$1000 smartphone that lasts two years = $41.67 per month + expensive monthly fees for service, usually over $50. The total for ten years, if replacing the phone every two years, is $11K.
$100 flip phone that lasts ten years = $0.83 per month + extremely low monthly fees for service, usually around $15. The total for ten years is $1.9K.
That's $9.1K in your pockets, which around here is an extremely nice used car only less than five years old with enough money for any repairs that need to be done.
It's already costing them replacement parts, repair time and a lot of people not buying any of their new laptops because of the problem.
The old keyboard, like the one used on the MacBook Air, previous MacBook Pros and their old aluminium wired keyboards are really, really though and still have a small enough travel compared to regular keyboards. But no, mr.designer-in-chief wanted to shave 2mm of the keyboard thickness because a thin keyboard is more important than a usable one.
Actually I got cash in hand, waiting to see if the MacBook Air gets replaced by something with a crappy keyboard or not. If it does, I'm buying an old MacBook Air at a deep discount once the replacement is available.
I've seen a lot of PNG images with JPEG compression artifacts. That's what happens when non-technical users start using computers.
Programs need a big fucking warning window when trying to export JPEG to any other format to tell morons that it will NOT increase the quality and will only make the file bigger.
By file formats I mean when you try to "Save as" or "Export" in Preview into another graphic file format. The old formats are still there but they are hidden from the pull-down menu used for the format choice, you have to hold "option" to see them but no indication that holding that key will give you more option.
As for APFS, I've read quite a few complains on macrumors.com
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson
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You're assuming parent AC wants an Android smartphone.
$1000 smartphone that lasts two years = $41.67 per month + expensive monthly fees for service, usually over $50. The total for ten years, if replacing the phone every two years, is $11K.
$100 flip phone that lasts ten years = $0.83 per month + extremely low monthly fees for service, usually around $15. The total for ten years is $1.9K.
That's $9.1K in your pockets, which around here is an extremely nice used car only less than five years old with enough money for any repairs that need to be done.
It's already costing them replacement parts, repair time and a lot of people not buying any of their new laptops because of the problem.
The old keyboard, like the one used on the MacBook Air, previous MacBook Pros and their old aluminium wired keyboards are really, really though and still have a small enough travel compared to regular keyboards. But no, mr.designer-in-chief wanted to shave 2mm of the keyboard thickness because a thin keyboard is more important than a usable one.
Actually as someone else mentioned, the (lack of) travel on the new keyboards is so bad that I might buy a MacBook Air anyway.
Actually I got cash in hand, waiting to see if the MacBook Air gets replaced by something with a crappy keyboard or not. If it does, I'm buying an old MacBook Air at a deep discount once the replacement is available.
Because of course everyone lives in a big city.
Digital Rights Management is what the marketing calls it.
Digital Restriction Mechanism is what it actually does.
Nah, I'm pretty sure it's Russians paying China to be a proxy, who's paying North Korea to be a proxy.
You know what they say. The proxy of my enemy is my proxy.
It's proxies all the way down.
Etc.
A lean version without useless services eating RAM and wasting CPU would still be useful for gamers.
Then those people/spec documents need to explain why PNG is required, otherwise it's pointless.
I've seen a lot of PNG images with JPEG compression artifacts. That's what happens when non-technical users start using computers.
Programs need a big fucking warning window when trying to export JPEG to any other format to tell morons that it will NOT increase the quality and will only make the file bigger.
Rewrite your post in the Borg format. You must comply.
Will gamers be able to get this so-called Lean version, maybe even possibly at a lower price than the regular version?
I use Gmail via Apple's Mail program. As long as this setup works, I don't care what Google does to the web front-end.
Game consoles use flash memory.
Smartphones use flash memory.
Tablets use flash memory.
Set-top boxes use flash memory.
IoT gadgets use flash memory.
The demand for flash memory keeps increasing and companies don't want to build new flash memory factories in case demands slows down. Prices go up.
Yeah at those prices it doesn't take long before even doing a RAID 0 of SSDs with SSD backup drives become cheaper.
Less than half a second from power-up to interface: Tandy Color Computer 3.
Well, they are made of dihydrogen monoxide.
Because everyone has a 1080 Ti...
Why would someone do that? All TVs look like crap in anything but game mode.
Hey man, have you seen the new Star Wars GIF now playing in the theatres?
GIF is not really lossless since it's 8-bit and so can only display 256 colours at a time.
By file formats I mean when you try to "Save as" or "Export" in Preview into another graphic file format. The old formats are still there but they are hidden from the pull-down menu used for the format choice, you have to hold "option" to see them but no indication that holding that key will give you more option.
As for APFS, I've read quite a few complains on macrumors.com
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson
Start something, then remove it before it gets popular. Sounds like something Google would do.