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Open Letter to Tim Cook

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Post by Mithaldu »

redial wrote: post #154
Mithaldu wrote: post #3

To be honest that zoolander phone is utterly excellent and if it were a real thing i would buy it in a heartbeat. If only so i have a phone i can use for phone calls where i don't need to worry about the battery running out, and which i can stuff into any pocket on my body.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but if that Zoolander phone were real, the battery on it might not even last a day.

Depends on whether you stuff an entire android OS into it. With only the minimum in user amenities most of it should still be the battery for a drop of hardware.

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Post by Mithaldu »

cialowicz wrote: post #144
Mithaldu wrote: post #3

To be honest that zoolander phone is utterly excellent and if it were a real thing i would buy it in a heartbeat. If only so i have a phone i can use for phone calls where i don't need to worry about the battery running out, and which i can stuff into any pocket on my body.

Have a look at the Long CZ J8. ~$50, 68mm x 23mm x 11mm.

Dang, that is actually pretty nice. Thanks for the mention. :)

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Post by chongli »

newscracker wrote: post #190

In the recent keynote about the MBP refresh with the TouchBar and the professional apps (like Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro) being adapted to it, Apple showed an MBP setup with a couple of 5K LG monitors (which Apple mentioned it worked with LG for) for professional work, along with external RAID storage from Pegasus. The message I got was that MBP is the pro line, which can be "expanded" on the display and stora…

If you're going to be using the machine professionally and hooking up a couple 5k monitors for doing video or high end photo work, why not connect an external RAID or NAS as well? Are there use cases where one needs to carry around many terabytes of video portably but without access to a 5k monitor?

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Post by basch »

jmeller wrote: post #25

Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe's creative suite when compared to Windows. Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on m…

>Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market

??

Lenovo, Dell, HP, ASUS = 64% marketshare. Apple=7%.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbooks-pc-market-shar...

Apple laptops are not dominant, they are a large niche. Microsoft dominates the PC market.

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Post by basch »

sotojuan wrote: post #9
girfan wrote: post #2

The 15inch MBP has i7 Quad Core processor, Radeon graphics and double the RAM than the default 13inch models. This is not a minor jump in performance. I agree that they do sometimes prioritize size, thickness and beauty over performance but I don't see what else could go into the 15inch MBP that it currently lacks?

The new Macbooks are so close to being great it's annoying. The specs are fine by me and I'm neutral on the Touch Bar, but the price and lack of ports just makes them not worth it. While I'm glad Apple is trying to move the industry to use USB-C for everything, it wouldn't had killed them to include some USB 3.0 ports and an HDMI port. It's going to be at least 3-5 years until the industry uses USB-C and by that poin…

hopefully they would include USB3.1.

Do you mean to say you wish they would include USB-A?

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Post by milesokeefe »

guelo wrote: post #175
DanHulton wrote: post #161

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I really wish I agreed with you. Unfortunately, there's literally nobody who can step in here and make a truly competitive product, since it won't run the same OS. I mean, I develop for the web, so I could very well switch to Windows or Linux at this point, and after some pain points, I'd probably be back up and running and around 90% as happy as I was before. But that last 10%, where things don't work quite like I w…

There's also a 10% that works better on Windows than on Macs and you're not currently aware of it. I've switched between Macs and Windows and Linux as my daily driver several times and there's always an annoyance when you switch and everything doesn't work the way you want t. But it goes away quickly, within days. And then the next time you switch you're again annoyed that things don't work the way the new way you're…

I agree re: win > macOS on window management but why do you prefer the file explorer? The lack of tab support is a major pain point for me on the windows explorer, that combined with the great file preview support that Finder has makes it much more useful to me.

There may be some features I'm missing though, I only use Win10 for gaming.

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Post by RotsiserMho »

mrich wrote: post #163
santaclaus wrote: post #29

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Multi-threaded builds of C++ codebases that make gratuitous use of template meta programming.

You should offload the build to a compile cluster. Especially if there are multiple developers doing this it will be worth setting it up.

How does one do this for XCode builds? Especially with the sad state of the Mac Mini.

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Post by stephendedalus »

dolguldur wrote: post #195

Apple inverted the previous Christmas-like feeling of "we have something new for each of you" to a "we've removed something you personally liked" that seems to cover many of us. I haven't commented yet at all since I think several issues aren't actually as big as people are concerned about them, but overall, I'm frustrated with the situation for computing. I don't know how Apple works internally, but for me the probl…

I think you're right. If they would have kept MagSafe they could have kept the HDMI port on the other side. But then the MBP wouldn't have been symmetrical. That seems to be the current obsession with Ive. The iPhone 7 is symmetrical as well, even if the new speaker is fake.

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Post by pravula »

dorfsmay wrote: post #210
will_hughes wrote: post #117

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Dell XPS 13" (9350) goes up to 16GB - soldered on, not upgradable. Dell XPS 15" (9550) goes up to 32GB - upgradable after purchase with 2x memory slots. e: Links for the 15" with 32GB: Dell Australia: http://www.dell.com/au/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/pd?oc=z510896au&... Dell USA: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-la...

I have to had a TrackPoint (so no Dell for me), and I like smaller, 13 inches laptop. From what I have found, 16 GB is the maximum that exists.

Some Dell models do have trackpoints. for example, http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5570-laptop/pd

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Post by majewsky »

stomato wrote: post #209
NolF wrote: post #115

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MacOS has plenty quirks for me though... I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server (my android or boot camp give me no trouble). I should probably blame Google, but the ATF app sucks and gives a lot of problems transferring large or numerous files (ended up using WiFi... I get periodic blue screens (kernel panics) from using Chrome. When finder crashes I can't seem to be able to initiate it without…

If they were so much trouble, why did IBM deploy them stating they are 3x less expensive overall including support? http://www.businessinsider.com/an-ibm-it-guy-macs-are-300-ch...

My guess (from experience with using a Macbook at work in a similarly large IT company) is that their corporate Windows image has a huge pile of shit bundled into it for historical reasons that breaks all the time, while the Mac image is relatively frugal.

I can observe a slow tendency that our corporate Mac image piles on more and more junk over time, probably because more people are using Macs than the year before and thus IT allocates more headcount to work on Mac customizations.

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