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Top Stories: Apple Event Rumored for March 23, iMac Pro and HomePod Discontinued, and More
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White is still showing up as available to me, but Space Gray is sold out. I’m using the Apple Store app.
HomePod at $200 would have sold very well...
I feel bad for those who bought it.
It’s sound may have been superior to the Amazon Echo Plus, but the lack of plugins (Skills), made it not so appealing.
I feel bad for those who bought it.
It’s sound may have been superior to the Amazon Echo Plus, but the lack of plugins (Skills), made it not so appealing.
The iMac Pro did fit a certain niche but obviously not enough for most people to justify the extra cost. When we were upgrading our post studio a few years back we went for Pro’s instead of i9 iMac’s because the latter still only has 1 thunderbolt bus spread over 2 ports. When you need a second 4K screen and an IO box (plus at the time a thunderbolt to 10G converter for the regular iMac) that’s just not enough thunderbolt bus power. The iMac Pro solved that by having 2 busses over 4 ports. That problem still exists but at least with iMac’s having a 10G option now it’s less of a concern.
Why, it's a great product. Sound is superb. And as I noted in another thread, if the level of performance stays the same for the next 10 years, I will have gotten my moneys' worth from it. Of course in 10 years, advancements in the field of computational sound will make the HomePod sound like a tin-can speaker. But that's the way it goes.
Can't believe Apple stops manufacturing a product that is part of their Ecosystem (Homepod used as stereo pair for Apple TV with Dolby Atmos support). No audio product in the market comes close to Homepod in terms of better compatibility and sound quality for Apple TV.
$150 is selling it short. It's a solid $200 device, all day long. You said yourself that you've never listened to one. If you think the mini is impressive for the size, the big one would totally blow you away. We own one of each. Both great for their respective sizes. If I find any places offering remaining stock for $199, I'll be buying at least 2 more original HomePods.
Judging by the comments to buy a 27in. iMac it puts in doubt a new silicon iMac?
Hopefully it’s just being overlooked here and it does receive another refresh ASAP. I’m happy with my Air 4, but I could easily see myself picking up a Mini 6 or 7 as a backup iPad. I had the 4 and 5, and only upgraded the 4 because it was lacking a modern processor and replaced the 5 with the Air 4 because the Mini needs a redesign. Let’s get rid of that home button please, and add just a tiny bit more screen real estate. Thanks, Apple!So no new Ipad mini ??
I hope I can buy any redesign ARM Mac. Maybe with an updated M1 ? It is allowed to hope.
I do agree it's a great product. The speaker and microphone array is impressive. Well designed.
I feel bad for those who invested their money on them and now Apple is abandoning it in favor of the smaller version. This is what I was afraid of, and one of the reasons why I decided to wait before getting buying them.
Another reason is that so far the Amazon Echo has a lot more features and functionality. I get Amazon Music included with Amazon Prime, plus I have a mixed environment with HomeKit and SmartHome.
With Alexa and can control both, something I still can't do with the HomePod. The you can add Skills to it and get more functionality out of it. HomePod? I don't think you can do it yet.
I have prime so Amazon Music comes with it, and I admit it's pretty good. However, I dislike Alexa. I don't use the echo dot that was given to me as a present. I suppose I could stream Amazon Music to the Homepod, but why bother?
I got many are into their smart assistants. I'm not, and none of them are great yet.
True, but at this point, to me Alexa seems to be the smartest of all. It's very flexible in comparison to Siri. Only sometimes it becomes deaf and dumb, but that also happens to Siri sometimes.
I can turn lights and TVs ON and OFF, change channels, setup timers for lights, etc. The light switches in the wall and thermostat I have installed in my home support HomeKit, Alexa and Google. Other lights only support Alexa/Google. I can only control the HomeKit lights using Siri, while I can control everything from Alexa an Google.
No indication outside of it made a ton of people click links and opine....
It's going to be tough to say no to a Space Gray iMac 27" with M1 processor and 1TB SSD
It's going to be tough to say no to a Space Gray iMac 27" with M1 processor and 1TB SSD
Don't tease me like this!
Put an M1X in there and I'm in..
Going to need more GPU "oomph" for an iMac.