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Is the 5K iMac a touchscreen?
Not sure if this was a troll or a question. If it was a question, the 5k is not a touchscreen. The Microsoft Surface Studio is though.
That looks pretty awesome, and it makes the iMac seem even more tired which I assume was intended. It is startling to have a story about IBM extolling the virtues of Macbooks for business and Microsoft launching a platform targeting designers, it really is amazing. But setting all of that aside for a moment.... The screen. Clearly that is the thing which makes this announcement. For me, the 3:2 aspect ratio is so mor…
"The screen. Clearly that is the thing which makes this announcement. For me, the 3:2 aspect ratio is so more reasonable for computers than 16:9. And having a zillion pixels is wonderful although my CAD package (TurboCAD) still doesn't deal well with the high DPI screen off the Surface Book, I'm sure it would look silly on this machine." It may interest you to know that there is a reasonably priced 1:1 aspect ratio m…
I prototyped some of that with a mimo 10" touchscreen[1] but in my vision touching a control on the 'ribbon' screen doesn't steal the mouse pointer :-). I've been playing lately with some ST Micro 32 bit parts that can drive a display and use BT LE to communicate back to the PC. It may be possible to "download" control panels to the screen and then get the feedback through a BTLE handler rather than trying so somehow hook the event handler of a standard App and have it take control selection events from this screen/non-screen entity.
So if you find a long and narrow high DPI screen, DVI, MPI, or even VGA driven would be ok. And a capacitive touch layer, I'd love to get one of those to play with.
[1] https://www.mimomonitors.com/collections/10-inch-monitors
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iTunes has been completely awful since the last update. For a while it wasn't usable at all if my laptop woke up from Sleep mode, and a patch a couple weeks ago seemed to fix that, but it still happens. It's like the application doesn't have logic anymore to handle reconnecting to networks. Plus most of the interface feels unnatural to use, at least for Apple Music and the Store.
Since the last update? I think you mean, for the last few years...
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The touch input I don't care about, but I definitely want that display. How can anybody that works with text all day not want more pixels and sharper text?
I actually like coding with bitmap fonts very much, which becomes too tiny if shown on a high-dpi screen.
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As an Apple (Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, PowerBook, PowerMac G5) user for 15 years, of photo processing & inDesign layout, I agree. XCode & iOS development is going to keep me on Apple for now, though, but the Linux subsystem for Windows is really appealing. The BSD Unix environment is the whole reason I went with Apple in the first place. OS X is basically a Unix workstation & perfected anything the Linux desktop wanted t…
"Linux subsystem for Windows is really appealing." Have you actually tried it out? I thought nobody anymore believed in this after the first versions came out and people actually had a chance to try it in action. There are endless amounts of bugs, unimplemented features, complications between 2 filesystems, permissions, applications etc. When MS announced this I was pretty hopeful. Not that I would change my dev-comp…
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Microsoft's official tech spec page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-stud... Connections & expansions 4 x USB 3.0 (one high power port) Full-size SD ™ card reader (SDXC) compatible Mini DisplayPort Headset jack Compatible with Surface Dial on-screen interaction* 1 Gigabit Ethernet port
Thanks. Too bad it doesn't show on this page: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/product...
Four full-size USB 3.0
Ultra-High Speed Full-size SD card reader
Headset jack
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I wish the Surface Pro was just the screen hardware that you can plug into a proper desktop.
Have you tried/considered the screen extension feature in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update?
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> "you're paying ~$700 for the actual machine driving that display" ~$700 gets you a pretty basic computer with 965m, you can build a desktop with gtx 1070 for 700$ to power a wacom display. And you will be able to upgrade it in the future, with Studio you are stuck with a 965m for $3000. And if you are getting a 980m for $4200 that leaves you with a $1900 to build a computer for Wacom, which can be way more powerful…
So (449) dollar graphics card, the 1070 + (200) dollar cpu + Case (100) + memory (150) + psupply (70) + mobo (150) + hdd/ssd (150) + Wacom cintiq with Digitizer which is what 2500? + an sRGB monitor at 4k 800? = 4-5000, with a shitty box and shitty experience and you get none of the engineering that went into the product. Plz continue dreaming up dev boxes that only devs could love. Feel free to throw in some glowing…
I have no idea what do you mean - I've been assembling my own workstation for last 20 years now thank you there is no magic involved in building a nice system. And I don't enjoy glow lights in my case. If you think people will buy 4k$ system just for looks you have to be kidding me.
I'm not sure why you need the world's thinnest LCD for a desktop, it's not like you'll be mounting it on a wall or something. By the way, that presenter is a pretty good actor, but he was trying way too hard in a way that was distracting. The way he called out someone in the audience at one point made it seem like he has standup comedy experience and was trying to connect with the audience but it made no sense.
When he started introducing the Studio, he said a lot of words and by the end my first thought was he was just spouting buzz words and it didn't feel at all coherent or have anything to do with the product. It felt like he was just repeating words over and over again as a stall tactic to increase suspense. The presentation was a ton of fluff.
$2,999 and the best GPU option is a last-gen mobile card? The default 965M is a crappy budget card (half the performance of the 980M), and if you want the 980M you have to pick the $4,199 configuration. And hybrid drives!? This thing starts at $2,199 and you can't even get a full SSD? I know 2D designers probably won't mind the GPU, but they could definitely benefit from a true SSD. Hell, the recently announced Razer…
The fact you're focusing on the hardware specs while completely dismissing the form factor tells me you're not the target market.