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Can anyone explain the market for this to me? In Ireland Mac Mini: 8th Gen i5 Processor/8GB RAM/256GB SSD €1269 Dell XPS 13 with: 8th Gen i5 Processor/8GB RAM/256GB SSD €1189
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I'm not a pro audio guy, but I think if you want to work with any external audio device and want that connection to be noise-free, your safest bet is still optical. I have an external DAC/amp, and I had been using optical until I recently upgraded my workstation. Now I am using USB, because the new motherboard doesn't have optical; I assumed USB would be fine, so the lack of optical wasn't something I considered with…
Since it’s USB, it has to be the DAC generating the hiss. No amount of electrical interference can do anything to the digital audio going Ofer USB.
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I don't understand why it isn't just an option. If you want it give you can pay for it.
Hate it or not, Apple has to make it relatively commonplace if they want macOS apps to bother developing for it instead of ignoring it. Their short-term goal is 100% of MBP users, and surely, eventually 100% of all macOS laptop users. Keeping it optional indefinitely, then, defeats this goal.
I don't see how this thing is practical across the entire Mac line.
There is zero justification for the pricing. It needs to be starting around $399. Apple is still working the privileged pricing model. Considering it has year old processor and 8GB RAM. For $800 an i5 and 16GB should be standard. I can forgive that 128GB SSD but not the CPU or RAM. Side note, why is a computer only for games, streaming, and mining bitcoin? It that what the end user experience is limited to?
There is a justification for the pricing, but you probably won't like it: More than enough people will buy the product at a high margin price to make up for the price-sensitive people who won't buy it.
> Unfortunately, we still don’t have any great standalone 5K displays. (The LG UltraFine isn’t.) What’s wrong with the LG display? It gets a lot of criticism, but I find it hard to understand why. There was an interference shielding issue, but it was fixed more than a year ago. For anyone familiar with the matter, what is it that makes the LG not great?
> Unfortunately, we still don’t have any great standalone 5K displays. (The LG UltraFine isn’t.) What’s wrong with the LG display? It gets a lot of criticism, but I find it hard to understand why. There was an interference shielding issue, but it was fixed more than a year ago. For anyone familiar with the matter, what is it that makes the LG not great?
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Anyone who owns a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will definitely be saying "yay it hasn't gotten worse!" about these.
I'm pretty happy with mine, but thanks for speaking for us all with your sweeping generalization.
Got a new one from my new job, keyboard stuck.
My brother bought a new one, keyboard stuck.
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6-core latest CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, plus “apple tax” (design, thermals, build/hw quality, OS, support). You can build a similarly spec’d PC for maybe $1500, with a better GPU, but 20x as large, not silent, higher power consumption, etc. Many trade-offs, not for everyone.
Or it'll be right around $1250, the same size or smaller, and still silent: https://www.amazon.com/NUC7i7BNH-Dual-Core-i7-7567U-Bluetoot...
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Hate it or not, Apple has to make it relatively commonplace if they want macOS apps to bother developing for it instead of ignoring it. Their short-term goal is 100% of MBP users, and surely, eventually 100% of all macOS laptop users. Keeping it optional indefinitely, then, defeats this goal.
Then is it going to come to desktop machines too, where people often use battery-powered Bluetooth keyboards, or peripherals not made by Apple? What about the tiny 12 inch Macbook? I don't see how this thing is practical across the entire Mac line.
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All of my experiences with Mac have been like this. Got a MBP for college, 2009. Still running as my mom's laptop in 2018. Meanwhile my dad's 2 year old dell has endless problems, it's incredibly cheap, despite having better internal hardware. It's slower, needed tons of configuration out of the box, and Windows 10 is just awful. My dad's laptop constantly has issues. My mom? Never once. It just works. I will gladly…
I mean, if we're giving anecdotes, I bought a Dell laptop in 2006, refurbished for something like $600. I was able to upgrade it over the years all the way to Windows 10 (I think I paid $40 for the Windows 7 upgrade at one point). The only thing that failed for me on that machine was the built-in wifi. I only ended up getting rid of it two years ago because I really had no use for it, and had long since replaced both…
Nowadays, that same 2010 Mini could probably stream Netflix reliably, since it'll be decoding HTML5+DRM instead of Flash.