I loved that phone. Perfect size and well designed. I’d forgotten about the gold/white (went for the slate/black) I even didn’t mind iOS 7 and would take iOS 7-18 over this mess any day. It was “cleaner”.I remember getting my 5s and thinking "this is like jewelry".
The polished chamfered edges were just amazing.
Yeah, it seems like such a dead product for now with the lead times AND price bumps they just did it would be insane to order one now unless you absolutely needed it… I was really hoping they would announce/release the M5 variants at WWDC, even if they where going to be in short supply for now. I just wanted to get my order in the queue at least even if it would still be a couple months before I could expect delivery, at least I wouldn’t be buying the outgoing model.
As someone that purchased a 2019 Mac Pro, close to $10K with just a 16-Core Xeon, 96GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD, and one Radeon Pro Vega II without the Afterburner card, I sold that system a month before I purchased a 14” 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Max, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB of SSD for under $4K and this *laptop* ran laps around that Mac Pro despite releasing less than 2 years later. The M1 Max basically had an Afterburner card built in and twice the available VRAM, in a laptop. You couldn’t even compare it to the latest Intel i7 MacBook Pro at the time, this first generation chip had already caught up to the third-fastest Intel Mac ever released at less than half the price.
No one is arguing those fair points. Cook stated AS would be cheaper. So far we had one base spec Mac mini and a fully specced out Mac Pro as rebuttals, which neglects the majority in between which haven’t.
It seems Apple is adopting a tick tock model with the M Ultra. So far we have the 1 and 3 and quite likely the 5. Makes sense given the niche market esp now.
And yearly releases. That seemed to be the case for the first couple of m chips and then we’re back at the intel era again with only yearly releases guaranteed for the MacBook Pro
If that is your take from all that then have at it. I’m not interested, it’s exhausting.
Your telling him to get a cheaper screen from another brand because the apple one is too expensive. You’re literally proving his point.
Yup and I was simply comparing Apple’s to apple’s on actual hardware price-points and specs. I didn’t bother reading past the first sentence as I’m exhausted by it all. They’re now bringing in non Apple hardware to make a point. I’m too old for online arguments that go nowhere when one person seems bent on being “right”. I don’t care.
Revisit the G4 Cube. Where a handle released and the core lifted out, in seconds.
Thermal was the issue on the day for the G4 lamp iMac. Looks-wise and display movement wise it was an inspired design decades ahead of its time. Thermal is no longer an issue now and even weight-wise there's the option to make the display much larger thanks to modern display tech. Today such a design would shine, even excel. Rather than the CD drive taking up all that space the computer now could be positioned low with PSU and fan above, topped off by a multi-directional speaker array. Or shape-wise the fan up top drawing that rising heat up and away, leaving more diameter below for a broader speaker setup might make sense if well placed internally.
1. At the time Apple used outdated models of Intel chips for no apparent reason.
Another option might be the iMac with 32 GB of RAM… if Apple puts the M6 chip in it.
