Apple back at it with the fuckery again

[futureshock]

my late-2011 MBP is stilll going super strong...running PS, FC, etc like a champ! 2 years ago i maxed out the ram to 16gb, removed the superdrive and dropped in 2 1tb Samsung Evo SSD's....it was like getting a new computer!

i see no reason to upgrade at this time, though when this MBP dies i'm getting another one!

I too have done all of the above.

It can get hot with the 16gigs under the hood in the midst of editing. So I have an elevated cooling stand that I sit it on when I tax the ram.

And that is what I heard from other users....the advantage that MBPs have over spec'd out PCs. No matter how powerful they look on paper when compared to a MBP. They do not have the durability and longevity. I have heard of PC laptop owners say that they are on their 2nd or 3rd, 2 year old computer because the motherboard could not handle the heat and/or the workload. Guts tend to get fried on laptop PCs which have to do heavy lifting.

MBPs seem to have no issues on that front.

 

[Quek9]

Guess they should go buy a cheap ass pc? Lol

Shut your dumb azz up sheep, It's almost shearing season.

 

[Quek9]

That Microsoft surface with the dial has me thinking of pulling a couple extra shifts.


So, revenue should be up?

If coding or digital art was my thing I would snatch one up with the quickness. However, I am copping a S5P day one. Then I will give the wife my S3P, and my oldest would get the wife's S3.

 

[Quek9]

Apple giving these niggaz that No Vaseline treatment

And they are thanking Apple for it.

 

[cli-terminator]

The key is to fight the urge to upgrade hardware or software unless you absolutely have to. People are too quick to upgrade to the latest version of software or the latest iteration of hardware without realizing that it's role is to make the previous version obsolete and you to spend more money.

I feel you. I've owned my 13" MBP for about 5 years now and it's still running like a champ. I want to upgrade to a 15" model strictly for an increase in app display space. Only thing I would need other than that is a larger HDD since I only use it for DJing.

 

[Flawless]

I can't remember the last time I connected my iPhone to the Mac

You don't transfer photos to your computer?

 

[Flawless]

instead of a touchscreen they give you a touch bar

 

[TimRock]

 

[knightmelodic]

 

[thismybgolname]

This kid has become the largest voice in tech.

I've never seen anyone talk to Apple outside of Walt Mossenberg.

I thought the touch bar was static at first.

instead of a touchscreen they give you a touch bar

I'm confused as to why you would want a touchscreen laptop when you've got a mouse and keyboard.

 

[Maxxam]

I'm pretty sure the iPhone 8 will have type C. Their MacBooks already have the ports (since 2015). A lot of electronics that came out the 2nd half of this year have Type-C connection. Motherboards, Cases & some Raid Cards. It's much better than 3.1

Doubt it. Apple charges a licensing fee with their for all those lightning accessories. Can't do that if everything is USB C.

 

[mailboxpimp]

theres always a way

 

[junyloko]

Dayum overpriced & Underpowered
2.0GHz dual-core i5 '8gb ram ssd 256 for 1800 euro's GET DA FUCK OUT OFF HEREEEEE

 

[John Million]

my late-2011 MBP is stilll going super strong...running PS, FC, etc like a champ! 2 years ago i maxed out the ram to 16gb, removed the superdrive and dropped in 2 1tb Samsung Evo SSD's....it was like getting a new computer!

i see no reason to upgrade at this time, though when this MBP dies i'm getting another one!

This is probably my next move. Got a early 2011 MBP that has slowed down a lot. Was thinking about upgrading but not at that price.

 

[LordSinister]

What year is your Mac mini

I have a 2012 with 16gb ram and 500gb SSD and I never get the spinning beachball

The 2012 model was the last one you could upgrade yourself

I grabbed the server model off ebay. 500 SSD 16gb Ram and 2 TB drive for my music. I use it for everything. And how is the older one faster than the 2014? LOL

 

[Joe Money]

You don't transfer photos to your computer?

You can do that with iCloud. And there are other ways to do it wirelessly.

 

[Flawless]

You can do that with iCloud. And there are other ways to do it wirelessly.

If I depended on icloud I would run out of space every couple days. 5 gigs of storage isnt much when you have to backup app data with videos and photos and other data you have on your phone. Also alot of those apps that let you do it wireless don't carry over all the meta data and I don't want to be dependent on some third party cloud service just to get my pics.

 

[thismybgolname]

Apple unveiled its Touch Bar addition to the MacBook Pro yesterday. While the company spent time demonstrating its ability to change function keys on the fly, or light up its display with colorful emoji, Apple didn't talk about what's really powering its Touch Bar. Irish programmer and developer Steven Troughton-Smith has discovered that the Touch Bar is actually a mini Apple Watch.

"From everything I can piece together, the T1 chip in the new MacBook Pro is a variant of the system-on-a-chip used in the Apple Watch," explains Troughton-Smith, in an interview with The Verge. "Running watchOS on the T1 lets the Mac benefit from Apple's deep work on iOS embedded security, as the T1 gates access to the Touch ID sensor and, from the looks of it, the front-facing camera in the new MacBook Pro too."

Apple has selected watchOS to power the Touch Bar, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're going to start seeing Apple Watch apps appear above the keyboard. The Touch Bar has a 25MB ‘ramdisk' that's used to boot and control the hardware, so it doesn't have the full version of watchOS required to run apps and the full UI. Apple is providing developers with APIs to create apps that interact with the Touch Bar, and a few big names have already got theirs ready. "There's no way for multiple apps to drive the bar layout at the same time," explains Troughton-Smith, so apps won't be able to trigger notifications or take over the Touch Bar in the background.

APPLE'S TOUCH BAR HAS A LOT OF POTENTIAL

What's really interesting about the new MacBook Pro running a mini Apple Watch is the possibilities for the future. Apple just added an embedded iOS computer with a touchscreen to its MacBook range, so that opens the doors for future experiments. "Today it might be similar to an Apple Watch in capability, but there's so much potential for this to grow," says Troughton-Smith. "The Touch Bar theoretically could run while the rest of the machine is turned off, so you get all the low-power and security benefits of an iOS device, without having to switch to ARM completely on the desktop."

That could mean Apple could bring actual iOS features, apps, and touch functionality over to the Mac without having a true touchscreen. "Perhaps someday it could run a higher class processor, like Apple's A-series chips, and allow macOS to 'run' iOS apps and Extensions, like iMessage apps, or manage notifications, system tasks, networking, during sleep, without having to power up the x86 CPU," speculates Troughton-Smith. That possibility makes Apple's Touch Bar experiment a lot more interesting, and it could make it a lot more like Microsoft's failed attempt to popularize Windows SideShow, a way for developers to extend apps and notifications to small screens on laptops while they were powered off.

 

[thismybgolname]

You can do that with iCloud. And there are other ways to do it wirelessly.

If I depended on icloud I would run out of space every couple days. 5 gigs of storage isnt much when you have to backup app data with videos and photos and other data you have on your phone. Also alot of those apps that let you do it wireless don't carry over all the meta data and I don't want to be dependent on some third party cloud service just to get my pics.

I use wifi sync to transfer data but all my photos get uploaded using Google Drive.

 

[futureshock]

You can do that with iCloud. And there are other ways to do it wirelessly.

I used iSync (wireless xfer) for my music and dropbox (to xfer phone vids to my MBP) for my phone vids. I was able to bypass the cloud.

 

[Flawless]

I used iSync (wireless xfer) for my music and dropbox (to xfer phone vids to my MBP) for my phone vids. I was able to bypass the cloud.

How do you bypass the cloud with Dropbox?

 

[TimRock]

I use wifi sync to transfer data but all my photos get uploaded using Google Drive.

this. space shouldn't really be an issue on devices anymore. There is no need to keep the actual photo on your device. Once its in the cloud, which means you dont even have to move it to to your pc, just delete them.

 

[futureshock]

How do you bypass the cloud with Dropbox?

I had a free 20gig dropbox account so i bypassed the 5 gig "iCloud account."

I put the dropbox app on my phone. I would upload my video from my phone to a dropbox folder. Then I would open up that same dropbox folder on my MBP and download that video to the desktop.

A wireless video transfer.

No cable.

No iCloud.

 

[Sampson]

Apple are mocking.

Blame the sheeple who mindlessly buy every update.

I have a few apple products but I refuse to buy every new product they put out.

 

[thismybgolname]

I had a free 20gig dropbox account so i bypassed the 5 gig "iCloud account."

I put the dropbox app on my phone. I would upload my video from my phone to a dropbox folder. Then I would open up that same dropbox folder on my MBP and download that video to the desktop.

A wireless video transfer.

No cable.

No iCloud.

Why not just wifi sync with itunes?

 

[futureshock]

Why not just wifi sync with itunes?

I use the iSync app for itunes. Not for videos.

 

[Flawless]

I had a free 20gig dropbox account so i bypassed the 5 gig "iCloud account."

I put the dropbox app on my phone. I would upload my video from my phone to a dropbox folder. Then I would open up that same dropbox folder on my MBP and download that video to the desktop.

A wireless video transfer.

No cable.

No iCloud.

Ok, when I said cloud I meant having to upload your vids and pics to a third party service just to get them. Basically what you are doing is uploading your pics to dropbox servers then the files are synced to your computer. There isn't anything wrong with that but it depends on how much you trust these companies with your data

 

[Flawless]

this. space shouldn't really be an issue on devices anymore. There is no need to keep the actual photo on your device. Once its in the cloud, which means you dont even have to move it to to your pc, just delete them.

and when that cloud service gets compromised some Russian hacker will be jerking off to your pics.

 

[Maxxam]

 

[futureshock]

Ok, when I said cloud I meant having to upload your vids and pics to a third party service just to get them. Basically what you are doing is uploading your pics to dropbox servers then the files are synced to your computer. There isn't anything wrong with that but it depends on how much you trust these companies with your data

Nah, I do not trust them with all of my stuff. But you already know the deal. Current corporate business models are trying to eliminate free ownership (storage) of OUR OWN content.

 

[TimRock]

and when that cloud service gets compromised some Russian hacker will be jerking off to your pics.

then don't upload pics that russian hackers would want to jerk off to.

 

[Flawless]

then don't upload pics that russian hackers would want to jerk off to.

then why even bother taking pics?

 

[TimRock]

then why even bother taking pics?

if you are scared of someone stealing your stuff, why have a phone? why have a pc? why have anything that can be hacked?

 

[thismybgolname]

This is fucking stupid but I'm not in the market for another laptop for at least another 4 years.

 

[LordSinister]

Not even a SD card reader. Fucking shame. So photographers have to buy a fucking dongle to dump the pics.