Oct 18 Apple Event

[lizkat]

$19 for a cleaning cloth lol

I can flex with my Apple cleaning cloth now

If enough idiots buy a $19 cleaning cloth, maybe Apple drops the price of assorted f'g dongles and cables for their prior line of MacBook Pros.

 

[Renzatic]

I used to daydream about sending a white iBook out to Colorware to make it sunflower yellow. I really love winter but I get very tired of the gray between November and January.

You don't need to send your Macs off to get them colored up. You can hit up a company like DBrand for skin kits.

If I were to do that, I'd get the wood skin on the outside of the lid.

 

[lizkat]

You don't need to send your Macs off to get them colored up. You can hit up a company like DBrand for skin kits.

If I were to do that, I'd get the wood skin on the outside of the lid.

I just let mine run around the house bare nekkid any more.

 

[Renzatic]

$19 for a cleaning cloth lol

I can flex with my Apple cleaning cloth now

Dude! You must be rich!

 

[Pumbaa]

Dude! You must be rich!

Obviously not anymore!

 

[Joe]

Dude! You must be rich!

The cleaning cloth is gonna wipe me out

 

[ronntaylor]

That POS $18 cloth is now sold out till at least late November! JFC

 

[Renzatic]

Here I was thinking I was BIG SPENDA going all out to buy a pack of 8 microfiber cloths for $7. Now I'm learning I ain't nothing but a scrub.

 

[Joe]

That POS $18 cloth is now sold out till at least late November! JFC

TheYayAreaLiving bought them all so she can see which one she likes best and return the others.

 

[Deleted member 221]

That POS $18 cloth is now sold out till at least late November! JFC

Sometimes I wonder if Apple is starting to just see what they can get away with and to what degree.

 

[Renzatic]

Sometimes I wonder if Apple is starting to just see what they can get away with and to what degree.

They did that with their $1000 monitor stand.

 

[Hrafn]

They did that with their $1000 monitor stand.

Or, $700 wheels.

 

[Pumbaa]

They did that with their $1000 monitor stand.

And the $699 Mac Pro Wheels Kit. But those wheels at least fit an AirTag* each.

* Sold separately

 

[Deleted member 221]

They did that with their $1000 monitor stand.

Yup!

And it didn't even take that long before the Apple podcaster ecosystem switched over to things like: "well.. it IS a pretty nice stand with AMAZING build quality"...

The reality is that Apple could go incredibly up market at this point and still find massive amounts of buyers.
Obviously lose some volume, but they could totally do it -- perhaps even with a new entire line of "elite" products.

I wouldn't rule it out.

 

[Jorbanead]

They deleted my reply calling your suspension too harsh...

Same for me too. Oh well.

I was a little surprised they didn't dump the 14" internals into a Mini case and call it a day (per the previous M1 designs), but the M1P/M1M (what's the currently accepted short form?), may require a little more engineering - or - there's something else on deck that's a little more-than-a-Mini.

Yeah, I am a bit bummed as I really want an M1 Max Mac mini (what is with these names?) but I guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer.

 

[Cmaier]

Same for me too. Oh well.

Yeah, I am a bit bummed as I really want an M1 Max Mac mini (what is with these names?) but I guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer.

Welcome!

This is where the fun’s at.

 

[Runs For Fun]

What will I ever do‽

Shipping times for Apple’s $19 Polishing Cloth slip to late November [Updated]

Delays may drive people to buy inferior third-party polishing products.

arstechnica.com

 

[Yoused]

Was just looking at the hype on Apple and saw "up to 20 ProRes 4K streams". My question is, what does one do with twenty video streams? Do you hook the notebook up to nineteen external 4K monitors so that a dozen of your friends can watch whatever things they prefer? And do those video streams also have embedded 24-bit audio? I mean it sounds like the great and powerful 'book (where you need an AirTag to keep track of where your cursor went if you lose it in the notch), but some of this capability sounds way excess.

 

[Entropy]

Was just looking at the hype on Apple and saw "up to 20 ProRes 4K streams". My question is, what does one do with twenty video streams? Do you hook the notebook up to nineteen external 4K monitors so that a dozen of your friends can watch whatever things they prefer? And do those video streams also have embedded 24-bit audio? I mean it sounds like the great and powerful 'book (where you need an AirTag to keep track of where your cursor went if you lose it in the notch), but some of this capability sounds way excess.

Look at it from the bright side - to capitalize on this they have to release stand alone monitors!

 

[DT]

My question is, what does one do with twenty video streams?

Talk to a pro videographer, anyone involved in post-production, etc., a friend of mine (in that profession) is always giddy over the number of concurrent streams (and that has nothing to do with the number of physical displays).