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Here's the ARM desktop PC: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ The rest of the industry seems fine with what AMD and Intel has

by mort96 4y ago

Here's the ARM desktop PC: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ The rest of the industry seems fine with what AMD and Intel has at the moment, or incapable of making strong ARM-based competitors.

rvz 4y ago
That (Mac Studio) and the iMac are also qualifying another ARM desktop PC (as in personal computer).
- deleted 4y ago
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OJFord 4y ago
That web page is insane - normally I sympathise with the 'scrolljacking' bemoaners, but that's just so funny (maybe it would annoy me if I was actually shopping), not at all what I expected from the page, or Apple at all.
- noduerme 4y ago
  It's at least as annoying as your initial impulse said it was...more so from the people who dictate UI down to a gnat's ass in every app we submit to their store, but somehow exempt themselves from even common courtesy when it comes to designing a page. I'm typing this on a mac, but for god's sake don't make excuses for them.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    I'm not making excuses for it, I'm typing this from a ThinkPad (work, and personally have a Framework & a desktop I built, Android phone), it just amused me.
- Havoc 4y ago
  Yeah Apple site is borderline unusable at times. To much emphasis on looks and design at the cost of sane usability
  - brokenmachine 4y ago
    Seems very on-brand then.
- dyerjohn 4y ago
  As a backend windows dev, how the hell is that even possible with just scrolling?
  - OJFord 4y ago
    It's just an input right? Forget your expectation that an input causes a 'page' to move vertically; the screen is just a canvas that can change over time or in response to inputs. (But, because it breaks your expectation is why people don't like it, call it 'scrolljacking' i.e. hijacking scroll behaviour, etc. It's worst IMO when it's done to make the page 'sticky' at certain banner points, so it takes unintuitively more or less scroll movement at certain points as you move down the page.)
hulitu 4y ago
> 4x Thunderbolt 4 1x 10Gb Ethernet 2x USB-A 1x HDMI 1x 3.5 mm headphone jack ... and 2000 $ For this price a Bluray drive and some audio I/O would have been nice.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  External Bluray and professional audio IO can be connected via USB-C. Why add things almost nobody will use to the base model?
- gjsman-1000 4y ago
  MacOS never supported Blu-ray, and Steve Jobs described the licensing of it as "a bag of hurt." This was still ~2008 when the licensing of H.264, VC1, MPEG-2, Blu-ray Patents, AACS, BD+, Cinavia, and all the stuff that makes it work was still in the air. Arguably it never came down[1]. However, I would still beg Apple to reconsider this, even a decade later, at least for desktop professional use. Blu-ray discs come in 25GB, 50GB, 100GB, and even (rare) 128GB disc sizes. It's still a really cheap, portable, distributable, long-term (as long as you check every ~5 years) storage medium. [1]Blu-ray discs for movies were pretty shamefully designed. Do we seriously need 3 different codecs? Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms?
  - salawat 4y ago
    >Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms? Consider the source.
  - barelysapient 4y ago
    I’d suggest that an SSD makes a far better option. For the price of a burner and blank media, you can buy a whole bunch of cheap 128gb ssds. They’re re-writeable, durable and easy to connect with a twenty dollar usb dongle.
    - gjsman-1000 4y ago
      The catch with SSDs is they are not long-term reliable when left without power. If left as little as 12 months without energy, data degradation can occur. SSDs need power regularly to automatically refresh their memory cells. No power, no refresh, slow loss. They are almost like RAM in that regard, just with a really slow discharge. Compared to good quality writable media which is designed for storage without power. This, and the write-once versions (no ransomware), are great for backups of faster modern media.

by mort96 4y ago

rvz 4y ago

That (Mac Studio) and the iMac are also qualifying another ARM desktop PC (as in personal computer).

deleted 4y ago
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OJFord 4y ago

That web page is insane - normally I sympathise with the 'scrolljacking' bemoaners, but that's just so funny (maybe it would annoy me if I was actually shopping), not at all what I expected from the page, or Apple at all.

noduerme 4y ago
It's at least as annoying as your initial impulse said it was...more so from the people who dictate UI down to a gnat's ass in every app we submit to their store, but somehow exempt themselves from even common courtesy when it comes to designing a page. I'm typing this on a mac, but for god's sake don't make excuses for them.
- OJFord 4y ago
  I'm not making excuses for it, I'm typing this from a ThinkPad (work, and personally have a Framework & a desktop I built, Android phone), it just amused me.
Havoc 4y ago
Yeah Apple site is borderline unusable at times. To much emphasis on looks and design at the cost of sane usability
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  Seems very on-brand then.
dyerjohn 4y ago
As a backend windows dev, how the hell is that even possible with just scrolling?
- OJFord 4y ago
  It's just an input right? Forget your expectation that an input causes a 'page' to move vertically; the screen is just a canvas that can change over time or in response to inputs. (But, because it breaks your expectation is why people don't like it, call it 'scrolljacking' i.e. hijacking scroll behaviour, etc. It's worst IMO when it's done to make the page 'sticky' at certain banner points, so it takes unintuitively more or less scroll movement at certain points as you move down the page.)

hulitu 4y ago

> 4x Thunderbolt 4 1x 10Gb Ethernet 2x USB-A 1x HDMI 1x 3.5 mm headphone jack ... and 2000 $ For this price a Bluray drive and some audio I/O would have been nice.

rbanffy 4y ago
External Bluray and professional audio IO can be connected via USB-C. Why add things almost nobody will use to the base model?
gjsman-1000 4y ago
MacOS never supported Blu-ray, and Steve Jobs described the licensing of it as "a bag of hurt." This was still ~2008 when the licensing of H.264, VC1, MPEG-2, Blu-ray Patents, AACS, BD+, Cinavia, and all the stuff that makes it work was still in the air. Arguably it never came down[1]. However, I would still beg Apple to reconsider this, even a decade later, at least for desktop professional use. Blu-ray discs come in 25GB, 50GB, 100GB, and even (rare) 128GB disc sizes. It's still a really cheap, portable, distributable, long-term (as long as you check every ~5 years) storage medium. [1]Blu-ray discs for movies were pretty shamefully designed. Do we seriously need 3 different codecs? Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms?
- salawat 4y ago
  >Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms? Consider the source.
- barelysapient 4y ago
  I’d suggest that an SSD makes a far better option. For the price of a burner and blank media, you can buy a whole bunch of cheap 128gb ssds. They’re re-writeable, durable and easy to connect with a twenty dollar usb dongle.
  - gjsman-1000 4y ago
    The catch with SSDs is they are not long-term reliable when left without power. If left as little as 12 months without energy, data degradation can occur. SSDs need power regularly to automatically refresh their memory cells. No power, no refresh, slow loss. They are almost like RAM in that regard, just with a really slow discharge. Compared to good quality writable media which is designed for storage without power. This, and the write-once versions (no ransomware), are great for backups of faster modern media.