That's why Apple makes both purpose-built Touch-Driven Tablets and Smartphones, with a purpose-built Touch-based OS, and mouse and trackpad-driven Desktop and Laptop computers, with a more conventional, non-touch-based OS.
But if you really want to add touch to an iMac, you can easily do so for only $200.
From the actual article -- "includes a 28" display with 13.5 million pixels at a 4500x3000 resolution"
The standard 4k resolution mentioned was a comparison, not part of the spec of the Surface. As for the price comparison, please add in the cost of a high-definition screen-based digitiser to the Apple iMac spec and get back to us. Oh, the iMacs don't have a built-in screen digitiser as an option? Oops.
Still a significantly less number of pixels than the 5k iMac.
And do we know the resolution of the digitizer? Does it actually meet or exceed the resolution of the display?
And I would bet that real graphics professionals will still want to use a dedicated graphics tablet, rather than get a bunch of hand-prints all over their screen to use a half-baked built-in digitizer.
Oh, and the price of a multi-touch digitizer for a 5k iMac? Howabout $200?
Now I have no idea how good that is; but considering the number of 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, I would bet that it is at least as good as the typical crap that MS has been building into their other Surface products, like the Surface Pro 4. Which is to say, notsowonderful.
I'd love to see a more thorough technical analysis done. Put a debug tool that monitors the system in real-time. Analyze every sports stadium and their network and equipment infrastructure. And put out a whitepaper that details everything.
Do we know if every NFL stadium has dedicated AP equipment with isolated and prioritized vLANs routing on-the-field device data directly to-and-from their supporting hardware infrastructure? Do we know if every device works with a clean OS install before every game? Are the servers consistent in every stadium? For all we know, someone may have patched two switches together across an old 100Mb link just to get things operational, or someone's running the hosting software on some old P4 server that can't handle the demand, or someone swapped the away team's AP with a cheapo D-Link unit they got at Target, or sixty thousand smartphones are choking the Surface tablet traffic.
It's easy to blame things on Microsoft, especially when your profession is football and not IT. But, in my experience, more often than not, someone screwed up the infrastructure side of the equation.
From what I understand, everything is provided by, installed by and maintained by the NFL. It is essentially a Travelling LAN (Isn't that a Bob Seger song?), kind of like some of the network infrastructure other "road shows" carry, only more, and more secretive.
This. That's the same reason we ported our classroom app to a Universal Windows app from iOS. It's only because Microsoft paid us. The teachers hate it since it crashes so much more often and the battery life is crap, but we really didn't have a choice in the matter considering how much we were paid. The school districts hate it because they have to have so many more Surface spares for the teachers.
Sounds like someone got a KICK-BACK... About time for a little investigation by your State's Audit board...
Given that these things obviously rely on wireless info feeds, and (as you indicated) that such wireless or communication systems fail in stadiums on occasion [espn.com], I'm not sure I'd be so quick to blame the hardware or software.
There are two things that matter: How stable the network is, and (more importantly), how resilient the hardware and software is to an unstable network (e.g., how quickly and transparently it re-aquires the network when it comes back, and whether it can fall-back to other resources if one data-path fails).
And those things are specifically controlled by the hardware and software on the device.
but if it did change slowly over time would you really know ? lithium battery chemistry states that whiskers of metal will form in the battery no matter what so there will be degradation. there is no way that is not happening so it more likely that the changes happened over time so gradually you are just not aware of it. Remember no battery lasts forever.
Oh, I agree. But I am pretty sure I would notice more than a 25% of so variation over time in either run-time or change-time, and so far, I am also pretty sure that I haven't.
That was the 6 Plus and the whole thing was debunked by consumer reports. Turns out all phones bend, some easier than the iPhone, some harder. Shocking, I know.
I have a 6 plus; so I know. But it was an easy reference to grab...
Given that encryption came due to pressure from celebrities and Apple's failure to unlock to help cases impacting ordinary individuals, it's a bad thing.
It will be just like a lottery machine at home. Whenever you boot it, you never know if for example if it will start at all, or has it been obsoleted by a forced OS update or what does it look like and how it should be used that time.
an All-In-One has the worst of both desktops and laptops. To heavy/bulky to move, and not upgradable/repairable like a laptop.
The iMac is popular mainly because there is a market for an Apple desktop more powerful than the Mini and less expensive than the Pro. Most people who buy an iMac would have been better off with a mid-tower Mac desktop with a separate monitor.
You're simply dead wrong about that.
You drop the iMac on a desk. Drop the keyboard and mouse (or multitouch pad) onto the desk. Power cable to iMac. Done. 1 cable (power). No other configuration other that a Mac Laptop is as elegant and clutter-free, including a Mac mini, Mac Pro or even your mythical mid-tower Mac. Those all call for a minimum of three cables (2 power and 1 video), not to mention about 4 more cables and at least two more boxes on your desk if you want any sort of external speakers, where the iMac has stereo speakers built-in that are perfectly adequate for typical office use.
Pretty much every Windows OEM has had an Intel Skylake-powered processor in its laptops for more than a year now, but Apple's computing lineup is still shipping with the three-to-four years old processor, and graphics card.
No "Selective Editing" by me. The term "Computing Lineup" means ALL Apple Computers, not just the MBP as you wrongly assert.
So, to further inform you, that currently means: The iMac, Mac Pro, Mac mini, MacBook, non-Retina MacBook Pro and Retina MacBook Pro.
So the statement that Apple's "Computing Lineup" (which would be the Set of ALL Current Apple Computers) by definition includes the Skylake-Equipped MacBook.
No "Selective Editing" on my part. Just "Selective Comprehension" on your part.
In the recent Apple WWDC Keynote, Apple demonstrated the coming Update to their WatchOS (WatchOS 3). Performance across the board increased, with App Launches happening around EIGHT TIMES faster, and several other actions "snapified"(tm).
And that was WITHOUT changing the hardware.
So, clearly, Apple knows how to design a SmartWatch, and Intel needs to stick to desktop and server CPU design.
Pretty much every Windows OEM has had an Intel Skylake-powered processor in its laptops for more than a year now, but Apple's computing lineup is still shipping with the three-to-four years old processor, and graphics card.
Ahem. That's a bald-faced lie. The 2016 MacBook now has a Skylake processor.
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Did you add in the price for Apple's touch screen and digitizer? No? Oh, right - they don't have one.
Do you really think that Apple, as one of the leaders in touchscreen technology, hasn't experimented extensively with a touchscreen iMac?
There are fundamental problems with the concept when it comes to desktop and laptop use. Believe me, we wish it wasn't true, but our repeated and lengthy testing has clearly shown that it is.
That's why Apple makes both purpose-built Touch-Driven Tablets and Smartphones, with a purpose-built Touch-based OS, and mouse and trackpad-driven Desktop and Laptop computers, with a more conventional, non-touch-based OS.
But if you really want to add touch to an iMac, you can easily do so for only $200.
From the actual article -- "includes a 28" display with 13.5 million pixels at a 4500x3000 resolution"
The standard 4k resolution mentioned was a comparison, not part of the spec of the Surface. As for the price comparison, please add in the cost of a high-definition screen-based digitiser to the Apple iMac spec and get back to us. Oh, the iMacs don't have a built-in screen digitiser as an option? Oops.
Still a significantly less number of pixels than the 5k iMac.
And do we know the resolution of the digitizer? Does it actually meet or exceed the resolution of the display?
And I would bet that real graphics professionals will still want to use a dedicated graphics tablet, rather than get a bunch of hand-prints all over their screen to use a half-baked built-in digitizer.
Oh, and the price of a multi-touch digitizer for a 5k iMac? Howabout $200?
Now I have no idea how good that is; but considering the number of 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, I would bet that it is at least as good as the typical crap that MS has been building into their other Surface products, like the Surface Pro 4. Which is to say, not so wonderful.
I'd love to see a more thorough technical analysis done. Put a debug tool that monitors the system in real-time. Analyze every sports stadium and their network and equipment infrastructure. And put out a whitepaper that details everything.
Do we know if every NFL stadium has dedicated AP equipment with isolated and prioritized vLANs routing on-the-field device data directly to-and-from their supporting hardware infrastructure? Do we know if every device works with a clean OS install before every game? Are the servers consistent in every stadium? For all we know, someone may have patched two switches together across an old 100Mb link just to get things operational, or someone's running the hosting software on some old P4 server that can't handle the demand, or someone swapped the away team's AP with a cheapo D-Link unit they got at Target, or sixty thousand smartphones are choking the Surface tablet traffic.
It's easy to blame things on Microsoft, especially when your profession is football and not IT. But, in my experience, more often than not, someone screwed up the infrastructure side of the equation.
From what I understand, everything is provided by, installed by and maintained by the NFL. It is essentially a Travelling LAN (Isn't that a Bob Seger song?), kind of like some of the network infrastructure other "road shows" carry, only more, and more secretive.
This. That's the same reason we ported our classroom app to a Universal Windows app from iOS. It's only because Microsoft paid us. The teachers hate it since it crashes so much more often and the battery life is crap, but we really didn't have a choice in the matter considering how much we were paid. The school districts hate it because they have to have so many more Surface spares for the teachers.
Sounds like someone got a KICK-BACK... About time for a little investigation by your State's Audit board...
Given that these things obviously rely on wireless info feeds, and (as you indicated) that such wireless or communication systems fail in stadiums on occasion [espn.com], I'm not sure I'd be so quick to blame the hardware or software.
There are two things that matter: How stable the network is, and (more importantly), how resilient the hardware and software is to an unstable network (e.g., how quickly and transparently it re-aquires the network when it comes back, and whether it can fall-back to other resources if one data-path fails).
And those things are specifically controlled by the hardware and software on the device.
Certainly stadium wifi congestion has been a known issue for quite a while - why didn't Microsoft think about it?
Because maybe it isn't WiFi congestion, eh?
Apple's willing to let their competitor spend 400m to promote the iPad instead.
Shhhh! Don't help them figure that out!
but if it did change slowly over time would you really know ? lithium battery chemistry states that whiskers of metal will form in the battery no matter what so there will be degradation. there is no way that is not happening so it more likely that the changes happened over time so gradually you are just not aware of it. Remember no battery lasts forever.
Oh, I agree. But I am pretty sure I would notice more than a 25% of so variation over time in either run-time or change-time, and so far, I am also pretty sure that I haven't.
That was the 6 Plus and the whole thing was debunked by consumer reports. Turns out all phones bend, some easier than the iPhone, some harder. Shocking, I know.
I have a 6 plus; so I know. But it was an easy reference to grab...
Given that encryption came due to pressure from celebrities and Apple's failure to unlock to help cases impacting ordinary individuals, it's a bad thing.
Citation?
Desktop Linux seems to be closer and closer to a daydream the further down this road we go.
FTFY
It will be just like a lottery machine at home. Whenever you boot it, you never know if for example if it will start at all, or has it been obsoleted by a forced OS update or what does it look like and how it should be used that time.
What forced OS update?
an All-In-One has the worst of both desktops and laptops. To heavy/bulky to move, and not upgradable/repairable like a laptop.
The iMac is popular mainly because there is a market for an Apple desktop more powerful than the Mini and less expensive than the Pro. Most people who buy an iMac would have been better off with a mid-tower Mac desktop with a separate monitor.
You're simply dead wrong about that.
You drop the iMac on a desk. Drop the keyboard and mouse (or multitouch pad) onto the desk. Power cable to iMac. Done. 1 cable (power). No other configuration other that a Mac Laptop is as elegant and clutter-free, including a Mac mini, Mac Pro or even your mythical mid-tower Mac. Those all call for a minimum of three cables (2 power and 1 video), not to mention about 4 more cables and at least two more boxes on your desk if you want any sort of external speakers, where the iMac has stereo speakers built-in that are perfectly adequate for typical office use.
Samsung: Feel The Burn Now?
Feel the burn. He He!
Keep on doin' what chur doin'.
Love,
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Thanks to you, the iPhone 7 is breaking all sales projections.
Keep up the good work!
Love,
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Pretty much every Windows OEM has had an Intel Skylake-powered processor in its laptops for more than a year now, but Apple's computing lineup is still shipping with the three-to-four years old processor, and graphics card.
No "Selective Editing" by me. The term "Computing Lineup" means ALL Apple Computers, not just the MBP as you wrongly assert.
So, to further inform you, that currently means: The iMac, Mac Pro, Mac mini, MacBook, non-Retina MacBook Pro and Retina MacBook Pro.
So the statement that Apple's "Computing Lineup" (which would be the Set of ALL Current Apple Computers) by definition includes the Skylake-Equipped MacBook.
No "Selective Editing" on my part. Just "Selective Comprehension" on your part.
If a software update can make it 8X faster, that just means they were doing it stupid wrong before.
Of course. Because no one else optimizes software as time goes on.
I have a hard time trusting anything NetMarketShare says, given that it claims Windows 3.1 has a larger market share than Windows 2000.
I just picked the first Google hit I saw. That figure is pretty much in agreement with other sources I have seen.
"You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn't match our recommended specs."
1. Don't you think that says volumes about Oculus' specs, rather than the Mac Pros? No, of course you don't.
2. From what I have heard, the GPU in the Mac Pro is optimized for CAD-type stuff and computing-functions, rather than for high-speed gaming. Horses for Courses. I seriously doubt that anyone buys a Mac Pro as a Gaming Machine.
Given that Linux is included in the newest version of Windows 10 ... yes.
Embrace...
This will produce a giant boost of Linux usage on the desktop.
In fact, it may even get to 3% marketshare across ALL Distros combined!
In the recent Apple WWDC Keynote, Apple demonstrated the coming Update to their WatchOS (WatchOS 3). Performance across the board increased, with App Launches happening around EIGHT TIMES faster, and several other actions "snapified"(tm).
And that was WITHOUT changing the hardware.
So, clearly, Apple knows how to design a SmartWatch, and Intel needs to stick to desktop and server CPU design.
I don't have a dog in this fight but... from your link: Oculus Founder: Rift Will Come To Mac If Apple "Ever Releases a Good Computer"
1. Oculus is full of shit.
2. I believe there are PLENTY of other non-Mac computers that don't meet Oculus' specs. In fact, "Earlier this year, Nvidia stated that roughly only 13 million computers – less than 1 percent of all computers on the planet – are powerful enough to smoothly run VR games.". So now what?
Congrats, the consumer-level notebook now has a modern CPU. Now, where is a modern MBP? You know, the one nerds buy?
To quote Little Georgie Tirebiter:
C-C-Coming, mother!
Pretty much every Windows OEM has had an Intel Skylake-powered processor in its laptops for more than a year now, but Apple's computing lineup is still shipping with the three-to-four years old processor, and graphics card.
Ahem. That's a bald-faced lie. The 2016 MacBook now has a Skylake processor.
Exhibit A.
IOW, nothing but Clickbait. As usual.