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> iMac Pro now comes standard with a 10-core Intel Xeon processor. How in hell is Apple squeezing a Xeon into an iMac without the thing either melting or being louder than a jet turbine?!
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This one kills me. With COVID, I'm now stuck working from home. I literally spend all day staring at my work Macbook Pro's small screen with a glorious but unused iMac screen sitting five inches behind it.
Same here - using my MacBook Pro when working from home. I was very fortunate though to get me a Dell 2415Q in January. While not being quite as good as the iMac, it is a good "retina" screen. Can only recommend it. Previously, I would sometimes use screen sharing to use the desktop of my MacBook onto my iMac, but due to its slow speed, that is only an emergency measure.
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Which is riddiculous, because if they can fit good front camera in iPhone they should be able to do that in the much bigger device, like laptop, right?
An iPhone is much deeper than a laptop lid. Perhaps they'll have to redesign the lid not to taper at the edge to provide more space for a better camera.
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Pretty sad to see people touting this as a workaround solution. It's still a workaround - possibly the most basic one for any kind of thin client there is. I want a consistent IDE as well and right now, you can't run vscode properly on an iPad. I'm still hopeful that future apple silicon macs will be able to do local development with more grunt than current macs. I guess we'll see.
Yes you can. Look at code-server. And yes, for doing development on the iPad basically everything is a workaround, but that doesn’t automatically make it worthless. Neither does the fact that it’s basic. I don’t get your criticism.
With your rational, I could do development on my phone as a thin client.
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I researched why the 5k iMac doesn't have video-in, and it seems that the reason is that the display has so many pixels that it needs to pieces of hardware to drive it. Getting the timing and color calibration and what-not clearly wasn't going to happen externally, so rather than have a suboptimal experience they just took video-in out. There's also the issue that few video cards can drive that resolution. https://ww…
There are external 5k displays on the market, including one that Apple has sold.
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Same here - using my MacBook Pro when working from home. I was very fortunate though to get me a Dell 2415Q in January. While not being quite as good as the iMac, it is a good "retina" screen. Can only recommend it. Previously, I would sometimes use screen sharing to use the desktop of my MacBook onto my iMac, but due to its slow speed, that is only an emergency measure.
Any experience on 24" vs 27" for the same 4k resolution?
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Before switching to Macs I used to build my own machines. You want to know how many times I upgraded any of them? Never. Seriously, I specced them out quite generously and never needed to, they lasted as long as I intended them to. Now I’m a Mac user it’s the same thing. I’ll spec out a 27” with plenty of headroom and Ill be done.
> You want to know how many times I upgraded any of them? Never. I did it several times. Seriously, upgrade is advantage. Some of Apple fanboys can deny it, but better to have that possibility. And Apple SSD specs in 2020 makes me laughing. But I'm not whining, you want mac - be ready to pay premium price or spend time with hackintosh. It's just business.
So sure Apple storage is pricey, and if you’re willing to compromise on performance you can get something that looks equivalent for a lot less, or something actually equivalent for a bit less. But there are a lot of other things about Apple gear you can’t get anywhere else full stop, at any price.
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Still only 8GB RAM though, a bit of a bummer.
Yeah, and upgrading to even 32 GBs is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS. I get that it has to be soldered on or whatever, but I'm looking at faster RAM on Newegg right now, in brand names, single module DDR4, for ~115. I really wanna buy Apple stuff, but stuff like this continually keeps me away when I finally get to the Buy page.
But that doesn't apply to the 27" Mac which has non-soldered slots.
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Yes you can. Look at code-server. And yes, for doing development on the iPad basically everything is a workaround, but that doesn’t automatically make it worthless. Neither does the fact that it’s basic. I don’t get your criticism.
Well aware of code server. Again if your making a bunch of work around, it gets in the way of actual work. With your rational, I could do development on my phone as a thin client.
Yes. But it’s not getting in the way that much.
code-server is exactly what you were asking for, an IDE on iPad. You’re moving the goalposts here and not even specifying why and where to.
> With your rational, I could do development on my phone as a thin client.
No. You’re taking my argument ad absurdum. I’m saying the tradeoff isn’t that bad on iPad. That says nothing about phones.
