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No comments about Apple event yesterday?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:39 pm
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Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:14 pm to prplhze2000
Summary:
The Apple TV has a new remote. The insides are a little better, but you probably won’t notice a difference
iMac updated to m1. Looks updated- now looks like an enlarged iPad on a stand. It’s colorful, too.
iPads updated. You can get an m1 iPad now. So desktop/laptop/tablet architecture is shared across the spectrum. Performance is generally good. One bit of personal opinion: I keep getting “out of usable memory” issues on an 8gb MacBook Air rubbing relatively “normal” stuff (about 6 safari tabs, the Sonos application, a Symantec VIP token, basically stock startup otherwise). I’ve seen about two complaints online about this. Non-optimized apps are usually to blame. Apple’s solution to the one guy who wrote about his experience was “run fewer tabs or buy a computer with more RAM.” It seems to happen to me when I have left tabs up overnight and one specific EHR app seems to have a memory leak, but I feel it’s important to mention that a concern actually exists with the chips, however small it may be. I have never had a problem running anything with basic closing/restarting of programs, but this is the second non-all-rainbows-and-sunshine report I’ve seen on them (the other being the super-high ssd utilization rate with Chrome with unknown consequences long-term)
You can get a Tile-like device from Apple. Battery lasts a year and is user-replaceable.
Your iPhone can be purple now.
The Apple TV has a new remote. The insides are a little better, but you probably won’t notice a difference
iMac updated to m1. Looks updated- now looks like an enlarged iPad on a stand. It’s colorful, too.
iPads updated. You can get an m1 iPad now. So desktop/laptop/tablet architecture is shared across the spectrum. Performance is generally good. One bit of personal opinion: I keep getting “out of usable memory” issues on an 8gb MacBook Air rubbing relatively “normal” stuff (about 6 safari tabs, the Sonos application, a Symantec VIP token, basically stock startup otherwise). I’ve seen about two complaints online about this. Non-optimized apps are usually to blame. Apple’s solution to the one guy who wrote about his experience was “run fewer tabs or buy a computer with more RAM.” It seems to happen to me when I have left tabs up overnight and one specific EHR app seems to have a memory leak, but I feel it’s important to mention that a concern actually exists with the chips, however small it may be. I have never had a problem running anything with basic closing/restarting of programs, but this is the second non-all-rainbows-and-sunshine report I’ve seen on them (the other being the super-high ssd utilization rate with Chrome with unknown consequences long-term)
You can get a Tile-like device from Apple. Battery lasts a year and is user-replaceable.
Your iPhone can be purple now.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:14 pm to prplhze2000
Apple 4K TV will be worthless without "audio pass through". No details yet, but their audio compression is the worst part of their media player (compare with a blu ray- same movie)
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:37 pm to Hopeful Doc
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The Apple TV has a new remote.
If these are backwards compatible this might be the single most exciting Apple release for me in two decades. Love my Apple TV. Hate the remote.
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You can get a Tile-like device from Apple. Battery lasts a year and is user-replaceable.
If you travel or lose your keys, this is interesting.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:46 pm to elprez00
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If these are backwards compatible this might be the single most exciting Apple release for me in two decades. Love my Apple TV. Hate the remote.
They are backwards compatible from what I read. $59 is what I think they set the price at which is just too rich for my blood, but I guess I see the appeal if that’s your only device/remote
New remote has old iPod-like circular tracking, an off-button for the TV, retains swipe-function and also has click-direction buttons.
I use a universal remote with mine usually, and the “learn new remote” functionality has been present since gen2 and is super useful and nice. I hope they don’t take it away and doubt they will.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 2:04 pm to prplhze2000
iMac looks pretty cool. Will probably get one at work eventually. Weird they don't have black/space gray to start, but I assume that'll come and it's some typical misguided attempt to get people who want a black computer to spend 5x as much on a Pro.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 2:26 pm to prplhze2000
halfway through the event watch. I noticed they are going after two businesses already, Tile for the location tracking and patreon for the podcast subscriptions. 
Posted on 4/21/21 at 2:37 pm to elprez00
Been waiting on this tile one to happen. Glad they worked the mechanics leveraging the broad network. Helps with playing helicopter parents of my kids... or at least their school bags!
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:36 pm to Hopeful Doc
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Apple’s solution to the one guy who wrote about his experience was “run fewer tabs or buy a computer with more RAM.” It seems to happen to me when I have left tabs up overnight
Wait. Not a apple person. They want you to run fewer tabs on a web browser and claim thats why you are running out of memory on an 8gb machine?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:01 pm to kengel2
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Wait. Not a apple person. They want you to run fewer tabs on a web browser and claim thats why you are running out of memory on an 8gb machine?
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Like I said, I restarted mine, and it hasn’t done it since. There was a single web browser page that had a gig or more tied up that is necessary for me to have open most of the day
For all the reports of how great their RAM management is, this is a weird thing I’m starting to see and I’m not the only one. It hasn’t actually caused me to have significant crashes or real impact on performance of the machine,
Like I said, maybe it’s weird. Maybe there are some lemons. Maybe I opened some weird memory-intensive process inadvertently that I don’t really understand how to turn off. Maybe 16gb really is optimum. Or maybe the “perfect” system on a chip has some downfalls. This isn’t a negative review. It’s an odd observation that I don’t know how to repeat that I felt worth sharing.
I think the machine is great. I really don’t have true negatives that are universally present. I do sort of wish I held out for a 15-16” model, and I’m still getting used to some nuances (Zooming in causes some goofy rendering issues on some web pages. Nothing crazy). But there still aren’t any of those models. So I’d still be waiting...
Posted on 4/21/21 at 7:45 pm to Pettifogger
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iMac looks pretty cool.
I was actually waiting for this event because I want to upgrade mine. If I’m being honest, I think they look terrible. The silver is decent but I was expecting better.
I’ll probably still buy one anyway
Posted on 4/21/21 at 7:48 pm to tlsu15
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I was actually waiting for this event because I want to upgrade mine. If I’m being honest, I think they look terrible. The silver is decent but I was expecting better.
I've been looking at pretty much the same iMac (albeit three different ones) over the last decade, so I welcome any change
Posted on 4/21/21 at 8:43 pm to Pettifogger
Thinking of getting a mac pro. Never had a Mac before.
This post was edited on 4/22/21 at 6:23 am
Posted on 4/21/21 at 9:24 pm to tlsu15
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I was actually waiting for this event because I want to upgrade mine. If I’m being honest, I think they look terrible. The silver is decent but I was expecting better. I’ll probably still buy one anyway
Look for a large screen iMac later in the year with normal colors. It will be less “entry model”. Think of the color iMacs just announced like the iPhone 12 and the yet to be announced iMacs as the iPhone 12 Pro.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 9:41 pm to prplhze2000
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No comments about Apple event yesterday?
Yeah, there was nothing eventful about it. More of the same..but slightly different.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 10:06 pm to loopback
The "chin" is hilarious. Jay Leno computer.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:19 am to loopback
M1 in iPad is a huge deal alongside the thunderbolt port.
Although given its newness it’s a hurry up and wait to see what’s potential a lot of this brings.
iOS 15 will be a big redesign for the iPad and should bring in widget like home screens. Still we wait to see what the computer processor in a tablet will do
Although given its newness it’s a hurry up and wait to see what’s potential a lot of this brings.
iOS 15 will be a big redesign for the iPad and should bring in widget like home screens. Still we wait to see what the computer processor in a tablet will do
Posted on 4/22/21 at 5:15 pm to prplhze2000
Anyone know if it's possible or anyone has tested running Docker, containerd or k8s on one? It's arm based so potentially anything with an arm build could run but I don't know all that much about it. Could make for a low power server.
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