The door swings both ways, troll. I've been using Slashdot since year 0, yet I wasn't narcissistic enough to need a username so that people could acknowledge my existence. Weak people like you need to make a name for yourselves. You need people to acknowledge your so-called individuality. Thus, the reason you need to troll.
Haha! Narcissistic. That's a good one!
You mean you are too PUSILLANIMOUS to stand the heat for your idiotic, hate-filled rantings.
God fucking damn, I hate Apple. It all started in 2nd grade when I was forced to Apple II garbage in elementary school. Obsolete pieces of shit with no sprites and a god-awful bleep-bloop-beep speaker. Fucking disgusting. Since then, every Apple user I've ever met has been a stupid motherfucker that wouldn't know an IC from a potato chip and totally brainwashed by the cult of Apple. Fuck any company that solders ram modules onto the motherboard. I even hate Wozniak because he didn't have the basic human decency to tell Steve Jobs to go fuck himself and go elsewhere.
Apple user since 1976, here.
But I also happen to be an embedded designer (hardware and software) with over 40 years of paid experience, and with over a dozen industrial real-time measurement, instrumentation, and controller product designs on the market, not to mention tons of one-off hardware and/or software dev. consulting gigs, etc. Presently employed developing business software for Windows (yeah, I know...)
All but two of my Mac-owning friends are either degree-d EEs, who certainly know an IC chip from a potato chip, and the other two are also professionals in other fields (one an architectural consultant, and the other a CPA/JD/CFE).
So, stuff it, Anonymous COWARD. You're both an idiot and a useless Hater. GO AWAY.
I said this was going to happen about 2 months ago, when the iPhone 7 came out, and was Punish-Modded into having "Terrible" Karma by all the frickin' HATERS.
I "like" the way that the person who is arguably the most "politically outside" candidate in many years was Elected by what is arguably one of the most "politically inside" of systems, the "Electoral College" in the "Free" World, in Direct Derogation of the so-called "Popular Vote", (or as it is known in most other electoral systems, "the Vote", which Hillary won.
HEY! MOST OF US CAN ACTUALLY READ NOW... SO, IT IS HIGH-TIME FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO GO!!!!
They'd have been happy for Apple to continue on using Google's applications - but Apple got pissed off and tried to 'hurt' Google by removing their apps from iOS.
Liar.
Google refused to license Apple to use Google's Mapping APIs to create Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation for iOS. In fact, their licensing agreement specifically precluded using their services for Turn-by-Turn Navigation.
After Goigle refused, for ANY price, to grant Apple an exception to that rule, THEN Apple removed Google's data mining APIs from the App Store and iOS builds, and began in earnest to develop their own mapping service, which they struggled to do (it is not a simple task to map the entire planet to the every-street-and--alley level in a few short months). But they eventually got it mostly right (even Google has some persistent errors in its data), and now revisionist history by the Apple Haters has laid the responsibility for all this at Apple's feet, when it was Google that was simply trying to hobble iOS by making it unnecessarily difficult and enormously expensive to implement that feature, rather than simply negotiating with Apple in good faith to come to a reasonable licensing deal for use of their mapping API.
Stock pumping, I imagine. There's no fucking way Apple makes that much money on iPhones, even with a double-digit margin.
Sorry to burst your hatred; but Unlike EVERYONE else, Apple actually reports ONLY on phones SOLD AT RETAIL. They do NOT pull that stock-pumping bullshit like Microsoft, Samsung, and others have done, and continue to do, to inflate sales figures.
13%? Wow! That's totally an impressive and not tiny at all number!
My argument is shattered before apples dominant 13% market share!
I noticed you conveniently ignored the figure about the iPhone having 40% of the US market.
And you know why the worldwide figure isn't larger? Because Apple doesn't flood the market with a zillion shitbox unsecure plastic phone zits, that are not only unprofitable, but serve primarily as loss-leaders for carriers and data mining minions for Google.
The Android market share would look vastly smaller if you factored-out all the FREE Android plastic shitbox phones running unsecure versions of Android that will never be patched.
Call it a hunch, but I don't think his problem is that they're hard to find. I think it's that they're even necessary. I can't argue with that bit of indignation.
Maybe today; but considering that people tend to keep their Macs 5 years or more, do you think that will be the case in a year or so, or do you think those USB-C ports will start to look pretty mainstream by then?
The only way to really change this is for Google to make sure that the underlying OS is provided by them, updated from their servers and the device manufacturer only gets to mess around with the GUI. If the manufacturer wants to make changes to the underlying system Google has to make them sign agreements obligating them to implement a certain protocol guaranteeing QA and that they will push regular updates over the lifespan of the device. Unless they do something like that the reputation of Android will always be ruined by sloppy device makers who drop the ball on security.
I've been saying this for over three years now on/., and every single time Imam shouted down by clueless Fandroids that claim that, since Android is Open Source, or this or that excuse, that Google has no control, and mire importantly, cannot gain control, over this exact part of their License for Android.
Let's see if you fare any better in your attempt to advance the same proposal. I finally gave up on that argument.
None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
And of course, your needs and wants are everyone's needs and wants, right?
Yeah, why don't they just get on board and have their wants and needs dictated by apple? Bloody plebs eh thinking they're too good for the kool aid.
You DO realize, of course, that if you purchase an already-built computer (ALL laptops, ALL All-in-Ones, many prebuilt Tower/Other configurations) that, to a VERY large extent, your "wants and needs" are "dictated" by that computer's OEM, right?
But (and this part is very important!), Apple in NO WAY "dictates" your purchasing decision. If you like what they are doing, buy it. If you don't, er, DON'T. Simple as that.
But when the GP wants to bitch about the case or the fans, etc., it is HE that is attempting to DICTATE what is IMPORTANT FOR ALL. The VERY thing that you and he are accusing APPLE of doing, FFS!
I was actually hoping against hope that they'd have an upgraded 5K iMac ready for market that had a boosted GPU and more graphics RAM available....or even an upgraded Mac Pro.
Quad-Core Kaby Lakes are holding up the upgraded iMac and Mac mini. When those drop, look for an upgraded iMac, mini, and likely an upgraded Mac Pro.
None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
And of course, your needs and wants are everyone's needs and wants, right?
If this were a couple of years ago when Windows 8 was new, I would have agreed on many of your points, but not now.
I've been a Mac guy way longer than a Windows guy for my main computing, pretty much all of the nineties up until a couple of years ago. And as of today, I like Windows 10 better than what OS X has become. Both OSs have their idiosyncrasies to get past and both have their strengths, but overall Windows has way more going for it
Its clean, simple, and fast UI has really grown on me -- it's really quite nice to use. Any initial frustrations I had with Windows 10, were just me getting past my Mac mind-set, and of course migrating the professional programs over to my PC( The only program I have not replaced is Logic ). It was worth it! Now I have no limitations on what hardware I can choose, no more frustration with Apple's yearly refresh showing what only their latest computer is "allowed" to do. No more artificial limitations, as Apple likes to lock out older systems. I have a modern OS that finally does much of what I loved about OS X, but much much more with none of Apple's constraints!
Migrating to Windows is the smartest thing I've done for my workflow( type of work), so thanks to Apple for making it so painfully obvious that they no longer care about professionals. Their latest MacBook "Pro" really drives that home; especially when one of its selling point is how it will make it easier to sign-in and make online-purchases.
if I had stuck with OS X, I would have spent substantially more for a slower-limited-Mac than I did on a Wacom Companion and WAY-more-powerful-X-99-based-workstation( that I can upgraded/expand to my heart's content. ) and been stuck on an OS that has been chipping away at what I used to love about Macs; because going forward OS X is becoming iOS -- despite Apple's claims.
You're a lying sack of shit. Jay Miner's chips ONLY went into the Amiga and Atari 2600. The C64's VIC-II chip was designed by Al Charpentier and Charles Winterble. Jay wasn't even involved with Commodore at that point. Atari refused Jay's suggetion to create a new chip set, which is exactly why he left Atari in the first place. You also don't realize that all sorts arcade hardware and home computers were using their own custom chips while Apple still didn't even have sprites yet. Apple never had the foresight to actually get someone who could actually design custom silicon on their team and still haven't to this day.
As for your bogus claim about "clock-streching" (I don't think you actually know what that term means), the only real issue was the fact that the Amiga's 68000 and chipset had to share access to the first 512k, hence why it was called "Chip Ram." Additional memory is mapped to "Fast Ram" and is ONLY accessible by the CPU. However, even with only 512k, a stock Amiga far outperformed a Mac even on non-graphical computations.
I am probably mis-remembering; but that doesn't warrant calling me a "lying sack of shit" now does it?
I was under the impression that Jay Miner designed custom graphics (and other) chips for the Atari 2600, as well as the 400 and 800, at least the first Amiga, the Atari ST, and the C64 (and possibly VIC-20). Perhaps I am giving him too much credit, for which I apologize to you and to his peers.
When I called Commodore to discuss embedding an Amiga 500 motherboard into a Stage Lighting console I was designing at the time, one of the things the guy I spoke with told me was that, at that point (around 1989/90), that about 1 in 4 Arcade games was actually based on an embedded Amiga 500, which I thought was pretty impressive.
As an embedded developer with around 4 decades of work experience, I most certainly do understand what "clock-stretching" means, and I thought I had read that one of the Jay Miner chips in the Amiga actually held the 68000's -DTAK (Data Transfer AcKnowledge) signal in the non-asserted state ("Hi", in this case), so that the graphics chip could access the memory bus (that's why there was a homebrew 68000 tweaker's newletter at the time, called "DTAK Grounded"). However, I must admit that my study and knowledge of the intimate details of the Amiga and Atari ST was only "in passing", and was purely based on reading some articles at the time. I have never actually laid hands on an Amiga of any version except in a store display, and only briefly messed with an ST. I did, however, own (technically still do) and wrote some software for a C64.
I do challenge your blanket claim that an Amiga is computationally faster than a Mac; because we have to start talking about "Which Amiga vs. Which Mac?"
But I can tell you which had a more stable operating system, and although the Amiga OS was quite the marvel of preemptive multitasking (any OS that can format a floppy while playing a game is to be respected and admired!), it was also pretty unstable overall (Frequent Guru Meditation Errors and all, ya know?). Yes, the infamous MacOS "bomb" Alert was also present more than it should have been, but that was more Application-specific than the Amiga Workbench crashes, at least from what I remember.
Certainly not a technical peer to the Lisa, but that's not what the guy at the store wanted me to think.
It could almost have been a technical peer to the Lisa, if the Lisa had ended up being based on the MC6809 CPU instead of the M68000.
Oh, and if you look at the CPU board in the first Lisas, they actually had a space for a Character Generator ROM on the layout; so the Lisa was THIS CLOSE to having a "Text" mode, too...
I doubt that Siri is smart enough to press the escape key.
Siri isn't even smart enough to use a simple Google search when it ought to, which is most of the time. I have given up on Siri, as I almost NEVER get relevant results. Then I go to Google and get highly relevant results. Then I wind up typing, because I forget to use the dictation feature. It would be so much easier if Siri would simply use Google, unless wanting to send an email or text, run some app, etc.
Good News, Everyone! Your wish is Siri's Command!
On my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 10, I just asked Siri "Search Google for 'Winter' ".
Siri responded "Searching Google for 'Winter'.
Then it launched Safari, brought up Google, and the next thing ya know, there is a normal Google Results page for 'Winter' references.
Epsom actually did come out with a GUI computer being run by a Z80A instead of a 68000, shortly after the Lisa (I think it was called the QX-10). And now you know why you never heard of it.
The part that LOOKS like the Touch Bar on the new MacBooks is DISPLAY-ONLY.
I must admit that I have always lusted after these keyboards; but that really isn't the same thing.
Now their "Tactus" thing looks very interesting; but it is labeled "Concept"; so it hardly counts as "prior art".
Plus there are few things that make it less useful than the Touch Bar:
1. It is an external keyboard. No fun with a laptop.
2. No ready-made OS support.
3. No (or very little) ready-made Application Support. you get to painstakingly define keyboards from scratch. Therefore, unless you are a freak or on crystal meth, you will get tired of that after about two keyboards.
4. Oh, and the "toolbar" isn't Touch.
Other than that, I'd love to have one for free to play with...
The top-of-the-line 5K Retina Display iMac is only $2299!
And for all that, it's only got a 3840 X 2160 display, where the iMac has a jaw-dropping 5120 X 2880 display.
Is MS nuts?
Sure the CPU and likely GPU is somewhat better, especially on the base configuration; but that's going to change for the iMac soon, too. By the time this is in full-production, the new iMacs will be out, and MS will be playing "catch-up" yet again.
Even if you crank up the iMac all the way to the top with BTO options (4 GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 3 TB Fusion Drive, AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB video memory), you STILL only get to $3499, which is WELL below the top-end of the Surface Studio's top-end at $4199!!!
Who woulda thought that Apple would be the less-expensive choice...
Can I help him? Maybe his house, like my house, has 10 USB mouse devices lying around? It sucks pretty hard having to go out and buy a new expensive mouse when you already have equipment accumulated that SHOULD be adequate, and IS adequate with everyone else.
What am I missing here?
Why can't the OP use a bog-standard USB mouse with a Mac? I certainly have, many times.
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The door swings both ways, troll. I've been using Slashdot since year 0, yet I wasn't narcissistic enough to need a username so that people could acknowledge my existence. Weak people like you need to make a name for yourselves. You need people to acknowledge your so-called individuality. Thus, the reason you need to troll.
Haha! Narcissistic. That's a good one!
You mean you are too PUSILLANIMOUS to stand the heat for your idiotic, hate-filled rantings.
I repeat: GO AWAY. GO FAR, FAR AWAY.
God fucking damn, I hate Apple. It all started in 2nd grade when I was forced to Apple II garbage in elementary school. Obsolete pieces of shit with no sprites and a god-awful bleep-bloop-beep speaker. Fucking disgusting. Since then, every Apple user I've ever met has been a stupid motherfucker that wouldn't know an IC from a potato chip and totally brainwashed by the cult of Apple. Fuck any company that solders ram modules onto the motherboard. I even hate Wozniak because he didn't have the basic human decency to tell Steve Jobs to go fuck himself and go elsewhere.
Apple user since 1976, here.
But I also happen to be an embedded designer (hardware and software) with over 40 years of paid experience, and with over a dozen industrial real-time measurement, instrumentation, and controller product designs on the market, not to mention tons of one-off hardware and/or software dev. consulting gigs, etc. Presently employed developing business software for Windows (yeah, I know...)
All but two of my Mac-owning friends are either degree-d EEs, who certainly know an IC chip from a potato chip, and the other two are also professionals in other fields (one an architectural consultant, and the other a CPA/JD/CFE).
So, stuff it, Anonymous COWARD. You're both an idiot and a useless Hater. GO AWAY.
I said this was going to happen about 2 months ago, when the iPhone 7 came out, and was Punish-Modded into having "Terrible" Karma by all the frickin' HATERS.
Thanks, Slashtards.
I "like" the way that the person who is arguably the most "politically outside" candidate in many years was Elected by what is arguably one of the most "politically inside" of systems, the "Electoral College" in the "Free" World, in Direct Derogation of the so-called "Popular Vote" , (or as it is known in most other electoral systems, "the Vote", which Hillary won.
HEY! MOST OF US CAN ACTUALLY READ NOW... SO, IT IS HIGH-TIME FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO GO!!!!
You wait months (or forever) for Updates. And then they still don't fix longstanding vulnerabilities!
But that's ok, maybe the next Update will fix it.
If there ever is one...
They'd have been happy for Apple to continue on using Google's applications - but Apple got pissed off and tried to 'hurt' Google by removing their apps from iOS.
Liar.
Google refused to license Apple to use Google's Mapping APIs to create Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation for iOS. In fact, their licensing agreement specifically precluded using their services for Turn-by-Turn Navigation.
After Goigle refused, for ANY price, to grant Apple an exception to that rule, THEN Apple removed Google's data mining APIs from the App Store and iOS builds, and began in earnest to develop their own mapping service, which they struggled to do (it is not a simple task to map the entire planet to the every-street-and--alley level in a few short months). But they eventually got it mostly right (even Google has some persistent errors in its data), and now revisionist history by the Apple Haters has laid the responsibility for all this at Apple's feet, when it was Google that was simply trying to hobble iOS by making it unnecessarily difficult and enormously expensive to implement that feature, rather than simply negotiating with Apple in good faith to come to a reasonable licensing deal for use of their mapping API.
Stock pumping, I imagine. There's no fucking way Apple makes that much money on iPhones, even with a double-digit margin.
Sorry to burst your hatred; but Unlike EVERYONE else, Apple actually reports ONLY on phones SOLD AT RETAIL. They do NOT pull that stock-pumping bullshit like Microsoft, Samsung, and others have done, and continue to do, to inflate sales figures.
13%? Wow! That's totally an impressive and not tiny at all number!
My argument is shattered before apples dominant 13% market share!
I noticed you conveniently ignored the figure about the iPhone having 40% of the US market.
And you know why the worldwide figure isn't larger? Because Apple doesn't flood the market with a zillion shitbox unsecure plastic phone zits, that are not only unprofitable, but serve primarily as loss-leaders for carriers and data mining minions for Google.
The Android market share would look vastly smaller if you factored-out all the FREE Android plastic shitbox phones running unsecure versions of Android that will never be patched.
Call it a hunch, but I don't think his problem is that they're hard to find. I think it's that they're even necessary. I can't argue with that bit of indignation.
Maybe today; but considering that people tend to keep their Macs 5 years or more, do you think that will be the case in a year or so, or do you think those USB-C ports will start to look pretty mainstream by then?
e're seeing it now with the new MacBook 'Pro' that nobody likes.
But which for some reason, people are ordering in record numbers .
The only way to really change this is for Google to make sure that the underlying OS is provided by them, updated from their servers and the device manufacturer only gets to mess around with the GUI. If the manufacturer wants to make changes to the underlying system Google has to make them sign agreements obligating them to implement a certain protocol guaranteeing QA and that they will push regular updates over the lifespan of the device. Unless they do something like that the reputation of Android will always be ruined by sloppy device makers who drop the ball on security.
I've been saying this for over three years now on /., and every single time Imam shouted down by clueless Fandroids that claim that, since Android is Open Source, or this or that excuse, that Google has no control, and mire importantly, cannot gain control, over this exact part of their License for Android.
Let's see if you fare any better in your attempt to advance the same proposal. I finally gave up on that argument.
None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
And of course, your needs and wants are everyone's needs and wants, right?
Yeah, why don't they just get on board and have their wants and needs dictated by apple? Bloody plebs eh thinking they're too good for the kool aid.
You DO realize, of course, that if you purchase an already-built computer (ALL laptops, ALL All-in-Ones, many prebuilt Tower/Other configurations) that, to a VERY large extent, your "wants and needs" are "dictated" by that computer's OEM, right?
But (and this part is very important!), Apple in NO WAY "dictates" your purchasing decision. If you like what they are doing, buy it. If you don't, er, DON'T. Simple as that.
But when the GP wants to bitch about the case or the fans, etc., it is HE that is attempting to DICTATE what is IMPORTANT FOR ALL. The VERY thing that you and he are accusing APPLE of doing, FFS!
I was actually hoping against hope that they'd have an upgraded 5K iMac ready for market that had a boosted GPU and more graphics RAM available....or even an upgraded Mac Pro.
Quad-Core Kaby Lakes are holding up the upgraded iMac and Mac mini. When those drop, look for an upgraded iMac, mini, and likely an upgraded Mac Pro.
None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
And of course, your needs and wants are everyone's needs and wants, right?
If this were a couple of years ago when Windows 8 was new, I would have agreed on many of your points, but not now. I've been a Mac guy way longer than a Windows guy for my main computing, pretty much all of the nineties up until a couple of years ago. And as of today, I like Windows 10 better than what OS X has become. Both OSs have their idiosyncrasies to get past and both have their strengths, but overall Windows has way more going for it Its clean, simple, and fast UI has really grown on me -- it's really quite nice to use. Any initial frustrations I had with Windows 10, were just me getting past my Mac mind-set, and of course migrating the professional programs over to my PC( The only program I have not replaced is Logic ). It was worth it! Now I have no limitations on what hardware I can choose, no more frustration with Apple's yearly refresh showing what only their latest computer is "allowed" to do. No more artificial limitations, as Apple likes to lock out older systems. I have a modern OS that finally does much of what I loved about OS X, but much much more with none of Apple's constraints! Migrating to Windows is the smartest thing I've done for my workflow( type of work), so thanks to Apple for making it so painfully obvious that they no longer care about professionals. Their latest MacBook "Pro" really drives that home; especially when one of its selling point is how it will make it easier to sign-in and make online-purchases. if I had stuck with OS X, I would have spent substantially more for a slower-limited-Mac than I did on a Wacom Companion and WAY-more-powerful-X-99-based-workstation( that I can upgraded/expand to my heart's content. ) and been stuck on an OS that has been chipping away at what I used to love about Macs; because going forward OS X is becoming iOS -- despite Apple's claims.
Now THERE'S a PAID Shill!!!
You're a lying sack of shit. Jay Miner's chips ONLY went into the Amiga and Atari 2600. The C64's VIC-II chip was designed by Al Charpentier and Charles Winterble. Jay wasn't even involved with Commodore at that point. Atari refused Jay's suggetion to create a new chip set, which is exactly why he left Atari in the first place. You also don't realize that all sorts arcade hardware and home computers were using their own custom chips while Apple still didn't even have sprites yet. Apple never had the foresight to actually get someone who could actually design custom silicon on their team and still haven't to this day.
As for your bogus claim about "clock-streching" (I don't think you actually know what that term means), the only real issue was the fact that the Amiga's 68000 and chipset had to share access to the first 512k, hence why it was called "Chip Ram." Additional memory is mapped to "Fast Ram" and is ONLY accessible by the CPU. However, even with only 512k, a stock Amiga far outperformed a Mac even on non-graphical computations.
I am probably mis-remembering; but that doesn't warrant calling me a "lying sack of shit" now does it?
I was under the impression that Jay Miner designed custom graphics (and other) chips for the Atari 2600, as well as the 400 and 800, at least the first Amiga, the Atari ST, and the C64 (and possibly VIC-20). Perhaps I am giving him too much credit, for which I apologize to you and to his peers.
When I called Commodore to discuss embedding an Amiga 500 motherboard into a Stage Lighting console I was designing at the time, one of the things the guy I spoke with told me was that, at that point (around 1989/90), that about 1 in 4 Arcade games was actually based on an embedded Amiga 500, which I thought was pretty impressive.
As an embedded developer with around 4 decades of work experience, I most certainly do understand what "clock-stretching" means, and I thought I had read that one of the Jay Miner chips in the Amiga actually held the 68000's -DTAK (Data Transfer AcKnowledge) signal in the non-asserted state ("Hi", in this case), so that the graphics chip could access the memory bus (that's why there was a homebrew 68000 tweaker's newletter at the time, called "DTAK Grounded"). However, I must admit that my study and knowledge of the intimate details of the Amiga and Atari ST was only "in passing", and was purely based on reading some articles at the time. I have never actually laid hands on an Amiga of any version except in a store display, and only briefly messed with an ST. I did, however, own (technically still do) and wrote some software for a C64.
I do challenge your blanket claim that an Amiga is computationally faster than a Mac; because we have to start talking about "Which Amiga vs. Which Mac?"
But I can tell you which had a more stable operating system, and although the Amiga OS was quite the marvel of preemptive multitasking (any OS that can format a floppy while playing a game is to be respected and admired!), it was also pretty unstable overall (Frequent Guru Meditation Errors and all, ya know?). Yes, the infamous MacOS "bomb" Alert was also present more than it should have been, but that was more Application-specific than the Amiga Workbench crashes, at least from what I remember.
Certainly not a technical peer to the Lisa, but that's not what the guy at the store wanted me to think.
It could almost have been a technical peer to the Lisa, if the Lisa had ended up being based on the MC6809 CPU instead of the M68000.
Oh, and if you look at the CPU board in the first Lisas, they actually had a space for a Character Generator ROM on the layout; so the Lisa was THIS CLOSE to having a "Text" mode, too...
I doubt that Siri is smart enough to press the escape key.
Siri isn't even smart enough to use a simple Google search when it ought to, which is most of the time. I have given up on Siri, as I almost NEVER get relevant results. Then I go to Google and get highly relevant results. Then I wind up typing, because I forget to use the dictation feature. It would be so much easier if Siri would simply use Google, unless wanting to send an email or text, run some app, etc.
Good News, Everyone! Your wish is Siri's Command!
On my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 10, I just asked Siri "Search Google for 'Winter' ".
Siri responded "Searching Google for 'Winter'.
Then it launched Safari, brought up Google, and the next thing ya know, there is a normal Google Results page for 'Winter' references.
So, I'd say it pretty much works as you'd expect.
And I don't see an escape key. :(
You can either remap something like the caps lock key, or actually watch the Keynote, and see that it is in the Touch Bar.
Epsom actually did come out with a GUI computer being run by a Z80A instead of a 68000, shortly after the Lisa (I think it was called the QX-10). And now you know why you never heard of it.
Hardly a technical peer to the Lisa. Basically a bog-standard C/PM text-based machine with a few "GUI"-ish Applications.
Two other things:
1. It says it was released in 2011, so that is nothing like 10 years before now.
2. IT COSTS AS MUCH AS THE NEW 13 INCH MACBOOK PRO!!!
Here you go.
Sorry. Close, but no Cigar.
The part that LOOKS like the Touch Bar on the new MacBooks is DISPLAY-ONLY.
I must admit that I have always lusted after these keyboards; but that really isn't the same thing.
Now their "Tactus" thing looks very interesting; but it is labeled "Concept"; so it hardly counts as "prior art".
Plus there are few things that make it less useful than the Touch Bar:
1. It is an external keyboard. No fun with a laptop.
2. No ready-made OS support.
3. No (or very little) ready-made Application Support. you get to painstakingly define keyboards from scratch. Therefore, unless you are a freak or on crystal meth, you will get tired of that after about two keyboards. 4. Oh, and the "toolbar" isn't Touch.
Other than that, I'd love to have one for free to play with...
Is this 10 year old touch bar apple's way of admitting that maybe a touch screen isn't a bad idea? Just give us a damn touch screen already. Christ.
With the Surface Studio announced, it kinda makes these laptops look "meh"
How is this Touch Bar "10 years old"?
I've never seen anything even close to the same thing.
Wow. Just. Wow.
The top-of-the-line 5K Retina Display iMac is only $2299!
And for all that, it's only got a 3840 X 2160 display, where the iMac has a jaw-dropping 5120 X 2880 display.
Is MS nuts?
Sure the CPU and likely GPU is somewhat better, especially on the base configuration; but that's going to change for the iMac soon, too. By the time this is in full-production, the new iMacs will be out, and MS will be playing "catch-up" yet again.
Even if you crank up the iMac all the way to the top with BTO options (4 GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 3 TB Fusion Drive, AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB video memory), you STILL only get to $3499, which is WELL below the top-end of the Surface Studio's top-end at $4199!!!
Who woulda thought that Apple would be the less-expensive choice...
Can I help him? Maybe his house, like my house, has 10 USB mouse devices lying around? It sucks pretty hard having to go out and buy a new expensive mouse when you already have equipment accumulated that SHOULD be adequate, and IS adequate with everyone else.
What am I missing here?
Why can't the OP use a bog-standard USB mouse with a Mac? I certainly have, many times.