The Mac Platform Decline

Post by CountSessine » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 4:19 AM UTC

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> - Our team lives in Slack. Turns out these is no decent slack app for linux and I'd have to use the web app. No thanks. the slack app for other platforms are made from the web app (Electron).

Yeah but they are integrated (native notifications, file access, a window that does not go away with the browser or tied to it, decent looking chrome etc). When I need to use it that much I prefer an app, even if it's a shell actually.

Post by morgante » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 5:32 AM UTC

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Nokia's R&D spending in 2007 was 5.64 billion EUR, while Apple spent 0.78 billion USD in the same year. If anything, exploding R&D expenses may be a sign of an unfocussed product organization.

This kind of stuff always gets me thinking a lot. It is very mysterious how some companies can spend such enormous amounts on research and still seem to get very few innovative products in return. Gets you really thinking about, what exactly is the nature of innovation and research? Our society as a whole is inherently focused on quantity over quality when it comes to something like research which so obviously is abo…

Post by x0x0 » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 5:46 AM UTC

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You can buy a dell xps 15 today that comes with: 3840 x 2160 display / 1tb pcie solid state disk / nvidia gtx 960m (crucial for developing cuda programs and prototyping deep learning on your laptop) / 32g ram. For $2340 (ten percent off coupon at the top of the page). I'm not sure if this link will work: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-la... And this thing comes with regular usb ports and an…

But what's the battery life like on the Dell? Edit: Googled for "Dell XPS 15 9550 battery life". Results do not look good. Seems clear the 16GB limit is an Intel limitation. In order to achieve 32GB (like in the Dell XPS 15) they had to use DDR4, which is not as energy efficient as LPDDR3. Skylake only supports LPDDR3 at a max of 16GB. Kaby Lake only supports LPDDR4 in their ultra-low power chips. Comparable products…

Post by Lio » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 8:05 AM UTC

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TouchBar killed the tactile ESC key. People using vim or BootCamp and/or Linux, Windows, VMware, or Photoshop are in for a more difficult ride. So instead of having access to ESC/Func keys, we can type emoji or use Apple Pay. The hardware on all Macs are updated on a very infrequent basis as mentioned in the article. GPUs sold with machines today are often the same as ones sold years ago. Apple killed their external…

This seems weird. Sure you can argue about the tactile nature of the escape key being important, but the soft versions are still available. The hardware update statement is simply not true of all Macs. The iMac has been regularly kept up to date. It is true of the MacBook Pro, but they have just released a new design, and we can expect them to incrementally improve it as they have done in the past after a new design…

Post by bungle » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 11:16 AM UTC

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Sixth and seventh generation Intel mobile core platforms support more than 16gb. The fourth generation platform used in the previous MacBook pro did not.

I think that was also partly apples fault in the exact processors that selected. I've got a third gen (ivy bridge) in my laptop that supports 32gb fine. http://ark.intel.com/m/products/70846#@product/specification...