New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

just all usb ports

http://i.imgur.com/lhueYtu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/97CBCki.jpg

lol

cheap keys, no esc, wtf

No physical esc sucks but contextual function keys is potentially super useful.

how am I going to emacs now

You mean vim

Emacs heavier on Ctrl

seems fucked up but have you ever looked at the buttons on any dell laptop

I think they're getting better but holy shit man. It's like the invention of the laptop made people think you needed to cram all the buttons that were on the front of your desktop, on your monitor, and the keyboard keys on to the laptop somewhere

kind of waiting for laptops to just have one big button you can maybe push if you want to

http://assets.amuniversal.com/8ee5c3509fad012f2fe600163e41dd5b

Apparently the button votes for Trump and self-destructs.

brb photoshopping "NUT" on to that button in the comic

That new Surface Studio by M$ looks pretty fantastic. That company is doing a lot of things right.

Yup! Want the new surface book or the old one on eBay!

Microsoft lust objcats

https://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/10/Surface-Studio-Dial-Microsoft-12.jpg

The form factor is terrific, but how to cope with Windows...

the Dial looks useful, too

hey guess what guys: its thinner

the strip is not as terrible as i assumed it would be

touch bar keyboard for desktops?

best product lineup ever, with no mention at all of all the out of date desktops? ugh.

guess I'll take this over to the hate thread.

the UK pricing.... fucking ouch

a hard brexit

imo the marketing on the website saying "connect two 5K displays and two RAID arrays!" makes me think the interim plan is to ignore the desktop world completely and go full laptop

the strip is so dumb

Agree. Too small to be useful

Yeah I guessed plan was for no standalone pros any longer as well. I did think they might do a standalone key board with bar though.

Fuck that pricing is killer though.

Don't see it that way. The buttons w Ike's labels on my Wacom tablet are useful. I see this as a better version if that. As somehow who often can't remember which function key does what in various programs, that alone is useful.

The bar seems gimmicky. I like the touch ID part.

They have hiked the decrepit Mac Pro by £500!

that strip looks like those touch-thermometers that you're supposed to apply to your kid's head in order to read temperature, that never work correctly and that I always throw away

Reminds me of:
https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/nook2.jpg

maximum system memory is 16 GB

my work machine has 48 GB of GRAPHICS memory

very curious to see what machine apple engineers will use in the future

how can they be selling new "pro" machines w 8GB of memory

how

hope apple adds haptic feedback to the touchb ar

maximum system memory is 16 GB

my work machine has 48 GB of GRAPHICS memory

very curious to see what machine apple engineers will use in the future

― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, October 27, 2016 5:21 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

are macbook pros still user upgradeable w/r/t RAM?

negative

ew

http://www.avclub.com/article/apple-isnt-including-standard-usb-ports-its-new-ma-244981

Debuted in 2014, USB-C is designed to be “future-proof,” resistant to changing technical whims. (We’re sure Apple engineers will crack that problem, too, though, given enough time.)

although i agree that old usb needs to go

i like that you can't charge your iphone from the new macbook lol

and the lack of a lightning port for those new earbuds is... interesting

The bar looks awesome--the function keys are very much ripe for disruption and doing it this way makes a lot of sense. So does putting fingerprint ID on the keyboard.

System RAM on anything calling itself a "pro" should be 16GB and expandable to 32GB minimum. Storage needs continue to ebb away but the need for more RAM over time hasn't dissipated in the past 25 years.

Who the fuck is in charge of Apple TV?

the lightning/earbuds this is a non starter unless you only own and love the new iPhone earbuds because they're obviously only wired as a coat cutting measure. ppl are like "you want us to buy lightning headphones and no lightning port!!" But Apple really isn't releasing, and is not now encouraging, lighting headphones. They're 100% on wireless with a quick charge option, which works fine with laptops

*cost cutting, coat switching

very interested in the future of final cut pro and logic pro. deep neural networks have completely upended signal processing and apple has not shipped a decent gpu in years.

I don't know why people have such an issue w/ Apple TV. I have the new one and it's pretty great.

It is pretty great but its development hasn't ever been heartfelt or driven by much vision. Better the past few years I suppose.

But Apple really isn't releasing, and is not now encouraging, lighting headphones. They're 100% on wireless with a quick charge option, which works fine with laptops

― mh 😏, Friday, 28 October 2016 12:37 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure, but there are people who've invested in lightning headphones, and there'll be grandpas who'll buy an iphone 7 and macbook pro together but will have nowhere to insert their headphones. it's not prohibitive but apple's certainly setting an expectation and failing to meet it (never once have i received pack-in headphones that won't plug into the company's other devices).

and the charger for those airpods is lightning, so that's another dongle/cable required there too