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Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs
theappwhisperer writes "The Magic Trackpad is basically a larger version of the MacBook Pro touchpad, with 80% more surface area for all your swiping and pinching. The entire surface acts as a button, so it's also a possible mouse replacement. And all of the expected gestures are here: two-finger scrolling, pinch to zoom, fingertip rotation, and three- and four-finger swipes. You can enable and disable gestures at your discretion from System Preferences." They also launched 12-core Mac Pros coming in August.
Apple isn't about making cool technology any more - it's about marketing to the masses.
Sure, I can use a 12-core device - but then again, I can write multi-threaded code in c, so I'm not dependent on a higher-level abstraction to hopefully "manage" my threading for me (while sucking so much resources that 12 cores becomes the new dual core). The average user simply can't even make proper use of 4 cores - and if you gave them a really pimped-out liquid-cooled overclocked single-core 32-bit machine (gobs or ram, a really good motherboard, multiple hard drives with the os and data spread amongst them so almost every drive access hits the drive cache), a slimmed-down OS that doesn't need to run bloatware like virus scanners, and stuck a 12-core label on it, they would be enthusiastic. AND most of their software would run faster.
How long until people will start yelling "abracadabra" at their iPads when they want to get a Flash-based website to properly work?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.