dsavitsk Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 Yet Another iPhone, Dear God: What do you mean, you don’t need four studio-quality microphones? “What a remarkable day of announcements,” CEO Tim Cook said in conclusion, but I struggle to believe that he meant it. This was, let us be honest, merely a day of announcements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 An eminently skippable series of product updates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 18 minutes ago, HiWire said: An eminently skippable series of product updates. AGREED! I will stick with my iPhone 14. Yo Apple! You are becoming Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 (edited) They needed to save $13 billion to pay Ireland's back taxes. ☘️ Google is also on the hook for $8.25 billion in EU antitrust fines. Edited September 10 by HiWire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 What happened to the M2 iPad? I thought I read where they were going to give the iPad Mundane (easier to say than 'non-Pro, non-Mini, non-Air') the M2 chip. Or is that going to be one of those "silent" releases? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 1 minute ago, Dusty Chalk said: What happened to the M2 iPad? I thought I read where they were going to give the iPad Mundane (easier to say than 'non-Pro, non-Mini, non-Air') the M2 chip. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/06/new-ipad-mini-rumored-for-october/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 2 minutes ago, Grahame said: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/06/new-ipad-mini-rumored-for-october/ Quote Gurman said "new iPads" plural would be unveiled at the October event, so the entry-level iPad may be updated then too. Ah, thankewe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 4 hours ago, HiWire said: An eminently skippable series of product updates. I didn’t even watch it. Did the iPhone get wifi7 yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 Yes. There's nothing wrong with the new products, they're simply incremental updates to established phones, watches, and AirPods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 Just now, HiWire said: Yes. There's nothing wrong with the new products, they're simply incremental updates to established phones, watches, and AirPods. Cool, glad to see the time to go from WiFi 6e to 7 is faster than some of their other adoption of standards… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 Bluetooth 6 was just announced. I checked the list of new features and most of them aren't particularly exciting for consumers, except the one where it is centimeter-accurate for distance estimation (useful for some gadgets). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 Everyone's favorite hyperactive, high-pitched Canadian tech-dropper seems to like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 17 Report Share Posted September 17 (edited) I was going through the macOS 15 Sequoia (and iOS 18) reviews today. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/macos-15-sequoia-the-ars-technica-review/ Not a lot of interesting features, in my opinion. They seem to be catchup updates, enhancing usability, security, and fixing bugs. The promised AI features are late and they will be added to macOS later. OpenCore Legacy Patcher (OCLP) updated to 2.0.1 recently. They've detected problems running the new macOS with 2018 MacBook Air and 2008 Mac Pro/Xserve, but otherwise things look fine. People have been running macOS 15 betas on OCLP for a few months so far. https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-15-sequoia-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2428654/ I'd recommend anyone with older Macs (pre-2018, generally) to hold off on upgrading to Sequoia for a few months at least, whether officially supported or not. People seem to say macOS 14 Sonoma works quite well on unsupported Macs with OCLP. Your mileage may vary. macOS 14 Sonoma and 13 Ventura (and iOS 17) also got some security updates today. Edited September 17 by HiWire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted Monday at 03:55 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 03:55 PM Is Apple trolling us with the size of their AI Update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted Monday at 05:01 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 05:01 PM (edited) Maybe. They just announced new M4 iMacs, too. Nothing much to report other than the elimination of USB-A ports and the possibility of a 32GB RAM upgrade. Edited 10 hours ago by HiWire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMoney Posted Monday at 05:08 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 05:08 PM This is a very cool feature. I can’t wait to have my parents take the test. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago (edited) Apple just announced the updated Mac Mini. This is the first M4 Pro - up to 14 CPU cores (10 performance, 4 efficiency), 16 neural cores, and 20 GPU cores. It almost looks like a credible, tiny Mac Studio replacement - the new M4 Pro Mini can be equipped with up to 64GB of RAM and an 8TB SSD. In terms of I/O, the M4 Pro has Thunderbolt 5 ports as well as optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The only thing missing is Wi-Fi 7... for some reason, the Mini still has Wi-Fi 6E. I suspect native AV1 video encode is coming in a future Apple Silicon processor, but decode is sufficient for now, as the codec is not even mainstream yet. The base Mac Mini is a good value. I'm not sure why the M4 iMac is so limited. Perhaps they intend to sell a more powerful iMac with a larger display later. Edited 10 hours ago by HiWire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago Indeed. "When" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Apple Intelligence, as in "When X becomes available, you will be able to ..." "Small, but fierce" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago But the power button placement! https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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