Oct 18 Apple Event

lizkat said:
God willing they'll finally have built some faster robo-crane-operators and hired some more truck drivers to clear up the lingering covid-triggered supply chain bollix and ensuing containership congestion at the port of Los Angeles.
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Main problem is the toilet paper shortage at the spaceship campus - engineers keep having to go home to poop.
 
Renzatic said:
I'm ordering mine in December, but I'm going more midline. 24 core Max, 32GB RAM, 500GB SSD.
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Same, but I'm doing 1 TB SSD. My lossless music collection is over 300 GB. I've still never used over half the capacity in a 1 TB SSD so no need to go bigger.

Unfortunately can't order with Apple Card because I just got my Apple Card last month and credit line isn't high enough :(
 
TBL said:
Same, but I'm doing 1 TB SSD. My lossless music collection is over 300 GB. I've still never used over half the capacity in a 1 TB SSD so no need to go bigger.
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I don't have a massive need for a lot of storage space, since I send all my big media files over to my 3TB NAS for storage. With all that out of the way, I'm barely using up 200GB on my OS drive.
 
Well, I have to say I was blown away by the memory solution they went for. And the block they indicated as cache was substantial, although we’ll have to wait for hard data on size and performance. But this SoC seems built to perform, not just post big numbers. But maybe I’m still reeling from the surprise.
Well shit.
I configured and almost bought a laptop. And I don’t even want a laptop. Techno Lust at its worst. 😀
 
Just a little disappointed. I didn’t want to spend $2500 on a Pro model when I really no longer need a pro model. So I went ahead and ordered the 13” Air that came out a few months back since it has the M1 processor. 1TB storage and I’ll be good for a long time.

The new MBPs do look amazing though.
 
Entropy said:
Well, I have to say I was blown away by the memory solution they went for. And the block they indicated as cache was substantial, although we’ll have to wait for hard data on size and performance. But this SoC seems built to perform, not just post big numbers. But maybe I’m still reeling from the surprise.
Well shit.
I configured and almost bought a laptop. And I don’t even want a laptop. Techno Lust at its worst. 😀
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Given the reported memory bandwidth, the caches must be much bigger. But what really matters is bandwidth, anyway. Latency is only going to be an issue for very unusual workloads. And given the number of transistors on this thing, the branch prediction algorithm may be pretty advanced.
 
Cmaier said:
No, she(?) is just *saying* she is.
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You never know with some people. Apple does attract a lot of fake-it-til-you-make-it rich fashionista wannabe types. They may do something crazy like that simply to build their rep on Instagram, then silently return all but one afterwards.
 
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Renzatic said:
You never know with some people. Apple does attract a lot of fake-it-til-you make rich fashionista wannabe types. They may do something crazy like that simply to build their rep on Instagram, then silently return all but one afterwards.
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What’s funny about her (?) is that she always says she is buying everything, even when it makes no sense. She owns the top-of-the-line iPad Pro, but then gets all excited about the new bottom-of-the-line ipad. etc. When she makes those posts I always “dislike” them, and she gets mad and goes on a rampage of disliking my posts. I think she’s trying to maximize her like count.
 
Runs For Fun said:
I was kind of scratching my head about the Apple Music Voice plan. Seems kind of odd. I think it's kind of like the iPod Shuffle of Apple Music.
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Yeah I am very confused. I take it the deal is you can’t use the music app, but have to ask Siri to play stuff? And it is missing some audio features? Maybe it’s good for people who only use HomePods? (But don’t own iphones? Who are those people?)
 
The max can drive 3 pro xdr displays, plus a 4k tv, simultaneously. Small step up from the M1 :-)
 
Runs For Fun said:
I was kind of scratching my head about the Apple Music Voice plan. Seems kind of odd. I think it's kind of like the iPod Shuffle of Apple Music.
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Yup, that was - odd. And the notch is bound to create a lot controversy, it’s the kind of thing everyone can have opinions on. Overall though, performance, design, connectivity, screen all adds up to a surprisingly sane total package.
 
Entropy said:
Yup, that was - odd. And the notch is bound to create a lot controversy
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It's a little weird, but it's not really all that distracting. The element density seems to be high enough that any application with enough menu entries to possibly cross the notch will be few and far between.

They did show one app that just managed to come up next to it, and it took about 7-8 menus to do so.

Movies also won't be too much of an issue, since it's a 16:10 screen, meaning that the notch will be hidden away in the letterboxing
 
Cmaier said:
welcome! So glad to see you here! BTW, here you are free to call anyone you want “technically incompetent” and I am free to say “it’s all in your head” without month-long suspensions and threats of permanent bans, I’m told.
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They deleted my reply calling your suspension too harsh...
 
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