Personal computing discussed
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derFunkenstein wrote:(16-bit float? not up to speed here)
derFunkenstein wrote:If photos and videos are really half the size with their new formats, that's excellent. Hopefully sharing them with the world won't be difficult. HEVC is fairly common, but their new photo format sounds proprietary-ish.
chuckula wrote:ARM on Macs Conf--- ah crap.
derFunkenstein wrote:Looks kinda ridiculous. They're claiming that the starting config would cost $7000 from another vendor without the display and they're going to charge $5000. It's crazy money, but if you make your money with your computer, I guess it's reasonable.
ultima_trev wrote:Hopefully Apple actually tested the thermals and power phases for this AIO monster of theirs. 180W Xeon + 300W Vega, with 128GB DDR4 ECC and 4GB of PCIe NVME SSDs? On the upside, this thing will be an effective space heater for those cold, northern winters.
slowriot wrote:What does Apple spend their money on? I don't think anything was announced today was bad or poor. But it does seem all very boring, very much what's expected. They're not wowing me with anything, even Microsoft can at least do that with their conferences. Apple trots out... updated SKUs and a Amazon Echo competitor? Ok neat but they should be blowing us away.
derFunkenstein wrote:I have never seen a 1-2 hour turnaround time for an app review, though. Very rarely are they reviewed in less than 48 hours. Phil is outright contradicting my experience. :-/
derFunkenstein wrote:iMac Pro:
up to 18-core Xeon
up to 128GB ECC RAM
up to 4TB of flash storage
some sort of Vega with up to 22 TFLOP of "half precision" calc (16-bit float? not up to speed here)
10-Gbit ethernet
27" 5K display
Looks kinda ridiculous. They're claiming that the starting config would cost $7000 from another vendor without the display and they're going to charge $5000. It's crazy money, but if you make your money with your computer, I guess it's reasonable.
Tim Cook said "badass" which is totally weird.
Vhalidictes wrote:Maybe Apple won't end up being a bigger better Nokia or BlackBerry/RIM after all.
derFunkenstein wrote:10.5" iPad Pro has a big.LITTLE CPU configuration. I'm surprised.
just brew it! wrote:Yeah, 16GB (with no option to upgrade) is pretty chintzy for what is supposed to be a premium product.
End User wrote:Why is that a surprise? The A10X is based on the A10 found in the iPhone 7:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A10#Design
End User wrote:Vhalidictes wrote:Maybe Apple won't end up being a bigger better Nokia or BlackBerry/RIM after all.
Of course not. Apple refreshes their Nokia/Blackberry killer every year.
Vhalidictes wrote:Taking a step back, it looks like Apple remembered that they aren't a phone company
End User wrote:Vhalidictes wrote:Taking a step back, it looks like Apple remembered that they aren't a phone company
The Mac faithful started to complain in a major way. The good news is that Apple listened.