I had a Surface Pro 4, and I agree with you that is not that good as a tablet. But also I can say that iPad don't work well as a laptop replacement. Both devices have their compromises. IMO, the iPad is a better tablet, and the Surface Pro is a better device as soon as you attach a keyboard.
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What to Expect From the 'Scary Fast' October 30 Apple Event
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You make it sound like it was a week ago. It's been 30 years at least since MS-DOS and whatever you think IBM had to do with it.
Apple II is nothing like macOS. Using your logic, Mac users stick with macOS because they liked the Apple II. Most people using Windows weren't even alive during MS-DOS days and Apple users know nothing about Apple II.
The previous 27" 5K iMac started at $1,799 so $1,999 starting price sounds about right.
Seriously, Apple is a 2 trillion dollar company and the Apple 2 the boomers love to reminisce about came out in the late 70s, almost 50 years ago.
If you look at it, this is what they're doing with the iPhone lineup starting with the iPhone 14 series. The Pro gets the more powerful chip based on the newer architecture and the non-Pro gets last year's chip.
Unlikely. the Mx and the corresponding MxPro chips have different physical sizes. Just disabling GPU cores (AKA binning) doesn’t change the physical layout of the chip. The physical chip layout drives the logic board design. You cannot substitute a binned M1/M2 Pro chip for a standard M1/M2 without redesigning the logic board. It seen logical M3 Pro and M3 chips will have similar design characteristics.
But Apple could (and has done) put the binned chip on the same logic board and sell it at a reduced cost. Although from a marketing perspective they sell the non-binned version as a premium option, it is effectively the same.
My very first personal computer was a 2001 500mhz G3 Indigo iMac with a 40GB hard drive—loved it! it ran OS 10 (Puma?), but also had OS 9 (referred to as Classic). I played with OS 9 a bit out of curiosity, but it seemed quaint and antiquated compared to the modern looking OS 10.
I chose Mac over Windows because Windows looked like a confusing unholy mess compared to OS 10.
I still feel that way.
Periodically I have to help a customer reset their forgotten Microsoft or Apple ID password. Resetting a Microsoft password is a frustrating nightmare compared to resetting an Apple ID password.
Well, I guess we will find out if/when a larger iMac gets released …
So $400 more than an ASD? I don’t think so…
I can't say I am a fan of the surface pro design. To me, it is basically a touchscreen laptop with a broken hinge. The processor is in a thinner form factor, but without the heat efficiency of Apple's ARM chips (I don't how how many of my colleagues had their screens burn out from excessive zooming via their HP Elite laptops during covid). Writing with a style is cool and all, but windows lacks a pdf management tool like macOS' preview app and we have to open our pdfs in edge (which just feels plain weird). I can't hold a surface pro via the keyboard alone, instead having to cradle it like a baby. It's just this weird combination of all the wrong compromises in one form factor for me.
On the other hand, I am happy for my iPad Pro not being a laptop replacement, because I already have a separate MBA, and so I am glad that my iPad is differentiated enough to be its own unique experience. I have been teaching with an iPad in the classroom for about 10 years now, and it's a good thing that the iPad does not run macOS or try to had to mimic a conventional laptop experience, because that would be an absolute disaster in terms of how I interact with it in the class.
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My first computer was an eMachines Windows XP desktop my mom and stepdad got as a family computer. I think it had an 80GB hard drive? It was like 2004 I think, yeah cuz I was in AOL chatrooms constantly then lol.
my first exposure to MacOS was an eMac at school and I was lowkey obsessed cuz it was different from XP and I just had to know how it worked like how I explored XP, but without taking it apart (and getting yelled at like at home).
The first Mac I bought was the 2012 Retina MacBook Pro., that was after getting an iPod Touch for christmas as a lowkey test run I guess? Lol.
And that XP machine is how I got into I.T. and scripting, and the MacBook was how I got into programming.
initially C++, but it’s an unholy mess so I switched to C
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I find your responses quite rigid. Everything you said is pretty much still variable and can be as I suggested. Your logic is valid but your 'only way' is not.
Time will tell which path Apple chooses but they can certainly reverse the order if they wanted to.
You may not like Intel but they've been doing this for ages and without them I doubt we would be where we are now.
Time will tell which path Apple chooses but they can certainly reverse the order if they wanted to.
You may not like Intel but they've been doing this for ages and without them I doubt we would be where we are now.
M3 MacBooks will be pretty cool. My M1 is without the best Laptop I have used.
Magic Mouse gets a a bigger hole.
Would be nice if apple could bring out a Magic Keyboard that truly is magic in that it can connect to more than one device!
Magic Mouse gets a a bigger hole.
Would be nice if apple could bring out a Magic Keyboard that truly is magic in that it can connect to more than one device!
So a bluetooth KVM? What’s your use case for that?
Personally I think it’d be cool if when plugged in to charge the keyboard/touchpad/mouse became USB ones, as in, it started sending data over the USB cable, for when bluetooth isn’t available/broken.
Like graceful degradation.
And without Xerox funding PARC, ignoring its inventions and allowing Steve Jobs a visit, we also wouldn’t be where we are now.
Where exactly is this where we are? ASML builds the lithography machines, TSMC manages the fabs and Apple designs the chips.
Thanks Intel for inspiring all this innovation! And while we’re at it, IBM was doing this even longer, beating them was a big motivation for Apple as well. Thanks IBM. 🙏
Please, please whatever you do just give us colors. Pros can be fun and creative too, give us more than metal and metal that’s a little darker.
Unfortunately that’s unlikely. The small iMac can have so many color options, because its internal configuration is always the same M1.
Pro Macs, which offer more choices between M3 Pro or M3 Max chips will come with fewer color options to limit the overall number of variations.
I was a kid in the 90s, and our schools all had Apple IIe computers with Oregon Trail and Word Munchers, while at home I was using MS-DOS (with XTreeGold, where I learned the basics of file management). Not even 40 yet...
Get off my lawn.
Sigh... it's a direct line of causality that goes back 40, not 30 years.
And if you don't understand that then tell me why Windows 11 still (by default) labels the main drive "C:" .
False. As I point out above, Windows is a continuous line of descent all the way back to the first PC-DOS/MS-DOS.
MacOS is the great grandchild of UNIX. On top of that is a heritage user interface that harkens back to the first Mac, not the Apple II.
I don’t see anyone talking about it being on a Monday!
I assume it is in the evening, because it is on a Monday… and they don’t want to do it on Halloween.
I assume it is in the evening, because it is on a Monday… and they don’t want to do it on Halloween.
I’m curious if the M3 iMac might offer different colour options, possibly supplanting some that previously mightn’t have been as popular as expected.
Midnight might work for the iMac given as a desktop there really shouldn’t be much need to leave fingerprints all over it unlike handling a laptop or phone. Starlight and, of course, Space Grey (rather than silver?) might also be interesting options.
The one thing I’m not crazy about on the iMac 24 are the pastel colours on the chin. It’s particularly off-putting on the Pink version which is otherwise not horrible. I find it less bothersome on the blue, green and silver colours, but I wish Apple could make the chin the same metallic colour as the pedstal.
And, please, bring back the Apple logo on the chin.
Midnight might work for the iMac given as a desktop there really shouldn’t be much need to leave fingerprints all over it unlike handling a laptop or phone. Starlight and, of course, Space Grey (rather than silver?) might also be interesting options.
The one thing I’m not crazy about on the iMac 24 are the pastel colours on the chin. It’s particularly off-putting on the Pink version which is otherwise not horrible. I find it less bothersome on the blue, green and silver colours, but I wish Apple could make the chin the same metallic colour as the pedstal.
And, please, bring back the Apple logo on the chin.
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New iPad Pros are what customers really want.
The Mac to iPad Pro transition is gaining speed, but consumers/prosumers want more power, memory and capacity to really drive radically more adoption.
The Mac to iPad Pro transition is gaining speed, but consumers/prosumers want more power, memory and capacity to really drive radically more adoption.
Lol, how delusional.
We don't need new iPad Pros as the problem is not hardware but software.
We don't need new iPad Pros as the problem is not hardware but software.
At the end of the day, it is a delicate balance to reach for optimal performance and best possible battery life. Gimp either side, and you attract unhappy customers.
On top of that, people ultimately want to get their stuff done asap instead of having a powerless processor only consuming 0.2W but taking 40s to load Google homepage. Sure, battery life would be outstanding, but what’s the point?