Posted on 11/05/2018 7:27:11 PM PST by Swordmaker
And even after ten years, that old Mac still has resale value . . . substantial resale value. . . which helps pay for our upgraded new Mac.
Because idiots take portrait movies to display on 4k screens that cause more of the screen to be black than display of a movie.
If you use it to work out the value of pi to the umteenth place does that make it apple pi?
Does it have “Tint Control”?
I said in post 12 that it was an Apples to Oranges comparison. It is an impressive achievement for Apple.
You are twisting words, meaning, and the original intent of all parties involved including myself.
From the article, “When Apple introduced the new iPad Pro, the company boasted that its slim slate is more powerful than 92 percent of PCs out there.” Who knows what Apple meant by that. It is a meaningless statement made up by marketers. The article in Laptop Mag compared it to the Dell XPS 13 9370 (2018) and the Microsoft Surface Pro 6. They listed the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 (Not tested) and the “Category Average (as of 10/31/18). This is not a comparison of 92% of anything... current, discounted, or closeouts.
“On Geekbench 4, which measures overall performance, the iPad Pro notched a score of 17,995. That blows past the Surface Pro 6 with a Core i5 CPU and even the Core i7 version of the Dell XPS 13.”
The Dell XPS 13 with a current generation portable Core i5 tests out at 13747 on Geek Bench 4. The i7 version they “tested” that got a score of 14,180 most likely had last year's portable i7 installed. So no it is not exactly current. The Surface Pro 6 with a Core i5 was not built to be a high performance machine. No laptop with the portable version of the Core i5 is meant to be a high performance machine.
Apple's statement intentionally does not specify what they are talking about. Obviously they are not talking about high performance computers or even laptops that have current generation high performance processors - not the portable versions. Even older generation performance Core i7 based computers blow the new iPad Pro out of the water. Tom's Guide and Laptop magazine obviously understood this which is why they compared the iPad Pro only with computers with a similar form factor. So Swordmaker you don't get a banana either.
After Microsoft screwed me on a Nokia rt I won’t buy another surface. Had terrible ghost gesture problems an MS never fixed or exchanged it. Will go Linux or mac.
I’m a Mac user and I appreciate Sword’s articles detailing the Mac’s new products.
I don’t think you’ve bought FreeRepublic, nor do I think you’ve been appointed its administrator, so I really think you should stop ordering him around and let him do what we thousands of Mac users appreciate him doing...posting articles about our choice of computers.
I use Parallels to work in Win7, I wonder if new MP’s will allow that if they are no longer Intel based?
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A lot if apps won’t run in the new OS, that’s why I’m still at 10.9.
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Every one of my old Macs are still functional and useful...from my Quadra 800 to my G4, G5, PowerPC, liquid cooled Power Mac and my current trash can Mac, which is getting a bit long in the tooth, I wish they’d quickly replace it!
But they’re all built to last.
Why would one need a headphone jack when one expects everyone else in the cafe/airport/train/funeral parlour to listen to the same head-banging pop as oneself?
Elsewhere some say there is no ability to add external storage. While you can connect to external drives or thumb drives - nothing happens. True? False?
I will never send a dollar to “Being gay is God’s greatest gift to me” Apple!
How is this anything BUT an advertisement?
I honestly hope you're feeling better. But this is beyond even your extreme fanboy-ism and is a blatant advertisement.
It's ok, I'm sure your Lord-and-Gods of Apple can afford all the advertising they want and the iZombies are a loyal lot.
But if it makes you feel better to be a "help", then enjoy yourself I guess. d;^)
That white device plugged in on the side must be putting quite a strain on the connection port. I bet it will be a cause for many repairs. Also why is that cable so short that the white device hangs like that?
Ya. It's stuff like that, that keeps me away from Apple computers. I like and respect the hardware, but I need a bit more flexibility in my life.
I recently put together a new media server based on the Intel NUC platform. It is directly comparable to the Mac Mini in form-factor and general specs. I'm amazed at the performance I get out of the thing, especially considering it is a fanless PC. I loaded Linux Mint on it and generally find the box to be a better performer overall than my desktop. Of course, my desktop is about 8 years old, so that's hardly surprising, but it's still cool to see how this stuff keeps progressing.
I've actually considered building another with more ram, and a bigger drive as a desktop replacement, but upon thinking about it, I like the flexibility I get with a more traditional case. I'm probably going to wait 2 more years before building a new desktop. It ought to scream like a bat outta hell.
I know,and I apologize-——bad night.
I have an iPod touch,which my kids bought for me because I refused to buy one myself-——I absolutely LOVE it.
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I’m a programmer. I’m used to reading benchmark tests with specifics. This article was like reading a critique of a new sports car with no details on torque, top speed, or acceleration.
Still no specifics on processor speed, memory clock speed, transfer rate for long time storage, and how many cores it has for multi-tasking. You know. The stuff that matters if you want to call it a technical review.
Nor is there anything on what the benchmark tests were. For example, for all we know the iPad was horribly slow at long-term storage, but fast at RAM access. So the specifics of the benchmark tests matter.
At least to us programmers.
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