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Reading this press release was almost physically painful, because of how much Apple loves to use the phrase "up to". In total it appears 46 times.
by osmukka 1mo ago
Reading this press release was almost physically painful, because of how much Apple loves to use the phrase "up to". In total it appears 46 times.
- theanonymousone 1mo agoup to 46 times, you mean?
- zirkonit 1mo agoUp to 47.
- alfanick 1mo agoThat would be oddly precise. More like "up to 50", or depending on speaker, "up to 100". /s
- fwip 1mo agoIt would also be incorrect. "Up to" doesn't mean any possible upper bound, it describes the top of a known range. I can't say a car I'm selling goes "up to" 900mph if it tops out at 120mph.
- atoav 1mo agoWell, depends. Maybe it can go up to 900mph¹? ¹ drivers are responsible to get the car into a low earth orbit themselves and need to be familiar with the orbital maneuvers needed to accelerate the car to 900mph
- totetsu 1mo agoWhats an up to dog?
- addaon 1mo agoA lot of those "up to"s are expressing user options, though -- "up to" 512 GB RAM means that there are configurations that include that, but also cheaper configurations that don't. That's a pretty different beast than "up to 4.3x faster performance", which means (presumably) that exactly one benchmark showed a 4.3x improvement and the rest showed less -- which is to say, means very little.
- freehorse 1mo agoExcept for the prices of course, where they use “starting at 5,499$” instead of “up to 18,299$” to indicate user options.
- seviu 1mo agoThe cleaning cloth went down in price about 50% There is some consolation there
- HumblyTossed 1mo agoOnly because it doesn't contain RAM.
- datakan 1mo agoDon't give them any ideas
- garbageman 1mo agoMoore's Cloth
- fl0ki 1mo agoBut was the compatibility table updated?
- m463 1mo agoI thought it was funny years ago when apple would report the power in watts of some systems like the mac mini. But for the mac pro, they would say something very obscure. "100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)" and the maximum current is "12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)". They're trying NOT to say it had a 1440 watt power supply.
- gib444 1mo agoThat's probably up to 300% of an increase from 'previous' press releases
- setgree 1mo agoI enjoyed "up to an 80-core GPU, and a staggering 512GB of unified memory" Staggering?? I can count on no hands the number of times that a fact or figure has caused me to stagger.
- mgfist 1mo agoIdk 512GB of (essentially) ram is pretty damn insane for a consumer machine
- setgree 1mo agoThis thing is going to cost >$10K, probably, which I think means it's not in the consumer segment
- FireBeyond 1mo agoFor the 512GB? You're going to be over $20K, fully specced.
- HumblyTossed 1mo agoYes, but you've surely met people who giggled when they read that.
- icedchai 1mo agoWhen you get that credit card bill for the 80 core, 512 gig, 16 TB storage box, you might stagger a bit.
- edschofield 1mo agoThanks for the laugh!
- geophile 1mo agoA silly hobby of mine has been to track Apple's use of the word "computer". They don't use it. The only use of the word that I can find, on apple.com, is in legal boilerplate. I want a computer dammit, not an appliance.
- jagged-chisel 1mo agoThey also don't use "appliance." Nor do their computers behave as appliances. It's just branding - they don't want to sell you a generic "computer" - they want to sell you a Mac. It's really not all that different from a computer. Might look a little nicer[1]. Uses a custom processor. But you can write software for it like a computer. And it can display things on a monitor like a computer. They do have wrist, pocket, and tablet versions of computers, but those might be considered more like appliances. 1 - taste being subjective and all
- knollimar 1mo agoWhat's a computer?
- smugma 1mo agoIt appears up to 46 times.
- mihaaly 1mo agoI am sure I'd love computer products more without the nauseating marketing bs. With dry boring technical facts only. I am repelled now, need more self drive and effort getting to the cashier, than without it. (Scroll-oriented web pages see me running away fast. Not only Apple, which is a champion in it, but articles in general. That make me a passive spectator eating what they want me to eat, the way they want me to. Rather than a free discoverer. I hate being pushed into something. I like freedom.)