Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

New iMacs with 9th gen processors out today. Are Vega graphics worth the extra £450 though? And surprise! the SSD prices are utter filth.

Probably not

A friend of mine dropped her iMac and now the whole computer is inoperable - a major downside of all-in-ones

Counter-argument is that if you empty a beer over your keyboard, you don’t fry the whole computer.

My late 2007 iMac has finally died. Probably 80% of my computer use is on a MacBook Pro but I do like to have a Mac desktop around for photo editing, managing music, and streaming video via Plex. I usually don't like buying computers used but I'd like to keep the replacement well under $1000 so I've been looking at my options. 2014 Mac Minis are around $300/4GB, slower processor and $400/8GB, faster processor. Thinking of pairing one of those with a <$200 new 27 inch monitor. How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years? Will a 2014 Mini run a Photoshop alternative (e.g. Affinity Photo) and process raw images reasonably well?

B&H has the new 21.5 inch 4K iMac on sale for $1100 right now but if I could get by OK for the next couple of years for half that price... I dunno.

Why not just by a good monitor for the MacBook Pro, and an external disk if storage is an issue?

Forgot to mention that the MacBook is a work computer that I don't have admin privileges for so can't install my own software.

And between me, the wife, and kids, we need more than one computer in the house anyway.

I think Ed's line of question probably leads to the right answer - just get some removable storage and a nice external monitor.

How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years?

extremely bad. There is not a corollary of Moore's Law that applies to monitors.

we ran into your problem a few years back and did what you're thinking of. so we're now on our second Mac mini (the first went down hard, right on schedule after its AppleCare ran out) with a crappy monitor and we use it for device backups, uploading photos to dropbox, and managing the music library. That is literally all it does. While you could conceivably stay under $1000 for a similar package, I would advise caution (see above re: lifespan of our 2014 Mac mini).

2007 iMac screen likely better than most <200 monitors in the market. Spend a little more and get a dell ultra sharp.

a 2011 mini w SSD and maxed out RAM is an extremely credible general purpose computer fwiw. it can't install mojave but there's little else it can't do.

Do you know what failed on your Mini, Tomboto? Hard drive or something else? Higher spec 2014 Mini and a decent monitor I guess would be approaching $700 -- at which point I can see me talking myself into just getting a new iMac for $400 more. Argh...

bought a new 3rd gen ipad air in lieu of the existence of a macbook with a working keyboard. it’s basically just the old pro with an a12 chip and two (not four) speakers, so it takes smart keyboards and 1st gen apple pencils. really quite impressed with it, considering the price jump to the current pro line. this is fine. massive jump from my ipad 3, which has been effectively useless for several years and is probably the dumbest thing apple ever made,

Was that the first retina iPad? Man that thing was slow.

yep, that thing was a streak of absolute shit

and 12 minutes later they release the ipad 4 with sufficient grunt to run the retina screen. total swizz.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/05/apple-updates-macbook-pro-processors-and-keyboard-extends-keyboard-service-program/

unbelievable that they haven't yet canned the shittest of all possible keyboards. so shit neither Samsung or Acer have copied it

swipe keyboards are an improvement. i feel like i've lost a superpower when i have to use someone else's phone. though the autocorrect is still so bad. surely this is a good use-case for the kind of natural-language tech that powers Alexa etc? don't suggest words that make no sense?

Apple is renaming iOS on the iPad to:

iPadOS

🤯 pic.twitter.com/yRwIAaqW14

— Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) June 3, 2019

hahaha

oh shit, gamechanger

actually interested in this wwdc keynote for once

I'm vaguely interested because it seems like a moment where something interesting *has* to happen?

although right now they're telling developers about how great their original streaming video content is going to be so we're not off to a good start

multiuser TvOS is good. Goodbye Horrid Henry, Goodbye Gardener's World

this is really starting at trundle pace for something that was meant to pack in a whole lot of shit

I get that these talks are widely viewed outside of the developer community but ranting on about first-party app features on existing hardware without mentioning new APIs they're using seems like a complete waste of developer time

I will never enable dark mode on anything and you can't make me

love how close to parody these presentations skew

why stet? I'm exactly the opposite I will never disable it.

not me! I'm a dark mode stan myself

oh sorry meant silby!

dark mode is essential it saves my eyes

ok, the email masking stuff is good but more of a cloud service offering. nice to have it built in

I just don't care for it, seems silly

I also have the system text size slider all the way to the left tho so apparently I don't care about my eyes in general

imo the best not caring about eyes would be using dark mode 24/7, even outdoors

dark mode is good, it makes it like you are in a secret cave

If I'm gonna be in a secret cave I want muted warm light and like a comic book

iPad OS is fixing a whole lotta shit for me

I also have the system text size slider all the way to the left tho so apparently I don't care about my eyes in general

multiple docs side-by-side is huge for me. And direct Lightroom import

i don't like dark mode because it doesn't feel like an apple os. feels like windows or some shit like linux that i don't understand

Yeah DM meshes all my open windows into a black mass which looks great but makes it a little hard to distinguish them visually

NEW MAC PRO klaxon

it's full of holes

RIP my iPhone 6.

some not-fuckin-around max specifications on this thing

anyway someone post it on the trypophobia thread

Do we have to wait til fall for these iOS update goodies?

Oh it’s my old G5 tower!