Meh... Vaunted Hardware maker...
- (folkert)
- (2)
- June 12, 2012, 09:59:33 AM EDT
AFAIA
- (jake123)
- (1)
- June 12, 2012, 07:01:05 PM EDT
It *IS* a software...
- (folkert)
- June 12, 2012, 09:52:56 PM EDT
Apple updated the MacPro after all.
- (Another Scott)
- (9)
- June 11, 2012, 03:51:43 PM EDT
hmm - no USB3 or Thunderbolt...
-NT
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- June 11, 2012, 04:08:07 PM EDT
Yup. They seem to have done the minimum necessary.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 11, 2012, 04:31:34 PM EDT
Tim claims "really great" update in 2013.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- June 12, 2012, 06:26:45 PM EDT
Isn't the standard at Apple "Insanely Great!"?
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- June 12, 2012, 08:29:50 PM EDT
:-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 12, 2012, 09:31:31 PM EDT
Meh... no 17" MBP.
- (folkert)
- (3)
- June 12, 2012, 09:54:40 PM EDT
I think they made the right choice there.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- June 12, 2012, 10:12:09 PM EDT
I disagree... but oh well.
- (folkert)
- (1)
- June 13, 2012, 07:56:57 PM EDT
'tis Ok. I don't have exclusive rights to being right. :-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 13, 2012, 08:58:24 PM EDT
Next generation MacBook Pro sounds nice.
- (Another Scott)
- (42)
- June 11, 2012, 01:31:48 PM EDT
$2199
- (SpiceWare)
- (22)
- June 11, 2012, 02:38:47 PM EDT
That has "business expense" written all over it...
-NT
- (malraux)
- (4)
- June 11, 2012, 02:57:32 PM EDT
Yup.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- June 11, 2012, 03:00:23 PM EDT
8G of RAM isn't enough for some people
- (malraux)
- (2)
- June 11, 2012, 06:15:10 PM EDT
Ah, it goes up to 16G
- (malraux)
- (1)
- June 13, 2012, 11:24:14 AM EDT
Whew! I can get mine in ~2015, then..
-NT
- (Ashton)
- June 14, 2012, 06:55:32 PM EDT
$2800 for the 2.6 GHz/8 GB/512 GB version.
- (Another Scott)
- (11)
- June 11, 2012, 03:04:04 PM EDT
looks like the RAM you buy at purchase time is all you get
- (SpiceWare)
- (10)
- June 11, 2012, 04:22:34 PM EDT
Now THAT is annoying.
- (malraux)
- June 11, 2012, 06:16:17 PM EDT
confirmed
- (SpiceWare)
- (8)
- June 13, 2012, 11:01:28 AM EDT
Re: confirmed
- (malraux)
- June 13, 2012, 05:36:47 PM EDT
Apple want it to be disposable, not upgradeable.
- (static)
- (6)
- June 13, 2012, 08:54:50 PM EDT
Actually it seems they wanted it thin.
- (malraux)
- (5)
- June 13, 2012, 08:58:40 PM EDT
Agreed.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- June 13, 2012, 09:05:05 PM EDT
I hadn't thought of that.
- (static)
- June 13, 2012, 09:13:00 PM EDT
Re: Agreed.
- (mvitale)
- (1)
- June 13, 2012, 11:09:59 PM EDT
They used a unique connector.
- (Another Scott)
- June 13, 2012, 11:51:17 PM EDT
not just Apple
- (SpiceWare)
- June 13, 2012, 09:25:49 PM EDT
No 17" model anymore.
- (folkert)
- (4)
- June 12, 2012, 09:55:34 PM EDT
Not really.
- (malraux)
- (3)
- June 12, 2012, 10:07:52 PM EDT
The heck!
- (folkert)
- (2)
- June 13, 2012, 07:31:56 PM EDT
I'm not saying you don't know what you want.
- (malraux)
- (1)
- June 13, 2012, 07:35:04 PM EDT
I guess.
- (folkert)
- June 13, 2012, 07:55:53 PM EDT
AnandTech reviews the Retina model
- (SpiceWare)
- June 12, 2012, 02:33:34 PM EDT
Ars review
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- June 22, 2012, 02:03:02 PM EDT
A very good review. Thanks.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- June 22, 2012, 08:29:09 PM EDT
display fun
- (SpiceWare)
- (10)
- June 22, 2012, 02:11:40 PM EDT
I didn't appreciate what they were doing. Thanks.
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- June 22, 2012, 07:29:55 PM EDT
What weren't you appreciating?
- (folkert)
- (2)
- June 22, 2012, 07:45:19 PM EDT
The scaling.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- June 22, 2012, 08:40:13 PM EDT
Re: The scaling.
- (folkert)
- June 22, 2012, 08:48:55 PM EDT
that majorly sucks (from the comments)
- (boxley)
- (5)
- June 22, 2012, 08:17:15 PM EDT
Re: that majorly sucks (from the comments)
- (folkert)
- (4)
- June 22, 2012, 08:50:19 PM EDT
wierd from my macbook
- (boxley)
- (3)
- June 22, 2012, 09:13:41 PM EDT
Maximize isn't good enough?
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- June 22, 2012, 09:38:59 PM EDT
Suppose this...
- (folkert)
- (1)
- June 22, 2012, 09:44:38 PM EDT
Ok, but when I watch movies, I generally watch movies.
- (Another Scott)
- June 22, 2012, 10:04:51 PM EDT
AnandTech
- (SpiceWare)
- (4)
- June 23, 2012, 03:37:30 PM EDT
Summary of all the reviews:
- (malraux)
- (2)
- June 23, 2012, 05:08:29 PM EDT
it'd be interesting to know what % upgrade their RAM
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- June 23, 2012, 08:49:28 PM EDT
8G is a lot
- (malraux)
- June 23, 2012, 09:02:00 PM EDT
Now for the *Real* "designers" here..
- (Ashton)
- June 24, 2012, 03:18:33 PM EDT
Electricity, really
- (crazy)
- (16)
- June 10, 2012, 12:41:05 PM EDT
Yes.
- (Another Scott)
- (15)
- June 10, 2012, 02:27:10 PM EDT
Up to 3 cords now
- (crazy)
- (14)
- June 14, 2012, 07:09:28 PM EDT
Ouch.
- (Another Scott)
- (12)
- June 16, 2012, 11:51:47 AM EDT
I run 350 balanced electric and gas
- (boxley)
- June 16, 2012, 04:24:22 PM EDT
Well, I'm pretty sloppy about energy . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (8)
- June 16, 2012, 07:29:35 PM EDT
200 W?!?!
- (Another Scott)
- (7)
- June 16, 2012, 08:10:05 PM EDT
Hmmmm . . . $80?
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (5)
- June 16, 2012, 10:11:04 PM EDT
Our kitchen:
- (malraux)
- (1)
- June 16, 2012, 10:16:59 PM EDT
Well, I also have . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- June 16, 2012, 11:12:39 PM EDT
I suspect you'd REALLY like a couple of these bulbs
- (crazy)
- (2)
- June 17, 2012, 12:07:55 AM EDT
How well do they meet the dimmable part of the spec?
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- June 17, 2012, 12:25:47 AM EDT
None
- (crazy)
- June 17, 2012, 08:31:24 AM EDT
well you could invest in candles and peanut oil lanterns
- (boxley)
- June 16, 2012, 11:21:02 PM EDT
$1K? Do they have a pool or something?
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- June 17, 2012, 11:48:24 AM EDT
I think they're just old-school people.
- (Another Scott)
- June 17, 2012, 12:13:44 PM EDT
Hmmm...
- (folkert)
- June 16, 2012, 12:29:04 PM EDT
storage costs (who wants to be a millionaire?)
- (rcareaga)
- (4)
- June 8, 2012, 10:37:01 PM EDT
Not measuring it right
- (drook)
- (3)
- June 8, 2012, 10:50:28 PM EDT
that had occurred to me...
- (rcareaga)
- (2)
- June 9, 2012, 01:14:16 AM EDT
Not if you author HD video you can't
-NT
- (drook)
- (1)
- June 9, 2012, 10:09:10 AM EDT
Or just collect it.
- (static)
- June 9, 2012, 09:43:36 PM EDT
My new/old system
- (crazy)
- (1)
- June 5, 2012, 05:30:14 PM EDT
Are ya gonna..
- (Ashton)
- June 5, 2012, 06:06:23 PM EDT
Just purchased new monitor.
- (folkert)
- (3)
- June 2, 2012, 12:22:55 AM EDT
Also got a few other things from NewEgg...
- (folkert)
- (1)
- June 2, 2012, 09:52:20 PM EDT
Busy, busy.
- (Another Scott)
- June 2, 2012, 10:20:47 PM EDT
So, I picked it up...
- (folkert)
- June 5, 2012, 11:03:47 PM EDT
Good 2+TB drives these days?
- (malraux)
- (2)
- June 1, 2012, 03:37:39 PM EDT
I got a couple of these, but haven't installed them yet.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- June 1, 2012, 04:07:48 PM EDT
Green may not be bad
- (malraux)
- June 1, 2012, 06:07:04 PM EDT
Motherboard lockdowns coming
- (lincoln)
- (9)
- June 1, 2012, 11:29:38 AM EDT
Won't be buying those devices
- (jake123)
- June 1, 2012, 11:49:03 AM EDT
This is all to combat Microsoft's poor decisions...
- (folkert)
- June 1, 2012, 12:05:47 PM EDT
Isn't this Palladium?
-NT
- (drook)
- (1)
- June 1, 2012, 12:22:29 PM EDT
No. Worse.
- (scoenye)
- June 1, 2012, 07:30:16 PM EDT
This has been yelled about since at least last October.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- June 1, 2012, 02:06:59 PM EDT
This means many...
- (folkert)
- June 1, 2012, 05:58:37 PM EDT
There was a big thread on SlashDot.
- (static)
- (1)
- June 1, 2012, 07:20:23 PM EDT
HP supports...
- (folkert)
- June 1, 2012, 10:45:41 PM EDT
RedHat's latest take.
- (Another Scott)
- June 7, 2012, 12:46:09 PM EDT