Does anyone know if these new models have 120Hz displays? I couldn't find any mention in the tech specs.
iPad Pro
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I hate the bezelless trend. And quite frankly I hate the trend of making devices thin. Now I just need to add depth so I can hold it and use it comfortably without worries about dropping the damn thing.
Can't you solve both problems by just using a case?
Yeah I have to spend extra money for a case and I do. Instead of proper bezels and extra battery life. Instead I get a device that sucks at Palm detection. But it's super thin.
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"for most people" -> "for most javascript devs" ? totally ridiculous dev machine for scientific or financial computing, no?
Anything you can run on Linux, you can run on a Chromebook, without even having to do anything hacky these days, as I understand it. So, nothing to do with JavaScript specifically.
I think it was a reference to the capability of the hardware.
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None of what I use a Mac for is available or practical on iOS. Atom, Git, bash, ssh, llvm, Python, R, PostreSQL, CouchDB, Docker, nginx, Node.js, homebrew, curl, wget, ffmpeg... I’m typing this on an iPad now. I mainly use it for web surfing, Netflix, email and casual gaming.
All of that can be done in a remote VM. I use Coda + Shelly on an iPad pro and it's a pretty decent development experience. The real barrier is for (non-web) GUI development.
Remote VM is an interesting idea, what about mouse support?
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If you want to test the mettle of a computer, try opening a large Photoshop file and doing anything in it. This, right here, is why it's an indictment of the software industry. It SHOULDN'T be impressive that Photoshop doesn't lag. When she said that line, the entire audience should have shrugged and said to themselves "Of course you can zoom into an image in Photoshop. It's 2018. What's the big deal?"
The demo file shown at the event was 12000x12000, 127 layers. It was 3GB on disk, 5GB fully loaded into memory. Double-tap to zoom was happening at 120Hz, fully animated, to anywhere within the document. I realize I'm biased, but on such a machine, the observed performance is anything but rudimentary.
If you're just viewing it, the pre-raster is only ~500MB, which easily fits in memory and zoom and pan are free. Pretty much any 2GB+ device would do that. Now editing and changing visibility and filters and such are much more complicated, but a view demo is not really a workout for anything vaguely done correctly.
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#656Does Apple plan to support even a proper web browser?
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#657There's a point in the press conference where the presenter went "And you can scroll the UI as fast as you want, and it doesn't lag! We have 8 cores in our CPU!" (or something: not literal transcription) and the entire audience clapped. That's about as serious an indictment of the competence of the software development industry as I can imagine. Edit: to clarify: the line is "It's a real PSD... it's over 3 gigs, it's…
There are plenty of times when I say "this software is bloated, inefficient, and should be snappy".
Scrolling through a 3 GB 157-layer 12000x12000 image is not one of those times.
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No! It's not! Not in 2018! You only think it's impressive because you're used to UI's being total fucking shit! That's why it's an indictment of the software industry! I'm not saying it's not hard: it is hard. Programming is hard. Making sure you're not occupying the UI thread for more than 16 milliseconds per frame is sometimes a challenge. You have to use all sorts of scary stuff like "concurrency" and "threads" an…
I'm glad somebody else feels this way, when my Amiga 1200 runs smoother than most modern computers you know something has gone horribly wrong.
How big are the images you view on it?
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MacBooks _will_ transition to Apple's own chips at some point. My guess is that the A14 or A15 generation will be fast and powerful enough to make the leap. This will be big especially if they can get major price or power usage advantages.
I'm worried they won't transition MacBooks to these CPUs, but they'll just let the entire Mac lineup gradually fade to black with intermittent refresh cycles and dead end features like touch bar. I can well imagine Apple expecting people to plug in a keyboard and monitor to their iPad Pro, while it gets thinner and thinner.
> I can well imagine Apple expecting people to plug in a keyboard and monitor to their iPad Pro, while it gets thinner and thinner.
And at some point, Apple will introduce an "iPad mini" with no display
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Why do you prefer Lightning to USB-C? Just curious.
I prefer it because it feels way better. The snap, and the way the plug feels secure in the socket.... I had a nexus 6p for a year and the plug was so damn unreliable and wiggly. Bought multiple different types but they were all bad. That said, I haven't used any Apple devices with USBC and I would not be surprised if they felt much better.
I understand what you mean about the feel but lightning ports have a fundamental physical flaw that is part of its design. The pins are on the iOS device side so if they wear down or break that device needs to be repaired. With USBC, the pins are on the cable side so any damage to them is just a simple cable replacement.