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Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC
Nerval's Lobster writes "Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off his company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco with a short video emphasizing the importance of design, particularly that which evokes some sort of emotional connection such as love or delight. But that sentimental bit aside, this WWDC was all business: huge numbers of developers attend this annual event, packing sessions designed to help give their apps an edge in Apple's crowded online marketplace (some 50 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, Cook told the audience during his keynote). Apple also uses its WWDC to unveil new products or services, attracting sizable interest from the tech press.
This time around, the company introduced Mac OS X 'Mavericks,' which includes 'Finder Tabs' (which allow the user to deploy multiple tabs within a Finder window—great for organization, in theory) and document tags (for easier searching). Macs will now support multiple displays, including HDTVs, with the ability to tweak elements between screens; Apple claims the operating system will also interact with the CPU in a more efficient manner.
On top of that, Apple rolled out some new hardware: an upgraded MacBook Air with faster graphics, better battery life (9 hours for the 11-inch edition, while the 13-inch version can draw 12 hours' worth of power). Apple has decided to jump into the cloud-productivity space with iWork for iCloud, which makes the company's iWork portfolio (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) browser-based; this is a clear response to Office 365 and Google Docs.
And finally, the executives onstage turned back to iOS, which (according to Apple) powers some 600 million devices around the world. This version involves more than a few tweaks: from a redesigned 'Slide to Unlock' at the bottom of the screen, to the bottom-up control panel that slides over the home-screen, to the 'flat' (as predicted) icons and an interface that adjusts as the phone is tilted, this is a total redesign. As a software designer, Ive is clearly a huge fan of basic shapes—circles and squares— and layering translucent elements atop one another."
This time around, the company introduced Mac OS X 'Mavericks,' which includes 'Finder Tabs' (which allow the user to deploy multiple tabs within a Finder window—great for organization, in theory) and document tags (for easier searching). Macs will now support multiple displays, including HDTVs, with the ability to tweak elements between screens; Apple claims the operating system will also interact with the CPU in a more efficient manner.
On top of that, Apple rolled out some new hardware: an upgraded MacBook Air with faster graphics, better battery life (9 hours for the 11-inch edition, while the 13-inch version can draw 12 hours' worth of power). Apple has decided to jump into the cloud-productivity space with iWork for iCloud, which makes the company's iWork portfolio (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) browser-based; this is a clear response to Office 365 and Google Docs.
And finally, the executives onstage turned back to iOS, which (according to Apple) powers some 600 million devices around the world. This version involves more than a few tweaks: from a redesigned 'Slide to Unlock' at the bottom of the screen, to the bottom-up control panel that slides over the home-screen, to the 'flat' (as predicted) icons and an interface that adjusts as the phone is tilted, this is a total redesign. As a software designer, Ive is clearly a huge fan of basic shapes—circles and squares— and layering translucent elements atop one another."
I mean really... why?
The new IOS 7 UI looks an awful lot like another mobile UI I've seen without the 3d effect. We better check to see if flat images are patented or part of brand distinction.
Things that caught my eye were (1) iCloud keychain to allow better mobile-system tracking of passwords within the iOS and OS X framework, (2) iBooks on Mac (FINALLY!), (3) some expanded multitasking in iOS 7 (although it's not clear if it's really extended capabilities over iOS 6 or just a spiffier UI), and (4) Airdrop from within iOS 7 to nearby devices. The new Mac Pro line looks sharp, and I definitely lust for one even if I don't need one.
Once again Apple absolutely *schools* Google and Microsoft on how to design software. If you own stock in either of those companies, I'd advise you get on the phone and sell it NOW before the true impact of these announcements take hold.
Jizzed in my pants.....
For those of us NOT on the Mac bandwagon, what's Finder?
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Macs will now support multiple displays, including HDTVs,
Um....
Macs have supported multiple displays for something like 20 years. They've supported HDTVs since DVI-HDMI adapters were invented. The news here is that OSX Mavericks has significantly improved multi-monitor management, such as the ability to have a menu bar and dock on all screens simultaneously and new window grouping features.
I know it's hip to complain about how the editors can do basic fact checking, but this is ridiculous.
Is it me or is iOS 7 a total rip-off of Android and Google's apps? Same flat style icons, same "cards", similar notifications and on-going events, similar features etc,
I'm just... surprised.
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We waited a half hour after the end of the keynote for this terrible summary, really? Multiple-monitor support has been in the Mac OS since 1987; the summary doesn't make it even reportedly clear that today's announcement was about (much-needed, IMO) new features for said ability. And "including hdtvs"? Again, this has been possible since hdtvs came into existence (via hdmi out or div->hdmi adapters). The new feature here is being able to use an airplay-cable device as a secondary display.
So, Steve Jobs gives us the NeXT CUBE and Cook and Co. give us the Mac Pro CyLINDER.
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Does OSX Mavericks come with a Sarah Palin or a Tom Cruise doll?
I mean really... why?
Now that Apple.com is updated, you can find out why - it's a cylinder because the GPUs and CPU are mounted around a central cooling core made from a single piece of aluminum with a single massive fan on top.
This is about the longest TFS I've ever seen. It's only about half the length of the full article!
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only 1 build in SDD card? No build in raid at all? and for some pro work loads like video that will be way to small.
Seem low and the chip set has lot's of sata ports that are going unused.
What is the current guess at a release date for it?
The new IOS 7 UI looks an awful lot like another mobile UI I've seen without the 3d effect.
Love how TFS gushes about Apple's placing importance on "design", and then represents a few trivial UI tweaks as "a total redesign".
The TB bus does not have a lot of bandwidth it's only pci-e X4 and I hope that each port or has it's own X4 link or at least one X4 link for 2 ports.
Thunderbolt 2 is 20Gb/s. There are 6 ports and 3 Thunderbolt controllers (each controller handles a full 20Gb/s across 2 ports).
FWIW, PCIe 1.0 x8 is only 16Gb/s and x4 is only 8Gb/s.
The bandwidth here is basically faster than 6 x8 slots.
Anyhow... that's a lot faster than any consumer or prosumer storage solutions. It might be a little slow only if you were driving an external video card but the internal cards can handle 3X 4K displays already.
Looking at all the work Apple has done on that Mac Pro and Macbook Air, it seems they aren't putting all their eggs in the mobile basket any more.
Good to see some common sense. Post-PC is marketing hype. The PC will be standard technology for at least the next 100 years.
Mac Pro’s flash internal storage will offer an astoundingly fast 1.25GBps reads and 1.0GBps writes. That's great, but is this a sign of things to come? Like a Macbook Pro with PCIe flash? Oh, the possibilities...
missing the point how are the TB chips linked to the chip set? and does each controller have it's own X4 link?
only 1 cpu hurts it next to High end PC workstations can have X2 the cpu power and X2 the ram bandwidth.
as well Full X16 pci-e slots that are faster then TB.
this is only osx 10.9.. 10.10 is supposed to be maverick.
1. iOS7: Multitasking? It's about time. What is this, 1984?
2. Mac Pro Desktop: All of that tubular elegance is going lost in a rats-nest of external boxes and cables because all of the expansion of that chassis has to be external--there's no internal room for optical drives, RAID arrays, media card readers/writers, etc. And SSDs big enough for media production are still way too expensive. And how do you rack mount a dozen of them in the machine room of a video editing suite (as I've done many times in my business)?
Apple needs a mini + with a good desktop cpu and a good (can be build video chip) may be at $800-$1200 as I see the new mac pro at $2,500-$3,000 base.
Does OSX Mavericks come with a Sarah Palin or a Tom Cruise doll?
No. But it does come with images of the big wave surfing location, Mavericks, for which it is actually named. A location that has 25 foot surf on an average day. A really cool place.
"Thunderbolt 2 is 20Gb/s"
Remember that 'Thunderbolt' speed numbers include both the PCIe and the Displayport data channels(and, to the best of my knowledge, the capacity allocation between the video and data channels is fixed, even if only one is being used). By aggregating the previous 4 10Gb channels into two 20Gb channels, they allowed full Displayport 1.2 resolution and expect to bottleneck external storage devices slightly less; but the PCIe side still looks like PCIe 2.0 x4. Not slow; but substantially slower than x8 and x16 PCIe 2.0 and slower still than PCIe 3.
I mean really... why?
Saddened by the lack of a clear window panel to show off blue led light strips and glowing fans? :-)
This is all distinctly underwhelming. Android and Windows Phone have been sporting a "flat" UI for some time and iOS late to that party. It's some change from the times when Apple were the trend setter and are now playing catchup. And other than the reskinned UI, the remaining stuff is basically fixes and tweaks.
D'oh! That's one facepalm for me then.
And PCIe 1.0 is well and truly obsolete. PCIe 3.0 is shipping already and we have devices targeted at workstations maxing out PCIe 2.0 x8 links handily. Never mind the latency increases imposed by Thunderbolt.
TB has its place, but as the exclusive means of expansion in a system it is lacking.
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Because "assembled" does mean any of its parts is being made in the USA. They are just "assembling" them in the USA so people think they are creating jobs or something. Very few high-tech skills involved (source: I've worked at such places).
I've been waiting for this event for weeks, as we're buying 90ish laptops for our school district... faculty use.
First thing I noticed was the MacBook Air update... and how they are surprisingly dropping the clock speed of existing systems in favor of battery life. While I know their new software may be more efficient, and even the chipset itself may be more efficient, it just surprised me. Being around for the grand ol days of the "great hardware race", I didn't think they would actually move backwards (from 1.8GHz to 1.3GHz). First thing I thought of was that they are doing this so that they can have the great hardware race again... and announce faster systems all over again for that lineup.
Next up, the Mac Pro looks like an homage paid to the G4 Cube. While I will admit owning one and thinking it was cool at the time, I think someone else pointed out here that the elegance is lost in the external cable mess. But let's be honest, the people who are being power users are already going for external enclosures for everything (especially storage) because it can be had faster and cheaper by going not Apple. To all those also who say "OMG you can't upgrade it", my experience has been those who buy Mac Pros work them hard and run them until they quit or completely replace them anyway. They want an all in one solution that they can use and replace as a whole... because they know about graphic design / video editing, and not necessarily about performance computing.
iOS7. Auto updating, super cool for what we do with 800 iPads sitting here. I like it, even though it seems to be more like the Android phone I tested for a week recently (Galaxy S4). I was really hoping that with the release of iOS7, they would have been releasing what I consider "a properly sized phone for 2013". They didn't. Le sad.
iCloud ... platform agnostic document modification through a web browser, cool... but not when you start having to pay for an over X amount of storage every month. They are just trying to generate more recurring revenue. iCloud keychain seems like a terrible idea in terms of security. I say this because of the whole keys to the kingdom approach. All of my users use iCloud now, and they still are using sticky notes on their laptops, though I'm trying to break them of this.
Lastly, I am annoyed that none of this was even remotely ready to go today. I was hoping to be surprised with the release of software and that they had actually secretly worked with developers to have it out remotely soon. As a school, releasing iOS7 when school starts, well.. that's just a pain in the ass. Tim Cook is one of these most underwhelming speakers, and really just irritates me when I hear him. Whoever the dude in the blue shirt was... that guy was great with his speeches.
PS... thank god no more cat names
This was clearly an announcement of a return to the Mac. They want to sell more laptops, AppleTVs and wifi routers.
The AppleTV integration just turned your laptop or mac mini into a game system btw. That may very well be the sleeper feature of the whole announcement.
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missing the point how are the TB chips linked to the chip set? and does each controller have it's own X4 link?
The TB 2.0 chipsets use a x4 PCIe 2.0 link per controller. Guess that means that each pair of two TB ports shares the bandwidth of a controller (6 ports / 3 controllers / 12 PCIe 2.0 lanes total.
Probably not fast enough for external graphics that would outperform the (extremely fast) internal graphics solution but still orders of magnitude more bandwidth than any current external consumer or prosumer storage solution.
Just to head off any "Look what great new shiny Apple invented" by drooling fanboys: Finder tabs are a copy of QTTabBar for Windows - an extension written around 2004 by a Japanese guy who supposedly died in a traffic accident (nobody knows his real name). It's since been decompiled and updated to work with Windows 7. Obviously he got the idea from tabbed browsing in Firefox, but credit where credit is due.
http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/
I dub thee: the Trash Pro.
Come on people, let's make this one stick.
Apple has a product right under their nose. Right now they have tipped their hat to some auto makers, but in reality, they need to make a 1 DIN audio head with a fold-out screen that connects to the vehicle's CANbus and can offer functions regardless of what make the car is.
The car audio industry is similar to how cellphones were before smartphones got mainstream adoption. Heck, even thieves don't bother stealing car radios these days. Apple could easily send Alpine, Kenwood, and Sony running for the hills if they released a decent audio unit and got car makers to install it from the factory.
Yesterday, Firefox made a "major announcement" - curved tab graphics. Today, Apple announces removing the 3D icons. Oh, and multiple monitors are now supported using a new cable. Yawn. By the way, where are we in the black/white/beige/gray cycle this year?
There was a program for the original Mac line which found every icon on the system and displayed it as one huge grid on the home screen. This was a joke, not a feature. Then came the iPhone and Metro. Now it's just annoying, scrolling through pages of icons. Can we have menus back?
Apple is definitely having an idea shortage. Nothing comparable to Google Glass (which may or may not be a success, but at least is an advance in some direction). Nothing comparable to Microsoft's new-generation Kinect (which is a significant technical development, even if it needs an off switch). Not even a ruggedized iPhone (something several competing vendors now offer).
I noticed that I only see a single CPU package on the slides, yet somehow they can cram 12-cpu cores in there? The highest Xeon E5s I've seen appear to max out at 8cores/16threads. So the only way I can see that happening is if they can somehow get a multi-processor card or dual CPU mulit-cpu die package in there.
Bringing iBooks to the MacOS is good.
MacOS and iOS need to merge - We need to be able to use our data and our applications no matter what the hardware.
Apple should offer legacy support back to Classic, at least, with full 68K/PPC support - there's a tremendous amount of excellent software that was never brought to OSX or iOS. People using that software can't upgrade and abandon their data and applications so they don't. If Apple offered legacy support I have eleven machines I would upgrade and I know of many more people in the same boat. Since they won't support my data and apps I keep fixing old machines and Apple's not making profits on new hardware and OS updates from us.
How is that going to work?
How is the lag not going to be totally unacceptable?
Maybe it will work for angry birds, but you can forget real game system performance.
I'm all for it. Windows Phone is a great-looking OS (I think it looks better than any version of Android or iOS 6.x) with poor support from developers. Also, the new Yahoo Weather app is beautiful and has become my go-to weather app almost purely for aesthetics (and it doesn't hurt that they now use Weather Underground as a source for data.)
The specs are up on Apples site now. The 6 ports are on 3 separate TB controllers.
only 1 cpu hurts it next to High end PC workstations can have X2 the cpu power and X2 the ram bandwidth
That's a bold thing to say about having 2x power considering that we don't have real benchmarks yet. Or are you just making it up?
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It is weird how you seem to be claiming you watched the keynote when your words clearly show you haven't. Do you struggle with the truth in your personal life too?
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is useless. a Total disappointment. It has no PCIe expandability and that is a deal killer for high end video/animation folk. AFAIK, Thunderbolt 2 won't support 16x PCIe3 and the GPU processing is too weak. It will Display 4K but can't handle a proper 4K video editing workflow. In other words: back to Windows / Linux. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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apple system only has 1 cpu but the dell and other workstations will have 2 or more of them.
and workstations also have full sized video cards the mac pro seems to small to for the heat out put of 1 of them + cpu much less 2 GPU's + CPU?
Um you realize that there is more to processing power than the number of sockets right? If the number of sockets was the only factor then the top supercomputer in the world must have more sockets as number 2 right?
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Sorry, but there is nothing professional about the new Mac Pro. It is Eye Candy; nothing more. Its proprietary layout means that there is very little that will be upgradeable (save for maxing out its measly four RAM slots, or swapping out the SSD). CPU not fast enough anymore? Graphics cards out-of-date? Sorry, time to buy a new Mac Pro. But of course that is what Apple want. Heaven forbid that someone would actually want to upgrade their CPU or change to the latest generation GPU.
What is really anti-Professional about the Mac Pro? Dumping Internal storage bays and PCIe slots moving everything to external interfaces. SSDs have their place and so too do spinning disks. I could choose what I wanted, but with this new Mac Pro I have no choice. I would now have to have a stack of external drives sitting at my workstation. It won't look so pretty then.
On top of that, plenty of companies have invested in PCIe-based hardware (Audio DAW cards and HD-SDI interface cards are just two examples of many). Companies who have invested heavily in such hardware are now SOL. What will they do? Buy an overpriced Mac Pro and reinvest in all new Thunderbolt-based hardware (that most likely doesn't exist yet given the slow uptake of Thunderbolt), or switch to PC based hardware?
I have to look at the reason for the redesign, and it is very easy to see: Apple (and Intel) own Thunderbolt. They make a cut of every Thunderbolt device sold. Of course, they are going to push Thunderbolt over everything else. Did Apple actually listen to what their professional clients need?
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Hard... disk? Was that some sort of primitive SSD? ;)
No ten times cheaper per Gb with sizes up to 6Gb as opposed to 1Gb. SSD's are fast, but in every other way they are worse.
The bandwidth here is basically faster than 6 x8 slots.
False. The x8 slots you'll find in any PC these days is PCI-e 3.0, which is 64Gb/s. The bandwidth in those 6 Thunderbolt connectors is less than a *single* x16 slot these days (128Gb/s).
And in case you think that's overkill, note that higher end video cards are bottlenecked by anything less than x8 (64Gb/s). Good luck combining 3 Thunderbolt connections together to drive a single video card.
Basilisk II does a really great job of supporting Classic MacOS 68k from MacOS 0.x to MacOS 8.1 and Sheepshaver is capable of supporting PPC MacOS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. If you want, there's even the vMac project and its more portable and actively developed spin off Mini vMac which allow you to emulate the old Apple Macintosh Plus...
What exactly is it you think is missing?
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How do you figure they get "up to 12 cores" from one CPU? Intel making a 12 core Xeon now?
"up to 12 cores" in one CPU?
some expanded multitasking in iOS 7 (although it's not clear if it's really extended capabilities over iOS 6 or just a spiffier UI)
In the keynote they talked for a bit about how apps were now allowed full multitasking, the system figures out when they normally want to be active and gives them some time. I'm not sure technically how that works yet, but it's not the older set of specific background app types.
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Very worried about that. Since Preview is "cloud enabled" it's a POS that crashes constantly. It -was- the best PDF viewer before, it is crippled and buggy now. It always want to sync with 'the cloud' even when I don't want it to do this. I certainly hope that Keynotes remains the productive tool it is now, and not some bloated "cloudware" .
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If they ran the same CPUs and didn't have other bandwidth constraints than yes that would be the case.
Let me guess: you think the CPU in the Mac will be magically faster than the CPU in every other workstation because they're in a Mac.
You realize this Mac "Pro" isn't a supercomputer right?
It's the Great American Challenge!
"The bandwidth here is basically faster than 6 x8 slots."
Why don't you compare them to current PCIe? Oh yeah, because then you'd have nothing to say.
Current PCIe is 10GT/s PER LANE. Oh yeah, and Gen1 PCIe is 2.5 GT/s per lane, not 2 like you quoted. You can't even get obsolete technology right without lying about it.
These 6 ports are cumulatively slower than a single x16 slot. I suggest you stop posting.
Disappointed that there's no SDK and App Store for the Apple TV. I think that's just relegated it to being an irrelevant device in the footnote of Apple history, rather than a game-changing device, which I think it could have been.
Anti-apple post about redundancy? Redundant. Guess what? More and more articles about Apple? Also redundant.
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If they ran the same CPUs and didn't have other bandwidth constraints than yes that would be the case.
That's the assumption you are making. The processor that Intel supplies Apple may not be available to the general public. We know that it will be 12 cores in a single chip; Intel supplies up to 8 cores now. There may be additional engineering that is involved for Apple to use it and thus won't be usable in a MB the public can buy.
Let me guess: you think the CPU in the Mac will be magically faster than the CPU in every other workstation because they're in a Mac.
I think you can't make claims of 2x since we don't know anything about it other than 12 core Intel. Also we don't know if Apple has optimized 10.9 to offload more processing to the GPUs. The combination of hardware and software might make it competitive with other workstations, especially current ones.
You realize this Mac "Pro" isn't a supercomputer right?
Doubliing the number of sockets does not necessarily double the power of any system. You can that in massively parallel supercomputing. There are other factors that contribute to processin power.
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As a long time user of Palm (Pre+), I was delighted to see the influences of WebOS on iOS7. Apple appears to have taken the best of the WebOS UI and used it in iOS7. The multi-tasking card interface, sliding inbox items side-to-side, and a few others.
These were some of the features that I enjoyed the most, and missed when I upgraded to a new iPhone.
I'm not saying "stole" - innovation and creativity requires looking at what others did and building upon it. So - good for them.
That parallax UI looks very "neat" - I wonder if it's gimmicky though. The share via bluetooth will be useful - if it works with non iOS devices. Unfortunately my friends use some unknown Android release.
Thank you , Apple, for making it soo easy for me to completely toss your rubbish OS.. After 20 years of faithful Apple servitude, the last 5 years have seen you throw out any goodwill, and any quality, and usability you've developed over the years.. Oh how quickly we have fallen! When OSX first came out, it was a stable marvel of UNIX heritage, but since 10.6, all the "improvements" have amounted to changes made solely with the shareholder's interests at heart..removing essential features, increasing incompatibility, creating forced (and expensive!) upgrades of software that no longer ran on Macs, ands increasingly sluggish, and unstable, performance. It's been years since a crash could lock up the entire OS, but now, it happens.. Did you just install a Major OS upgrade last year? Well, it's obsolete this year, already. Want to run your 2 year old Application, but it's incompatible suddenly? It's OK, buy a new one! ..
For bloody years I was a "Mac Evangelist", but looks like the company has "feet of clay", or perhaps the Apple is rotten from the core...
That's OK, there's always Linux, and (heaven forbid) Windows.. although Windows 7 works very well, and will probably still be supported long after Apple completely abandons it's desktop market altogether...
That to me is a clincher...
Bye Bye...
Where is the next innovative product that will rub Microsoft's face in its own mediocrity? Where is the next iPad?
iPad was a whole new product category, and it was only introduced 3 years ago. You can't expect new categories every year, only new products. And there's several of those!
But clearly you're scraping the bottom of the barrel in your desire to attack Apple. The CEO clothes? This isn't a girlie glamour and celeb magazine.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a MacBook Air w/8 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Acer Aspire 5920G running Windows 7, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My Core Duo with 2 gigs of ram runs faster than i7 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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12 core Xeon is one of the options. Yet to be seen if that option is available at launch or follows a little later. But it's not unusual for Apple to have first dibs on a new chip.
Because of that old speed-of-light conundrum, it makes sense to fit the processors and memory as close as possible to each other. A round shape is optimal, a cylindrical shape is essentially the same. Spreading everything out inside a huge box may be convenient for upgrades, but it slows down the speed of operations.
Moving the other peripherals outside the device and connecting them with cables also helps with the heat problem.
I think the new Mac Pro is fantastic, but I have no personal need for anything with even 1/10th this much power.
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Oooh. Are you sure you wanna go there? http://www.themacintoshguy.com/mactips/archive/tip14.shtml
Jan 1997. The feature is older, actually, but I'm too lazy to dig further.
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