Not sure if a 30" imac would be worth it. 'early stages' means what - 2 years out? By then most of we 27" folks will have gone to a 24" imac or moved to a studio.
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He has always given more import to his shareholders than customers. I don’t give a crap about their market cap. But I do care about getting a fair deal, not being ripped off over all the extras and having them not shut down services and software without warning. I llike my Apple gear in the main, but the company is not as beneficial or loving as Cook would have you believe.
And what do you think? Given that the price of storage and networking gear continues to drop massively, shouldn't iCloud do the same?
Price of storage (price per gb) has leveled off since late 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
Data center construction cost increasing https://www.bdcnetwork.com/data-center-construction-facing-record-breaking-inflation-delays
Shortage of IT pros and inflation bumping salaries by as much as 8% in 2023 https://www.computerworld.com/artic...could-jump-8-in-2023-exceeding-inflation.html
OVHcloud to raise prices by 10 percent in 2023, citing energy costs and inflation https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/...nt-in-2023-citing-energy-costs-and-inflation/
"Microsoft CFO Amy Wood shared that the firm will pay more than $800 million in extra energy costs to operate its data centers due to cost increases, particularly in Europe" https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/microsoft/microsoft-pays-800m-more-data-centers-energy-costs
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This is the way. Apple is great for some things sometimes, I do not like their service model. Right now an M1 MacBook Air is a no brainer, for example.
It's wise to be unencumbered by any one brand, as corporate cycles will give you disappointment.
It's too much entrapment under the guise of convenience.
And how do you deal with this? Your only alternative to Apple's entrapment, is to spend a thousand dollars on Android and Windows, buy/learn all new software, and be locked into someone else's ecosystem with similar restrictions. It's like telling someone that the IRS is optional and they can just move to Canada if they don't like it.
Corporate power is really not that different than government power. You'll find blind cynics attacking each one and effectively letting the other own them.
Hi ... I'm not sure I can thank this tip ... as out of context I'm not sure what is :
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^ I google searched that and nothing at all related to what I'm after nor iCloud shows up on 2 google page results. Can you provide more details please?
Thanks.
Yes, and even if the screen is fine, it is useless if some other part dies. Or if you just need a screen for anything other than the Mac itself.
In a similar boat. Would love a new imac. But after the 27" was officially discontinued, I wondered if it wasn't better to get back to a separate CPU and monitor, and maybe invest in an external SSD so stuff is easier to move data from machine to machine when I upgrade.
But it's a tough call. The 27" imac is gone. a 30" imac is a rumor - 2 years out at best, and who knows at what price point. The new studio, even the max, is more than we need. but the screen price is a killer, but you keep the screen forever if you replace the CPU in a few years.
There is no right answer. Depends on how long you want to wait and how long you might want to spend. And how well your current machine runs.
These reports are issued every few months just to taunt me and increase my dissapointment when nothing occurs.
Then Mark Gurmann waits a bit until Ive calmed down and says pretty much the same thing again..
Google has cheaper options than iCloud.
Otherwise, thousands? No way. Small NAS. Build your own NAS with Unraid. 4TB drive maybe $75. Few hundred out the door. Pays for itself.
I agree, and thicker makes sense, as It'll help with airflow... I'm worried of course that Apple will make it so you'll have to pay another $600 or whatever to get the stand to move up and down.
4TB is tiny. Over 2 decades of collecting music and digitizing it I have over 1 TB in just music alone... a digitized 4K Bluray movie is well over 65 GB. 4TB isn't going to cut it in 2023... 25 TB is a much better starting off point.
I don't necessarily disagree, the issue is ergonomics: at 30" for your eyes to be looking at the top of the screen, unless you are like 6'-4" or taller, than the bottom of the screen is going to be very close to the top of the desk, which isn't a good thing for your eyes, neck, or the chances of accidentally hitting things against the screen. I think 27" is the sweet spot... including if you need multiple screens.
The whole way Apple have gone about stopping Photo Stream then the next day raising iCloud subscription is dirty, it feels like customers are being treated like chumps, especially give the fact we got three warning emails concerning Photo Stream but nothing bout iCloud price rising by so much. It might not seem like a lot, but the principal of it stinks. We feel ripped off, none of our family got any notification either, heck even our gas & electric warn us of the price rises! Of course removing photos from iCloud is not simple either, every time I got to turn it off it says photos remain in the cloud & some remain not downloaded, I’ve left photos on for 48 hours now to download everything on my iPhone & my desktop, I tried to down load them all from iCloud & it says I can only download 1000 pics at once, we have 46,000 up there..FFS..
'The cloud' is your info on someone else's hard drive that you don't control, it's always better to have everything backed up personally, with YOU owning your data on YOUR hard drives.