How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists

Post by woah » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

beat wrote: post #147

muninn_ wrote: post #124

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We're living in a transitory period as we move from a world of wires and connectors to a wireless world. This is the pain we have to endure as technology is pushed forward. If it were up to the luddites and their obsession with compatibility, a laptop would have a dvd drive, firewire, usb-a, usb-c, thunderbolt, hdmi, dvi, vga, sd, microsd,vga, and display port all in one laptop chassis. Having one single port, that c…

This Luddite has rather a lot of money invested in a professional grade audio interface. Replacing it with modern connectivity would be upwards of a thousand dollars. Ouch. And it works perfectly. Why am I throwing away hardware that I like and trust for the relentless march to the future? Any recording interface more substantial than a headphone jack is wired. It's going to remain that way for a while. Audio is a qu…

Post by cwyers » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

muninn_ wrote: post #137

stuckagain wrote: post #135

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As soon as someone invents an isochronous wireless interface with guaranteed throughput and latency, I'm sure all the recording studios will switch to that.

Buy a desktop or a special interface port if you need something specialized.

Post by rz2k » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 6:18 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #77

beat wrote: post #16

My main computer is a five year old 17" MBP. I've upgraded it to the max and done repairs to maintain it. I need the computational power - I use it for programming, photo editing at scale, and recording/mixing music. It would cost me $3000 to replace it with a computer that is not significantly more powerful, has a smaller screen and less I/O functionality, and would be incompatible with my audio interface unless I d…

> My main computer is a five year old 17" MBP. I've upgraded it to the max and done repairs to maintain it. I need the computational power - I use it for programming, photo editing at scale, and recording/mixing music. It would cost me $3000 to replace it with a computer that is not significantly more powerful Compared to a five year old 17"? More like double the power. And unbelievably faster SSD (even if you have a…

Post by devopsproject » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

curun1r wrote: post #187

badsock wrote: post #110

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Seriously, if anyone has a technical answer to this I'd love to know what it is. Right now I can't intepret the soldered-on ram in desktops as anything other than a user-hostile cash grab.

I'm not saying that I prefer the soldered-in versions, but back when I had a Mac with user-replaceable memory, the RAM would get unseated from time to time as my machine got jostled around in my bag and I'd have to open it up to fix it. I imagine that the Genius Bar saw a non-zero number of people bringing in computers that wouldn't boot because of this. Also, soldered-in saves space and thus helps with their patholo…

Post by rch » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #69

rch wrote: post #5

Has anyone taken the Novena laptop designs and tried to produce an updated version? Seems like fairly obvious Kickstarter material there. https://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page

It's only just shipped, hasn't it? The main obstacle there is finding an "updated" suitably open main processor, that's why it uses an iMX6 in the first place. It's also not really a suitable device for anyone who isn't an electronics engineer. The basic configuration doesn't even come with a case.