verne arase

This is the one I've been waiting for to replace my 2020 iMac 5K which has been glitching lately playing YouTube videos and consuming 100% CPU.

Getting this with a Studio Display, 64 GB RAM, a fully loaded M4 Max, and 4 TB SSD so this is basically a slide-in replacement for my iMac.

The Ultras have way more horsepower and multiprocessing than I need, and the faster M4 performance cores will make this the snappiest Mac yet for normal workloads.

With 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports on the rear, the Studio Display will leave three each with a Thunderbolt controller behind it (unlike the 2020 iMac which shared a single controller between the two ports). A new keyboard will add TouchID support to speed security interruptions.

This should be over 3x faster than my core-i9 iMac (which is still my daily driver due to its superior screen real estate), with six times faster graphics with hardware ray tracing - not to mention support for Apple Intelligence. The 2020 iMac will replace the old 2017 iMac 5K as the family computer (which no longer has current macOS support).

Splitting up the processor and display will make for cheaper and smoother upgrades in the future too - though given the power of this new hardware it's hard to see needing upgrades much in the future.

coolfactor said:

verne arase said:

I've experienced this on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, but I thought it might be related to the super-dumper TORRAS screen protector I'd installed - I've been resorting to doing swipes over the cards in my solitaire game. 

I've finally experienced a totally dust-free bubble-free pristine screen protector installation, and I sure hope this is simply a software bug.

Rip off that screen protector! You don't need it.

I buy a Pro Max every year, and put on a screen protector and case before I even turn on the phone.

This year instead of giving it to a relative, I'm selling my 15 Pro Max to buybacktronics.com - and was able to sell it as flawless despite experiencing a pinhole puncture in the screen protector.

No matter who the next user of my phone will be, I like to keep it as pristine as possible.

sbdude said:

You mean the last four years of a vegetable behind the Resolute Desk? I get it, Trump and Vance aren't anything close to beacons of honesty. But you're deluding yourself if you think the current administration and Kamala are somehow better, and deserving of the office.

I do believe the current administration has respect for the constitution and rule of law - unlike the MAGA crowd attacking election officials, personal human rights, voters, and the judiciary for God's sake.

Seems like everything they touch they corrupt, and will do anything to win - they just have no ethical boundaries.

They are brownshirts pure and simple, and I shudder to think what Trump's hatred of Taylor Swift will bring from his cultish followers - and this for simply endorsing his opponent.

Well that and pointing out that he used a AI deepfake to make it look like she'd endorsed him. Who does that sort of thing anyway, and how distant from an ethical and truthful platform do you have to be to do it?

xRAHx said:

My conclusion:

Apple's management is perfectly free to leave the EU market or ship more or less worthless "light" versions of Apple technology into the EU, but Apple would not only lose access to a huge market, it would also lose access to the knowledge and support of a highly skilled workforce in the EU that not only uses Apple technologies, but also develops highly innovative technologies that Apple buys and puts an Apple label on.

Vestager is not a lone wolf, but is acting in line with the wishes of the 27 national governments in the EU, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Czech Republic, Austria, etc. 

The de facto influence of the EU goes far beyond this, because many non EU-member states in Europe cooperate closely with the EU for economic reasons or because they want to become members of the EU.

It is clear that China is now the world's economic leader, which is currently mainly due to the fact that it has the largest population. China is currently developing into the new sole (?) superpower. But in China, the government is not democratically elected. And all people and company managers in both the America and Europe need to think carefully about whether they want to be dominated by China and its vassals in Russia, North Korea and Iran in the near future.

Demographically speaking, China will be disappearing in the next ten years - probably sooner.

When you're a primarily agrarian society, you have lots of kids because you need the free labor to work the land and they're your retirement program.

When you industrialize and move into cities, kids are an expense - and if you're China and had a mandatory one child policy - you're waaayyy below the 2.1 children per family needed to sustain the population. China has overcounted their population by at least 100 million and their demographic pyramid shows they've got a rapidly aging workforce going into retirement with a very small number of children to support them all.

Russia's not far behind because no one wants to have kids in Russia, and the European powerhouses are following close on their heels behind Russia.

Germany's industries were all based on cheap Russian gas and a lot of that industry is trying to relocate to the United States where cheap gas still exists.

The saving demographic grace in the United States is the suburbs where US citizens continued to have kids, and the transition from agrarian to urban took place over a longer span of time.

Y'all ought to watch some Peter Zeihan on geopolitics - it can be quite illuminating.

BTW, Peter thinks that Apple is going away because they constantly made the wrong choice by staying in China, but being that Apple is one of the richest companies in the world I'm betting that they can bribe enough officials to keep the door open long enough for them and much of their supply chain to make their escape.

gatorguy said:

chasm said:

The problem here appears to be less about the DMA and more about a spokesperson for it who is more than happy to go off half-cocked based on incomplete information.

A **professional** would have said simply that the EU maintains its communications with Apple and will be discussing any changes with them, at least until both entities have, in fact, had a chance to get together and discuss recent announcements and what Apple’s concerns are regarding the EU’s rules.

Vestager seems to be the main problem here. Maybe replace her with someone more diplomatic and less dictatorial.

Her term ends later this year. 

The one thing that Europe seems to produce in quantity is meddling Bureaucrats.

That's not exclusive to Europe - we have an equal number of them in the United States Department of Justice who seem to want to sue Apple because iOS is not Android, and macOS isn't Windows.