: someone in Apple's design team, the very thing that Linus is ranting about. It's a cut and dried case of form-over-function.
There are 101 other good looking (at least, from the front - who cares about the back?) displays where the designers have managed to contrive a way of including a standard mains cable.
Yeah, that's one of the first thing that hit me when the Studio was announced - why SD in a prosumer device? Especially when Apple is normally one of the first to move away from legacy I/O media/connections, often acting as the 'big push' that's sometimes needed to push the entire market to the newer tech. I appreciate that SD isn't going anywhere soon, and that CFExpress is only one of the new kids on the block (though arguably the one to support if you're only providing one reader), but putting an SD reader on a machine like this seems a bit like re-introducing a CD drive.
I might be wrong (time will tell) but reading up on it it seems to be just another 2little2late standard in what is a field destined to go obsolete.
2.88MB floppies, JAZ drives, DAT, MiniDISC and in some ways even Blueray.
SD cards are common enough that "everyone" will have some use for the reader sooner later, everything else is either already obsolete or somewhat obscure that you're far better off just buying a specific card reader.
As someone who has moved a late '14 iMac too many times to count, I am pleased they don't agree with your design philosophy.
As for Youtubers encouraging the practice of removing cord, I hope a bunch of fires bankrupt them. Doubt they have any public liability insurance.
Dan, do an early deep dive into the quality of the Studio Display camera. Obviously, you are aware of the Verge "don't buy til fixed" recommendation. I'm holding off ordering one until it's determined if Verge just got one that slipped past QC or whether there indeed is a camera issue.
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Well, enjoy moving something only marginally smaller and lighter while carrying the previously-built-in computer in your third hand and using your 4th hand to wrangle the mains lead which you can no longer detach. Then the extra hassle in routing a cable which is now inseparably joined to the display on one end.
Once upon a time, Apple were great for their attention to detail: for example, the mains socket on the old iMacs which had a special plug with a flange to make it look "seamless" when connected but was still compatible with a standard IEC plug if you needed to use a different cable. Or the curved back that made the iMac look super-slim but still left space for standard ports. Now, it's like the art department design something that looks cool without regard to practical considerations, and the pointless, over-complicated and failure-prone hacks that the engineers need to work around the stupid designs are spun as some sort of innovation.
Heck, if Apple wanted to be consistent they could have used an iMac 24-style magnetic connector and external brick (...with Ethernet, if that idea floats your boat - could be useful as some MBP users may consider this display as a docking station).
You could try to get your head around why they tried to pull it out: mains cables wear out, get broken, get trodden on and/or need replacing with longer cables to reach the socket. The LTT video was perfectly informative: the cable can be removed and re-attached, but doing it frequently will likely wear out the connector.
The only fire risk I see is people continuing to use damaged cables because Apple want $silly for an authorised service provider to fit a proprietary spare part instead of using a standard IEC plug.
Sorry, but a captive mains cable, to me, says "cheap VGA display that came with your $500 Packard Bell from Walmart" not "premium product from a company that makes $300 coffee-table books about how wonderful their design is".
Yes, he apparently skipped the part of the engineering degree where they teach you that making stuff worse is somehow better, and that starting with a list of design constraints (like: the need for space to fit the essential connectors) is just not cool and edgy enough.
It’s not apple’s prettiest design, but people have been complaining that apple puts beauty before functionality for a long time, so this is just the pendulum swinging.
It’s cause if you watch this video … MKBHD actually didnt really do much ON the Mac Studio.
He didn’t put it through performance tests and showed this.
He’s just now A talking-head with strange commentary with his friend on another channel. His Mac Studio ‘review’ really wasn’t that at all, just a summary of comments. He’s been doing this for a while outside of phones and it’s really getting lame, to me in my opinion.
Max Tech … those brothers KILLED it since the MBP 14/16” and M1 MBA and Mac Mini. They’ve been brining their, nah, common top-viewed tubers “A Game”
Yeah unboxing videos I really loathe and have for almost a decade now. Sure its nice that Apple and some special edition phones (Thom Galax models) have unique boxes etc but other than that meh I’m all for the product.