Nobody asked for the fucking iMac Pro, just like nobody asked for the fucking trashcan Mac Pro.
It would be nice if the industrial designer was pushed aside and Apple let the engineers design computers and then order the industrial designer to make it look nice. It's currently the other way around and unfortunately engineers can't break the laws of physics.
By PC's you mean Windows? The same Windows that kicked me out of a game last night to install some updates?
Or by PC's do you mean non-Apple laptops? The same laptops that are also beginning to have non-replacable components just like Apple's laptops?
This is not about vendor lock-in, it's about the whole industry catering to the lowest common denominators and our needs as power users being pushed aside.
The MacBook Air has been last updated a lot more than 374 days ago.
The last "update" was only a small 100MHz upgrade on the CPU of the low-end model but it's still the same old Broadwell CPU, the same used in the 2015 MacBook Air.
The last update to the MacBook Air was about 1150 days ago. And it's still using a TN display in 2018.
For the money Apple are asking for their computers, they can't possibly be proud of the specifications.
Good enough would be fine, but Apple never lowers their prices even years after the computers have launched.
Good enough would be fine, but 4GB of RAM with the latest macOS is far from being sufficient even for basic Web browsing.
Good enough would be fine, but the latest macOS are absolutely slow as molasses when used with mechanical HDDs, which is what Apple are still using in the Mac mini, not even offering an SSD option for the low-end model. I'd rather Apple sold the low-end Mac mini with a 64GB SSD than a slow 500GB HDD. And maybe upgrade the RAM to 8GB with the money saved.
What, you mean people will just go in these stores and start messing things up by picking items and leaving them in other random shelves just to mess things up?
Let's just hope this doesn't become a thing! #RandomizeAutomatedStores
If it's going to let you just pick up items and leave the store then yes, it does need to know who you are to be able to bill you for the items you took.
I will grant you Google, Amazon and Facebook because we've seen it in the past, but show me where and how Apple are doing data mining about the individual users?
About the smartphone part... it will probably require an application, so I guess they're going to shut out people with old, not-up-to-date smartphones too?
In this age of Google mail (or any other online mail), not offering email accounts to Internet subscribers would lower the number of email-related calls to the tech support phone lines of the ISP.
Gold is almost universally recognized by most cultures throughout history as being a valuable commodity.
And that's because god has taught us to like gold so that we would search for it, refine it, store it, etc. And once god comes back they will take all the gold from us.
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Nobody asked for the fucking iMac Pro, just like nobody asked for the fucking trashcan Mac Pro.
It would be nice if the industrial designer was pushed aside and Apple let the engineers design computers and then order the industrial designer to make it look nice. It's currently the other way around and unfortunately engineers can't break the laws of physics.
They already are and I'm beginning to think this is the reason for the lack of updates on many of their low-end computers.
By PC's you mean Windows? The same Windows that kicked me out of a game last night to install some updates?
Or by PC's do you mean non-Apple laptops? The same laptops that are also beginning to have non-replacable components just like Apple's laptops?
This is not about vendor lock-in, it's about the whole industry catering to the lowest common denominators and our needs as power users being pushed aside.
The MacBook Air has been last updated a lot more than 374 days ago.
The last "update" was only a small 100MHz upgrade on the CPU of the low-end model but it's still the same old Broadwell CPU, the same used in the 2015 MacBook Air.
The last update to the MacBook Air was about 1150 days ago. And it's still using a TN display in 2018.
For the money Apple are asking for their computers, they can't possibly be proud of the specifications.
Good enough would be fine, but Apple never lowers their prices even years after the computers have launched.
Good enough would be fine, but 4GB of RAM with the latest macOS is far from being sufficient even for basic Web browsing.
Good enough would be fine, but the latest macOS are absolutely slow as molasses when used with mechanical HDDs, which is what Apple are still using in the Mac mini, not even offering an SSD option for the low-end model. I'd rather Apple sold the low-end Mac mini with a 64GB SSD than a slow 500GB HDD. And maybe upgrade the RAM to 8GB with the money saved.
There should be a base price for all the infrastructure, employees, etc. Then a data cost at ten times the ISP cost on top of that.
That could mean a base cost with no data of $10 per month for 25GBps connections, $20 for 50GBps connections, etc.
What, you mean people will just go in these stores and start messing things up by picking items and leaving them in other random shelves just to mess things up?
Let's just hope this doesn't become a thing! #RandomizeAutomatedStores
I pay for things with Canadian Tire money. Let's just say, there's not a lot of places that get my business.
If it's going to let you just pick up items and leave the store then yes, it does need to know who you are to be able to bill you for the items you took.
The only thing you can't buy these days is the 11" MBA, Apple dropped it in 2016.
I will grant you Google, Amazon and Facebook because we've seen it in the past, but show me where and how Apple are doing data mining about the individual users?
About the smartphone part... it will probably require an application, so I guess they're going to shut out people with old, not-up-to-date smartphones too?
And don't forget all the problems that will occur if you dare put something blue in your shopping cart.
And by law, in the USA, politicians don't have to do what you want them to do.
I guess all my appliances are corrupted since they're plugged-in 24/7.
We should be paying per gigabyte and no more than ten times the cost to the ISP.
So that's like.... $0.00001 per gigabyte for the users?
In this age of Google mail (or any other online mail), not offering email accounts to Internet subscribers would lower the number of email-related calls to the tech support phone lines of the ISP.
Well, after the date obviously.
The only crypto-currency that is guaranteed to keep its value is Dogecoin. Since the beginning, one Dogecoin has always had a value of one Dogecoin.
Bitcoin hasn't been mined with GPUs for years, how would it affect GPU prices?
And that's because god has taught us to like gold so that we would search for it, refine it, store it, etc. And once god comes back they will take all the gold from us.
p.s.: god is aliens.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 is priceless.
Bitcoin's value is price-less.
Ergo, Beethoven invented Bitcoin.
That's where you're wrong, my friend.
My TV has a 16:10 aspect ratio.
half-ass vs full-ass